Together With Mr. Ma Of African Youth Venture Fund --Hongdefa Support to Start the Maize Mill Project!

On February 18th, the “Ma Yun African Youth Venture Fund” was officially launched. In the next 10 years, the fund will provide 10 million US dollars to encourage the development of young African entrepreneurs.

It is understood that the fund will hold an annual competition in the next 10 years, select 10 players from the registered African entrepreneurs to enter the finals and provide them with a total of 1 million US dollars in prize money. Players, regardless of industry, can register as long as they are African citizens, especially encouraging the active participation of grassroots, women and young people. Through cooperation with local partners in Africa, the finalists will not only receive financial support but also become a member of the future young African entrepreneurs family, sharing experiences and resources to create a star of African entrepreneurs.

 Mr Ma Yun

“The African Youth Venture Fund focuses on tapping the original grassroots of Africa, regardless of size or industry background, and encourages entrepreneurs from all walks of life to actively participate. By 2030, we hope to find and build 100 African entrepreneurs. Stars, let them inspire the African continent, pay attention to Pratt & Whitney, and serve Africa." Ma Yun Public Welfare Foundation said.

At the "Network Entrepreneur: The Rise of African Digital Lions" conference in Johannesburg, South Africa in August 2018, Ma Yun, founder of Ma Yun Public Welfare Foundation, announced that it would invest 10 million US dollars to set up the fund to help African young people realize their dreams and let them "Catch the generalized globalization and digitization, and let 100 Alibaba appear in Africa."

Ma Yun in Africa

It’s really very good news for our Africa clients who have the dream to start a maize milling factory in their local place.

Maize flour as a daily life main food, most Africa countries has a huge market for maize flour products. But many clients who new starters in this field are a shortage of money to starting this project. They always trying hard to get this maize flour milling plant finance.

This good news gives a good opportunity to get dream seekers. As it open to all Africa Citizens, everyone has the right to participate in and have the chance to get the invest.

Maize milling machine help the client realize their dream

 As a 13 years Golden supplier in Alibaba who the main market in Africa, We Hongdefa Machinery are very happy to hear this news.

Hongdefa in Alibaba  

Hongdefa Factory have installed more than hundreds maize milling machines to Africa countries through Alibaba, like Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Angola, Namibia, Nigeria, Ghana, Benin and so on, almost every Africa countries have our maize milling machines and wheat flour milling machines.

                                      

Our manager visit the client factory in Kenya

              we also build our office in Lusaka/Zambia, Addis Ababa/Ethiopia, Kampala Uganda and plan to build the fourth branch office in Kenya in this years.

We have a big warehouse in Zambia and Ethiopia, which can supply the timely and professional after service for all clients.

As a 37 years factory in Maize mill and wheat flour mill field, we supply the professional design, installation and after service works for all clients. And supply the lifetime service for our machines.

Hongdefa factory

We’d like to do our best to help our clients start the maize milling plant and wheat flour milling machines factory and help them to realize their dream!

For more maize milling plants and wheat flour milling machines contact with us freely.

Ms Jane Liu

Tel/Whatsapp/Wechat: +86 139 3305 7265   +86 132 2344 2174.

www.hongdefa.com   www.hongdefamill.com

Hongdefa Team visit Kenya for maize milling machine on 28th Feb

As we know the maize milling business is a big market in many Africa countries, like maize mill in Zambia, maize mill for Kenya, maize posho mill in Uganda, maize flour mill in Tanzania etc. In Kenya, Local people’s staple food is Unga, Ugali, fufu etc. The main food is Maize meal or maize flour, in Nairobi, the market needs sifted maize meal and different grades, and in Mombasa, it’s more strict, people like the pure white maize meal, not so soft.

150t/24h maize milling plant project installed in Nairobi

Maize mill is daily business, people eat maize flour everyday, With the development of the economy, people's demand for maize flour is increasing. The maize flour industry is booming. Early investors have made money. Now many people want to invest in this industry.

Complete maize milling machine line contains cleaning, degerminating, milling, sifting, packing, controlling system to produce "super white and sift maize flour" suitable for Kenya Market.

In Kenya, we have installed more than 100 sets complete line maize milling machine like 150T/24H, 100T/24H, 50T/24H, 30T/24H etc. 

Kenya Client visit CHINA Hongdefa Factory

It has been running for more than 5 years. Now it become a very famous brand in Kenya. Nowadays the client to start the wheat flour mill project.

30T/24H maize flour milling machine for Kenya market

50T/24H maize milling machine in Thika Kenya 

30T/24H maize milling machine in Kenya, He is a really very nice client. He come to our factory inspected the running maize milling machine, checked the final flour quality, then place the order.

240T/24H maize milling plant

Our engineers doing the installation and testing of his maize milling plant, training his workers to maintain the maize mill very well.

In 2014, Nairobi client ordered the 20T/24H maize milling plant. After years develop, his business become larger and larger, in 2017, he ordered a new 50T/24H maize milling plant with European standard. Makes his business more and mare profit.

With the continuous development of maize mill plant industry will show this trend, similar 30 years ago in China, there is many small factories for a wheat flour mill, almost one county have 2 or 3 flour mill factories, the competition is very strong.

Then some factory boss begin to think about how can I earn money?

I have to enlarge my capacity, everyday I can processing extra 50T or 100T flour, then I will low down the sales price of my flour, but I can sale more, then other people will not have the ability to compare with me. When he have this planing, he begin to collect the money, find the finance, beginning to enlarge the capacity of the wheat flour mill, before he sale 1USD per kilo, now he low down the price to 0.8usd per kilo, all the housewife buy his flour, quality is fixed good, price is low, the other small factory have low market low client, after sometime, the other small wheat flour mill factory closed. Then the big wheat flour mill factory become bigger and bigger, that is why in China now the wheat flour market are controlled by few big factories. If you want to see the small wheat flour mill machine running, almost impossible. 

Hongdefa team

The trend is similar in Kenya. There are some small maize millers, locally made machines in Kenya, but the capacity is small and the production is small. If someone in Kenya are able to set up a big maize mill factory. Like 30t/24h, 50t/24h,100t./24h,150t/24h,200t/24h , then in the future, he can follow the experience in China wheat mill factory, daily capacity is much more than the small maize millers, and he can sale the maize meal at a very competitive price! The small maize millers can sell the maize meal at 1USD per kilo, but He can sell the maize meal at 0.8USD per kilo. The wholesaler come to buy the maize meal from this big maize millers, the housewife come to buy his maize meal from the big maize millers, he will be the leader of the market! Finally, he win in the market! 

28th Feb, our team will visit Kenya. This time, our big team will bring advanced management and management experience share with our clients, and show your running maize mill machine in Kenya. Hope you have a meeting talk more.


Here is our contact details, if anything we can do, contact us freely:

Cel/WhatsApp/Wechat: +86 132 2344 2174 +86 139 3305 7265

Email: jane@hdfmill.com

Web: www.hongdefa.com www.hdfmill.com

Installation Plan for Flour Milling Machines

In the last year 2018, Hongdefa team did a great job and got a lot of orders for different capacity of maize mill and wheat flour milling machine from Different countries, like Kenya Zambia Uganda Ethiopia Egypt Tanzania and so on.

Hongdefa factory

Till now most of the orders already finished and shipped to the clients' factory, now are waiting for our engineers for the installation and commissioning. 

It is very important for the client to do the good installation testing and training the local workers, this will make sure the high-quality final maize wheat flour. 

240T maize mill finished installation in Angola

Our after sale service department pay more attention to this issue and make the detailed plans for the next step work about the installation, here we share with you some of our arrangements:

150T wheat flour mill machine will install in Egypt

Mr. Hao and Mr. Guo will come to Egypt soon to install the 150T/24H wheat flour mill for the Egypt client.

We already finished the whole container loading and the last batch ship will arrive at Alexandria port at the end of February. Now we are doing the visa for the engineers. 

100T/24H maize mill machine wait for testing and training in Nigeria

This 100T maize milling line we finished the installation already before the Chinese New Year holiday, we will send the engineer to do the testing and training when the electricity and water are available in the client factory.

3, 300T wheat milling machine will do the installation in Malaysia

The first 10 containers of this 300tpd wheat mill already arrived Malaysia and our engineer Mr.Guo and Mr.Lv will come to Malaysia on Feb.28,2019 and begin the preliminary work first.

The 300T wheat mill is a middle capacity, it will take some time for the whole machine running. We will send different professional engineers to come to do their special work in different period.

A 300T wheat milling machine will do the installation in Malaysia

4, 30T maize milling machine waiting for the installation from our Malawi client.
Mr.Li will come to Malawi to do the 30t maize mill next month. This is the third time Mr. Li come to Malawi and he already installed three sets of maize mill in Malawi for other clients. 

30T maize mill

5, 50T maize mill is installing now in Tanzania by Mr.Guo
This 50t maize mill is together with silo, so it takes a little longer time for the installation.
Mr.Guo stayed in Tanzania for the Chinese New Year holiday, thanks for his hard work. Our client takes care a lot for Mr.Guo and thanks for his efforts. 

50T maize mill in Tanzania

6, 15T maize mill will do the installation in Kenya
15T maize mill is a small capacity compared with another kind, this time Mr. Zhang will come to Kenya from Zambia directly. He will finish the installation of the 50t maize mill line in Zambia soon and come to Kenya then. This will save time and air cost for the client.
Kenya is a good market for our maize mill machines, here we had installed more than 30 sets in different cities, like Nairobi, Mombasa, Thika, Kisumu, Eldoret and so on. 

50T maize mill in Thika Kenya

So that will be very easier to work for our engineer to do the installation in Kenya.
We know what kinds of final products Kenya market needs, we know their machine requirements.
Professional makes things easier.

7, the 300T/24H wheat mill will do the final test in Afghanistan
Afghanistan is not easy to get the visa and because of the war in the country, it takes a really long time to finish this whole 300t wheat mill project.

Now it is the final step for the testing, very soon our client will see the machine running and make the real business. 

300T wheat mill finished installation in Afghanistan

8, Other maize wheat lines we will do installation soon

Except for the above arrangements, there are many other corn maize wheat milling lines are waiting for our engineers to come to do the installation,

like the 10T maize mill in Tanzania, 

20t maize mill in Burkina Faso,
30t maize mill in DRC,
15T maize mill in Mali,
100T maize mill in Ethiopia,
120t wheat mill in Ethiopia,
30T maize mill in Rwanda and so on.
10T maize mill in Tanzania
120T wheat mill in Ethiopia

That will be very busy work for the next days, Hongdefa team is ready to do. 

Hongdefa Team

If you also need the maize mill or wheat flour mill machine, please do not hesitate to contact us.
We do, do the best!
Our professional team will give you all the support for your business successful.
Here are our contact details, if anything we can do, contact us freely: 

Cel/WhatsApp/Wechat: +86 139 3305 7265.
Email: jane@hdfmill.com
Web: www.hongdefa.com

How to Identify good quality flour

The quality standards and testing methods of wheat flour formulated by the country are difficult for many consumers to check the quality of wheat flour because of the need for inspection, laboratory technology, and special testing instruments. But direct discrimination through sensory organs is a simple and easy-to-grasp testing method. This kind of sensory testing is to synthesize the quality of wheat flour by watching, smelling, kneading, twisting and biting.  

Wheat Grain

Watching:

Watching the pink bran of wheat flour can reflect its processing accuracy. Wheat flour bran plays a decisive role in the appearance of products. After milling and grinding, it scrapes the endosperm from the epidermis and it grinds the endosperm to the very fine parts. Generally speaking, the higher the accuracy of wheat flour processing, the lower the flour yield, the smaller the bran star containing broken bran, the whiter the flour. When the processing precision is higher, the flour size is finer, and the flour color is white because of the light irradiation. The grain color and quality are different, the color of wheat flour is different too. Under the condition of low flour yield and low processing precision, the darker the grain color of wheat is, the darker the processed product is, and the color of wheat flour produced by white-skinned wheat is lower than that from soft-skinned wheat. It is because that in the flour processing process, white wheat bran is not easy to detect when it is mixed in the wheat flour, while red wheat bran is easy to detect when it is mixed and make the flour darker. Hard wheat endosperm is slightly yellow, the soft wheat endosperm is milky white.

Wheat Grain

Smell:

The wheat flour with good quality has the normal odor and inherent sweet smell. It is very vulnerable to mildew and bacteria when we store it, and even oxidative deterioration. Mildewed wheat flour has a sour taste. When it is infected by pests (such as mites and beetles, it also produces sour taste. Mites can be identified by examining wheat flour or by the unique odor of mites). Feverish and mildewed wheat flour, through stored for a short time, has a low fatty acid value, but often has an unpleasant bitter taste (it is fatty acid decomposed, and then oxidizes acid to produce aldehydes and ketones). As a result, wheat with mildew and deterioration have a peculiar odor, which seriously stimulates the sense of smell. If there are trace pesticides, it also causes peculiar odor, these can cause poisoning and should not be eaten.

wheat flour

Kneading:

That is to say, to judge the moisture content of wheat flour by hand, to grasp a handful of flour with hand, to press it a little hard, to shake gently after loosening hands. If the flour disperses, the moisture content is within the scope of national standards, if not dispersed, the moisture content is not easy to be stored for a long time. Relevant experiments have proved that when the moisture content is 13.5%+0.5% and the temperature is over 30 ~C, it can only be stored for a short time. If it is processing after Autumn and 14% of the moisture content can be stored for half a year. When the moisture content reaches 15% and the temperature is above 20 ~C, it will quickly become hot and mildew. In addition, with the increase of water content, the actual weight of flour decreases, invisibly it harms the interests of consumers.

Twist:

That is to twist wheat flour if it is uniform particle size and soft then it is of good quality, if too smooth or rough then the quality is poor.

In a word, according to the methods of watching, smelling, kneading and twisting, the quality of flour can be generally identified. For some adulterated fake flour, the final determination should be made by further qualitative and quantitative chemical analysis.

If you wish to know knowledge of the wheat flour and wheat flour processing, please contact us freely at

Email: jane@hdfmill.com   

Whatsapp: +86 139 3305 7265

#wheatflour #flour #flourprocessing #wheatprocessing

Top 10 Facts about Chinese New Year

How much do you know about the Chinese New Year?

Chinese New Year is a Chinese festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional Chinese calendar.

Today let’s talk about the top 10 Facts about Chinese New Year

1- The festival date changes every year.

This is because it follows the lunar calendar, based on the movement of the moon. Usually, it falls on a day between mid-January and mid-February. In 2019, Chinese New Year falls on February 5

2- It is also called the Spring Festival.                  

The festival usually falls after the solar term, Beginning of Spring (Li Chun), and is a festival in the spring, hence the name.

3- Chinese New Year starts a new animal’s zodiac year.

In China, each lunar cycle has 60 years and 12 years is regarded as a small cycle. Each of the 12 years is defined by an animal sign: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Pig. 2019 is the Year of the Pig.

Pig Year

4- The celebration lasts for 15 days till the Lantern Festival.

The peak time of the entire celebration is on Chinese New Year's Eve and the first day of the lunar new year. The 15th day is called Lantern Festival, marking the end of the celebration.

Lantern Festival

Tangyuan

 People go out to watch the lantern party after eating Tangyuan.

5- One-sixth of the world’s people celebrate it.

It is not only celebrated in Mainland China but also observed in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam, Singapore, and some other Asian countries as well as China towns around the world.

In recent years, the celebrations in New York, London, Vancouver, Sydney, and other overseas cities have spread out of China towns. Chinese New Year has become one of the world’s most celebrated festivals.

Celebrating the Festival

6- It is the longest public holiday and the whole country is on the move.

Most employees have 7-12 days off the work, and students have one-month winter vacation. The 2019 Chinese New Year holiday is from February 4th to 10th.

No matter where they are, people try their best to return home for a family reunion, like westerners attempting to spend Christmas with their families. Meanwhile, some families travel together during the holiday. This makes the world’s largest annual migration, known as the Spring Festival Travel Rush. The total trips made by plane, train, bus, and ship can reach nearly 3 billion.

7- Reunion dinner is a ritual.

The reunion dinner on Chinese New Year's Eve is a big feast to commemorate the past year. This is the most important time to be with families.

After the reunion dinner, families sit together to watch the CCTV New Year's Gala while chatting. As the most watched TV program, the gala collects various well-selected performances, targeting audiences of different generations.

8- Then comes the annual largest usage of fireworks on the planet.

Fireworks are an indispensable part of the celebration to liven up the air of Spring Festival. All families set off fireworks to celebrate the festival. The biggest firework show is on Lunar New Year's Eve.

Celebrating the Festival

9- The celebration decorations are mostly in red.

Houses are decorated with red Spring Festival couplets, red lanterns, and red paper cuttings; city streets are lit up by red lanterns, and numerous people are dressed in red. This is because red in Chinese culture is the symbol of happiness, wealth and prosperity, and can ward off evil spirits and bring good luck. These red decorations are to the festival what Christmas trees are to Christmas.

10- “Guo Nian Hao” is one of the most used greetings.

This is like the westerners saying “Merry Christmas” to each other on Christmas Day. It means “Happy New Year”.

Why is the celebration also called "Guo Nian"? "Nian” is the Chinese word for the year. In folk culture, the Spring Festival celebration is also called “Guo Nian” (meaning “passing a year”). In a Chinese New Year story, “Nian” is a fierce and cruel monster which eats livestock and kids, but it is scared of red color and cracker sound. Therefore, people use red decorations and fireworks to drive away “Nian”.

Hongdefa Machinery will off work for new year holiday according to the National Holiday Provisions. If you have any issue about corn/maize/wheat flour mill machine, please kindly tel/WhatsApp +86 132 2334 2174 or Email us jane@hdfmill.com.

More Details pls visit www.hongdefa.com

We will reply you as soon as possible.

From 11^th Feb 2019. We start back work. All the work, including the reception work of the factory visiting, returned to the right track.

Welcome friends come to visit our factory and 100t/24h corn flour mill machine anytime.

Hongdefa Factory and Ladies

100t/24h Maize flour mill machine in Hongdefa. More Details you can visit www.hongdefa.com

Now, On behalf of Hongdefa Machinery, Jane Liu wishes you are happy in the whole year. Everything goes smoothly. Making big money in new 2019. 

What Shall We Pay Attention Of the High Plan Sifter ?

High plan sifter is the main sifting equipment of the flour mill machines factory. The quality of flour and the extraction rate of flour are directly related to the efficiency of the high plan sifter. Hongdefa factory use word top quality sifter. It has the characteristics of large screening capacity, high screening efficiency and no need frequent maintenance. Let's take this equipment as an example to talk about some problems that should be paid attention to when using high plan sifter in practice.

High plan sifter

First, the following conditions need to open high plan sifter:

Sifter screen

1) The materials under the sifter are highly mixed and the classification effect is poor. Shows that the sifting efficiency is low, the main reason is paste sifting or different types of flour mixture. Like this, should stop the wheat or maize mill production line for inspection. Use the nylon brush clean the screen surface to increase the effective sifting area. Replace or replenish the cleaning balls (blocks) and picking blocks in the sieve. Because of the frequent cracking in the product, some are worn, and the broken cleaning block and the mash block flow along the pipe to the feeding cylinder of the roller mill.

2) When testing the color of flour, if you find that the flour contains excessive amounts of bran, also please stop the wheat or maize flour mill machine production line. The reason is that the sieve is broken. If the nylon crucible is hard damaged, it must be replaced; if the damage is not large, it can also be repaired with a small sieve of white glue.

3) In the patrol inspection, if there is no flow under the screen, tap the high plan sifter door and make a “squeaky” sound, indicating that shows the sifter is clogged. It is possible that the inner and outer passages of the screen are clogged and the material circulation is not smooth. If it is just happening, you can keep the flour mill machine production line working, just stop feeding, unblock the outlet, then make the sifter back to normal operation. If the blockage is serious, then shall stop the working for maintenance; it is also possible that there will be too much material in a short period of time, and there will be sifting. Stop of feeding, and the material can be reasonably diverted according to the design flow and practical experience.

Second, when open and installing the parallel sieve, shall be careful to ensure the efficiency of the flat sieve.

Top quality screen

1. When installing the sieve, it should be placed in the order of the numbers and arranged neatly. The flour in the sifter should be cleaned to prevent the screen from being placed unevenly and gaps appearing. Please take attention Can't be careless, placed upside down or not mixed by number. Especially when open two bin at the same time, do not confuse them with the next compartment.

2. When checking the sieve, the screen surface should be tight and should not be slack. Otherwise, it will affect the normal operation of the cleaning block (rubber ball), and the material will accumulate in the depression to reduce the effective sifting area.

3. The flannel around the screen frame should be kept intact. If it is missing, it should be replenished in time, otherwise, there will be flour leakage. When installing the shifter, the sealing strip cannot be knocked out. In operation, the front part of the sieve is placed in the sieve box, and then the rear section is lowered.

Spare parts of a high plan sifter

4. After the sifter is placed, it will be compacted at the end. In the vertical direction, the screw pressing mechanism of the top of the warehouse is used to adjust the screen to each other by adjusting the left and right screw mosquitoes. During operation, the left and right thread should be adjusted in turn to prevent the one side from loosening, causing the displacement of the screen, causing the powder to be powdered, and the screen to be pressed in the horizontal direction. Because of the horizontal direction, the screw on the door can be adjusted. In order to make the horizontal pressing force uniform, the correct adjustment sequence should be tightened along the diagonal.

5. When restarting, the flat screen should be idling for a few minutes to make the material empty, so as to prevent too much material in a short time, resulting in blockage.

Third, regular inspections to ensure normal operation

Hongdefa factory high plan sifter

1. If there is abnormal sound or impact sound in the high plan sifter during the inspection, it is very likely that the sieve grid is not pressed, and should be stopped immediately for maintenance.

2 In summer, the relative humidity in the air is large, and the upper and lower cloth sleeves of the high plan sifter are easy to fall, resulting in the outflow of the materials. In particular, fine flour, such as the wheat heart re-sifting (DIV3), bran sifting (DF) and so on. It is necessary to remove the flour on the ground in time, keep the workshop sanitary, and connect the cloth sleeve.

Forth, welcome you come to Hongdefa machinery factory for we together research of sifting machine and flour mill machine

Since 1982, we Hongdefa Machinery specialized in doing maize flour milling machine and wheat flour milling machine.

For now, we become the top factory which has approximately 120 workers, a manufacturing factory 50000 square meters, and 5000 square meters of production workshop, 6000 square meters warehouses, 1000 square meters of office space.

Hongdefa factory view

 Hongdefa Factory

We have the branch offices in Lusaka/Zambia, Kampala/Uganda, Addis Ababa/Ethiopia. We can meet with you in our branch office and talk about corn flour mill machine and wheat flour mill machine face to face.

Hongdefa branch office for maize mill machine and wheat flour mill machine

Hongdefa super professional sales team

Along these years development, we had got so many clients: 150t maize mill machine in Zambia, 240t corn mill machine in Angola, 150t wheat flour milling machine in Egypt, 100t maize milling machinery in Nigeria, 50t maize milling machinery in Kenya, 60t maize milling production line in Mozambique, 82t wheat mill machine in Ethiopia, 100t maize flour mill plant in Malawi and so on. We also manufacture other capacities of maize flour milling machines and wheat flour milling machines with a different design for a different market.

Hongdefa maize mill and wheat flour mill machine client

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We hope to get win-win with our customers.

So all the details make perfect is our main work purpose.

Most welcome to visit Hongdefa Machinery Co., Ltd for seeing maize milling machines and wheat flour milling machines. We have the running production line for showing you.

Pls contact with us Jane Liu online +86 139 3305 7265 (WhatsApp/wechat)

Also, you can visit our website: www.hongdefa.com