Overview and status analysis of China's ice machine industry

 In recent years, in order to keep fresh, health, safety needs, China's agricultural products, fresh food, seafood and supermarket retail market demand for ice is increasing, led to the development of ice-making equipment industry, the annual growth rate of up to 20% ~ 30%, and emerged a number of well-known enterprises, Such as Fujian Yeti Co., LTD., Koler Company, China Machinery Southwest Energy Technology Co., LTD., Shenzhen Brother Ice System Co., LTD., its products are not only popular in the domestic market, but also exported to overseas.
 

At the same time, the growing domestic market demand has also attracted the entry of the world's well-known commercial ice machine companies, and they have built factories in China, such as Manitotova (China)Refrigeration EquipmentCo., LTD、Qingdao Aorun ice machine Co., LTD、Scotsman Ice System Shanghai Co., LTD、Hossaki Electromechanical (Suzhou) Co., LTD.
Data show that China's ice machine industrial belt has gradually formed. Among them, the large-scale ice machine industrial belt is mainly concentrated in Fujian, Chongqing, Guangdong, Jiangsu, these places have developed manufacturing and processing industry and convenient logistics; The small ice machine industrial belt is mainly concentrated in the developed areas of business and trade. For example, Guangzhou, Shenzhou, Foshan, Dongguan and other places in the Pearl River Delta and Shanghai, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Nantong and other places in the Yangtze River Delta, the market output value is about 200 million yuan. Relevant industry information can be found in the "Ice Machine in-depth Research Report".

The rapid development of the domestic ice machine industry is also facing some urgent problems. The first is the lack of professional and technical personnel. According to the survey, at present, most of the technical personnel of domestic ice machine enterprises are not refrigeration professionals, and colleges and universities mainly train refrigeration talents for air conditioning, cold storage, cold cabinets and other products. The shortage of technical personnel has led to difficulties in the quality improvement and research and development of domestic ice machine products.

Secondly, due to customer arrears and other reasons, it is difficult to open large ice machines in the domestic market. In fact, with the increase of domestic meat processing enterprises and large supermarkets, large ice machines are in great demand in the country. Third, energy consumption is obviously wasted, and there is an urgent need to develop new products such as ice shredders. At present, the crushed ice needed in the sales process of domestic fresh food is the result of secondary processing after smashing the barreled ice, which is very energy consuming. Fourth, the small ice machine due to the low entry threshold, product quality is uneven.

In recent years, in order to regulate the sound development of the refrigeration equipment industry, China has introduced a series of related standards, such as "snow ice making machine", "sheet ice making machine", "large ammonia ice making equipment" and "Special requirements for the safety of household and similar electrical appliances refrigeration equipment ice cream machine and ice machine", and the implementation of CCC certification for household ice machines since 2007. The category is "domestic refrigerators" and commercial ice makers are included in the supervised spot check list. Industry experts said that because the ice machine industry involves food safety, the standards, certification and supervision that have been introduced and implemented are far from enough, especially the lack of national standards for product performance, which also means that there is still a lot of room for development of ice machine technology in energy consumption, health and safety.