10 T/H Pet Food Factory In United States

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Overview

This is a high-end 10t/h pet food factory in United States. It is a new project. The factory is located in Florida, USA. The project covers an area of about 74,207m2, the construction area is about 110,719m2, and the total equipment investment is 1.73 million US dollars.

The project construction content mainly includes high-fresh meat pet food production line, high-fresh meat pet food raw material production line, auxiliary facilities and public facilities, etc.

After production, it will form an annual output of 72,000 tons of high-fresh meat pet food and 135,000 tons of high-fresh meat pet food raw materials (including 81,000 tons of meat and bone meal and 54,000 tons of oil); the staff is 65 people, the annual working hours are 300 days, three shifts are adopted, each shift is 8 hours, and the annual operation is 7200 hours (300 days/a, 24 hours/d).

In this project, we only provide a full set of equipment for the 10t/h pet extruded feed line and some grinders and dryers for meat and bone meal processing. Other equipment is purchased by the customer.

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Project Engineering Composition

The 10t/h pet food factory in United States project engineering composition is detailed in the table below.

Category	Engineering Name	Construction Content
Main Engineering	3# Plant	1 plant, with 2F above ground, part of which is 3F and 5F; part of which is 1F underground, with a total construction area of ​​64352.93 m2, and the maximum dimensions of the plant are 180.3m*172.2m*31.95m (16m high at 2F and 22m high at 3F), 2 high-fresh meat pet food production lines are set in the middle of the first floor, the middle of the second to fifth floors, and the east side, with an annual output of 72,000 tons of high-fresh meat pet food
		Two high-freshness meat pet food raw material production lines are set up on the east side of the first floor, with an annual output of 135,000 tons of high-freshness meat pet food raw materials (including 81,000 tons of meat and bone meal and 54,000 tons of oil).
Auxiliary Engineering	1# R&D Center	1 building, 4 floors, with a total construction area of ​​4532.15m2, length, width and height of 59.76m*19.16m*17.85m, mainly used for production, R&D and business management
	2# Dormitory Building	1 building, 4 floors, total construction area 3186.2m2, length, width and height dimensions 40.36m19.16m17.70m, mainly used for staff rest and accommodation
Storage and transportation engineering	4# Plant	1 building, 4 floors, total construction area 38647.72m2, length, width and height dimensions 150.1m70.1m31.6m, used for temporary storage of raw materials and products
Public works	Heating system	The project uses steam as the heat source for extrusion, drying, cooking and other processes, and the steam consumption is about 246240t/a
	Water supply system	The project uses tap water, which is provided by the water supply network, and the primary water consumption is about 244233.88m3/a
	Drainage system	The rainwater and sewage are separated, and rainwater pipes and sewage pipes are set up
	Power supply system	The local power supply network supplies power, and the power consumption is about 18.9636 million kW·h/a

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Product plan

The product plan for this 10t/h pet food factory in United States project is detailed in the table below.

Number	Product name	Designed capacity	Designed annual production time (h/a)	Remarks
1	High-fresh meat pet food	72,000 t/a	7,200	All for sale
2	High-fresh meat pet food raw materials	135,000 t/a	7,200	Part of it is used internally as raw materials for producing high-fresh meat pet food; the rest is for sale
Of which	Meat and bone meal	81,000t/a	7,200	Of which 4,300t/a is used within the factory as a raw material for producing high-fresh meat pet food; 76,700t/a is sold as products
	Fats	54,000t/a	7,200	Of which 7,300t/a is used within the factory as a raw material for producing high-fresh meat pet food; 46,700t/a is sold as products

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Main pet food production equipment list

The main production units, main processes and production facilities and facility parameters of the 10t/h pet food factory in United States project are listed in the table below.

Main production unit name	Production equipment	Equipment parameters	Design value	QTY
Raw material receiving	Drum primary cleaning screen	/	TCQY80A	3
	Permanent magnetic cylinder	/	TCXT25	3
Mixing system	Single-shaft double-layer paddle high-efficiency mixer	Power	1000kg/bat , 22kwh	1
			500kg/bat , 15kwh	1
	Batching silo	Volume	210m3	16
			190m³	12
	Permanent magnet cylinder	/	TCXT25	2
Crushing system	Crushing silo	Volume	5m³	2
			3m³	2
			10m³	1
	Hammer mill	Power	250/200	2
	Ultrafine mill	Power	180	1
	Drawer type powder test sieve	Power	2.2	4
Second mixing system	Second batching bin	Total volume	20m3	2
			18m3	2
	Single-shaft double-layer paddle high-efficiency mixer	Power	1000kg/bat , 22kwh	1
			500kg/bat , 15kwh	1
Expanding and drying system	Waiting for expansion bin	Total volume	32m3	2
			20m³	2
	Twin screw extruder	Power	361.25kwh	1
			260.5kwh	1
	Partitioned belt steam heating dryer	Power	79.22kwh	1
			47.76kwh	1
	Linear screen	Power	4.4kwh	1
			3kw	1
	Turnover warehouse	Total volume	Volume16/10	2
	Permanent magnet cylinder	/	TCXT30	2
Spray cooling system	Weighing type spray warehouse	Total volume	5m3	4
			3m3	3
	Intermittent sprayer	Power	2m3/bat , 22kw	2
		Power	1m3/bat , 15kw	2
	Drum sprayer	Power	3kw	2
Finished product packaging system	Linear screen	Power	4.4kwh	2
		Power	3kwh	2
	Turnover warehouse	Total volume	10m3	2
		Total volume	5m3	1
	New flap counter-current cooler	Capacity	10t/h	1
		Capacity	5t/h	2
	Powder adding system	/	/	6
	Finished product warehouse	Total volume	180m3	12
			150m3	10
			40m3	4
	Buffer bin	Total volume	24m3	6
			45m3	5
			60m3	6
	Packaging machine	/	/	5
10 tons of liquid adding system	Water tank (daily use)	Total volume	2000L	1
	Color mixing tank (daily use)	Total volume	2000L	2
	Puffed meat slurry adding tank	Total volume	2000L	1
	Oil tank (daily use)	Total volume	3000L	3
			1000L	1
	Attractant tank (daily use)	Total volume	1000L	2
5 tons liquid adding system	Water tank (daily use)	Volume	2000L	1
	Pigment mixing tank (daily use)	Total volume	2000L	2
	Puffed meat slurry addition Tank	Total volume	2000L	1
	Oil tank (daily use)	Total volume	3000L	3
			1000L	1
	Attractant tank (daily use)	Total volume	500L	2
Premixing, packaging	Rotary grading screen	/	SFJH130×2	3
	Mixer	Power	1000kg/bat, 22kwh	1
	Batching scale	Power	1000kg/batch	1
	Batching silo	Total volume	32m3	4
Corn and wheat silos	Feed silos	Specifications	33 ft, 13 rings, Φ10.01×H15.34M	4
	Single-layer cylinder cleaning screen	Power	1.5kwh	1
	Vibrating screen	Power	8.8kwh	2

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Main raw and auxiliary materials

The types and quantities of the main raw and auxiliary materials for this 10t/h pet food factory in United States project are detailed in the table below.

Number	Name of raw and auxiliary materials	Amount (t/a)	Remarks
Raw and auxiliary material consumption
①High-fresh meat pet food
1	Corn	25200	Purchased externally, temporarily stored in the raw material silo
2	Wheat	16560	Purchased externally, temporarily stored in the raw material silo
3	Rice	5760	Purchased externally
4	Meat and bone meal	4300	Self-produced
5	Fish meal /td>	2900	Purchased
6	Oil and fat	7300	Self-produced, temporarily stored in oil tank
7	Soybean meal	7200	Purchased
8	Auxiliary materials	2880	Purchased, mainly potassium chloride, sodium chloride, kelp powder, yeast powder, etc.
9	Packaging materials	70	Purchased
②High-fresh meat pet food raw materials
1	Fish	24000	Purchased
2	Chicken frame	36000	Purchased
3	Duck frame	36000	Purchased
4	Animal suet	76000	Purchased, mainly chicken Skin, duck skin, chicken shell, duck shell
5	Chicken liver	36000	Purchased
6	Duck liver	36000	Purchased
7	Preservatives and antioxidants	270	Purchased, mainly tert-butylhydroquinone (TBHQ) and potassium sorbate
8	Spice	400	Purchasing
9	Caustic soda flakes	1	Purchasing, not stored in the factory, purchased as needed
10	Packaging materials	120	Purchasing
③Sewage treatment and equipment maintenance
1	Polyacrylamide	11	Purchased
2	Polyaluminium chloride	54	Purchased
3	Polyferric sulfate	27	Purchased
4	Glucose	0.4	Purchased
5	Mineral oil	0.3	Purchased, in barrels
Public engineering consumption
1	Water	244233.8 8m3/a	Tap water, provided by water supply network
2	Electricity	18.9636 million KW/h	Municipal power supply
3	Steam	246240t/a	Supplied by pipeline of local thermal power company

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USA 10 t/h pet food factory process design

This 10t/h pet food factory in United States project mainly produces fresh meat pet food and fresh meat pet food raw materials. The process flow of each product is described as follows:

Fresh meat pet food processing process:

Corn and wheat purchased from outside are temporarily stored in the raw material silo. Before entering the silo, a cleaning screen and a vibrating screen are set up to screen out impurities in the grain; a color sorter is set up to automatically sort out the different-colored particles in the corn and wheat, ensuring that the wheat and corn entering the silo are purer.

The purchased corn, wheat and rice temporarily stored in the silo are fed into the silo and enter the next process. The feeding port is equipped with a cylindrical primary cleaning screen and a permanent magnetic cylinder to screen out impurities in the grain.

All formulas are input into the computer, and the batching is automated. The batching accuracy is greater than＞0.3%. A double-blade mixer is used, the mixing cycle is short, and the coefficient of variation of mixing uniformity is ≤5%. The materials enter the double-blade mixer after being accurately configured by the microcomputer and weighing according to the scientific formula.

The microcomputer controls the discharge of the materials through the buffer bin, scraper, bucket elevator, and rotary distributor to enter the next process. A permanent magnetic cylinder is set up in the first mixing process to screen out iron impurities in the raw materials.

The mixed raw materials enter the silo to be crushed, and then are transported to the crusher through a closed pipeline. The 10t/h pet food factory in United States project is equipped with 2 production lines, of which 1 10t/h production line is equipped with 1 hammer mill, and 1 5t/h production line is equipped with 1 hammer mill and 1 ultrafine mill.

The products with higher requirements for product fineness are crushed by hammer mill and then transported to the ultrafine mill through a closed conveying pipeline. After the raw materials are crushed, they are lifted through a closed pipeline and input into the next section.

The purpose of screening is to return the sieved materials that do not meet the requirements to the crushing process for crushing, and the sieved materials with qualified particle sizes enter the next process.

Meat meal, fish meal and other auxiliary materials are put into the mixer through the feeding port according to the scientific formula for premixing. The premixing uses a double-blade mixer with a short mixing cycle and a mixing uniformity coefficient of variation of ≤5%. The materials enter the double-blade mixer after being accurately configured by the microcomputer and weighing according to the scientific formula. T

he microcomputer controls the discharge of the materials through the buffer bin, scraper, bucket elevator, and hexagonal distributor to enter the next process. After mixing evenly, quantitative packaging is carried out by a microcomputer-controlled quantitative packaging scale for easy use in the production line.

The crushed grain raw materials and auxiliary materials such as meat meal are mixed twice using a double-blade mixer with a short mixing cycle and a mixing uniformity coefficient of variation of ≤5%. The materials are precisely configured by microcomputer and weighing according to the scientific formula and then enter the double-paddle mixer.

The microcomputer controls the discharge of the materials and enters the next process through the buffer bin, scraper, bucket elevator and distributor.

The raw materials after secondary mixing enter the waiting extrusion bin through a closed pipeline, and then enter the twin-screw extruder through the waiting extrusion bin for extrusion. Extrusion is a high-temperature and short-time heat treatment process, which can reduce the degradation of food nutrients and improve the starch digestibility of protein.

Various shapes of pet dry food, such as fish type and bone type, can be produced through the pet food extruder machine. The heat source of this process is the pipeline steam heating of the local thermal power company.

The extruded feed are transported to the drying process through the cyclone. The drying section is responsible for the dehydration of the extruded dry food. The texture of the extruded material is relatively soft, and the moisture content reaches 20%~30%. After drying by the pet food dryer, the moisture content of the finished product is controlled at 8%~10%, which can ensure the storage of the material for a certain period of time.

The heat source of this process is the local pipeline steam heating. The drying is matched with a screening machine to screen out the unqualified products after extrusion and drying. Because the extruded feed are large particles and blocks, the screening equipment is closed and basically does not produce dust. The screened materials are unqualified products.

The dried feed need to be cooled from high temperature to near room temperature, and some moisture can be taken away. The 10t/h pet food factory in United States project cooling adopts air cooling.

The feed after primary cooling enter the spraying bin. The puffed materials are large particles and are temporarily stored without generating dust. Then they enter the spraying process. A layer of animal oil and meat powder is sprayed on the surface of the cooled products to give the pet food a certain fragrance. The project spraying is carried out in a closed spray box. The sprayed feed need to be cooled again with a fan.

The main purpose of secondary screening is to screen out the powder and agglomerated particles attached to the formed pet food dry food. At the same time, metal detection is required to prevent metal impurities in pet food.

Manual inspection is required after metal detection.

After inspection, it is the finished product, and after packaging, it is stored for sale.

In this process, only the mesh belt dryer, grinder, screener and cooler are provided by RICHI MACHINERY, and other equipment are purchased by the customer.

Raw materials for high-fresh meat pet food include meat and bone meal and fat. The raw materials are livestock and poultry products (fish, chicken frames, duck frames, animal suet, chicken liver, duck liver, etc.) and auxiliary materials (spices, preservatives, etc.). After crushing, metal detection, mincing, steaming and pressing, cakes and protein juice are obtained.

The protein juice is centrifuged to obtain fat and juice. The juice is concentrated and combined with the cake, and dried, separated, cooled once, crushed, screened, and cooled twice to obtain meat and bone meal.

The process of the pet feed production line is designed by us, but the process of the pet feed raw material production line is not designed by us, so we will not introduce it in detail here.

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Public works

The water supply source of the 10t/h pet food factory in United States project is tap water, and the water used is mainly for fresh meat pet food ingredients, soft water preparation, equipment cleaning wastewater, workshop floor cleaning water, circulating cooling water replenishment, spray tower replenishment, greening water and employee living water.

The project uses steam as a heat source for puffing, drying, cooking and other processes. The steam consumption is about 246240t/a (34.2t/h*7200h/a). The steam is provided by the local thermal power company pipeline. List of the main gas consumption of the pet feed mill project:

Location	Product	Main gas-consuming process	Gas consumption of process (t/h)	Process loss (indirect steam) (t/h)	Condensate return volume (t/h)
3# plant	High-fresh meat pet food720,000 t/a	Puffing process	6	0.18	5.82
		Drying process	5	0.15	4.85
	High-fresh meat pet food raw materials 135,000 t/a	Cooking process	16	0.48	15.52
		Drying process	7.2	0.22	6.98
Total			34.2	1.03	33.17

The gas used in each process of the project is indirect steam, and the loss of steam and water is 3%; the gas used in the concentration process is 0.48 of the exhaust gas loss of cooking and drying.

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USA pet food Plant layout design

The 10t/h pet food factory in United States project uses the plant under construction. The total area of the project is about 74,207 m2. The site is rectangular, with the longest east-west length of about 337 m and the north-south length of about 222 m. The terrain of the project site is flat, and the buildings in the plant are divided into production area and office and living area according to their functions.

1. Production area: mainly located in plant 3# and plant 4#, of which plant 3# is located on the west side of the plant, mainly used for the production of high-fresh meat pet food and high-fresh meat pet food raw materials for this project; plant 4# is located on the east side of the plant, mainly used for raw material and finished product storage; the supporting sewage treatment plant is located on the southeast side of the plant.
2. Office and living area: 1# R&D center and 2# dormitory building are located on the northeast side of the feed plant.
3. Road system planning: Based on the requirements of convenient transportation, the internal roads of the plant are reasonably arranged to form a complete road system. In order to facilitate the entry and exit of materials and personnel, three mixed entrances and exits for personnel and goods are set up on the north and west sides of the factory area to ensure smooth production and transportation of goods.

The various facilities in the production area are reasonably arranged according to the process flow, and the material transportation is short and convenient, which can meet the needs of the material flow and the purpose of quick material transportation.

The functional areas of this project are clearly divided into different zones, which can meet the requirements of non-production and unrelated personnel entering the production area.

The layout of this 10t/h pet food factory in United States project is compact and can meet the requirements of saving land.

The project has clear divisions, and the overall layout better meets the smoothness of the process flow, reflects the convenience of material transportation, simplifies the transportation of materials in the factory area, and facilitates production; after taking effective treatment measures, the impact of production waste gas and equipment operation noise on the office and living area is relatively small. The situation of the main buildings is shown in the table below.

No.	Project Name	Length×Width×Height（m）	Building Area（m2）	Structure	QTY
1	1# R&D Center	59.76m×19.16m×17.85m	4532.15	Brick-concrete Structure	1
2	2# Dormitory Building	40.36m×19.16m×17.70m	3186.2	Brick-concrete structure	1
3	3# Factory Building	180.3m×172.2m×31.95m	64352.93	Brick-concrete structure	1
4	4# Factory Building	150.1m×70.1m×31.6m	38647.72	Brick-concrete structure	1
Total			110719	—	—

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What is the prospect of building a pet feed factory in the United States?

The prospect of building a pet feed factory in the United States is very optimistic, mainly based on the following considerations:

• ‌Increase in pet ownership: Although the pet ownership rate has increased since the epidemic, the current growth rate has tended to the pre-epidemic level. According to the forecast of the American Pet Products Association (APPA), the household pet ownership rate in the United States will be 63% in 2024 and is expected to reach 67% by 2030. This means that the continued growth in the number of pets will provide a stable demand for the pet feed market.
• Continued growth in the pet food market: The global pet food market is expected to reach US$140.9 billion in 2024 and will continue to grow. As the world’s largest pet food market, the United States’ pet food market revenue reached US$57.4 billion in 2023, showing strong market demand.
• ‌Increase in consumer attention to pet health: With the improvement of people’s living standards and the growth of emotional needs, consumers are paying more and more attention to the health and nutrition of pets. This has driven the demand for high-end, high-quality pet food, providing more market opportunities for pet feed factories.
• Growth in online sales channels: Although offline channels are still the main sales method, the growth trend of online sales channels is obvious. The younger generation especially prefers to buy pet products online, which provides great potential for online sales.
• Technological innovation and brand innovation‌: Technological innovation and brand innovation are key factors driving the development of the pet industry. Improving product quality through technological innovation and improving market competitiveness through brand innovation will help pet feed factories stand out in the market.

In summary, the US pet feed market has broad prospects, mainly due to the popularity of pets, consumers’ increased attention to pet health, the growth of online sales channels, and the promotion of technological innovation and brand innovation. These factors work together to provide a good market environment and business opportunities for building pet feed factories in the United States.

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