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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 -
How Hongyang SZLH420 Ring Die Pellet Mill Helped a Brazilian Broiler Feed Mill Achieve 96.5% PDI and Stable 8 t/h Output on Corn–Soybean Diets
Executive Summary Granja Horizonte Nutricao Animal Ltda., a medium-scale commercial feed mill in Cascavel, western Parana state, Brazil, supplies pelleted broiler feed to approximately 210 contract growers within a 120 km radius. In early 2025 the company replaced an aging 7 t/h pelleting l...Read more -
How Hongyang SZLH420 Ring Die Pellet Mill Helped a Honduras Layer Farm Achieve 89% PDI and 0.07 FCR Improvement on Corn-Soybean Diets
Executive Summary Procesadora AvÃcola Comayagua S. de R.L. (PACSA), a 120,000-bird commercial layer operation in Comayagua, Honduras, had been running two European-brand pellet mills for five years. By early 2025, ring die service life had shortened to approximately 450 hours, pellet durability ...Read more -
How a Vietnamese Feed Mill Boosted Swine Feed PDI from 82% to 94% with Hongyang SZLH420 Ring Die Pellet Mill
Executive Summary A mid-size commercial feed mill in Dong Nai Province, Vietnam 鈥?serving approximately 120 pig farms across the Mekong Delta region 鈥?faced persistent quality issues in its swine feed pelleting line. The existing flat-die pelletizer produced pellets with a Pellet Durability ...Read more -
Poland Broiler Feed Mill Achieves 96.5% PDI with Hongyang SZLH420 Ring Die Pellet Mill – Wheat-Based Pelleting Case Study
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Precision Pelleting for Philippine Gamefowl: How Ring Die Engineering Optimizes Conditioning Feed Quality at Batangas Breeding Farm
The Philippine gamefowl industry â locally known as sabong â represents a â±50 billion ($900 million) economic sector, making the country the global center for gamefowl breeding and cockfighting events, according to a 2017 study by the University of the Philippines Los Baños (Gulf News, 202...Read more
