Foreign chocolate production equipment constantly updated how should our country catch up

According to the Asahi Shimbun website, Nestle Japan plans to sell its chocolate "kitkat" offline in several Chinese cities, mainly major cities, this fall, with online sales starting in April. This kind of chocolate has a high popularity in China as a necessary hand gift for traveling in Japan. Obviously, although the growth rate of China's chocolate market has slowed down, the gap between per capita and foreign countries is ten times or more, which makes many chocolate giants still stare at our market.

Data show that at present, in China's chocolate market, there is only one domestic enterprise in the top ten sales volume, and only occupies less than 1% of the market ratio. In the situation that China's chocolate market is occupied by a large number of foreign brands, China's chocolate production equipment is also introduced from abroad. So today, we will take a look at what new research and development achievements of foreign chocolate production equipment today, and how China's chocolate production equipment enterprises can learn from their experience, so as to produce suitable equipment to promote the production of domestic chocolate brands chocolate packaging.

There is a chocolate packaging machine in a chocolate factory in Rotterdam, the hook device of this chocolate packaging machine is always faulty, this hook device plays a vital role in transporting chocolate to the conveyor belt, and if it fails, it must be replaced by hand-made parts, and some machines on the chocolate production line will be stagnant for a long time. In order to solve this problem, the Dutch 3D service provider proposes to use FDM technology to manufacture 3D printed hooks, and the produced parts not only run repeatedly without failure, but also avoid the high cost caused by manual metal parts. In the future, the chocolate factory plans to use 3D printing technology to experiment with the manufacturing of chocolate prototype molds, and will continue to explore more possibilities to integrate 3D printing into its business. When we usually associate 3D printing with chocolate, we often only think that 3D printing technology can directly customize the shape of chocolate, so that the finished product meets the personalized needs of current young consumers. From this example, we can see that 3D printing technology can also be used in the production process of chocolate production line equipment, through the replacement of equipment parts, further reduce the production cost of equipment, but also overcome some defects caused by raw materials.

Robots are used in chocolate production lines to create the chocolate factory of the future

ChocoBotic uses robots and Internet of Things technology in chocolate production, and the entire production line equipment can design and layout each production step according to the different conditions of the user's production site, and flexibly modify it to adapt to the requirements of different quality, quantity and formula. Whether it is small batch customization or seasonal products, this line equipment can be switched instantly. Based on intelligent monitoring and control technology, the production efficiency of the production line has been significantly improved, and the product quality is stable. In addition, the chocolate production line is reduced to a minimum due to manual intervention, so that increasing labor costs are not considered, and food safety is more guaranteed. It can be seen that foreign countries are trying to achieve the intelligence of chocolate production line equipment, and on this premise, continue to improve the flexibility index of equipment production. According to the survey, China's chocolate consumption group is increasingly similar to the rest of Asia, taste is the main driving factor, personalized products are favored. Therefore, China's chocolate production line equipment should also change to the direction of flexible and intelligent production. In addition, under the attack of the great wave of health, the research results of foreign universities show that the use of electric fields in the flow of liquid chocolate can reduce the fat content of chocolate by 10-20%, and the application of this result only needs to add a viscosity reduction device in the downstream immediately next to the pump. It can be seen that foreign chocolate production equipment has been constantly improving and upgrading, thus driving the increasing improvement of chocolate production. This may be the reason why they can firmly control the chocolate market in China's first and second tier cities. However, it is also necessary to see that the chocolate market in China's second and third-tier cities still has great potential, and China's chocolate production equipment enterprises need to carry out research and development and upgrade the equipment to further promote the layout of domestic chocolate brands.