0086-138 3838 9622Installation has started on a 10 t/h compound-feed production line in Finland designed for horse and cattle products using oat-derived ingredients, other cereals, bran fractions, protein ingredients, minerals and premixes.
The customer operates in a market where oat processing and livestock feeding are both commercially relevant.
But the project is not an oat-bran pellet line in the narrow sense. Oat bran and milling co-products are ingredients within balanced feed formulas.
Horse Feed and Cattle Feed Do Not Use One Fixed Setting
The livestock feed plant has to manufacture products for different animal categories.
- Horse feeds may contain cereal and fibrous ingredients in formulas requiring controlled structure and pellet durability.
- Cattle feeds can require different pellet sizes, mineral inclusion and liquid additions.
The preliminary product range includes meal feed and approximately 6–10 mm pellets depending on formula. That product variation affects die selection, conditioner operation and practical throughput.
A 6 mm horse-feed product, an 8 mm cattle pellet and a 10 mm specialty ruminant product should not be expected to run at exactly the same hourly output.
RICHI therefore treats 10 t/h as the overall plant design class rather than a fixed guarantee for every recipe and pellet diameter.
The Line Is Organized for Formula Changeover
Bulk ingredients are stored separately from lower-inclusion materials. The process moves through weighing, grinding where required, batching, mixing, conditioning, pelletizing, cooling and screening.
Liquid addition can be used according to formula. The plant also includes finished-feed bins so production and packing do not need to run at exactly the same instantaneous rate.
The 10 t/h figure represents the planned commercial feed pellet production line class, not an identical output guarantee for every horse and cattle formula.
Oat-Derived Materials Change Storage Requirements
Oat bran and other fibrous milling co-products can have a different bulk density and flow behavior from whole grain.
The storage system therefore needs suitable hopper geometry and controlled discharge. A bin designed only for dense cereals may not provide equally stable flow for light fibrous ingredients.
RICHI is addressing this by separating raw-material groups according to their physical characteristics rather than selecting silos purely from recipe percentages.
The customer’s major cereals can enter larger storage bins, while specific fibrous ingredients may use dedicated bins with suitable discharge assistance.
Grinding Is Not Applied to Every Ingredient Identically
Whole cereals generally require size reduction before mixing.
Some bran fractions or already-prepared ingredients may be sufficiently fine and can bypass aggressive grinding. This avoids unnecessary power consumption and excess fines.
The compound feed mill plant layout therefore includes routing flexibility rather than forcing every ingredient through the same hammer mill.
Particle-size requirements are set according to feed type and downstream pellet quality.
Mineral and Premix Handling Is Separated
Horse and cattle feeds can contain lower-dose vitamins, minerals and premixes that should not be handled like major grain ingredients. The new livestock feed production line therefore provides dedicated weighing/addition arrangements for these components. This also supports better formula changeover when the customer switches between equine and cattle products.
Where liquids are required, they are introduced through a controlled addition system rather than manually poured into the feed mixer machine.
Product Cooling and Screening Affect Market Quality
Pellets leaving the press are hot and require cooling before storage and packing.
Screening then removes fines that would otherwise lower bag appearance and pellet quality. Suitable fines can be returned to the production process.
For horse-feed buyers in particular, a visually consistent pellet with controlled dust can influence product acceptance even when the underlying nutrition formula is unchanged. That means the cooler and screener are not simply auxiliary machines.
They help determine saleable finished-feed quality.
Two Packaging Channels Are Being Considered
Retail and farm-supply distribution require several bag sizes. The customer is considering approximately 20–25 kg products for equine channels and larger agricultural sacks or bulk delivery for cattle farms.
The bagging area is therefore being designed to support more than one commercial format.
Finished-product bins provide buffering so a bag-size change does not require stopping the entire upstream feed-production line.
Current Installation Focus
Mechanical installation is concentrated on the central batching, mixing and pelletizing tower.
The main vertical process sequence is being aligned first because its elevations determine many of the downstream conveyors and service platforms.
Storage and packaging interfaces are being installed around this core structure.
The project’s keyword field is broader than a generic livestock feed plant: horse feed production line, oat bran animal feed pellet making machine, cattle and horse feed mill, equine feed pellet production equipment, 10 t/h compound feed plant Finland, multi-formula ruminant feed factory, and feed processing equipment for oat by-products.
The next installation stage will connect the ingredient storage and finished-feed packing areas before electrical testing begins.
