5 T/h Floating Fish Feed Making Line in the Philippines
Floating Fish Feed Making Line (Turnkey Project)
Production of tilapia and milkfish feed
Especificaciones del pienso:
1.5-5 mm
Materias primas:
Corn, cassava, fish meal, rice bran, coconut meal, soybean meal, as well as vitamins and mineral additives such as oyster shells/shells and limestone
Capacidad de producción:
5 ton per hour
Tipo:
Floating Fish Feed Making Line
The Philippines Aquaculture Market
The Philippine aquaculture (fish farming) industry has strong growth potential. Key farmed species include shrimp, tilapia, and milkfish. As demand for seafood rises both locally and globally, the country is improving its farming technology and management practices. This progress is clear from the rising need for fish feed—its annual growth rate has reached about 15% in recent years. This shows that markets increasingly want high-quality, nutritionally balanced feed.
Despite the promising industry outlook, current development faces several challenges.
Many feed ingredients must be imported, raising costs. Farming infrastructure is underdeveloped, and small-scale farmers often lack consistent technical skills. These issues slow down efforts to scale up and modernize the industry.
Looking ahead, the aquaculture market is expected to keep expanding, driving further growth in feed demand.
Major companies are already adopting new technologies, automated equipment, and local production methods to cut costs and boost efficiency. Additionally, as international markets open up and foreign investment increases, the industry could gain more funding, advanced techniques, and expertise—accelerating its upgrade and development.
Detalles del proyecto del cliente
Located in Luzon, Philippines, this project was launched by a large local aquatic feed manufacturer to meet rapidly growing demand from tilapia and milkfish farming market.
Previously, the customer relied entirely on imported feed due to lacking their own production capacity– resulting in high costs and unreliable supply. Therefore, they decided to build a local fish feed production line to solve these issues.
RICHI Machinery designed and delivered a floating fish feed making line with a capacity of 5 tons per hour, based on the customers’ needs.
The entire line utilizes a wet extrusion process and is equipped with an automatic batching system, a high-efficiency twin screw extruder, an energy-saving drying system, and a spraying machine. The line produces floating feed pellets (1.5–5 mm in size) with stable quality.
Since the Philippines imports some raw materials (e.g., fish meal, soybean), RICHI engineered the line to flexibly blend local ingredients (corn, bran) with imported additives. And the compact design (fitting within 1,500–2,000 m²) also matched the customers’ existing facility layout, reducing construction costs.
In this project, RICHI not only provided equipment design, manufacturing, and installation, but also assisted the customers in plant layout optimization, staff training, and operational testing, delivering a turnkey project.
After the project was put into operation, the client reached full production capacity within 30 days and successfully entered the regional market.
Custom-Tailtored Solution
RICHI always puts the real needs of customers first. Before providing a feed production solution, we will research customers’ core pain points:
What’s the size and height of the available factory building? How much power is available, and do you have steam and water supply? On how many floors do you plan to install the production line?
How easy is it to get from the project site to a port or a city? Are the roads good?
Do you plan to expand in the future? Do you want a production line that can make different types of feed?
When do you hope to finish building and start production?
Based on this information, we design a more tailored solution for the customer, ensuring that fish feed equipment configuration and process design are fully aligned with customers’ specific needs, helping them resolve operational challenges.
As requested by this customer from the Philippines, since they only intend to sell the fish feed (rather than self-use), the equipment configuration of this 5-ton/hour floating fish feed making line is very complete.
The final fish feed making line primarily includes the following sections:
Raw Materials Receiving & Handling
Verify the purchase specifications of raw materials such as corn, soybean meal, fishmeal, and calcium sources (e.g., oyster shell powder).
Store qualified raw materials separately in dedicated silos. When needed, a bucket elevator lifts raw materials through cleaning equipment, which removes large impurities like stones and weeds. A magnetic separator then extracts any metal contaminants.
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Sistema de trituración
Pre-processed block or granular ingredients grind into uniform sizes, increasing surface area for even nutrient distribution during mixing.
A pulse dust collector is equipped to capture fine dust generated during grinding, reducing raw material loss and keeping the workshop clean.
02
Sistema de mezcla
A PLC-controlled automatic batching system accurately weighs all raw materials. Base ingredients mix proportionally, while additives incorporate gradually.
The mixture feeds into a double-shaft paddle mixer, where water may be added to enhance adhesion.
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Sistema de extrusión
The twin screw extruder is started, and the mixed materials are evenly fed by the feeder. The feeding speed matches the screw speed to prevent blockages or interruptions.
Inside the barrel, pressure and temperature are controlled to ensure complete starch gelatinization and protein denaturation.
04
Sistema de secado
Extruded pellets move to a multi-layer belt dryer, removing excess moisture to extend shelf life and solidify structure for improved hardness and buoyancy stability.
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Sistema de pulverización
Vacuum coating technology sprays oils, liquid vitamins, and attractants onto dried pellets, supplementing energy, improving palatability, and protecting heat-sensitive additives from degradation.
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Sistema de refrigeración y cribado
Coated pellets enter a counterflow cooler, where ambient air flows opposite to lower temperatures and remove residual moisture.
After cooling, grading screens separate qualified pellets for packaging; fragments and powder return to the crushing system for recycling.
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Sistema de envasado
The automatic packing machine is adjusted for the desired bag size. Empty woven bags with printed product labels are prepared.
Qualified pellets are filled into bags through the discharge port, automatically weighed, and sealed by the sewing machine.
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The Philippines Floating Fish Feed Making Line Configuration
The equipment used in this project includes a cylindrical primary cleaner, a hammer mill, atwin shaft paddle mixer, a floating fish feed machine, a mesh belt dryer, a vaccum sprayer, a cooler and an automatic packaging equipment. All the fish feed making machine swere custom-designed to meet the production capacity of the line.
Of course, in addition to these main machines, this floating fish feed production line also includes auxiliary equipment such as an automatic batching machine, silos, a bucket elevator, a pulse dust collector, and a rotary distributor.
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Raw Materials Receiving & Handling
cylindrical primary cleaner
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Sistema de trituración
Molino de martillos
03
Sistema de mezcla
Mezcladora de paletas de doble eje
04
Sistema de extrusión
Floating Fish Feed Machine (Twin Screw Extruder)
05
Sistema de secado
Secador de cinta de malla
06
Sistema de pulverización
Pulverizador de vacío
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Drying & Cooling System
Counter-flow Cooler & Screener
08
Sistema de pulverización
automatic packaging equipment
Complete Floating Fish Feed Making Line Delivery Process
Producción mecánica
After the customer confirmed the plan and signed the contract, our factory immediately began production. All feed equipment used in this 5-ton/hour floating fish feed making line is self-manufactured by RICHI, with some key components custom-made based on the customer’s raw material type and process needs.
Durante la producción, nuestros ingenieros supervisan rigurosamente cada paso —desde la selección de los materiales hasta el montaje y la puesta en marcha— siguiendo unas normas de calidad unificadas para garantizar un rendimiento fiable y un funcionamiento estable.
Al mismo tiempo, para que los clientes estén más al tanto de los avances, tomamos regularmente fotos y grabamos vídeos del proceso de fabricación de los equipos, en los que se muestran los equipos clave y los productos semiacabados. De este modo, los clientes pueden ver claramente todo el proceso de montaje paso a paso de toda la línea de producción, aunque no se encuentren en las instalaciones.
Entrega del material
Once all fish feed production equipment is fully manufactured and the necessary accessories for the fish feed production line are prepared, we will arrange shipment according to the delivery schedule confirmed with you.
Whether your project is located in the Philippines or elsewhere, we can ensure the safe and timely delivery of the equipment to the project site through standardized logistics solutions and end-to-end tracking services.
Instalación, puesta en marcha y formación
After the equipment arrives at the customer’s project site, we offer flexible installation support options: You can install it yourself or have our engineers assist on-site.
For this project, the customers chose self-installation. To ensure a smooth installation, we provided detailed installation drawings in advance and provided online guidance. If any problems arise during installation, our technical team will timely provide solutions to get the line running smoothly.
After the feed production line is installed and commissioned, we provide customers with training, either online or on-site. This training covers equipment operation, routine maintenance, and production process management, ensuring safe and skilled use of the entire feed production line.
Customer Evaluation and Project Operation Status
A year ago, we delivered a complete fish feed mill solution to our Philippine client. One year later, our after-sales team conducted an on-site visit to see the real value the production line was bringing them. Based on their experience with operations during this period, the client provided us with detailed feedback on the project：
“We started small, making our own fish feed with a few feed making machines. We only produced about 10-20 tons a day, and the pellets were sometimes uneven—they wouldn’t float long enough, and farmers would complain.
Then, as more people around us started farming tilapia and milkfish, orders suddenly boomed. Our old equipment couldn’t keep up at all. We struggled to meet demand, and breakdowns happened all the time.
After comparing several suppliers, we went with RICHI. You really know your stuff when it comes to aquatic feed processing—your full production line plan was professional and felt trustworthy.
Now, our 5-ton/hour floating fish feed making line runs smoothly. The feed is well-expanded, floats for over 12 hours, and farmers are giving us way better feedback.”
The Philippines’ Floating Fish Feed Making Line: Value and Trend
This floating fish feed making line project helped the customers grow and filled a gap in high-quality floating fish feed in the Philippines. It also created about 50 new jobs across all parts of the operation.
As aquaculture expands in the Philippines and local feed ingredients become more innovative (like using coconut by-products), fish feed production lines will move towards being more localized, low-cost, and high-efficiency.
Types of Feed Suitable for Production in The Philippines
The Philippines possesses a unique tropical climate, vast marine resources, and abundant agricultural by-products (such as corn, coconut meal, palm kernel meal, fishmeal, molasses, etc.), all of which make it highly suitable for developing feed processing.
（1）Aquatic Feed
Suitable equipment types: fish feed extruders, shrimp feed production lines, multi-functional aquatic feed lines
Pienso para peces
Tilapia (most common throughout the country), milkfish (coastal and pond fish), and saltwater fish (grouper, barramundi)
Pienso para gambas
Penaeus vannamei
(2) Piensos para ganado y aves de corral
Suitable equipment types: animal feed pellet mills, poultry feed production lines, pig feed pellet mills
Chicken Feed
Pig Feed
（3）Pet Food
Suitable equipment types: pet food extruders, small-scale extruded feed production lines.
Cat Food
Dog Food
Nuestros proyectos en otros países
2.5 Tons/Hour Fish Feed Production Line In Kyrgyzstan
This project successfully overcame the specific requirements of feed extrusion technology in high-altitude regions, providing a cost-effective, localized feed solution for salmon and trout farming. It can make good use of local common corn and soybean meal, as well as local protein ingredients like flaxseed meal. By precisely controlling conditioning temperature and pelleting parameters, it produces feed pellets for sinking fish such as grass carp and rainbow trout.
3-5 tons/hour fish feed factory in Kazakhstan
Designed by RICHI, this 3–5 tons/hour fish feed production line features a twin-screw extruder and multiple grading screens. The biggest highlight is that the production capacity can be flexibly switched according to the market demand—running at full capacity of 5 tons/hour during peak season and dropping to 3 tons/hour during off-season. This not only saves energy but also reduces costs. This line can produce feed for both coldwater and freshwater fish.
Planta de procesamiento de pienso para peces de 1-2 toneladas/hora en Azerbaiyán
Adaptada a las necesidades de la acuicultura en la costa del mar Caspio, esta línea de producción permite alternar fácilmente entre pienso para esturiones y pienso convencional para peces. Teniendo en cuenta el elevado contenido de arena de algunas materias primas de Azerbaiyán, también hemos incorporado a la línea un dispositivo de eliminación de impurezas, lo que reduce considerablemente el desgaste y mejora la durabilidad de la maquinaria.
Garantía RICHI
En el ámbito de los equipos de peletización de piensos acuáticos y de las líneas completas de producción de piensos acuáticos, aprovechamos la amplia experiencia de nuestro equipo para comprender con precisión sus necesidades de ingeniería de procesos, resolver en profundidad los retos prácticos y diseñar soluciones fiables a medida que cumplan con los más altos estándares internacionales.
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What Feed Processing Solutions Can We Provide?
Línea de producción de piensos acuáticos
Pescado, gambas, cangrejos, marisco y otras especies de acuicultura convencional, así como animales acuáticos especiales
Línea de producción de alimentos para mascotas
Gatos, perros, hámsters, tortugas…
Aves de corral y Ganadería línea de producción de piensos
Pollo, pato, ganso, paloma, cerdo…
línea de producción de piensos para rumiantes
Vacas, ovejas, caballos, ciervos, camellos…
Multi-functional feed production line
Cambio flexible entre varias categorías
