0086-138 3838 9622Containers carrying equipment for a new 3 t/h floating fish feed plant are leaving RICHI Machinery for Ecuador, moving the aquafeed project from factory manufacturing into its overseas delivery phase.
The Ecuadorian customer is developing the facility to produce extruded feeds for warm-water aquaculture. Planned products cover several specifications from approximately 1.5 mm for smaller fish through larger sizes up to around 6 mm.
Before loading began, the equipment was grouped according to the future installation sequence rather than simply packed machine by machine.
Shipment Connects Fine Grinding with Final Feed Handling
The dispatched production system begins well before extrusion.
Aquafeed ingredients such as corn, soybean meal, wheat-based materials and fish meal require controlled grinding and mixing before they can enter conditioning and extrusion.
After the floating fish feed extruder machine, another production sequence begins.
Fresh extrudate contains moisture that must be reduced in the fish feed dryer. Feed then proceeds through cooling and, where the customer’s formulation requires it, controlled oil application before final screening and handling.
The equipment now heading to Ecuador therefore represents one connected aquafeed system rather than an extruder surrounded by unrelated auxiliary machines.
Different Pellet Sizes Will Be Commissioned Separately
The customer plans to produce several feed sizes, and RICHI will not use one operating setting for the entire product range.
Smaller extruded products place greater demands on grinding fineness and can influence practical throughput. Larger products can require different extrusion and drying conditions.
During commissioning in Ecuador, the principal commercial specifications will be tested separately.
This is also why the 3 t/h rating should be understood as the designed production scale rather than a fixed output for every future formula and diameter.
Packing Marks Prepared for Ecuador Installation
A complete fish feed production line can contain numerous conveyors, structural pieces, electrical components and machine connections that look unrelated once removed from the factory layout.
Before shipment, the RICHI project team completed equipment and package identification to make the later installation sequence easier to follow.
The customer’s site team in Ecuador will use the approved layout together with the packing records when unloading and positioning begins.
The Next Project Update Will Come from the Installation Site
The factory phase in China is now largely complete.
After the containers arrive in Ecuador, mechanical installation will reconnect the fine grinding, batching, mixing, extrusion, drying, cooling and downstream systems.
No-load testing will follow.
Only after those checks are completed will the customer’s local ingredients enter the line for material commissioning.
For the Ecuadorian producer, shipment marks a visible change in the fish feed mill project: the new fish feed factory is no longer represented mainly by drawings and machines on RICHI’s production floor. Its equipment is now on the way to the site where commercial aquafeed production will begin.
