How to start a flour mill factory?

Why do we need flour mill factories?

According to the flours exist in the market, there are wheat flour, corn flour, rice flour, yam flour and so on. Flour is a necessities of life. So starting a flour mill factory is wise choice. Let’s see how can we start a flour mill factory?

How to operate the flour mill equipment?

If you don’t have any experience in flour making, you had better hire some one with experience in operating flour mill machine, or you can have some training classes, go visit some flour mill factory to find how their machine works or find a flour mill machine supplier to provide you some suggestions.

How to select sit and purchase flour mill equipment?

It is time to find a perfect sit and a reliable supplier the moment you are thinking of running a flour mill factory. You need enough space to place your machines, store your raw materials and flours that already produced. In another way, you need take the position into consideration, the sit of your factory should be convenient in transportation. Find a reliable flour mill supplier to purchase your flour mill equipment. Hire some works with experience if needed.

Collect raw material

Flour mill factory need a lot of raw material, and the most common material is wheat and corn. The material is depend on the type of flour you want to produce. You can find a spot in the area where you can easily find materials. In the long run, the best choice is to find a wide field to grow wheat or other materials yourself. For a flour mill factory which just begins, it is better to buy grains form farmers.
Find stable clients
Once your factory is put into use, you need to sale your product in market, you’d better find at least a long term and stable client. You can start from biscuit factory or bread factory where they have a great demand of flour. Except for wholesale, you product also need to get into retail market, find some retail stores, supermarkets and so on.

Quality of flour

As a new flour brand, your need to keep the quality of your flour, you can take some samples to the retailers so that they can experience what you have to offer in terms of flour texture, quality, color and taste.It is better to do your unique feature. Collect feed backs from your customers in order that you can make change on your formula of your flour. Your product also have to be competitive in price.

How to solve the problem of fruit juice production technology?

At present, pure fruit juice drinks are springing up all over the world, and large and small juice factories have sprung up. This enables people do not need to walk into the garden of fruits and  wait for the season of fruit ripening, they can easily taste the flavor of various fruit drinks at home. For fruit juice manufacturers, how to solve the problem of fruit juice is a new topic for production technology.

How to solve the problem of fruit juice production technology?

Selection of fruit raw materials

If manufacturers directly choose fit maturity and the sweetest fresh fruit to process fruit juice, this will be complicated and has a lot of trouble, so we can choose the concentrated juice and jam produced by large manufacturers to process fruit juice. This will be simple and convenient, the quality is guaranteed.

From raw materials, we should pay attention to every batch of raw materials on production, and the source should be consistent. If the raw material extraction process is not well handled, it will lead to higher content of coarse fiber and is easy to cause precipitation. Fruit juice with fruit and pulp is very important to maintain uniform texture. To stabilize the suspended solids, it is necessary to reduce the settling speed to zero as far as possible.

Avoid heating as much as possible

The production of juice drinks should avoid heating as much as possible. Almost all of the fruit juices will suffer from hot odor and nutritional loss when heated at high temperature. For avoiding the loss of fruit juice nutrition and flavor, the method of high pressure and normal temperature sterilization is required.

Proper addition of vitamin C

Vitamin C is added to replace the loss of itself vitamin C. Due to breakage, grinding, homogenization, heating and other processes, all these lead to loss of vitamin C in fruit juice. A proper addition of 1/10000 vitamin C can not only protect colors and anti-oxidize, but also protect the fruit juice from the effect of loss.

Half or less amount of essence trademark instruction dosage

The production of juice drinks is generally added to the same flavor as its own fragrance, but the amount should not be too large. The dosage is generally half or less amount of essence trademark instruction dosage. Passiflora is also called passion fruit, also known as the fruit "monosodium glutamate". Adding 2% to 4% of passion fruit juice (When making the juice of passion fruit, do not heat more than 90 degrees centigrade, preferably cold. ). Without adding flavor, after high pressure homogenization, the flavor of the product is also very strong.

Control of finished products total acidity and pH value

Controlling the total acidity of the finished product between 0.4% and 0.6% and controlling the pH value in 3.7 - 3.9 is not only a measure to adjust the taste, improve the flavor, but also play a major role in the production of commercial sterility by pasteurization.

A moderate amount of stabilizers

In actual production, the sugar degree of fruit juice is generally controlled between 10 and 120Brix. For the suspended beverage containing flesh and fruit pellet, it is not enough to suspend the suspended solids with a larger density at this sugar level. Therefore, a proper amount of stabilizers should be added. In most cases, the selection and use of good stabilizers and the appropriate proportions are the key to the effect of the pulp suspension, because the use of stabilizers and the mismatch ratio are easy to cause the product to be stratified and precipitated during the shelf life.

Pineapple Juice Processing Line

Why do you build your own pineapple juice plant?

According to the latest market research, global juice market is expected to witness significant growth during the forecast period from 2015 to 2021. Sales of fruit juice globally were up 4% during the year, the market is forecast to rise by an annual 5% over the next 5 years to 105 billion litres in 2020.

Rising preferences for healthy products and increasing health awareness is fueling the demand for fruit and vegetable juice, in overall beverage industry. The global juice industry is the most competitive segment in beverage industry, which is your huge business opportunities. In a foreseeable future, it’s no doubt that business of making fruit juice is promising and will not out of date. Chances never waits for people, so does making money. It’s your chance now, build your own pineapple juice plant (pineapple juice processing line) and start making money today!

• Name: Pineapple juice
• Principal nutrient: carbohydrates, organic acids, amino-acids
• Principal raw material: Pineapple
• Principal edible efficacy: Diuresis, heat-dispersing, alleviating a hangover, lowering blood pressure, cancer-combating

Advantages of Our Pineapple Juice Processing Line

• Large production capacity, range from 3t to 10t, suitable for the production requirement of large and medium-sized factory.
• The pineapples need not selected by dimension; the line can deal with pineapples of all grades.
• It is special equipment, manufactured according to the characteristics of the pineapples, which adjusted certain parts of the machine, can deal with different kinds of pineapples.
• Two or three times extracting can improve the rate of juice, which reaches up to 67%-85%.
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The opportunity and challenge for the OCTG manufacturers going out

Opportunity and challenge

In recent years, the international exploitation and transportation of oil and gas is in the peak, the market potential is huge, which provides a rare market opportunity opportunity for China's oilfield pipes and supply. At the same time, due to the complexity of the global political and economic situation, it also brings the risks and challenges for octg manufacturers “going out”.
As a new force in oil pipeline supply, TICO oiltubulars expand the international market actively in recent years, achieving remarkable achievements and exploring a lot of successful experience for the oil pipeline enterprises "going out".

The international political and economic instability become the biggest challenge for octg manufacturers going out

In the process of economic globalization, more and more octg manufacturers follow the trend of "go out" to participate in the international market competition. However, compared with the domestic market, the international market is broader, the competition is more intense and the risks and challenges are more prominent. Generally speaking, the international octg market is facing the challenge of political risk, financial risk, market risk, exchange rate risk, legal risk, safety and environmental risks, labor risk, cultural practices and so on.
After the international financial crisis, the economic pattern of the world is in a major adjustment, the commodity price shock upstream, the European debt crisis intensifies, dollar currency rate continues to decline. Especially the world economic recovery is slowing and the growth of international trade is dropping. Overall, there are more and more uncertain factors in oilfield pipes, so the business risk is growing.
In addition, competitions among the octg manufacturers are becoming increasingly fierce with engineering profits shrink and the market risk increases. With the impact of the world financial crisis continues to spread and the degree of global economic integration is deepening, fierce competition in oilfield pipes is caused among countries, which increases the difficulty to develop the octg market.

Strengthen risk management and control to enhance the ability to respond

With the increasing competition in the octg industry, the pipeline engineering construction has more and more challenges, so the effective control of risk becomes the inevitable choice for octg manufacturers.
In the process of "going out", our company follow the principle of "safety, effective, sustainable" , pay attention to establish risk precaution system, constantly enhance the ability to resist and defuse the risks. In order to effectively prevent and control the risk of security, reduce cost of enterprises, our company promotes international business localized and regulates the localization project management.

Conclusion

It thus appears that facing opportunities and challenges of octg industry, our manufacturers need to recognize the reality to seize the opportunity, adjust the strategy actively, adhere to the policy of "going out", and enhance the competitiveness to open oilfield market.

What is OCTG and global OCTG market outlook

What is the meaning of OCTG?

For the oil and gas industry exploration and production activities, Oil country tubular goods (OCTG) are hollow steel products, which is circular cross-section. OCTG can be produced as seamless or welded tubes and pipes. As the capital investment to manufacture seamless OCTG is ten to twenty times higher than the investment required to manufacture welded OCTG, so appropriate selection of OCTG can reduce the risk of great opportunities to minimize risk, and save cost.

Due to high exploration and production activities, growth in the proven shale reserves and escalating investments from the oil and gas operators, the demand of OCTG is higher and higher. This trend will continue to rise because of the current surge in offshore activities and shale reserve exploratory activities. The global OCTG market is thereby expected to grow to approximately $59 billion by 2019 and the growth rate of CAGR will exceed 7% from 2014 to 2019.
The OCTG market is divided into six regions, namely North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East. According to major countries in the region, the OCTG market can be further subdivided. Geographically, Asia-Pacific and North America are the largest markets which have grown rapidly in the past decade. In Asia-Pacific, China is the largest market which will continue to dominate the OCTG industry. North America follows the Asia-Pacific market with U.S, being the most influential player due to activities in abundant shale reserves. These regions are likely to continue to dominate in the future. The South-American market will witness the highest growth rate; Europe and Africa will also develop with a decent CAGR.

Outlook of OCTG market

The key factors driving the OCTG market is the increasing global demand for oil and gas, growth in crude oil prices, economic growth and lack of alternative sources of energy. Some noteworthy development of this industry include global rig count growth, increasing global E&P spending, and the seamless pipe industry, among others.

Oil country tubular goods are essential in the mining period of the oil and gas.

Globally, with the increasing exploration and production activities and the new unconventional resource area have become the main driving force for the growth of OCTG market. As competition continues to intensify, more and more companies are beginning to pay more attention to environmental safety. So the market will witness the high growth rate of premium product type such as OCTG.
These factors contribute to the growth and development of OCTG products:

• Over the past years, bourgeoisie population and globalization develop vigorously, which is the reason why oil, gas and energy demand is growing faster than expected.
• Technological innovation and rapid economic expansion are a number of other important factors in developing country, which has been guiding the needs of energy.
• The increase of investment and exploration in oil and gas further promotes the oil and gas industry.

How to distinguish hot and cold seamless pipe?

A large number of seamless steel pipes are used for conveying fluid because of a hollow section, such as crude oil, nature gas or water. Under the same torsional strength, seamless steel tube is relatively light comparing with round steel or other solid steel. It’s an economical steel which is widely used in manufacture oil pipe and mechanical parts, such as drill pipes, automobile transmission shaft or steel ring parts.The reason why seamless pipe used widely is it can improve the utilization of materials, simplify the manufacturing process and save materials and processing time.
Seamless steel tubes are made by hot rolling or cold rolling with 10,20,30,35,45 high quality carbon steel and 16Mn, 5MnV low alloy structural steel or 30CrMnSi, 40Cr, 45Mn2, 40MnB alloy steel. Seamless pipe, made by 10,20 and other low carbon steel production, is mainly used for conveying pipe, while made by 45,40Cr medium carbon steel to manufacture mechanical parts.
The production process of seamless steel tube in general can be divided into hot rolling and cold rolling. 

Cold rolling seamless steel pipe

The production process of cold-rolled seamless steel pipe is generally more complicated than that of hot-rolled: tube is first to three roller skew rolling, then, to carry out a sizing test after extrusion. Round tube needs to cut through cutting machine and the length is about 1 meter. Entering the annealing process, annealing carry out pickling should pay attention to whether the surface has a large number of foaming, if there is a large number of bubbles produced that the quality of the steel pipe is not up to the corresponding standard. Cold-rolled seamless steel pipe is shorter than the hot rolled seamless steel pipe in appearance, but the surface looks brighter than the thick walled seamless steel tube.

• Advantage

  Forming fast, high yield, and no damage to the coating, it can be made into a variety of cross sectional form to meet the needs of the use of conditions; Cold rolling can cause great plastic deformation, so as to improve the yield of the steel.
  

• The technological process of cold-rolled seamless pipe

  round billet→heating→perforation→annealing→pickling→annoit→cold rolling→heating→straightening→hydrostatic test→signing→storage
  

Hot rolling seamless steel pipe

Hot rolling, as the name suggests, the temperature of rolled piece is high, so the deformation resistance is small to achieve large deformation. Take rolling of steel plate for example, the general thickness of continuous casting slab is about 230mm, and after roughing mill and finishing mill, the final thickness is 1~20mm. At the same time, due to the small thickness ratio of steel plate, the dimension accuracy is relatively low, it’s not easy to cause shape problem.

• Advantage

  It can destroy the microstructure of ingot casting, grain refinement of steel and eliminate microstructure defects, so that make steel structure compact and improve the mechanical properties. This improvement is mainly reflected in the rolling direction, so that the steel no longer is isotropic; Formation of bubbles, cracks and loose when pouring can also be welded under high temperature and pressure.
  

• The technological process of hot-rolled seamless pipe

  round billet→heating→perforation→extrusion→sizing→hot rolling→cooling→straightening→hydrostatic test→signing→storage
  

What are delivery status of steel

Steel used in the oil tubular goods will pass through a complex process before leaving factory. According to the different characteristics and use of steel, the final delivery state of the steel is different. Common delivery conditions are: hot rolling treatment, cold stretching treatment, normalizing treatment, annealing state, high tempering state and solid treatment.

Hot rolling treatment

It’s known as hot rolling treatment when steel deliver directly after cooling without special heat treatment. The terminal temperature of hot rolling treatment is between 800℃ and 900℃, after that, it’s generally refrigerated in the air. As a result, the hot rolling treatment is similar to normalizing treatment. The difference is due to the hot rolling termination temperature fluctuated, which is different from strict normalizing temperature, fluctuations in steel microstructure and properties are more than that of normalizing treatment.

Currently, many steel companies apply controlled hot rolling. Because of strict termination temperature and forced cooling measures, delivered steel has higher comprehensive mechanical properties. Covered with a layer of iron oxide, delivered steel with hot rolling treatment has a certain degree of corrosion resistance. The storage requirements of hot rolling steel are unlike to cold stretching, medium-sized steel and thick steel plate can be stored in the open air yard.

Cold stretching treatment

The steel by cold stretching, which is without any heat treatment and direct delivery, is called cold stretching treatment. Compared with hot rolling treatment, cold stretching treatment steel has the features of good surface quality, low surface roughness and higher mechanical properties. However, the surface of steel staying cold-drawn state is not covered with oxide skin and there is internal stress result in corrosion and rusty. What’s more, the packaging and storage of that has higher strict requirements, that it’s generally stored in the warehouse and the temperature and humidity in warehouse should be controlled.

Normalizing treatment

Through normalizing before leaving factory, the steel is staying normalizing treatment. Since the normalizing heating temperature is stricter than hot rolling terminated temperature, the performance and organization of steel has stable performance. Compared with steel annealed condition, because of faster speed of normalizing cooling, pearlite in the steel is increasing and lamellar, therefore it has a higher comprehensive cooperation properties and it’s profitable to improve Widmanstaten of low carbon steel and make preparation for further heat treatment.
normalizing treatment