What is Food Machinery? What Types of Functions are There?

What does Food Machinery Include?

Food machinery refers to the mechanical equipment and devices used in the process of processing food raw materials into food (or semi-finished products). Classification of food processing machinery the food processing process involves the processing or preservation of raw materials, intermediate products, and finished products. It involves the pretreatment of raw materials, separation, recombination of intermediate products, and forming packaging of final products. It involves antisepsis and sterilization treatment of different types of semi-finished products and finished products. There are many kinds of raw materials and products in the food processing process, the properties of processed objects are different, the specifications of processed products are different, and the production of certain varieties has seasonal and regional characteristics. All of these determine that the types of food machinery and devices are extremely diverse.

Food machinery has a wide range of requirements, as long as it is used for food machinery, it can be regarded as food machinery. Food machinery includes but is not limited to GB 16798-1997 Food Machinery Safety and Hygiene, GB9685-2008 Food Containers, Packaging Material Additive Use Standards, ROHS Directive, and performance standards of this type of food machinery. Because of its scope of application, food machinery pays more attention to safety issues. Stainless steel is used for materials that directly touch food to ensure the safety and hygiene of food materials, thereby reducing the occurrence of potential safety hazards. The material selection of food machinery is particularly important, and strict attention should be paid to the material selection of the machine when purchasing. Secondly, when food is in contact with stainless steel in a high-temperature environment, the content of lead and nickel in the stainless-steel material must also be considered. When choosing stainless steel, attention should be paid to the characteristics of its various grades.

1. Food general machinery:
   
   • Filling machinery
   • Drying equipment
   • Crushing equipment
   • Conveying equipment
   • Cleaning equipment
   • Sterilization equipment
   • Purifying facility
   • Storage and transportation equipment
   • Biochemical equipment
   • Fermentation equipment
   • Sorting equipment
   • Frying equipment
   • Concentration equipment
   • Separation equipment
   • Fresh-keeping and refrigeration equipment
   • Mixing equipment
   • Heat exchange equipment
   • Water treatment equipment
   • Pharmaceutical equipment
   • Other equipment
2. Food special machinery:
   
   • Fruit and vegetable machinery
   • Dairy equipment
   • Grease equipment
   • Tobacco equipment
   • Slaughtering machinery
   • Cooking equipment
   • Brewing equipment
   • Grain equipment
   • Rice noodle machinery
   • Beverage machinery
   • Candy machinery
   • Baking equipment
   • Meat processing equipment
   • Biscuit machinery
   • Snack Food Equipment
   • Condiment equipment
   • Meat processing equipment
   • Rice noodle machinery
   • Bean product equipment
   • Baking equipment
   • Brewing equipment
   • Other machinery
3. Food packaging machinery:
   
   • Inkjet machinery
   • Labeling machinery
   • Packaging machinery
   • Sealing machinery
   • Wrapping machinery
   • Other machinery
4. Other food equipment:
   
   • Pump valve fittings
   • Food supporting equipment
   • Food testing instruments
   • Other equipment

Various Food Machinery and Their Functions:

• Meat processing machinery: Meat processing machinery is suitable for all kinds of frozen meat or warm meat. It provides slicers, shredders, fine cutters, meat grinders, beating mixers, and frying machines, as well as vegetarian meat processing and so on all kinds of machinery. It can be customized according to customer needs to complete various meat and vegetarian meat processing needs.
• Vegetable processing machinery: Vegetable processing machinery is suitable for cutting leaves, stems, and bulbs of vegetables and fruits. We provide various vegetable cutting machines, which can be cut into various shapes according to customer needs. Depending on the size of the customer's space, you can choose desktop to large-scale fruit and vegetable processing machines to meet the needs of different production environments.
• Food quantitative forming machinery: Various forming machines, including block forming machines, strip forming machines, pill forming machines, soup forming machines, etc., imitation manual forming machines, and pet food forming machines can also be produced according to customer needs system.
• Battering and flouring machine: The battering and flouring machine can provide either a battering machine or a flouring machine alone, or a battering and flouring machine that provides the two-in-one function of battering and flouring. Provide desktop battering and flouring machines and floor-standing battering and flouring machines to meet the various needs of customers. The newly developed product, the gravity-free powder coating machine, can perfectly coat fragile and oil-prone powder.
• Frying machine: Frying is a processing method in which food is heated, cooked, and dehydrated, that is, the process of placing food in oil at a higher temperature to make it heat and quickly mature. Frying can extend the shelf life of food, improve the flavor of food, increase the nutritional value of food, endow food with a unique golden color, and add a crispy taste.
• Boiling and steaming cooking machines: Including boiling cooking machines, batch boiling machines, and steaming cooking machines. It can be applied to the boiled processing of fish, meat, vegetarian food, tribute fish balls, and meat soup. The steaming and cooking machine can replace the traditional steamer and cook tribute fish balls, hot pot ingredients, and other foods.
• Drying and baking series: Including batch type single door dryer, batch type double door dryer, drying machine, and baking machine. It can remove excess moisture from food and is easy to store after packaging. The product dryer is processed by a multi-layer conveyor belt, which saves space and cost, and can also be customized according to product requirements.
• Multi-layer cooling conveyor: Multi-layer cooling conveyor, suitable for cooling and air-drying various foods after high-temperature cooking.

What are the Classifications of Food Processing Machinery and Equipment?

Food processing involves the processing or preservation of raw materials, intermediate products, and finished products. It involves the pretreatment of raw materials, separation, recombination of intermediate products, and forming packaging of final products. Involves anti-corrosion and sterilization treatment of different types of semi-finished and finished products. There are many kinds of raw materials and products in the process of food processing, the nature of processing objects is different, the specifications of processed products are different, and the production of certain varieties has seasonal and regional characteristics. Whether it is from the perspective of equipment selection in food processing applications, or the perspective of equipment manufacturing and new model development. It is important to systematically classify the wide variety of food processing machinery and equipment.

• Classification by raw material or production product: Food machinery can be divided into numerous production line equipment. For example, sugar processing machinery, bean product processing equipment, bakery food machinery, dairy machinery, fruit and vegetable processing, and fresh-keeping machinery, canned food machinery, confectionary food machinery, brewing machinery, beverage machinery, convenience food machinery, condiments, and food additive machinery, aquatic products processing machinery, grain and oil processing machinery, cooking machinery, etc.
• Classification according to the function of mechanical equipment: It is classified according to the unit operation function of the equipment. Generally, food machinery and equipment can be divided into screening and cleaning machinery, crushing and cutting machinery, mixing machinery, grading and sorting machinery, molding machinery, multi-phase separation machinery, stirring and homogenizing machinery, cooking and frying machinery, evaporation and concentration machinery, drying machinery, baking machinery, freezing and refrigeration machinery, extrusion machinery, metering machinery, packaging and filling machinery, conveying machinery, pumps, heat exchange equipment, and containers, etc.

Classification by raw materials or products can be done through the study of the internal relations of various operating machinery involved in various food processing and production. Promote the development of supporting production lines. Taking function as the basis of classification is conducive to comparative research on the production efficiency and mechanical structure of various unit operations so that partial breakthroughs in technology can drive overall development.

What Facilities are Required for Food Operations?

• Food production and operation personnel should always maintain personal hygiene. When producing and selling food, they must wash their hands and wear clean work clothes and hats; when selling directly imported food, they must use vending tools.
• Food warehouses should be ventilated, dry, protected from light, and tidy, and must have waterproof, moisture-proof, fly-proof, rodent-proof, mildew-proof, and moth-proof facilities. Store in separate warehouses to separate sundries, medicines, poisons, and food, raw and cooked, and finished and semi-finished products.
• Food production and operation sites, food tools, and equipment must be separated from raw and cooked food.
• Containers, utensils, tableware, and tea sets for directly imported food must be cleaned and disinfected before use. All food is sold using tools, and the fare must be separated from the food.
• There should be refrigeration equipment and corresponding measures for storing perishable foods, and cold storage and refrigerators should be washed and disinfected in time.
• The knives, containers, and rags used for making cold meat and cold dishes must be disinfected before use.
• The production and processing workshops must be equipped with facilities for hand washing, disinfection, fly prevention, and dust prevention.

What is Food Processing Technology?

Food processing technology refers to grain grinding, feed processing, vegetable oil and sugar processing, slaughtering and meat processing, aquatic product processing, and food such as vegetables, fruits, and nuts that are directly used as raw materials from agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and fishery products. various food production technologies. With the continuous advancement of science and technology and society, various food processing technologies are also constantly improving.

At present, there are many types of mainstream food processing technologies, such as food chemistry, food microbiology, food nutrition, and hygiene, food machinery and equipment, food additives, fermented food production, baked food processing technology, dairy processing technology, and canned meat product processing. Technology, grain and oil processing technology, fruit and vegetable storage and processing, egg product processing, beverage processing technology, food analysis and testing, modern instrument analysis, food safety, and quality control, food packaging and preservation, food policies and regulations, etc. In addition to the various conventional food processing technologies mentioned above, more and more high-tech technologies are gradually being applied in the field of food processing, such as modern food separation technology, microwave processing technology, puffing technology, ultra-high temperature instantaneous sterilization technology, food biotechnology, etc.