Today, the production workshop of Zhengzhou Lerford has finished the export packaging of a multifunctional food slicer and grinder machine. The machine will travel from a domestic port across the water to Spain, and arrive at a local company that processes ready-cooked vegetables and precooked dishes. This order is yet another milestone in the continuous expanding Lerford's in the Southern European Food Processing market. Exporting more dual-head peelers to Poland and a bulk shipment of 600 feed grinders to Africa, the brand has further extended its global delivery, signifying a solid recognition of the quality of the Chinese-made food processing machinery by EU consumers.
I. Background of the Order
The buyer is a small-medium sized Spanish plant which produces fresh cut vegetables and ready-to-cook meals. Their main activities include the intensive processing of root vegetables – potatoes, carrots, onions and ginger – to provide production lines for Western style fast food and frozen side dishes. The customer examined various European manufactures to see how they compared with several Chinese companies before making the decision. After conducting the on-site tests for cutting consistency, ingredient wastage rate, and machine stability for continuous operation, they decided on the Lerford multi-function slicer and grinder. Critical Customer Criteria: The equipment needs to meet the EU CE food machinery safety requirements; be able to multi-task within the same unit (slice, shred, dice, and grind); be suitable for24hours continuous assembly line production; and cut energy and labor costs in manual cutting stations while reducing ingredient waste.
II. The Multifunction Slicing Grinding Machine Exported to Spain Advantages
Wide Application Versatile Processing
The machine is constructed of modules with short blade sets and is designed for easy exchange among four processing types: thin slicing, coarse shredding, fine dicing, and pureeing/grinding. Processing of hard root vegetables, soft fresh fruits and even small amounts of nuts are allowed. One machine meets all the production demands of the Spanish factory diversified production in ready-to-cook meals comes - the need for multiple specialized machines in the past to purchase for meals, which greatly saves workshop floor space and equipment investment cost. The cutting depth can be adjusted continuously from 0.5 to 10 mm, ensuring an excellent, debris-free cutting quality, while the level of material wastage is below 5% which is higher than those of the EU competitors with similar price.
European food hygiene standards are met, as the body is made entirely of 304 food-grade stainless steel.
The processing chamber, cutting disc and discharge chute - all elements that come into contact with food - are made from one piece of 304 stainless steel; the unit is corrosion-resistant, waterproof, easy to wash down and never allow any sanitary dead zones. It employs oil-free, sealed bearings to prevent risk of lubricant contamination and meets the EU requirements of clean production in food processing plants.
All the load-bearing frames are made of stainless steel and the electrical control system is of EU-standard and adapted to local Spanish power supplies.
The customization prior to delivery guarantees compliance with Spanish industrial voltage (230/400V) and frequency (50Hz.). This machine has a multilingual control panel (Spanish/English), and many safety protections such as power-off for lid opening, overload shut down; household users operate with no previous knowledge and the commercial users come very easy to handle it, the machine is designed for continuous working with no over heat.
Low maintenance, robust design suitable for high temperatures in southern Europe.
The thickened and strengthened base is vibration-proof and noise-proof, providing quiet using even in the closed workshop. High hardness and wear-resistance blades have long service life; without special tools can disassemble the cutting assembly, which can be cleaned and replaced in 3 minutes/due to daily work. The motor cooling design is tailored to the hot Spanish summers, allowing stable, uninterrupted work even from open-air processing sheds at its most basic.
III Standardization of the Long-Haul Ocean Export Packaging Process
Being able to survive through the 30+ days sea voyage on board the Mediterranean Sea, with rough handling, being exposed high humidity and salt spray, the workshop applies the fumigation and packaging of EU standard on every single package, to against on all kinds of climate and to protect equipment thoroughly:
The metal parts are sprayed with anti-rust oil and the whole machine is wrapped with thickened vacuum plastic film which is moisture-proof and dust-proof;
Specialized parts-like blade assemblies, electrical control boxes, and spare blades-are wrapped separately with foam and shipped in an accessories box;
Inside the crate the machine is braced to prevent shifting and for your protection in transit the crate is dust fumigated solid wood with internal timber bracing to lock the machine in place and prevent shifting or impact damage during transit;
The outside of the crate is marked with destination and warnings for moisture and to be lifted Restricted EU customs clearance documents are included fully CE safety certification bilingual (English/Spanish) operation & maintenance manuals factory test-run videos packing lists certificate of origin etc.
IV. Global Delivery Record of Lerford Equipment
Zhengzhou Lerford is a professional manufacturer for feed grinding machine and deep processing line for fruits&vegetables, if single machine or full production line, we have exported thousands of machine to worldwide. Feed over our 600 multifunctional units - tooth-claw grinders and hammer mills - were distributed en masse to the animal agriculture-feathered nations of Ghana, Burundi and Tanzania. Food processing machinery has been exported to Poland, Finland, Argentina and Kazakhstan; just recently a grinding and cutting machine was delivered to Spain, establishing the company's customer service network in Southern Europe.
Its head of overseas operations said, "There are so many stringent rules to apply for us to enter the EU market with regard to safety of machinery, hygiene of foods and durability for long-term use".. This southern European order is another strong proof of the increasing global competitiveness of high-quality, stable daily operation Chinese processing equipment. As for the future, we will work on electric control systems and hygienic designs for S and W European solutions, localised customised solutions, extend European warehousing and on mobile techno support on spare parts and, rem video solutions to be the end to end global solutions provider our customers can rely on - be it in Food or Ag - Livestock Processing Equipment," he adds.
Humanized output V. Expectations on Client Cooperation The multifunctional grinding and cutting machine that our client from Spain has recently ordered is going to be the key equipment to the reformation of the factory's production line, it will replace several of his old small units for cutting, with the running of the machine, it is predicted that the food processing labor cost will be cut by 60% ptw. the equipment has been up and running for a stable performance, the factory will start to buy in mass quantity for a full set of Lerford fruit & vegetable pre-processing equipment to form a business to business relation stable relation in the second phase for production line expansion, thus the establishment of a long-term, stable and in depth partner.
