The secret to better pet food

Author: Helen

May. 20, 2024

Machinery

The secret to better pet food

How continuous food processing equipment holds the secret to better pet food

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The pet food production market continues to experience exponential growth. While developing markets drive this growth, mature markets maintain a high demand for superior pet food quality.

This increasing demand calls for high-quality pet food, as owners want to treat their pets with the best food available at reasonable prices. However, achieving this while expanding into this exciting market presents production challenges. The solution begins with the right food processing equipment.

Problems in Pet Food Production

Consistency

Maintaining consistency across large production volumes can be challenging, especially using batch cooking processes. Batch cooking wastes time processing each batch, often requiring waits to fill from large buffer tanks. This staging with varying dwell times before filling leads to:

  • Temperature loss
  • Changes to pressure
  • Changes in moisture
  • Altered texture
  • Magnified inconsistencies
  • Potential overcooking without proper hydration

Each of these issues directly threatens consistency within a single batch and between batches, resulting in a lower-quality, less consistent end product. Customers are willing to pay more for quality pet food, making consistency vital.

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Production Volumes

Pet food is part of the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry, mostly sold at low profit margins. Thus, high production and sales volumes are crucial for a viable pet food business.

Batch processing can create daily operation gaps, as time must be allocated for:

  • Preparing each batch
  • Mixing ingredients
  • Heating the formulation
  • Tweaking and modifying settings
  • Waiting to fill off before the next batch
  • Rinsing

These tasks negatively impact efficiency and productivity as they occur in series, not parallel, limiting achievable production volumes.

Quality

Many recipes combine diverse ingredients—meat, fish, vegetables, powders, by-products, and grains. Temperature, moisture, and pressure fluctuations between batches alter the final composition, leading to inconsistent ingredient use and unpredictable results.

How RotaTherm's Continuous Cooking Process Helps

Unlike traditional batch cooking, continuous food processing systems offer non-stop, consistent cooking. Many pet food production issues stem from batch systems, but the RotaTherm® continuous cooking process provides a solution.

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How Continuous Food Production Systems Improve Consistency

Continuous cooking applies the same process at each stage—heat treatment temperature, pressure, cooling—minimizing risk of final composition changes. This controlled approach ensures consistent product appearance and taste. RotaTherm® continuous cookers offer efficient, nonstop pet food production, unlike batch cookers.

With multiple direct steam injectors and other design elements, RotaTherm® ensures even cooking without burnt or undercooked parts.

Continuous Cooking Means Continuous Production

Continuous cooking implies no stopping between batches, minimizing waste—time and cleaning chemicals—and leading to more efficient and productive food manufacturing. Every additional second counts in a volume-reliant industry like pet food. RotaTherm® operates without pause for up to 156 hours.

RotaTherm® Holds the Secret to Better-Quality Pet Food

Customers are selective and expect high-quality pet food. They want healthy-looking, nutritious products. By combining continuous cooking with automated temperature and steam control, RotaTherm® delivers better-looking, nutritious food.

The RotaTherm® reaches target temperatures in as little as 20 seconds, using multiple steam injectors for even cooking. Automated control and recipe systems maintain optimal temperature, steam, and moisture, creating consistent, high-quality products.

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Besides the world-leading RotaTherm® continuous cooker, we offer a range of ancillary equipment to complete your cooking line, including:

  • Conveyor belts
  • Grinders and extruders
  • Blenders
  • Feed systems
  • Cooling systems—direct (vacuum) and indirect
  • CIP systems
  • Steam and moisture control systems

These can integrate into your production line independently of the RotaTherm® as needed.

Why Choose Our Pet Food Production Line

Our Pet Food Production Line is a new development to meet the growing pet food market, combining years of experience in food machinery development. It offers new shapes, unique tastes, and colors for pet foods, meeting the modern market's needs with a scientific nutritional profile and easy digestion.

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