The overall development of China's candy industry to good candy machinery still need to continue to fight

A few days ago, Tianjin held the China Food Association confectionery professional Committee. Through the meeting, it was learned that the national confectionery industry in the global sales downturn, increasing uncertainties, the domestic market environment changes under the situation, a variety of factors led to the overall development of the slowdown, 2016 production growth is not large, only a slight increase of 0.2%. Professionals said that the overall development of China's candy industry is good, and the future development prospects are broad. The industry should not abandon, do not give up, increase scientific and technological innovation, strengthen product research and development, and create a sweet career.

It is understood that from January to December 2016, the total output of China's main confectionery products was 3.519 million tons, an increase of 0.2%, only an increase of 0.5 million tons, the growth rate slowed down greatly, 2.5 percentage points lower than the food manufacturing industry. However, the asset situation of the confectionery industry has been improving in 2016. Assets totaled 86.2 billion yuan, an increase of 6.0% over the previous year, and maintained continuous growth; Current assets were 40.95 billion yuan, an increase of 1.01 billion yuan over the previous year, with a significantly higher growth rate. In addition, the candy production of the top 5 regions in 2016 reached more than 2.37 million tons, accounting for more than 67% of the national candy production, an increase of 1.3% compared with the previous year. At the same time, according to the data released by the State Food and Drug Administration, in 2016, the number of candy and cocoa samples sampled in the whole year reached 18,000 batches, the number of qualified samples reached 17,800 batches, the number of unqualified samples was only 200 batches, and the sample pass rate has reached 98.80%. Compared with all kinds of food samples, the qualified rate is much higher than other average levels. All these reflect the overall development of China's confectionery industry. With the continuous development of China's food machinery manufacturing industry, it has also brought candy machinery and equipment to the industry, making it possible to automate, mechanization and scale candy production.

In recent years, although China's food machinery manufacturing industry has developed very rapidly, various categories of candy machinery and equipment emerge in an endless stream, such as candy packaging machines, candy molding machines, candy sandwich units, etc., but some enterprises of candy machinery and key technologies are mainly dependent on imports. We know that Quanzhou is China's largest production and processing candy base, but its related candy machinery and equipment is a large number of advanced sugar equipment from Europe, the United States, Japan and other countries, such as the introduction of four-color filled whole wheat powder automatic soft sugar production line from Europe, the introduction of high-end chocolate production line from the United States. In addition, chocolate production and processing equipment and processing technology is still very few. At present, the chocolate production line has a single equipment and low scientific and technological content, which seriously restricts the development of China's chocolate in the direction of high-end.

We know that the production of chocolate is not so simple, the production process is very complex. If chocolate is produced in a factory, it will involve related processing technology and equipment. The main ingredient of chocolate is the cocoa bean, which is first dried or dried; Secondly, baking, crushing, blending and grinding are carried out; The last three steps are the most important and determine the quality of the chocolate, namely refining, deacidifying and tempering the mold. By refining, you can ensure the smooth taste of chocolate; Deacid, as the name implies, to remove its sour taste; Tempering casting refers to regulating temperature difference cooling, shaping the shape of chocolate, and maintaining its natural luster with the help of temperature adjustment and constant temperature. In fact, all aspects of the chocolate production line are very important and should be strictly controlled, especially the last three links. There are drying equipment, baking equipment, crushing equipment and shaping equipment in its production line also play a key role, only good processing technology and equipment to ensure its quality.

With the continuous upgrading of the consumer market, internationally renowned chocolate brands have accelerated their entry into the domestic market. Compared with foreign chocolate products, there are still huge differences in the quality of domestic chocolate. Although some domestic enterprises have begun to enter the high-end market and attach importance to the improvement of product quality, the overall market share is not large, and the survival situation is not optimistic. The author believes that the competition in the high-end market, in the final analysis, is the competition of processing technology. Only by mastering the key processing technology and equipment can enterprises have more say in the market and occupy more market share. At present, China's candy machinery and equipment is also mainly dependent on foreign countries, before Quanzhou imported a number of processing equipment can be a good illustration of this problem. In this way, it is hoped that the food equipment manufacturing industry can face up to this situation, strengthen exchanges and cooperation with enterprises, understand the production and processing needs, or customize products for enterprises to better meet their needs.