In the five years from 2012 to 2016, China's economy has entered a new normal, and has changed from "to eat well" to "to eat well." Large food groups with annual sales of 10 billion yuan have continued to emerge. Packaging machinery has developed from stand-alone operation to full-line production of the entire industrial chain; from single-handed operation to the deep integration of intelligent manufacturing such as robotic production, packaging, and palletizing.

Robots lead the food industry to upgrade!

In recent years, the emergence of different types of robotic equipment has affected all aspects of the food industry in terms of human costs, resource inputs, productivity efficiency, food safety, etc., and has given the food industry a modern and intelligent label. Such as food selection robots, food processing robots, food packaging robots, palletizing robots, cooking robots, etc.

Intelligent cooking machine--Hangzhou West Lake Cultural Plaza has a "future supermarket", which is equipped with self-service vegetable vending machines and 18 intelligent cooking machines, with 28 kinds of dishes to choose from. After buying the food like buying a drink at a self-service shopping machine, customers can put it in the cooking smart machine to complete the cooking and enjoy the delicious food on the spot. The supermarket also introduced 16 unattended cash registers, customers can complete the entire shopping process on their own.

Automatic food sales system-In July last year, an automatic food sales system named "Fan Mei Mei" was launched at the Beijing International Trade Hotel. The first batch of smart vending machines that appeared in Beijing South Railway Station and office buildings adopted three-stage cold chain distribution heating. In this way, consumers can either buy on the spot or book meals in advance through the APP.

Unmanned restaurant-When cooking and cooking are replaced by robots, the "unmanned restaurant" naturally comes. A factory in China that specializes in fast food and bento boxes is on fire. 500 kilograms of rice, 250 kilograms of vegetables and meat are packed into the production line, and all are transformed into boxes of steaming fresh meals in less than an hour. Surprisingly, there was no one to cook, stir-fry, and serve the entire process. There was no worker, chef, or waiter on site.

Unmanned factory-A few days ago, CCTV broadcasted a "unmanned factory" for making dumplings, making noodles-making dumplings-filling dumplings-making dumplings-boxing-packaging and forming a completely unmanned automatic production line. From noodles, filling, and kneading dumplings, they are done in one go. Pneumatic grippers accurately arrange the formed dumplings neatly; after the automatic packaging is completed, the unqualified dumplings are removed by X-ray and metal detectors. In this factory's unmanned packaging production line workshop, only two employees are conducting routine inspections in a 500 square meter plant.

3D printed food-Prepare the ingredients by programming, and the food is made with a single touch. The 3D printed chocolate, ice cream, jelly, pancake stand, etc. are desirable, attracting many people's attention. The soft liquid edible substance was extruded from the nozzle through a 3D printer, and the ingredients were stacked one by one in accordance with the instructions of the computer, and cute 3D printed food was born. In the opinion of many professionals, this high-tech compatible with nutrition and health concepts may change people's life and aesthetic culture in the future.

Large-scale improvement of localization of food equipment

During the five years from 2012 to 2016, China has achieved localization of food equipment and achieved great strides in improvement. Among them, a relatively complete product system has been formed in terms of common technologies and conventional equipment. Deep processing of agricultural products, crushing, pressing, extraction, filtering of food raw materials and processes, liquid food filling, high-precision sharp meat slaughtering and processing equipment, key technologies for clean production, various automatic high-speed packaging equipment, high-speed online food testing equipment, The key areas such as high-tech detection technologies and equipment for food contamination and packaging, and food tracking and tracing technology have narrowed the gap quickly, and can basically meet the needs of domestic food industrial production, and some areas have reached international advanced levels. At the same time, a number of key key enterprises with strong R & D capabilities, a certain scale, and operating income exceeding 1 billion yuan have also emerged.

In 2012, China's food and packaging machinery industry completed a total industrial output value of 250 billion yuan; in 2013, the total output value was 295 billion yuan; in 2014, the total output value was 340 billion yuan; in 2015, the total industrial output value was 389.3 billion yuan.

At present, China's macro economy has entered a new normal, and the development of various industries has gradually shifted from high-speed to medium-high speed, from large-scale speed-type extensive growth to quality-efficiency-type intensive growth, from factor investment drive to innovation drive, the food industry and the food that supports it. The technology and equipment industry must face industrial transformation and upgrading and structural adjustment.

Industry merger and consolidation trend is obvious

Looking at the various fields of food equipment, the profit margins of industries such as liquid food packaging, dairy processing, livestock and poultry product processing, wine and condiment brewing are relatively high compared to other industries. Therefore, foreign capital is rushing to enter the food equipment field. It is manifested by large-scale equity financing, listed financing in the industry, and the tide of mergers and acquisitions integration within the relevant industrial chain. The capital market's attention to this area has continued to increase, and its performance was particularly outstanding from 2014 to the first half of 2016.

Since the listing of Tech-Long, more than 20 food equipment companies including Xinmeixing, Prixson, Weihai Yuanhang, Hangzhou Central Asia, Hangzhou Yongchuang, Shandong Dingtaisheng, Hunan Boya Intelligent have successively landed on the GEM and NEEQ. Large-scale capital market intervention has provided a lot of financial support for the industry, which has helped companies to innovate products, adjust the industrial structure, and highlight competitive advantages; further expanded production capacity, scale, and increased investment in basic facilities; For development needs, iconic products that have made breakthroughs in technology have been put on the market. The company's development model has been further optimized, and its innovation capability has continued to increase. At the same time, it has played a strong catalyst role in accelerating the merger and integration of the food equipment industry.

Breakthrough in key technical equipment

In the past 5 years, it has been the country's largest investment in the field of food technology and equipment, involving the widest range of professional technology and research fields, the highest degree of technological integration and industrialization, the most standards and patent achievements, the fastest transformation of scientific research results, and technology drive and demonstration. The historical period with the most obvious effects and the greatest economic and social benefits. A number of key technical and equipment problems have been overcome, and fruitful results have been achieved in the development of technologies and key equipment in key areas such as grains and oils, fruits and vegetables, livestock and poultry products, aquatic product processing, and packaging of liquid food. The independent innovation ability has been greatly enhanced.

A number of core technologies and advanced equipment with independent intellectual property rights have been developed in various fields of food equipment, and many intelligent, automated, and green technologies have been introduced for complete lines and stand-alone equipment. Major breakthroughs have been made in the research of key technologies such as non-thermal processing of food, degradable food packaging materials, online safety testing and quality monitoring, food safety traceability covering the entire industrial chain, remote control and diagnosis based on the Internet of Things technology, such as 6000 Bottle / hour 5L large-capacity blow-fill-spin all-in-one machine; 36,000 bottles / hour PET bottled vegetable protein beverage aseptic filling production line; 72,000 cans / hour high-speed draft beer can production line; 15,000 bottles / hour PET milk aseptic cold filling combination Machine and 18,000 bottles / hour PET bottle fermented milk ultra-clean filling combined machine; intelligent storage system; liquid food robot automated packaging production line; Xiaoqu wine robot automatic recognition and loading system; intelligent liquor production system; seasoning grain solid-state intelligent fermentation unit and The key technologies of its complete set of equipment; the key technology of potato full flour production; fully automatic continuous intelligent sterilization kettle; 220 kg / hour intelligent semi-dry noodle production line; 12,000 / hour broiler automatic slaughter processing line and other batch of key technologies and equipment.

Construct and improve the integrated innovation system of industry, university and research

In the past 5 years, with the support of relevant national ministries and policies, China's food equipment industry has basically formed a (national) food equipment industry technology innovation strategic alliance, with large and medium-sized backbone enterprises as the main body, scientific research units and universities as the support, production and The mode of technological innovation combining study and research. A number of food equipment enterprises with strong scientific and technological innovation capabilities have been supported in various segments. In the process of technological innovation, the industry-university-research cooperation has continued to develop in depth, the level of cooperation has continued to increase, the cooperation model has continued to innovate, the talent team has continued to grow, and the overall quality has generally improved. The number of colleges and universities conducting food equipment-related teaching and research has increased, and new establishments A number of national and provincial research and development centers, demonstration bases. It has played an important role in optimizing scientific and technological resources and improving innovation efficiency. It has broken through a batch of industry common key technologies and major product technologies, and solved some technical bottlenecks that affect the development of the industry.

Thanks to the country's strong support, a relatively complete innovation research system, and continuous research investment, the food equipment company's product structure has been diversified, high-quality, and functional. The proportion of high-tech and high-value-added products has steadily increased, and it has been established. The echelon-type complete industrial chain gradually improves the overall performance of the product, and some equipment products fill the gaps in many domestic fields, shortening the gap between China's food equipment technology and international advanced levels, and the high-end key equipment and complete equipment technology levels and international The advanced level is close, the performance of some products reaches or exceeds the advanced level of foreign countries, and some products have replaced imports and opened up the international market; it has achieved the leap from key long-term dependence on imports to the basic autonomy and complete set of exports, and mid-end products have been basically realized Localization, the technical level and reliability of the entire machine have been improved year by year; low-end products are gradually being transformed or eliminated in the structural adjustment due to the defects of low technology configuration, high failure rate, and high energy consumption.

The food equipment industry has made rapid progress in the field of liquid food with a high degree of automation and informatization, and has developed rapidly in aseptic filling and packaging of dairy products.Some areas of beer and beverage equipment have already achieved international competitiveness; liquor equipment From scratch, packaging equipment has been serialized and industrialized. Liquor pre-brewing has achieved intelligent whole-line breakthroughs in some areas; many wine equipment has been domestically produced in the latter stage of packaging, but it has been previously crushed, pressed, filtered, processed, etc. There is still a certain gap in the aspects; the brewing of cereals such as soy sauce, vinegar and rice wine has developed rapidly in recent years. With the increasing standardization and systematization of traditional process research, brewing equipment has begun to become intelligent; alcohol equipment has begun to have international competitiveness .

Livestock and poultry meat processing machinery has shown explosive growth in recent years. As China's traditional meat processing technology has been theoretically researched by various scientific research institutes, a large number of automated equipment have appeared in various process stages such as slaughtering, segmentation, baking, rolling, crushing, extrusion, smoking, and conditioning.

As for pasta and baking equipment, all kinds of simple manual operation machinery in the past are increasingly being replaced by the central kitchen's automatic noodles, buns, dumplings, pastries and other automated and even intelligent production lines.

In terms of canning equipment, China's two-piece cans and three-piece cans have mature applications. What needs to be upgraded are automatic filling machines suitable for various meats, fruits and vegetables and other related complete processing equipment.

The field of fruit and vegetable processing has developed rapidly in recent years, and a relatively complete industrial equipment system has been established in the pretreatment fields such as crushing, extraction, powder blowing, cutting, cleaning vegetables, drying, concentration, and dehydration.

In terms of sugar manufacturing equipment, it has begun to gain international competitiveness and needs to be upgraded in terms of energy consumption and emissions.

Equipment companies go out of business

After more than 20 years of development, some food equipment products in China have already become internationally competitive, and the global strategy has shown initial success. Customs statistics show that in 2015 China's total import and export of food and packaging machinery was US $ 7.285 billion, of which US $ 2.925 billion in food machinery import and export and US $ 4.361 billion in packaging machinery import and export. In 2015, China's food and packaging machinery import and export volume achieved a trade surplus for the first time, and the surplus reached a peak of nearly 609 million U.S. dollars in 109 years. This shows that China's food equipment has a certain degree of competitiveness in the international market, Favorable position. At various food exhibitions in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Tianjin, Harbin, Zhengzhou, Chengdu, Chongqing, Nanning and other countries, from time to time, foreign equipment buyers from Southeast Asia, India, Russia and other countries are seen. First choice. At the same time, China's advanced companies in beer and beverage equipment have gone abroad and exhibited abroad.

In addition, in order to obtain international competitive advantages more rapidly, overseas food and beverage companies have increased their overseas mergers and acquisitions. For example, Lehui Group acquired the assets of Microdat in the United Kingdom, and also acquired all intellectual property rights owned by Microdat. CIMC Anrui Branch acquired world beer brewing equipment provider Ziemann Group of Germany, and the trademark of Guangdong Dayelong Packaging Machinery Co., Ltd. has been authorized by 10 Madrid member countries.