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Black Soldier fly larvae (BSF or BSFL), also known by its scientific name, <em>Hermentia Illucens</em>, offer great nutritional values, making them an excellent alternative protein source for animal feed and pet food. Black soldier fly technologies have evolved sufficiently to turn the insect into a viable food ingredient. But there is no official authorization for human consumption yet and you are unlikely to find them at a restaurant anytime soon.

Black soldier fly protein

Crickets are better known for their nighttime serenades than for their nutritional notes, but their serious protein content as well as vitamin B12 content and iron, moves them into the category of superfoods. With a light brown color and a nutty taste, cricket protein powder is a versatile dietary ingredient that makes it difficult to go off-tune with your recipes.

Cricket protein

Mealworms are a classic angling bait, but their high protein content makes them more than just a snack for fish. The fresh larvae of the insect have long been consumed in Southeast Asia and, in 2021, the European Commission approved dried yellow mealworm as an edible product.

Mealworm protein

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Building a fire with wood sticks and logs is one of the most wholesome experiences. But it would take a lot of trees to heat up our homes. Instead, the fire-stoking power of plant material can be concentrated in a wood pellet, boosting its burning efficiency. However, wood pellet making equipment and machinery involves more than just the compaction of sawdust. Processing high-quality pellets from biomass can be as intricate as loading a fire-lay.

Wood pellets

Phosphorous is literally at the root of the food industry. An essential ingredient in agriculture, it contributes to plant seed formation and root development. But farmers do not simply give their soil a dose of the chemical element. Instead, phosphorous fertilizer processing equipment blends it with other materials to manufacture effective formulas.

Phosphorus fertilizer

In the feed sector, it's common to talk about feed as balanced, compound, or concentrate. Many people use one of these terms to refer to any feed mill product. However, the processing of feed concentrates, only requires grinding and mixing. The further transformation into pellets adds is an added value for the market.

Feed concentrates

Pelleted feed

Poultry feed

Plastic pollution is one of the biggest climate-related problems mankind has. So what are your options? A bioplastic machine can help create an alternative to traditional plastics. Bioplastics, differently from regular plastics, don’t cause environmental contamination. Also, they don’t contain harmful ingredients and additives. Even with these benefits, the annual production of bioplastics is still less than one percent of all plastic making. However, the market is witnessing steady growth due to a rise in demand.

Bioplastics

All plastics are polymers, but not all polymers are plastics. Polymer production is a multi-step process that transforms raw materials into products that we use in our day-to-day life with the help of polymer process equipment such as extruders, calenders and injection molding machines.

Polymers

Around 1860, American businessman James Spratt made dog biscuits by mixing vegetables, flour, beetroot, and meat. His novel idea came after he noticed dogs eating leftover biscuits from ships in England. Following the commercial success in Britain, he started production in America, and it didn’t take long before others developed their own baked pet food formulas. But the need for more palatability led to experiments beyond the oven. In 1956, extruded dry pet food production made its splash on the market.

Dry pet food

Only about 6% of the soy produced globally is directly consumed by humans, typically as edamame beans, tofu, or soy milk.  More than three-fourths of global soy production goes to animal feed. The rest is processed by soybean meal technology into oils or used for biofuels and other industrial processes.

Soybean meal

Cotton has been used for about five millennia in ancient civilizations in America, Africa, and Asia. But up until the nineteenth century, cottonseed was not considered a product of value. The first cottonseed oil production started in 1833, consequently forming the cottonseed cake. Nowadays, we know cottonseed meal is a useful by-product for the feed industry and the fertilizer sector.

Cottonseed meal

Flour processing technology has changed drastically since the days of the millstone pulled by a mule. But demand for more refined flour means that the production process is now slower than with more rudimentary techniques. When mixed with water, protein in wheat flour form an elastic gluten structure, giving bakery products their irresistible fluffiness.

Flour

Silica sand

Fodder

The average corn cob has 800 kernels, but each of those comes from one tiny grain. The quality of corn farming rests on the conditions of foundation lots. And these depend on the integrity of the process. Corn seed processing equipment prepares the grains so they can grow into multiple products ranging from food to energy to cosmetics.

Corn seeds

Although primarily used as food for animals, recent studies have found that dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) could reduce heart disease risk in humans. Dried distillers grains are a cereal byproduct of the distillation process  - a mix of corn, rice, and other grains dried to 10–12% moisture. DDGS production entails processes from cleaning the grains over cooking to fermentation and drying.

Dried distillers grains (DDGS)

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Bag filling equipment is a crucial component in many industries where products need to be packaged efficiently and quickly. Whether you're filling bags with powder, granules, or other materials, automated bag fillers can streamline the process and save time and labor costs. Bag fillers often come with additional features, such as stickers or other labeling equipment, to add branding or product information to the bags. This can save time and money by eliminating the need for separate labeling equipment.

Bag Filling

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Bagging is the process of packaging measured portions of a product into bags that protect it from spoilage, enable easy and safe transportation, and secure the product against tampering and pilferage. The choice of bagging equipment depends on the desired mass or volume per bag, the flow characteristics of the product, and bag construction and design. Bags vary in size from small sachets to bulk flexible containers. Bagging systems are often the last processing step that is generally integrated into a production line.

Bagging

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Aquaculture feed is used when rearing marine livestock such as fish, shellfish, and algae. Quality nutrition is needed for healthy growth and reproduction and feed usually consists of fats, carbohydrates, protein, vitamins, and minerals. Extruded aquaculture feed floats on the water surface and pressure-pelleted feed will sink to the bottom.

Aquafeed

Do you have a sweet tooth, or are you more into a warm loaf of bread for a savory lunch? The bakery shop window displays something for everyone, from baguettes over croissants to muffins. Bakery products are a wide range of baked goods prepared from flour or meal derived from grains. These undergo mixing, fermentation, and baking processes with the help of bakery processing equipment such as a series of low- and high-speed mixers, fermentation tanks, and baking chambers.

Bakery

Due to their potential hazardous nature, chemicals are classified for proper identification and safety during production. Chemical classification depends on their properties, structures and functions. In the chemical industry, you can regard them as basic chemicals such as acids, chemical products to produce plastic materials and finished chemicals for use in cosmetology. As a manufacturer or engineer, you want to know their reactivity when using chemical processing equipment.

Chemicals

We continuously talk to suppliers of feed processing technologies that have important know-how on how to create the smarter, better, and greener feed products we need to kickstart a better tomorrow. Are you into making animal feed or pet food and looking for ways to improve your production process? Let’s navigate the world of feed production technologies together!

Feed ingredients

Our food chain starts in the soil, growing crops and livestock. But between the fields and the stores, there is a line of industrial food processing equipment. Processes may be as minimalistic as cleaning fruit and as complex as homogenizing milk alternatives made from pressed legumes. In each case, processing technology is an important link in the food production chain.

With the increase in the world population and rising concerns for environmental sustainability, the market for suitable new protein sources is expanding rapidly. Traditional agricultural methods alone can’t deliver sufficient protein to meet the projected food demand over the next decades. Insects provide an alternative source of nutrients. But insect protein does not mean direct insect consumption. Extracting protein and amino acids from farmed insects is more sustainable and efficient. Specialized insect protein processing technology is driving the transformation toward new protein sources.

Insect protein

We carry dozens of metals around every day. The ubiquitous smartphone is built with no less than 20 metals, each with specific behaviors and purposes. Metals are a pervasive class of materials that have defined entire eras of human development. It is no exaggeration to say that metal processing equipment is the core of our metallic world. But, paradoxically, this manufacturing technology itself is mainly made of metal.

The nearly 5,000 known minerals on earth share some characteristics to be classified as minerals – they are inorganic, solid, naturally occurring elements and have a particular chemical formula and an ordered internal geometric structure. However, minerals are not all the same. One way to divide them is based on their physical characteristics such as hardness, luster, color, and shape. For example, the diamonds we use to make jewelry are very hard minerals while talc is a soft mineral; gold is a shiny mineral while others are less so.

Minerals

The building blocks of matter have driven the imagination of philosophers, scientists, and artists for millennia. But, for manufacturers, these elements have a more concrete existence as powders. Powder processing technology conditions these primary materials to create a vast range of products, from chemicals and foods to pharmaceuticals and ceramics.

Powder

Protein

Whether for personal consumption or agricultural purposes, you process seeds to make them clean and maximize yield. Seed processing equipment includes the steps of polishing, threshing, separation, sorting, and drying. Some cases require additional processes. For example, the extraction of the seed from fruits or vegetables. Or, pressing the seed to extract oil.

Seeds

Packaging

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<span style="font-weight: 400">At last, you reached the final stage of processing your product - welcome to the packing world! Packing preserves and protects a product from damage, spoilage, and contamination while it makes its way from the production line to the consumer or further production. Depending on which industry your products belong to, the type of primary packaging equipment can change drastically. You need to pay careful attention to products with </span><span style="font-weight: 400">chemicals or hazardous substances since they can be potentially dangerous to human health. </span>

Packing

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If you are a manufacturer of fertilizers, bulk chemicals, sugar, seeds, or any grains it is likely that you would need to transport a lot of free-flowing

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<h3>2 kilograms of organic waste yields a kilogram of insect protein extract</h3>
The energy content of edible insects is similar to traditional fresh meat – around 500 calories for every 100g of dried product. Insects have an excellent protein density (between 45 and 65% protein by mass) and require far fewer resources to breed and rear than other farming practices.

While insect protein processing technology addresses the “protein gap,” insect farming also converts organic waste to a high-efficiency rate. With only 2kg of feed from food waste and a mere square meter of space, farmed insects can produce up to 1kg of protein.

The aquaculture sector has already embraced the potential for insect protein. Protein derived from insects such as house fly larvae is a near-analog of fishmeal protein traditionally used as the base for commercial fish feed.

Processed insect protein is a more sustainable aquafeed ingredient and can replace traditional <a href="https://making.com/fishmeal-powder" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fishmeal powder</a> from the feed mix.

Substitute fishmeal powder with insect protein extract

Insect protein from <a href="https://making.com/black-soldier-fly-protein" target="_blank" rel="noopener">black soldier fly larvae</a> (BSFL) is a suitable alternative base ingredient for pet food. Besides protein, BSFL contains fats and oils to make a richer foodstuff for domestic animals.

The high absorbency of insect protein makes it particularly useful as a <a href="https://making.com/products/pet-food" target="_blank" rel="noopener">base for pet food</a> for animals with allergies and sensitive stomachs. Black soldier flies are reared on biomass from other agricultural processes and extract up to 70% of proteins. This makes them a highly sustainable option for animal feed.

Insect protein for use in agricultural animal feed

<h3>Insect protein processing technology can be adapted for food-grade applications</h3>
Protein derived from farmed crickets has been granted novel food status in the European Union. Harvested insects are dried and ground into protein-rich powders.

So-called “<a href="https://making.com/cricket-protein" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cricket flour</a>” can be used to make a whole range of foods, including cricket burgers, cookies, and performance products.

Previously produced commercially as fishing bait and pet reptile feed, mealworms are increasingly being farmed as an alternative source of protein. They require only 10% of the land needed for livestock and have a smaller greenhouse footprint.

Mealworms are rich in protein and retain <a href="https://making.com/mealworm-protein" target="_blank" rel="noopener">around 40%</a> of their content when freeze-dried. Mill the insects into a powder to broaden its application in the food and feed sector.

Freeze-dry mealworms to conserve their protein content

<h3>Heat sensitivity is a production challenge for insect processing</h3>
Insect protein processing technology encompasses farming, extraction, and finishing. Typically, the process includes two stages: separation &amp; extraction and drying &amp; milling.

But insect material is temperature sensitive and presents particular handling challenges. Moreover, since insects are often reared on wet feed, processing contends with poor flow characteristics and cohesive tendencies.

Drying is a <a href="https://making.com/products/insect-protein/drying" target="_blank" rel="noopener">delicate step</a> in the insect processing line because it can alter the properties of the material. Under-dried insects develop bacteria, while over-drying causes scorching and reduces the protein’s nutritional value.

Two main types of dryers are used: Direct and Indirect drying. Direct drying is when the material is treated with hot air at a temperature of 200-300ºC as it goes through the heat exchange unit. This is quicker, but heat damage is much more likely if the process is not carefully controlled. Indirect drying offers a gentler approach. In this technique, the energy transfer is performed through a heating medium like steam-heated discs.

Apply indirect drying for gentler treatment

<h3>Insect protein powder for human consumption must be milled to a finer grade</h3>
The last step in insect protein processing is <a href="https://making.com/products/insect-protein/milling" target="_blank" rel="noopener">milling or grinding</a>. The material can be milled into powder of different grades according to its final use. Powders intended as insect “flours” for baking and food recipes must be ground very finely. Ingredients for soluble products like protein drink powders require ultra-fine milling.

However, a coarser grade is more appropriate if the final use is for animal feed. Choosing a combined drying and milling solution can give you the edge in terms of efficiency and ROI.

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An industrial vibratory separator machine is multi-purpose, able to carry out a variety of different tasks, like dewatering, recovery, grading, or separation. It can separate unwanted materials within plastic, further grading it to leave a pure fraction for reuse, and as a result it is mostly used for grading materials like plastic pellets e.g., masterbatch.


<h2>Vibrating separator for grading dry or wet materials</h2>
There is a wide variety of separators in the market and picking one can be a tedious task. Making sure to test the product before buying it and checking if it fits your usage area is also one of the key components in the selection of a separator.

The Rusell Finex Separator™ is made with a safety screener that is set to ensure product quality. It removes oversized impurities and leaves clean powder or liquid behind. Depending on the needs of the customer, this product is also highly customizable in terms of its appearance (i.e. if stainless steel is needed for the pharmaceutical industry).

The simple design makes the cleaning process very simple. During the sieving process, there is a thorough check for dust contamination, allowing for greater sieving accuracy and can ensure repeatable and scalable particle size distribution.

High capacity grading sieve

The growth of the world population necessitates the search for alternative protein feed sources. Insect protein powder processing arises as new laws and

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