In the past two years, domestic consumers’ demand for healthy snacks has expanded, and various healthy snacks have emerged in endlessly in the market..For example, nuts are a type of snack that is very popular with consumers..From traditional melon seeds, peanuts and walnuts to pecans, cashews, hazelnuts, macadamia nuts, etc., nuts have rich nutritional value, and proper consumption is good for health..Thanks to the growth of the nut market, the market space of the nut production line is also further expanding.
At present, there are more and more nut categories on the market, and changes in the industry such as diversification of nut consumption scenarios and quality product supply have occurred..Moreover, due to the “strong support” of young consumers, the size of the nut market is growing year by year.According to statistics, the sales scale of enterprises above designated size in the nut roasted nuts industry in 2019 reached 179.1 billion yuan.In the huge snack food market, nuts account for more than 20% of sales.
But for now, the roasted nuts market is in the early stages of development in terms of overall sales scale and industrial production. The industry concentration is not high. It is a blue ocean area where international giants have not yet formed a dominant position and has a large room for development..The market development boom of my country’s nut industry will surely promote the high-efficiency and high-quality development of the production process to meet consumer demand for dried fruit and nut products.Therefore, the importance of process upgrading is gradually emerging in the industry.
At present, the equipment used in the production process of nuts mainly includes automatic washing machines, dryers, quantitative bagging machines, vacuum sealing machines, etc..Use an automatic cleaning machine to clean the pre-processed nuts, use two pre-drying treatments to ensure the drying effect, and bag and seal the dried fruit products.Nowadays, in order to reduce the damage to the nutrient components of nuts during high-temperature drying and maintain the taste of nuts, new processes have been adopted in the production of nuts..
For example, the use of microwave technology instead of hot air technology to sterilize, roast and mature nuts.Microwave is penetrative. When using it for production, each part of the nut can usually evenly penetrate electromagnetic waves to generate heat, and the uniformity of drying is very high..At the same time, its drying speed will be greatly accelerated.In addition, the operating temperature of the microwave equipment is lower than that of hot air drying, and the raw materials of nuts are more active and have a longer shelf life..
It can be seen that the upgrading of the production process of nuts will bring higher quality to nuts.In the past two years, more and more companies have entered the nut market, and nut processing equipment will usher in a better development prospect.It is reported that a food technology company in Tongling, Anhui decided to invest a total of 200 million yuan to build a snack nut food processing project with an annual output of 20,000 tons.The project mainly consists of production workshops, raw material warehouses, finished product warehouses, office buildings, etc. After completion, the company will achieve an annual output value of 1.500 million yuan.
A leading nut company in China also issued an announcement recently, intending to raise funds14.600 million yuan invested in the construction of nut snack food projects in Chuzhou, Anhui, Changsha, Hunan and other places.Relevant personnel said that this series of investment layout is to meet the increasing market demand, further optimize the company’s production and sales layout in East China, Central China, South China and surrounding areas, increase the company’s leading product production capacity, and reduce the company’s products. Production and sales costs
At present, consumers’ requirements for the quality and health of food continue to increase, which has become an important driving force for the demand for nuts..Thanks to the development of nut processing equipment, the added value of nut products has further increased, and nut production has accelerated in the direction of high efficiency, quality, and standardization, which promotes the high-quality development of the nut industry.And the massive entry of capital will also bring new development directions for nut processing equipment
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