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Uganda Dairy Feed Pelleting: A Cooperative Feed Plant’s First Eighteen Months with the Hongyang SZLH420 Ring Die Pellet Mill
i Executive Summary Uganda produces more milk than most of its neighbours, yet much of its dairy herd is still fed loose maize bran and hand-mixed meal. This case sits in that gap between raw-material abundance and ration consistency. A dairy cooperative union in the south-western milk shed, ...Read more -
High Humidity, Sinking Pellets: A Beira Aquafeed Plant Holds Water Stability and Cooler Control with a Hongyang SZLH508 Ring Die Line
Executive Summary On the coast of central Mozambique, where relative humidity can sit above 70% for weeks at a time, a commercial aquafeed plant outside Beira was losing margin to two faults that never show up on a quotation sheet. Its sinking tilapia pellets looked sound as they left the di...Read more -
Wet-Season Corn, Stable Grinding: A Lusaka Layer Feed Mill With Hongyang’s SFSP Hammer Mill and SZLH420 Ring Die Pellet Mill
Executive Summary Zambia’s compound feed industry runs on maize. Poultry rations in the country are built on roughly 65 percent maize and 30 percent soybean meal, and the layer flock was estimated at about 2.21 million birds in 2024, with Lusaka Province holding the largest concentration of...Read more -
Upgrading Broiler Feed Pelleting in Erbil: How an Iraqi Feed Mill Stabilized Output with the Hongyang SZLH420
Executive Summary Iraq’s feed grain sector has expanded in step with population growth and a steady shift toward poultry in household protein consumption (USDA FAS, Iraq: Grain and Feed Annual, 2023). For feed mills in the Kurdistan Region, the challenge is less about demand than about exec...Read more -
Solving Feed Pellet Production Line Faults: Practical Solutions from Hongyang Feed Machinery
Running a feed mill means living with pressure: raw material costs, quality requirements, delivery deadlines. When the pellet production line suddenly stops, the losses add up minute by minute — idle workers, wasted steam, delayed orders, and in the worst case, a damaged reputation with customers...Read more -
The Ring Die: The Precision Heart of Feed Pelletizing — Engineering Discipline Behind Consistent Pellets
Executive Summary Every feed pelletizing line depends on one component more than any other: the ring die. This cylindrical mold, driven together with compression rollers, presses conditioned mash into firm, uniform pellets and bears most of the mechanical load the mill applies. The grade of ...Read more -
Customer Case: A Ruminant Feed Plant in Kazakhstan Gains 37% More Throughput and 15% Lower Energy Cost with a Hongyang Ring-Die Pellet Mill
Executive Summary This case study describes how a ruminant feed factory in Kostanay, Kazakhstan, modernized its pelleting line with a ring-die pellet mill supplied by Liyang Hongyang Feed Machinery Co., Ltd. (Hongyang Feed Machinery / brand: Hongyang). After the equipment was installed and c...Read more -
Hongyang Feed Machinery: A Practical Guide to Pellet Mill Production Line Design, Operation and Selection
Executive Summary Feed is the largest single cost in livestock production, and the pellet mill production line is the heart of modern feed manufacturing. Global Output 2025 1.44 Billion Tonnes Year-on-year increase of 2.9%, covering 38,837 feed mills across 142 countries. Market Valuatio...Read more -
Stable Shrimp Feed Pelleting in Pakistan: How a Sindh Aquafeed Mill Built Reliable Capacity with the Hongyang SZLH420 Ring Die Pellet Mill
Executive Summary Pakistan’s aquaculture sector contributes roughly 0.4 percent of GDP and produces an estimated US$650 million of fish annually, while the government has set out plans to develop 100,000 hectares of aquaculture with an estimated investment of US$1.3 billion [1][2]. Shri...Read more -
Stable Layer Feed Pelleting in Kenya: How a Kiambu Feed Mill Secured Consistent Output with the Hongyang SZLH420 Ring Die Pellet Mill
Kenya’s compound feed industry has an estimated annual capacity of about 1.6 million metric tons, yet production currently runs at only 40 to 60 percent of that capacity, equivalent to roughly 700,000 to 800,000 metric tons per year 1. Poultry feed accounts for about 41 percent of total output,...Read more -
How a 1.2-1.5 t/h Floating Fish Feed Extrusion Line Was Packed and Shipped to Thailand
Executive Summary A commercial aquafeed producer in Chachoengsao Province, Thailand, contracted Hongyang Feed Machinery for a complete floating fish feed extrusion line rated at 1.2-1.5 t/h. The line was pre-assembled and trial-run at our Liyang, Jiangsu facility on the customer’s own formulatio...Read more -
Ring Dies for Africa’s Rising Poultry Sector: A Ghana Feed Mill Story
Executive Summary Ghana consumes roughly 324,000 metric tons of poultry meat every year but produces only about 15,000 metric tons domestically — a self-sufficiency ratio below 5 percent, according to the country’s Ministry of Food and Agriculture [1]. Most of the gap is filled by impor...Read more
