A few days ago, Tianjin held a China Food Association candy professional committee. It was learned from the meeting that under the situation of sluggish global sales, increasing uncertainties, and large changes in the domestic market environment, the overall development speed of the national candy industry has slowed down due to a combination of various factors. In 2016, the year-on-year increase in output was not large, only a slight increase. 0.2%. Professionals said that the overall development of my country's candy industry is improving and the future development prospects are broad. The industry should not abandon, do not give up, increase scientific and technological innovation, strengthen product research and development, and create a sweet career brilliant.

It is understood that from January to December 2016, the total output of China's major candy products was 3.519 million tons, an increase of 0.2 percent over the same period last year, an increase of only 5000 tons over the same period last year, and the growth rate slowed down greatly, 2.5 percentage points lower than that of the food manufacturing industry. However, the situation of candy industry assets developed well in 2016. Assets totaled 86.2 billion billion yuan, an increase of 6.0 over the previous year, and maintained sustained growth; current assets were 40.95 billion billion yuan, an increase of 1.01 billion billion yuan over the previous year, and the growth rate was significantly higher. In addition, in 2016, the candy production in the top 5 regions reached more than 2.37 million tons, accounting for more than 67% of the national candy production, an increase of 1.3 compared with the previous year. At the same time, according to the data released by the State Food and Drug Administration, as many as 18000 batches of candy and cocoa were sampled in 2016, the number of qualified samples reached 17800 batches, the number of unqualified samples was only 200 batches, and the qualified rate of samples reached 98.80. Compared with all kinds of food samples, the qualified rate is much higher than other average level. All these reflect the overall development of China's candy industry from the side. With the continuous development of China's food machinery manufacturing industry, but also for the industry to bring the candy machinery and equipment, making the candy production automation, mechanization, scale has become possible.

In recent years, although China's food machinery manufacturing industry has developed rapidly, various categories of candy machinery and equipment emerge in endlessly, such as candy packaging machines, candy molding machines, candy core units, etc., but some enterprises still rely mainly on imports of candy machinery and key technologies. We know that Quanzhou is the largest candy production and processing base in China, but a large number of its related candy machinery and equipment are imported from Europe, the United States, Japan and other advanced sugar making equipment countries. For example, the four-color sandwich whole wheat flour automatic soft candy production line is introduced from Europe, and the cotton high-end chocolate production line is introduced from the United States. In addition, chocolate production and processing equipment and processing technology is still very few. At present, the chocolate production line has the phenomenon of single equipment and low scientific and technological content, which seriously restricts the development of chocolate in China towards high-end.

We know that the production of chocolate is not so simple, the production process is very complicated. If chocolate is factory production, it will involve related processing technology and equipment. The main raw material of chocolate is cocoa beans. First of all, it must be dried or dried. Secondly, baking, crushing, blending and grinding are carried out. The last three steps are the most important and determine the quality of chocolate, namely refining, acid removal and tempering casting. Through refining, you can ensure the smooth taste of chocolate; to acid, as the name implies to remove its sour taste; tempering casting refers to the control of temperature difference cooling, shaping the shape of chocolate, and with the help of temperature regulation, constant temperature to keep its natural luster. In fact, every link in the chocolate production line is very important and must be strictly controlled, especially the last three links. There are also drying equipment, baking equipment, crushing equipment and shaping equipment in its production line also plays a key role, only good processing technology and equipment to ensure its quality.

With the continuous upgrading of the consumer market, internationally renowned chocolate brands have accelerated their entry into the domestic market. Compared with foreign chocolate products, there are still great differences in the quality of domestic chocolate. Although some domestic enterprises have begun to enter the high-end market and attach importance to the improvement of product quality, the overall market share is not large, and the living conditions are not optimistic. The author believes that the competition in the high-end market, in the final analysis, is the competition of processing technology. Only when enterprises master the key processing technology and equipment, can they have more voice in the market and occupy more market share. At present, my country's candy machinery and equipment are still mainly dependent on foreign countries. Before Quanzhou imported a variety of processing equipment, this problem can be well explained. In this way, it is hoped that the food machine equipment manufacturing industry can face up to this situation, strengthen exchanges and cooperation with enterprises, understand the production and processing needs, or customize products for enterprises to better meet their needs.