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In Taiwan, most traditional noodle machines have good productivity but are limited in the types of noodles the machines can produce. Hence, ANKO’s team worked with Taiwan’s Food Industry Research and Development Institute to test and co-create an innovative noodle extruding machine. One client who owns a noodle factory approached ANKO for equipment that can produce unique noodles, and this company was the first to test ANKO’s NDL-100 Noodle Extruder. The client found ANKO’s machine to be highly productive with the ability to produce many different types of noodles which met their production needs and thus they purchased the machine.
This Taiwanese client had started their business in canned food production for export, mainly sold to North America, Australia and New Zealand, but recently discovered the increasing tapioca pearl demand worldwide, and the client has many existing customers who are owners of shave ice and tea/beverage shops. This Taiwanese client had no experience in tapioca pearl production and originally wanted to find an OEM but was referred by the OEM company to consult with ANKO. After ANKO’s team had successfully developed the tapioca pearl products the client had desired to produce, they purchased ANKO’s GD-18B Automatic Cutting and Rounding Machine which is currently in production.
The client is a co-packer, who has been contracted by many food companies to produce Chinese food and dim sum. He has been using ANKO's double-line shumai machine for years and gives ANKO credit for the high quality machine. Recently, due to the COVID-19 lockdown, the demand for frozen food and ready-to-eat food is growing while people are unable or less willing to eat in restaurants. Therefore, a chain restaurant, who is well known for its shumai, was seeking new opportunities. The company would like to sell ready-to-heat shumai in convenience stores and supermarkets. It then contracted our client to produce the delicious shumai. As a result, our client planned to purchase another shumai machine. He said, "if you have triple-line shumai machine, we'll definitely buy one. It will be perfect."
The client is a frozen food wholesaler. He would like to save labor cost and increase productivity. He found ANKO to seek the best solution. ANKO focuses on keeping handmade taste when a client transforms manual production into machine production. For example, the client has produced green scallion pie, which is complicated made by hand. When he tried to produce his products by machine, instead of by hand, one of the difficulties is that the machine cannot repeatedly roll dough into a circle. Therefore, we've made many efforts to eliminate this kind of differences between handmade process and machine-made process. (Note: LAP-2200 is no longer available. The updated model is LAP-5000. Please feel free to contact us for more information.)
Vegetarian foods are the client's primary products. The manual production no longer meets the growing demands. For that reason, automation is what they need to boost capacity and profits.
The client runs an eatery next to a school. Two people in total have to be in charge of all works. Due to the fact that more and more people patronized the eatery, the labor shortage prompted him to develop machine production. However, high productivity was not his priority so that he ordered a set of HLT-660 series, which is within budget and enough to achieve his hourly capacity around 5000 pieces. After purchasing the machine, they prepare ingredients in the morning and then arrange production around noon, cooking after taking an order, which can satisfy a large demand during peak hours. (Note: HLT-660 series is no longer available. Please contact us for the updated HLT-700 series.)
The dining group operates Cantonese restaurants, hot pot buffets, and Japanese buffets for satisfying various consumers. They used to make their food products by hand. With more and more restaurants opened, the continuing growth in demand for steamed custard buns in all types of their restaurants prompted the company to invest in a new machine to extend its offerings. it's a turn to transform handmade into automatic production. Chefs hoped to maintain food quality while cutting cost so that they found ANKO. We have the largest market share in Taiwan food machine industry and our machine can help them meet the growing demand. After testing our SD-97W, they are satisfied with the multifunctional encrusting and forming machine which offers them the flexibility in production. In addition to steamed custard bun mentioned above, they also use the machine to produce sesame balls.
The long-established North China cuisine restaurant is owned by a veteran emigrating from China. Its signature dish --potsticker--is many people's all time favorite, as a result, the supply was often unable to meet the demand. Then, they decided to manufacture potstickers with machine and took the opportunity to improve the appearance of their potstickers. In the end, they found ANKO because we offer customization services and project solutions. The project was totally different from the development of other standard potsticker making machines. During the period of research and development, we'd tried potstickers with both-end-open, both-end-close, different sizes and types of sealed ends as well as given them many professional suggestions patiently. Finally, the customized forming mold for making both-end-close potstickers and the final products satisfied their needs and gave them more confidence in boosting sales in the future.
The company is an actively developing food company, offering various sweet potato-based food products, including the popular shaved ice topping-sweet potato balls, and has been dedicated to promoting its brand and products with innovative ideas. A few years ago, they planned to make smaller sweet potato balls that can be added in drink. However, the machinery they had for making average-sized sweet potato balls could not produce such small ones. They found that ANKO has a GD-18B for making tapioca pearls. Afterwards, they visited ANKO for a trial and were satisfied with the machine and our services.
Customers want to increase production capacity by moving from manual to automatic production. However, sometimes machine-made dumplings cannot meet their required shape. Either customers have to give up having handmade pleats and delicate patterns or they stay in manual production. Dumpling machine has been ANKO's bestseller. We have received many inquiries about dumpling shapes. "Do you have other more natural patterns?", "Do you have pinching patterns?", "Do you have other pinching patterns?", "Why is the machine-made dumplings not mouth-watering?" and so on. To response these demands, we started a series of development processes.
To boost production capacity, the client transitioned from manual to automatic manufacturing and contacted ANKO for a production solution. Initially, we recommended a Double-line Automatic Siomay Machine. Within two years, their number of restaurants had tripled. They then approached ANKO again to purchase another Siomay Machine to meet the demand from all their restaurants.