Exploring the Demand of Food Factory, Realizing Core Value of the Platform

    The International Machinery Zone of 2017 China Food & Drink Fair (Autumn) (hereinafter referred to as “Fair”) will be opened from 10.19 to 10.21 in Chongqing International Expo Center. According to the positioning of the autumn fair, we will focus on the leading food sectors in Midwest China, such as condiments, Zhacai (hot pickled mustard tuber), pickles, snacks, and specialty food from Sichuan, Chongqing, and Guizhou. We will provide relevant enterprises with advanced food processing and packaging solutions, realizing effective supply and demand pairing as well as the core value of the platform.

    In June, the marketing team of the International Machinery Zone of the Fair visited Sichuan and Chongqing for the leading enterprises in Wenjiang Industrial Park and Shuangliu Industrial Park of Chengdu, the hometown of Chinese pickle—Meishan City, Sichuan Cuisine Industrial Park—Pixian County, and Chongqing Lidu Industrial Park, to understand development trends of various fields and the current situations & trends of food factories, and to discuss, practice, and transform the upgrade demands of R&D, technology, production, and packaging proposed by factories through the specific platform.

    The team knew that, through field research in food factories, such as Chuannan Brewing Co., Ltd., Sichuan Teway Food Co., Ltd., GUO NIANG FOOD, Sichuan Chengdu Hongdenglong Food Co., Ltd., Pixian Manjianghong Condiment Co., Ltd., Sichuan Jixiangju Food Co., Ltd., Chongqing Fuling Zhacai Group Co., Ltd., Chengdu Funpaer Food Co., Ltd., and Chengdu SNSFOOD Co., Ltd., peeling, dicing & shredding, bagging & encasement, packaging production line, after-packaging, vacuum-pumping and impurity detection are the most needed automation equipment for reducing manual work, improving production efficiency, and guaranteeing food safety.

Development Trends of Hotpot Seasoning, Pickle, and Zhacai

    Currently, the hotpot industry has about RMB 50 billion of market capacity. It is estimated that hotpot industry had an industrial scale of RMB 18 billion in 2011. For five years, the scale has been rapidly increased, and the size of the hotpot industry is conservatively estimated to be about RMB 40 billion now.

    In 2015, the total output value of the food industry in Chongqing was RMB 136 billion, up by about 12%; and the condiment industry accounted for about 10% with an estimated output value of RMB 12 to 13 billion. In 2017, the Chengdu’s pickles and condiments manufacturing industries reached an output value of RMB 15 billion. They fully developed and utilized special chili pepper, Chinese prickly ash, lindera glauca (litsea pungens), and other spices, transformed traditional technologies by high and new technologies, and developed a variety of flavored and functional compound condiments. In terms of condiments and fermented products, Chongqing focuses on enhancing and developing hotpot seasoning, compound condiments of Sichuan cuisine, fermented bean curd, and pickles, achieving an output value of RMB 20 billion by 2020.

    In 2015, the China’s Zhacai industry produced about 860,000 tons; in 2016, the comprehensive output value of Chongqing’s whole Zhacai industry chain reached RMB 9.5 billion; and the brand value of “Fuling Zhacai” reached RMB 13.8 billion. By 2020, Chongqing’s Zhacai industry strives to realize an output value of RMB 12 billion, while reaching RMB 15 billion for the public brand value of “Fuling Zhacai” as the “Brand King” in the city’s agriculture.

    In 2015, the market size of pickles reached RMB 46.636 billion, and the future market of pickles industry will be larger. In 2015, the production of pickles in Sichuan was 3.3 million tons, accounting for about 70% of the country's output with a value of RMB 27 billion, and the output value in 2016 was expected to reach be RMB 30 billion. In 2015, the value of pickles in Dongpo District, Meishan was RMB 13.18 billion, a year-on-year increase of 9.1% with an added value of RMB 1.1 billion.

Leading Enterprises

    Hotpot seasoning: Sichuan Teway Food Co., Ltd., Chongqing Hong Jiujiu Food Co., Ltd., Chongqing Qiao Tou Hot Pot Food Co., Ltd., Chongqing Zhoujunji Hot Pot Food Co., Ltd., and Chongqing Pangzitianjiao Co., Ltd.

    Pickles and Zhacai: Sichuan Jixiangju Food Co., Ltd., Chuannan Brewing Co., Ltd., Sichuan Weijute Food Co., Ltd., Huitong, Liji Group, Chongqing Fuling Zhacai Group Co., Ltd., Chongqing Fish Well Preserved Vegetable (Group) Co., Ltd., and Lameizi Food Limited Company

International Machinery Zone in Factories
1、Chengdu SNSFOOD Co., Ltd.

    The company was founded in 2007, and is the manufacturing company for brands of “Sheng’en” and “Shengchubao”. It is one of the large scale manufacturing enterprises of compound condiments and savory flavors with professional technologies and complete testing means.

    Demand of Automation Technology and Equipment

Front-end: Dicing and shredding equipment
Back-end: Solutions of packaging production line and impurity detection

2. Chuannan Brewing Co., Ltd.

    It is one of the earliest pickles and Sichuan Cuisine condiments production enterprises in China. The company, after 26 years of development, has become a technological corporation with annual output value of hundreds of millions yuan, a number of patent technologies and proprietary technologies. It is recognized as one of the outstanding representatives in the Chinese condiment industry. The company now owns the production bases of thick chili sauce and pickles. In Sichuan, there are green food planting bases of chili and vegetables, and the main products are thick chili sauce and specialty.

Demand of Automation Technology and Equipment
Front-end: Automatic peeling equipment
Back-end: Automatic bagging and encasement solutions

3. Sichuan Teway Food Co., Ltd.

    It is the standing council unit of China Condiment Industrial Association and national key leading enterprise for agricultural industrialization, devoting to developing, producing, and selling Sichuan compound condiment. It independently developed four series of “Dahongpao”, “Haorenjia”, “Tianche”, and “Youdianhuo”.

Demand of Automation Technology and Equipment
Front-end: Electromagnetic pan
Back-end: Solutions of automatic bagging, encasement, and vacuum-pumping

Pixian Manjianghong Condiment Co., Ltd. 

    The company mainly deals in the production and sales of Pixian Douban (chili bean sauce), pickles, Tianmianjiang (a sweet sauce made of fermented flour) and compound condiments, and has more than 100 specifications of the leading product—Shufu Douban.

Demand of Automation Technology and Equipment
Back-end: Automatic packaging machine and carrying palletizer

Sichuan Chengdu Hongdenglong Food Co., Ltd.

    The company is specialized in the research, production and sales of hotpot seasoning, compound condiments, and other condiments. It is a modern enterprise in the field of deep processing of agricultural and sideline products. It mainly researches and produces hundreds of kinds and scales of products in three major categories of the hot pot condiments series, Pangpangyang soup bases series, and compound condiments series.

Demand of Automation Technology and Equipment
Front-end: Intelligent pan
Back-end: Bottling equipment

Sichuan Jixiangju Food Co., Ltd.
This is a large food manufacturing enterprise, renowned at home and abroad for producing and selling high-end pickles and spices.

Demand of Automation Technology and Equipment
Front-end: Peeling and cutting equipment
Back-end: Packaging solutions (encasement and bagging)

Chongqing Fuling Zhacai Group Co., Ltd.

    It is a rapidly developing agriculture industrialization enterprise group, taking Zhacai as base and depending on the field of appetizer. It has an annual production capacity of more than 100,000 tons, and exports products to many countries and regions, such as the EU, the United States, Japan and China Hong Kong.

Demand of Automation Technology and Equipment
Front-end: Solutions of peeling and cutting equipment, soy sauce boiling equipment
Back-end: Automatic measuring, packaging, and filling (10 g) machines

Chengdu Funpaer Food Co., Ltd.
With main products of biscuits, puffed food, cakes, candy, etc., it is a comprehensive enterprise integrated R&D, production, and sale. At present, the company owns a world's leading sterile food production line.

Demand of Automation Technology and Equipment
Back-end: Automatic packaging 

GUO NIANG FOOD

    The company mainly produces and sells “Dawang” soy sauce and vinegar, “Taihe” Douchi (fermented soya beans), “Haihuisi” fermented bean curd, “Shuxiang” sausage, soy cured & cured meat condiment, Tianmianjiang, noodle condiment, Sichuan Cuisine condiment, and “Jinqiao” sausage, cured meat condiment.

Demand of Automation Technology and Equipment
Front-end: Douchi cutting equipment (expect a not sticky texture and perfect appearance)
Back-end: Automatic measuring and packaging equipment

    Base on the features and user demands of Midwest China’s food industry, the International Machinery Zone of 2017 China Food & Drink Fair (Autumn) will focus on introducing vegetable cleaning and cutting production line, automatic packaging machine (packaging and weighting), automatic bagging and encasement, metal and impurity detector, energy control and MES system for condiment, Zhacai, snack, agricultural and sideline product manufacturing enterprises, to promote the effective exchange and pairing. Please follow us!

    Exploring the demand of food industry, focusing on audience demands, and gathering in Chongqing from November 10 to November 12 at the International Machinery Zone of 2017 China Food & Drink Fair (Autumn)!