The idea of owning a business is not new in our time. Very often small companies are opening, producing various goods for the population. Based on existing needs, food manufacturing enterprises are considered the most promising. Alternatively, such an enterprise may be its own mini-oil mill.
Justification of choice
Every day a person without fail consumes in one form or another meat, dairy, bakery products, as well as plant products.
Without them, it is impossible to imagine a normal diet. Therefore, these products are most in demand on store shelves.
Even for the smallest enterprise, the main thing is the ability to sell the manufactured goods. Otherwise, the company will be forced to work "at the warehouse", and this, as you know, does not bring profit.
Such firms end in bankruptcy and liquidation. This is what awaits entrepreneurs who have not timely thought out the possibility of marketing and ways to sell their own products. The marketing service should do a good job here.
She has to carefully study the market (supply and demand), as well as pricing. After that, you can determine the goods. If you can somehow do without meat, then a person uses products of plant origin.
It is not always bread. Every day, a person uses vegetable oil for food. It is used for cooking during cooking or just for dressing salads. Consequently, this product will be bought. From this we can conclude that a modest mini-oil mill can be a good option for business.
Where to locate the company?
Once you have chosen your business, you can proceed to the next step: consider where the new mini-oil mill will be located. There are several important factors to consider here:
- Delivery of raw materials.
- Transportation of finished products to the buyer.
- Availability of necessary communications.
- Availability of the facility for workers.
Speaking of raw materials, they usually mean its presence near the relevant enterprise, or the location of nearby highways or railways. Mini-oil mill uses crop products as raw materials.
Such mini-plants are better located near farms for growing sunflower seeds, or it will be necessary to determine the most rational method of delivery. To transport products from production to retail outlets, you must have your own fleet or an official agreement with a transport company.
The oil production workshop should be located near water and sewage utilities. Workers should be able to independently get to the factory, or their uninterrupted delivery must be arranged by the employer using special vehicles.
Basic equipment
The production of oil from plant materials is a relatively simple process. It is associated with the preparation of raw materials and the isolation of the final product from it. The main equipment in such a workshop is, of course, an oil press. This unit is designed to extract the fat component from the crop. Most often, a screw press is used for industrial production.
This machine can use any oilseed as a raw material.As a result, if you wish, you can maximize the range of products (sunflower oil, sesame oil, rapeseed, cedar, soybean, peanut and others). Recently, a screw press has been increasingly used.
It is extremely convenient and easy to operate. Raw materials are randomly loaded into the hopper, from where it enters the grain chamber located directly below it. The chamber has a screw mounted on a shaft. With its help, raw materials are transported along the chamber, gradually shrinking along the course of movement. In the process of such a seal, oil is released, which flows through a special hole. And industrial waste (cake) is freely removed through the annular gap.
Advantages of screw presses
The screw oil press has a number of undeniable advantages over other units designed for spinning. Such machines have a high resistance to wear. They are reliable and easy enough to operate. Having very small dimensions, they make it possible to organize production in a room with a relatively small area.
These presses allow, if necessary, to plan the output of finished products by regulating their productivity. Scientists have long paid attention to promising equipment and periodically improve it by upgrading individual sections. As a result, models with a high level of energy consumption were developed, which is also important for the organization of the work process.
Different types of presses allow one-, two- and three-stage cold pressing to produce vegetable oil of a fairly high quality. Some of them can even replace a whole production line.
Mechanisms required for production
Organizing the production, it is necessary to purchase everything that is required by the technological process. Equipment for the oil mill includes a set of units that ensure the execution of each individual operation. Vegetable oil production can be divided into approximately 5 stages:
- Transportation, reception and storage of raw materials.
- Preparation of this raw material for production.
- Spin oil.
- Cleaning the finished product.
- Packing and delivery of oil to the consumer.
At each stage, specialized equipment is used, which as a whole makes up a single production line. Coming into production, the raw material goes through the following processing stages:
- purification from mechanical impurities;
- destruction of the fetal membrane;
- separation of the shell from the seeds;
- grinding (rolling) of grains to obtain mint;
- moistening the peppermint under the influence of elevated temperature and obtaining a pulp as a result (final raw material for oil production)
- extraction with the formation of oil and cake as a result;
- additional processing of cake.
Equipment selection
When choosing equipment for work, it is necessary to pay attention to features. There is, for example, such an oil mill, which allows you to extract oil from ordinary seeds without pre-treatment. This is very economical in terms of financial costs.
You can purchase one unit and install it in a small room. The productivity of such machines is up to 200 kilograms per hour. After this, the oil must be filtered. This is usually done twice.
The first time - as soon as the product cools down to sixty degrees, and the second - after complete cooling (up to twenty degrees). For this, frame or vacuum filters are usually used. Depending on the chosen design, the oil is either pushed through or sucked through several layers of fabric.
Thus, it is additionally cleaned of impurities and fine specks. It turns out a product of higher quality, which in addition is better stored. And the process ends with packaging. It all depends on the conditions of the supply agreement (bottling in large containers or small packaging).
How many cars do you need?
If, as a result of long deliberation, the oil mill became the choice for your own business, the equipment should be selected based on the desired performance and financial capabilities. It is not worth the dubious savings to buy one powerful car and install it in a small room.
Savings on rent are not so significant. It is much more practical to purchase several small presses and install them in a spacious workshop. Initially, the costs will be tangible. But they will surely pay off in the coming months. The size of the room in any case must comply with certain sanitary standards.
The fire department will measure explosive hazard, and on a small area to meet the required framework is problematic. Having several presses, you can arrange the simultaneous release of different types of products.
Thus, you can significantly expand the range and increase your competitiveness in the market. As a result of accidental breakdown of one of the machines during the repair period, the workshop will not stop its work, but will continue to produce products on other presses.
Some modifications of screw presses can easily be adapted for the production of feed in granular form. This is very convenient in case the equipment will be idle due to a possible lack of raw materials.
Rare product
Some manufacturers take on the production of quite rare products. Take, for example, the production of pumpkin seed oil. The preparation of raw materials in this case is as follows:
- drying at a temperature not lower than 50 degrees;
- shredding;
- hydration;
- roasting raw materials until the moisture evaporates completely.
The raw material thus obtained is fed to a hydraulic seed press, from which an unusual blackish-green oil comes out. After bottling, the product goes to store shelves. Previously, it was produced mainly in Austria and some other countries of Central Europe.
But in recent years, scientists have become very interested in its useful properties and concluded that this product is truly unique for the prevention and prevention of serious diseases. A tremendous amount of vitamins and minerals puts oil from pumpkin seeds in a row even with some medications. Such information can make novice businessmen think.
Achieving the goal
In order to achieve the maximum quantity of finished products at the exit, it is necessary to organize the passage of the product properly at each stage. Take, for example, the production of sunflower oil.
You can just wash the seeds, dry and send them to the press. And you can pre-free them from unnecessary husks. It is clear that in the second case, the product yield will be significantly higher.
And he himself will turn out to be of higher quality. This can be achieved if at the very beginning of the technological process a husk for seeds is installed on the line. The machine is simple, but very necessary for such a production.
In it, seeds of a certain size through a special slot fall on the drum, where they are completely freed from husks. As a result, the output is a solid core, which subsequently goes to the spin. Oil after such preliminary processing will turn out cleaner and much tastier. So you can easily compete in the market with even the most famous manufacturers.
