0086-138 3838 9622A 20 t/h broiler chicken feed production line supplied by RICHI Machinery to a poultry feed mill operation in Punjab, Pakistan, has reached full rated capacity operation, according to production data the buyer shared following several weeks of ramp-up since initial commissioning.
Pakistan’s poultry sector is one of the larger ones in South Asia, and broiler feed represents a substantial share of overall feed production volume given the scale of commercial broiler operations across the country — feed mills supplying this sector operate at meaningfully higher throughput than many of the specialty or smaller-scale feed lines RICHI works with elsewhere.
The buyer’s broiler formula follows a fairly typical regional pattern: maize as the primary energy source, soybean meal and some rice polish (a byproduct of rice milling, commonly used in South Asian poultry formulas as a partial substitute for more expensive ingredients) as protein and fiber components, plus a vitamin-mineral premix.
Equipment for this larger-scale line includes dual hammer mills running in parallel (a configuration used at higher throughput levels to avoid a single grinding bottleneck — each mill handles a portion of the total material flow, with the outputs combined before the mixing stage), a large-capacity batch mixer, conditioner, pellet press (ring die, 3mm pellets typical for broiler starter/grower feed, with the buyer also running some larger 4mm pellets for finisher-stage feed via die change), and pellet cooler sized for the higher throughput.
Ramp-up to full capacity took longer than some smaller installations RICHI has commissioned — partly because at this scale, achieving consistent output across dual hammer mills required some balancing adjustments (ensuring both mills receive proportionally even material flow from the receiving and metering system, which initially showed some imbalance that the buyer’s maintenance team corrected with minor conveyor speed adjustments based on RICHI’s commissioning engineer’s diagnostic observations during the ramp-up period).
With full capacity now achieved and sustained over multiple production days, the buyer’s plant management has indicated the facility is meeting their production planning targets, supporting their broiler feed supply commitments to integrated poultry operations across the surrounding region.
