How to Choose Qualified Fruit Processing Machine From China

As a branch of food and beverage machinery, fruit and vegetable processing machinery has undergone rapid development and mature technology in the past 50 years, both in terms of processing technology and equipment manufacturing quality. China’s fruit and vegetable processing machinery process design and equipment quality has also gradually narrowed the gap from European and American technologies from the beginning of learning and imitate to the current independent research and development. Therefore, overseas buyers are increasingly favoring high-quality, cost-effective fruit and vegetable processing machinery from China. This article will introduce in detail what detail points overseas buyers need to pay attention to and how to choose reliable suppliers if they want to purchase fruit and vegetable processing machinery from China.

Due to the high value of fruit and vegetable processing machinery and a large amount of equipment investment, the total investment in equipment for a small and medium-sized vegetable and fruit processing plant is basically around US$200,000 to US$2 million. Therefore, when selecting a supplier, it is very important to investigate its comprehensive strength. The comprehensive strength here mainly refers to the years of establishment of the supplier company, the organizational structure of the technical team, and the processing and manufacturing capabilities of the factory.

If the supplier has been established for a long time, it means that they have undertaken more fruit and vegetable processing projects to a certain extent, and the technical engineering team will also accumulate more technical experience, so that in the later project implementation process, many unnecessary issues will be avoided. I suggest the supplier has at least 10 years of history would be qualified.

When communicating with suppliers, you need to focus on understanding the supplier’s organizational structure. This mainly includes the supplier’s engineering technology department structure. The engineering technology department needs to have a technology research and development department, a mechanical engineer team, an electrical engineer team, and an engineering installation team. On the other hand, we must also understand the supplier’s processing and manufacturing department. The equipment processing and manufacturing department mainly consists of a welding team, an assembler team, a polisher team, a blanking worker team, and a quality inspection team.

Here we focus on inspecting the manufacturer workshop area, manufacture center staff, and processing equipment of the supplier’s processing and manufacturing center. Generally speaking, a qualified fruit and vegetable processing and manufacturing supplier should have at least a 5000 square meters processing and manufacturing workshop, equipment assembly center should have around 50 staff, processing equipment including polishing machine, CNC equipment, welding machine, bending machine, plate cutting machine and other equipment. Some special equipment also requires the supplier to issue a pressure vessel certificate.

Regarding the supplier’s engineering and technical strength, you can get a preliminary result from discussing the technical details with the engineering and technical staff. In addition, you can also ask the supplier to list some well-known international brand project cases that have been undertaken before, and photos or videos of similar projects. In addition, when visiting suppliers on-site, you can visit their engineering department offices and processing workshops.

The quality of fruit and vegetable processing machinery and equipment mainly refers to the selection of raw materials, polishing and welding, the quality control ability of the equipment by the quality inspection department, the procurement of electrical control system components.

More than 90% of the raw materials of the fruit and vegetable processing equipment are made of stainless steel SUS304, you can let the supplier show you the certificate of the stainless steel supplier, and the stainless steel supplier should choose well-known companies such as Baosteel, Pohang Steel and other companies.

The welding and polishing of equipment mainly include equipment such as stainless steel tanks and sterilizers. You can go to the manufacturing workshop to check the welding accuracy and polishing process of equipment parts.

The main responsibility of the quality inspection department is to test the appearance and performance of the equipment after the equipment is manufactured. The supplier can lead the quality inspection department to visit and chat with the employees of the quality inspection department to obtain their quality inspections at work. In this way, you can know the supplier’s control over the quality of the equipment from the side.

The electrical control system is the software system of the equipment, so in order to ensure the quality and operation of the equipment, the electrical components must use well-known brands of multinational companies, such as Siemens PLC, Schneider electrical components, ABB or SEW motors, GEA or SPX valves, etc.

Since fruit processing machine is generally a turnkey project for the whole plant, the investment cost is large. After the equipment is manufactured, the equipment needs to be installed, debugged, and operators are trained. Therefore, the supplier’s after-sales ability is particularly important. Regarding this aspect, the ability of the supplier can also be checked by asking the supplier for the well-known brand projects undertaken in the past. Generally qualified suppliers will have a special after-sales service department to handle customer after-sales, equipment parts order processing, installation and commissioning coordination. You can let the supplier take you to visit the after-sales service department to check.

As a turnkey fruit and vegetable processing plant supplier, we always give our clients the state of art technology, premium quality machines and excellent service from beginning to end.