Muyang Water-drop 968 Hammer Mill

As one of biggest feed machinery manufactures, Muyang is always making its efforts to producing and developing new machines in the field. Grinding machine, as one of Muyang’s four main feed machines, is capturing important share on the market.

Muyang water-drop 968 hammer mill is with high capacity, and its water-drop shaped chamber with W-shaped secondary grinding structure and large grinding surface, capacity 25% higher. Dynamically balanced high-precision rotor and reinforced wear-proof hammers, stable running, and long service life are its another advantage. The high efficient hammer mill for most of normal- and coarse-grinding demands, particularly in feed pre-/post-grinding. The hammer mill is well accepted also as its patented screen carriages with one-step quick clamping device and fully-open sliding door, simplified screen changes, ease of labor and maintenance, and its CE standard design for human & machine safety.

Following are some pictures on the water-drop 968 hammer mill:

How to Choose the Right Fish Feed Pellet

Feed pellet is widely used in fish farming. Only choosing the high quality and right fish feed pellet mill can improve the feed utilization rate, the growth rate and the immune system to prevent diseases. So fish farmers have to learn how to choose the suitable fish feed pellet.

First, the nutrition of fish feed. The essential nutrition requirements for fish are protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals etc so the feeds for fish must contain these substances. Some breeders think the higher the protein content, the better the feed pellet. Actually it is wrong, the feed pellet quality should consider not only the protein content but also the proportion of other nutritions. Feeds containing balanced nutritions are ideal for fish normal growth. Feed pellet use various grains such as wheat, corn, bean etc as feed ingredients and can be added with protein, fishmeal, minerals and other liquid nutritions. So it can meet the nutrition needs of fish.

Second, the appearance of feed pellet. The high quality feed pellet has smooth surface and the same pellet diameter. The particle diameter for fish feeds should consider the mouth diameter of fish and should not be too big or too small. The length of feed pellet should be two times of the diameter so as to increase feed intakes and reduce feed waste.

Third, the stability in water. Fish intake feeds slowly so the feed pellet must keep the shape in water for a long time. Fish farmers can take some samples and place them in water to detect the stability before buying feed pellets for fish.

Fourth, the reliable feed pellet manufactures. The companies with large scale and good reputation have strong technology strength to ensure the the balanced nutrition and scientific feed formula. Fish farmers should purchase the feed pellets produced by reliable manufactures.

Fifth, the manufacture date of feed pellet. Feed pellets which exceed the shelf life will reduce the nutrition contents and have bad influence on fish. Fish farmers should ensure the feed pellets can be finished within the manufacture date.

When considering these factors fish farmers can choose the suitable feed pellets for fish.

China Aquaculture Industry on the Rise

According to China Aquaculture Industry Report, 2011-2012, published by Research in China, China aquatic product output in 2011 reach 56.1 million tons, a year-on-year rise of 4.4%. The disparity between seawater and freshwater products production ratio was narrowing year by year, accounting for 51.9% and 48.1% respectively in 2011.

Following the increased demand of overseas market, the export volume of China aquatic products has increased to 3.912 million tons in 2011, accompanied by an export value of US$17.79 billion, and presenting a year-on-year rise of 17.1% and 28.7%, respectively. Prawn, shellfish, tilapia, eel, large yellow croaker, crayfish, etc. are the main export varieties, sharing 49.74% of the total export value. Coastal provinces are the major exporting area, especially in Shandong and Fujian, the two provinces share a 48.8% of the total export volume. Japan, the United States, Europe and South Korea are still the major importers of China aquatic products, accounting for 86.3% of overseas market.

Driven by the expanding aquaculture scale as well as the growing demand of both domestic and export market, China aquatic product processing industry has witnessed a substantial growth to a value of RMB360.1 billion in 2011, an increase of 25.95% compared to 2010. As customers' eating habits changed, frozen aquatic product market has been more and more popular. In 2011, the China frozen product processing sector achieved revenue of RMB275.9 billion, holding for 76.6% of the entire aquatic product processing industry. However, the average gross margin of the sector during 2006-2012 is only 11%-15% due to the rising storage and transportation costs in recent years.

Muyang gets feed mill construction contract in Philippines

Muyang signed an agreement with Philipino Texicon Agriventures Corp. in July to supply a full set of machinery and building structure materials for its new extrusion aquafeed project.

The feed mill is designed to have a capacity of 4.5 -5.5 t/h, capable of producing 900,000- 960,000 bags of qualified aquafeed annually. This is the second venture of Texicon Agriventures into the feed milling industry. Its 4 t/h animal feed mill started successful operation in 2009.

Texicon Agriventures Corp., a subsidiary of Texicon Group of Companies and established in 1995, is a reliable importer and distributor of quality fertilizer and pesticide products to local and multinational agricultural companies throughout the Philippines.

Driven by the increasing consumption of fish meat due to growth in population and limitations of wild catch, Texicon is very optimistic that its extrusion aqua feed mill will further boost its annual sales.