Why Produce Pet Food?
In Mexico and other countries around the world, pets receive preferential and much better care than the treatment they received just a few decades ago, especially in their diet. Pet owners are now aware that they should be fed a proper diet from a well-balanced commercial food that meets all nutritional requirements of the animals, rather than a homemade food.
Pet owners are looking for quality, organic foods, and they are willing to pay for the added value of these premium foods. It is for this reason that premium foods have higher sales than average priced foods today.
When talking about the pet food industry, we are talking about a constantly growing industry. In fact, it is expected that in the next 5 years this industry will maintain a continuous annual growth of 5.4% globally. Insta-Pro International is prepared to be part of that growth with the MS3000 extruder, an ideal tool for the manufacture of pet food.
I have had the opportunity to visit several of our clients in Mexico who make pet food, and encountered a very interesting situation. Several years ago, these clients bought a high-shear dry extruder from Insta-Pro and made the adaptations necessary to produce pet food even with the original design intended for a different purpose. This tells me two important things, that Insta-Pro extruders have a long service life and that they have great versatility when adapting to applications.
Nowadays, it is not necessary to adapt a high-shear dry extruder to produce pet food. The MS3000 medium-shear extruder is specially designed to produce shaped food. Customers who previously made pet food with other extruders and switched to our medium-shear extruders report that they obtain a better quality of the final product and that this equipment is easier to operate. Undoubtedly, medium-shear extrusion helps to give the food a better and more consistent shape once it is exposed to the environment at the exit of the dice plate.
The moderate cost in the market of the MS3000 extruder, as well as its production capacity that can be fully scalable, make this extruder very attractive to companies that manufacture pet food. For more information, please contact the Insta-Pro International sales team.
