Instant noodles in domestic stores began to be sold relatively recently (about twenty years ago). In a very short period, it moved into the category of the most popular food products.
Its main advantages are the following: speed of cooking, low cost and excellent taste. That is why it is worth paying attention to the feasibility of conducting a business for the production of such products, the demand for which is characterized by stability.
Potential opportunities
The production of instant noodles has developed more and more in recent years. Despite a certain decrease in the growth dynamics of the market under consideration, the development of this sphere is ensured by switching regular customers to other types of products, as well as introducing new varieties of products.
So, Chinese noodles in boxes have recently been popular with buyers. This is an inexpensive, but at the same time satisfying and tasty dish. It never bothers due to the addition to the finished product of a variety of sauces and fillings.
The difficulty in selling noodles that does not require cooking is the negative attitude of customers. It is believed that it is harmful to health. Manufacturers of instant products seek to change the existing negative perception of customers, constantly improving product quality and using advanced technologies.
According to many entrepreneurs, this market segment has a very vast development potential. According to research, annually products with the possibility of instant cooking in all countries are sold in the amount of more than fifty billion dollars. In the Russian market, this figure is approaching the milestone of one hundred and fifty million US dollars. The segment under consideration remains the most dynamically developing in the food industry.
Relevance of production
Today in Russia about twenty factories produce instant noodles. The most famous among them are Doshirak and Rollton. However, new participants regularly enter the market, which indicates an increase in product consumption.
The manufacturer of instant noodles is always trying to expand the assortment list of its products. According to research, products with the tastes of mushrooms and chicken, as well as bacon, are in the greatest consumer demand. Their customers get on the way to work or home in the nearest stores or markets.
Raw materials
The production of instant noodles has a positive point. This is the absence of specific components in the formulation. Raw materials and component noodles have a stable price and are characterized by affordability. This is a condition for the stable cost of production, which for the final product (sixty gram packaging) is from 10 to 15 rubles.
Process steps
The production of instant noodles consists of a series of sequential operations. At the initial stage, the dough is kneaded.
He needs flour obtained from special varieties of wheat. The next step is the production of thin pasta, which is subsequently subjected to steam heat treatment. Then the semi-finished product is dried, fried and packaged.
Cooking differences
The production of instant noodles at first glance seems very simple.Consumers, as a rule, believe that a product manufactured by various companies differs only in flavoring and packaging appearance. However, there is a single, but at the same time, key difference. It is enclosed in one of the operations of the technological chain. It is frying noodles in oil.
Some manufacturers for this technological stage use only expensive palm oil. Others use sunflower oil to reduce the cost of the product. The more expensive product used for frying allows customers to offer noodles with a pleasant golden color and better taste. At the same time, the shelf life is significantly increased and is one year.
The instant product, which belongs to the class "economy", retains its consumer properties for three months, and sometimes less.
Equipment
The recipe for pasta, prepared without cooking, includes flour, as well as purified water, sunflower or palm oil, spices, and for some species, egg powder. Equipment for the production of instant noodles is a special automated line.
These machines simplify as much as possible all the stages of obtaining the finished product, from kneading dough to packaging. Such lines are of two types - with air or oil-dried noodles. The list of automated equipment includes a fluid mixer and a metering barrel, a twin-roll mixer, as well as a feeding device, a complex and continuous rolling machine, a corrugated apparatus and a steam tunnel, a torch spraying flavoring agents, a forming unit and a heating device, a conveyor designed for cooling , and packaging automatic device.
One line allows the production and packaging of noodles of various sizes and weights. The equipment used can be used not only for the production of fast-cooking pasta, but also ordinary ones that require cooking.
The modern market offers lines for the preparation of noodles of both domestic and foreign (mainly Chinese) manufacturers. Experts recommend buying foreign equipment. It is of better quality.
You can purchase used appliances. Such equipment, for example, American-made costs about $ 70,000. At the same time, Chinese new lines are much cheaper. Their cost is twenty thousand dollars.
Manufacturing process
In the first step in making instant noodles, the dough is kneaded. In this case, special equipment is used, which has a mechanism for feeding flour. It is also equipped with a mixer designed to create a salt water solution, a vertical mixer and a control panel.
This machine mixes all the ingredients included in the noodle recipe in the right quantities and kneads the dough. At the next stage of the technological process, thin strips are cut from the prepared mass by the machine, the so-called wave is formed.
Next, the semi-finished product will be heat treated in a steam tunnel at a significant temperature, reaching up to 95-100 degrees Celsius. After this, a longitudinal slicing of the noodles is made. Next, the pasta gets into the fryer, which consists of a refractory case, special filters, a heat exchanger, an oil tank and a pump for its circulation.
This equipment is roasted product. The temperature of this process is 140-150 degrees. This stage of the process allows you to evaporate water from the dough and eliminate extraneous smacks and odors from the finished product.
After roasting, everything enters the cooling tunnel. This unit reduces the temperature of the noodles. The technological process ends with the packaging of the finished product.
Business development
The manufacture and sale of instant foods is very cost-effective.With a properly set case, the payback period of the project will be less than one year. In order to get a higher profit in a short time, it is recommended to read the book by N. Mrochkovsky and A. Parabellum “Quick Results by Others' Hands”. This work is a real find not only for businessmen, but also for those who only plan to become them. Studying the book will allow you to correctly distribute your own time, get rid of the routine and earn more.
