China’s meat processing machinery technology and equipment increasingly “autonomous”

Meat industry “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” pointed out that the key task of China’s meat processing industry is to further adjust the production structure, and steadily develop pork, beef and mutton and poultry processing. Optimize the structure of meat food, increase the proportion of cold and fresh meat, strengthen the deep processing of meat products, and promote the comprehensive utilization of resources. With the rapid development of the meat industry, many meat processing machinery enterprises have sprung up. In the future, China’s meat processing machinery market has huge potential, and the meat processing machinery industry will usher in a new round of rapid development.

Demand for meat processing machinery is booming.

With the development of the meat food industry, the proportion of meat deep processing is increasing, and new meat processing plants are also emerging, and these enterprises need to invest a lot of processing equipment. In addition, a large number of foreign equipment purchased in the 1980s and 1990s has tended to be obsolete and needs to be updated. At present, the country has a certain scale and industry influence of meat machinery manufacturing enterprises reached more than 60, many of the original dependence on imported technical equipment, such as automatic filling machines, automatic packaging machines, smoking furnaces, etc., now all achieve independent production, and many products exported to Europe and the United States and Southeast Asian markets. Therefore, China’s meat processing and technical equipment are gradually realizing the transformation from import-based to independent research and development and independent production.

At present, China is in an important stage of industrialization and urbanization development. In addition, with the improvement of urban and rural residents’ income level and the transformation of consumption patterns, China’s food consumption structure is in a stage of accelerating change, and the demand for processed food has risen significantly, with an average annual growth rate of 20%. This year, in the case of the sluggish world economy, the economic growth rate of relevant industries in China has slowed down, but the meat processing industry still maintains rapid growth, the agricultural product processing industry has increased by 19%, and the meat processing industry has increased by 21%. At present, the proportion of processed meat products in total meat production in China is still very low, according to statistics, only 15.6%, while developed countries reach more than 40% of the level. It is expected that under the strong pull of demand, China’s meat processing will maintain the momentum of rapid development in a long period of time.

Whole-line automation is the direction of the meat industry “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” clear, accelerate the elimination of manual workshops and semi-mechanized small slaughterhouses, the application of modern slaughtering technology, to promote the standardization of slaughtering enterprises transformation and upgrading; Vigorously develop meat intensive processing, optimize product structure, and create well-known brands; Through the implementation of the branding strategy, accelerate the promotion of meat product classification, quality and price, and gradually solve the problem of product homogeneity, uniformity and low-level vicious competition. One of the mainstream of the world’s food equipment technology development is to make food processing technology adapt to the quality and safety of the whole control requirements, therefore, to ensure the safety and health of equipment and food is very important. The industry has also done a lot of work in this regard: adding probes in the front end of the production line to detect the composition of each substance in the material, such as detecting the protein content of raw meat, maintaining the nutrition and flavor of the food, and ensuring food safety; Increase meat grinder protective measures to prevent accidents due to human negligence; Use high and new technology to ensure food hygiene from labeling, coding, foreign matter detection and other aspects; In terms of automation, replace manual with efficient equipment to improve the production efficiency of single machines. The realization of full line automation is the trend of The Times, but it needs to be reminded that full line automation is not suitable for all enterprises, only the product output of the same specification is large enough to maximize its economic benefits.

With the increase of Chinese residents’ consumption demand for nutritious, healthy and convenient food, the structure of meat products is developing in the direction of diversification, quality and functionalization, the degree of product segmentation is increasing, and the proportion of deeply processed products is rising. At present, the proportion of cold fresh meat has increased greatly, and it is divided into hot fresh meat. At present, China’s cold processing and cold chain logistics facilities are insufficient, white meat, hot fresh meat still accounts for about 60% of all raw meat on the market, cold meat and small package meat accounted for 10% each, meat production only accounts for 15% of the total production of meat, and developed countries meat cold chain circulation rate of 100%, meat products accounted for 50% of the total production of meat compared to the level of a big gap. With the advancement of kitchen equipment, flavored foods, snack foods, traditional foods, specialty foods and multi-functional meat products will increase rapidly, and the structure of meat products will further diversify.

Through nearly 20 years of development, China’s meat processing technology has been greatly improved, especially the processing technology of products has been close to the world’s advanced level. For meat processing machinery manufacturers, they have the basic conditions for further development of meat processing machinery. In recent years, many meat processing machinery enterprises have emerged, which can produce more than 90% of meat processing equipment, almost covering slaughter, segmentation, meat products, prepared foods, comprehensive utilization and other processing fields, and the equipment manufactured has begun to approach the level of similar foreign products. In the future, China’s meat processing machinery market has huge potential, and the meat processing machinery industry will usher in a new round of rapid development.