How to choose the mold for puffed dog food equipment?

Expanded dog food equipment

Customers often encounter the dilemma of whether to first choose dry extrusion or wet extrusion dog food equipment. Objectively speaking, wet extrusion dog food equipment is more suitable for modern industrial production, offering high output and low energy consumption. The product quality is relatively stable, but it is driven by capital investment. The pressure to relocate coal-fired facilities in many places has forced some enterprises to abandon it. At this point, it is necessary to consider the specific situation of the enterprise. Generally speaking, for those with small investments, small-scale enterprises, or some professional dog breeding farms, choosing a small dry feed extruder is more appropriate. Since the dry extruder requires less floor space, it saves on coal pressure equipment. The input operation is relatively simple.

The reason pet food takes on various beautiful shapes is determined by the final extrusion 'shaping' process. The shape is decided by the mold, and which shape to choose depends on which mold is used. This is also an aesthetic issue. Currently, common shapes on the market include bones, triangles, and others. Cylindrical and cubic shapes, although meaningless to pets, directly affect palatability because the size of pet food particles—whether easy for pets to eat or swallow—matters. If these particles are too small for pet dogs or too large for small dogs, eating or even refusing to eat can disrupt a pet dog's normal eating habits, negatively impacting palatability.

Expanded dog food equipment

1. Planning suitability. The equipment used by China's puffed food processing enterprises is mainly divided into three scales: large, medium, and small. According to national industrial policies and industry development requirements, the focus is on developing medium and large-scale production, while small-scale production enterprises should be left to survive or perish according to market economic laws. However, the equipment produced by China's puffed food machinery manufacturing industry mainly serves medium and small enterprises, while a large number of large-scale complete sets of equipment are still imported.

2. Safety and Applicability. Safety and applicability refer to mechanical safety, production safety, and food safety in the processing of puffed food. First, mechanical safety refers to the condition where machinery does not cause harm, reducing mechanical risks to a low limit. Second, production safety ensures safe production, industrial hygiene, and the safety and health of employees during production. It regulates people's safe behaviors and the material conditions required for safe production from management, production technology, and equipment usage perspectives. Third, food safety. Dog food production equipment primarily involves aspects such as food hygiene, food quality, and food nutrition.