Product Description
ARROW MACHINERY engineers complete artificial rice production lines designed to reconstitute broken rice, multi-grain flours, and nutritional fortifiers into premium rice kernels. Our advanced twin-screw extrusion curing technology ensures that vitamins, minerals, and dietary fibers are evenly distributed inside each grain without loss during processing.
Whether you are looking to upcycle low-value broken rice into high-value fortified rice kernels (FRK) or expand into functional multi-grain rice, ARROW MACHINERY provides flexible capacity configurations and precision die molds to match natural rice shapes and textures.
Process Flow
Ingredients → Mixing → Extrusion Curing → Pre-drying → Drying → Cooling → Packaging
1. Ingredients: Rationally prepare broken rice flour, corn/grain flour, and target micronutrient premixes (vitamins, minerals) according to your specific nutritional formulation.
2. Mixing: High-efficiency ribbon or paddle mixers thoroughly homogenize the dry raw materials with liquid dosing to achieve uniform moisture distribution.
3. Extrusion Curing: The homogenized material enters the twin-screw extruder, where controlled heat, pressure, and mechanical shear cook the starch and extrude translucent rice-shaped kernels through precision dies.
4. Pre-drying: High-vibration pre-dryers rapidly dry the surface of freshly extruded kernels to prevent sticking, clumping, or deformation before entering the main drying oven.
5. Drying: Multi-layer continuous circulation dryers gradually reduce internal moisture under precise temperature zones to ensure a long shelf life and non-cracking stability.
6. Cooling: Counter-flow cooling conveyors bring the dried artificial rice down to ambient temperature, locking in structural firmness and preparing it for safe storage.
Specification
| Model | Power | Capacity |
| AHE62 | 90-110kW | 200-800KG/H |
| AHE78 | 110-160kW | 300-1200KG/H |
| AHE90 | 160kW | 300-1500KG/H |
| AHE98 | 200-250kW | 800-2500KG/H |
The capacities listed above represent standard reference parameters for fortified rice kernel (FRK) production. Hourly output and energy consumption may vary based on your raw material composition (e.g., rice powder vs. corn flour), targeted kernel size, and drying settings. Custom capacity designs from 150 kg/h to 1000+ kg/h are available upon request.
Customer Site
ARROW MACHINERY offers comprehensive engineering support for artificial and fortified rice manufacturing projects, including:
• Recipe consultation and nutrient retention testing.
• Custom die mold design to match local rice shape preferences
• Complete factory floor layout and utility pipe design.
• On-site installation, commissioning, operator training, and lifetime spare parts support.
Features
1. High degree of automation
2. Wide range of raw materials: can process various grain flours, such as corn, wheat, rice, millet, oats, konjac, yam, soybeans, mung beans, etc.
3. Can process rice into different shapes simply by changing the mold.
4. Automatic temperature control system makes temperature control more intuitive and parameters more accurate.
Our factory
All of the company’s equipment is independently designed and manufactured, holding numerous patents and widely recognized by customers both domestically and internationally. Shandong Arrow is committed to technological research and innovation in pet food engineering, aquatic/specialty feed factories, plant-based protein food engineering, and extrusion food engineering, including raw material processing and extrusion/gelatinization. With a complete turnkey system, we provide comprehensive project solutions tailored to specific client requirements, offering one-stop services including planning, R&D, design, civil engineering, manufacturing, logistics, installation, delivery, and training, ensuring rapid response to client needs.
FAQ
Q: What raw materials can be used on this artificial rice production line?
A: You can use ground broken rice, corn flour, wheat flour, cassava starch, konjac powder, and other grain flours, blended with vitamins, minerals, or natural vegetable powders.
Q: How similar is fortified artificial rice to natural rice?
A: By using customized extrusion dies and exact temperature control, the extruded kernels closely resemble natural rice in shape, color, transparency, and mouthfeel after cooking.
Q: Do the added nutrients lose efficacy during extrusion and cooking?
A: Our twin-screw extruder uses high-temperature, short-time (HTST) extrusion curing, which minimizes thermal degradation and preserves over 90% of heat-sensitive vitamins and minerals.
Q: Will the artificial rice break or dissolve when washed or cooked with natural rice?
A: No. The extrusion curing process thoroughly gelatinizes the starch matrix, creating a strong structural bond. The artificial rice maintains its shape during washing, steaming, or boiling, cooking at the same rate as natural rice (typically blended at a 1:50 or 1:100 ratio).
Q: Can we adjust the rice shape and size?
A: Yes. We offer various precision dies to produce long-grain rice, medium-grain rice, round rice, or customized functional grain shapes.
Q: How do I request a quotation and project proposal?
A: Please share your raw material type, target production capacity (kg/h), preferred rice shape, and factory layout dimensions. ARROW MACHINERY engineers will provide a customized technical proposal and quotation.
