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An ANKO client having had a successful food business in Colombia selling croquetas (croquette) to casinos and other retailers was looking for an opportunity to turn a vacant factory in Indonesia into a profitable automated food business. Because this client had previously purchased ANKO’s HLT-700XL, SR-24 and an ANKO commercial deep fryer, they had decided to seek ANKO’s assistance to provide them with professional automated production line equipment and support to sell croquetas (croquette) in Indonesia.
Kibe (Kibbeh) is one of the basic cuisines in the Middle East, so the high demand has made client’s business booming. However, his employees couldn't meet the production requirement and the quality was unstable. To solve the problem, the client has contacted ANKO for food processing equipment solutions.
The manual production of Kubba Mosul Pastry relies on a large amount of labor. The ingredients for making pastry and filling must be prepared separately; in addition, shaping a flat circle takes complex steps. Many Middle Eastern immigrants in western countries cannot forget the taste of hometown. Therefore, the market not only in Middle East but also in western countries, there have been marked growing needs for the manufacture of many Kubba Mosul products. A lot of clients hoped to have an automatic Kubba Mosul machine, so that ANKO has kept that in mind and carried out the new project development.
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 client has two fishing vessels and two fish processing plants to process the six-ton daily catch. One plant is dedicated to mince fish into fish paste, and the other plant is for the production of fish balls and fish products. He purchased a HLT-700XL Multipurpose Filling & Forming Machine and a SD-97W Automatic Encrusting and Forming Machine from ANKO. The HLT-700XL is used for producing deep-fried fish snacks — a new offering made of springy fish paste with a crispy wrapper. And the SD-97W is for making stuffed fish balls. The client's new plant covers 10,000 square meters and employs around 50 people. Their products are mainly sold to local supermarkets in Indonesia such as Carrefour.
The client sells a great variety of foods. Although glutinous rice ball was not one of the main products, he needed a solution to produce glutinous rice balls effectively. Therefore, he visited ANKO's booth at a Hong Kong exhibition. Compared to other glutinous rice balls, the client's filling recipe contains more ingredients, including peanut powder, coconut powder, and sugar powder, which makes workers hard to fill the same ingredient quantities into each glutinous rice ball. Nevertheless, it is also difficult for machine to extrude powder filling because it easily tends to clump up and clog the filling system. Therefore, for making stuffed food with powder filling, ANKO's Automatic Encrusting and Forming Machine with a special designed powder filling system is highly recommended.
The company provides frozen food for numerous hotels and villages in Cairo, Egypt. Consumers can also buy their products online, in supermarkets or deli. Selling products in multi sales channel had leaded to an increasing demand, so the company's owner, via a dealer, had been looking for a supplier who can offer an automated production solution for making kubba. It's always a challenge to make a machine work well with a new recipe. In this case, we had a problem in forming kubba because the crust was too sticky. The just formed kubba would stick to the shutter unit and then be broken while the shutter unit opened. Through recipe and temperature adjustment, ANKO team solved the problem successfully.