Huge market capacity
With the continuous improvement of people's living standards, consumers' requirements for happy candy are also increasing, paying more attention to the intrinsic value of products. In this context, many manufacturers have begun to consider new business models while paying attention to the mainstream channels of Xitang, and have turned their attention to Xipu.
Zuo Delin, a senior expert in the confectionery industry, believes that with the rapid development of the confectionery industry, the capacity of the Xitang market is increasing year by year. Different from consumers in other provinces, consumers in Jiangnan are more inclined to buy products in gift boxes than those in bulk weighing by jin. A gift box contains 6-8 candies, including milk candy, chocolate, hard candy, soft candy, etc. In their opinion, only the products with exquisite packaging can adequately express their joy. In recent years, because of the better living conditions, people's requirements for the quality of candy have naturally improved to a certain extent. At this time, brand products with safe quality and guaranteed quality began to sell hot in the market.
At present, the development of China's candy industry is increasingly eager for scientific and technological innovation, but the development level of domestic candy equipment manufacturing industry has not kept up with the demand of candy manufacturers for new product development. Equipment manufacturers need to have the courage and boldness to make breakthroughs and innovations to support the development of the candy industry. The application of high-end CNC technology in candy production equipment will be the mainstream of candy equipment development in the future.
High end numerical control technology will first be widely used in pouring equipment, and chocolate complete equipment has taken the lead in realizing the application of this technology. Before discussing the second generation of pouring equipment with numerical control as the core technology, it is necessary to take a look at the development history of the first generation of candy pouring equipment: the generation pouring production line has been born for more than ten years, which played an important role in promoting the vigorous development of China's pouring candy for ten years. At that time, the equipment only had four rows of lines, because the equipment was large and expensive, many small factories could not afford it. Later, after the equipment was miniaturized, two rows and three rows of lines were introduced, It is gradually widely used by many domestic candy manufacturers. Now, the functional limitations of the first generation pouring equipment have increasingly failed to meet the requirements of the candy industry for diversified and high-end development. Although some equipment manufacturers are also trying to constantly improve, it is difficult to make a major breakthrough.
The outstanding feature of the second generation CNC casting production equipment is that the casting nozzle can dance. It lifts the pouring nozzle from a point to a three-dimensional space where it can move freely through high-end numerical control, so that the equipment has extraordinary functions and broad application space: first, it has a great improvement on the sandwich technology, which can accurately realize the positioning and quantitative control of the sandwich, and its maximum sandwich volume can reach 70%. The skin material on the surface of the sandwich chocolate is very uniform with the core material inside, so there will be no slurry explosion and slurry leakage during pouring, and the two materials with similar concentrations can be combined in different ways to meet the needs of the process, and high-quality precision can be determined to sandwich. The second is to be able to write and spiral, so that users can directly write and draw words, patterns, logos, etc. on the surface of chocolate, and produce monochrome, two-color plane spiral or three-dimensional spiral patterns; The third is to replace manual work and realize multi-color fine decoration and pouring.
The emergence of domestic fine decoration and pouring equipment has greatly reduced the industry threshold and development barriers, and solved many problems such as too many manual decoration personnel, too much waste, large land occupation, low efficiency, and difficult quality and health control. Its arbitrarily moving pouring nozzle, accurate positioning and quantitative, can produce extremely rich multi-color decoration candy through the tandem pouring of one or more pouring machines.
In Europe and the United States, this kind of equipment has been relatively mature, and this technology represents the mainstream trend of future industry development. The reason why foreign countries have controlled the CNC decorative casting technology for so many years is that China has been unable to break through the key technology of the equipment - hydraulic servo control system. Therefore, despite the development of foreign countries for so many years, some large domestic manufacturers have also imported some equipment, but the price is extremely expensive (only the casting head, equipment without tunnels, the highest price in Switzerland is 2 million yuan, and the lowest price in Italy is 1.2 million yuan), Therefore, the market has been too high and too few to be widely used and promoted.