The annual sales of single products are 1 billion pieces, and in the past 32 years, the sales of Qiyun Shannan sour jujube cake can be connected end to end about 30 times around the earth. How did this wild southern sour jujube that grows in the deep mountains transform from a small wild fruit into a sweet and sour Qiyun Shannan sour jujube cake? In this issue, I will take you into the super factory of Jiangxi Qiyunshan Food.
Ingenuity builds dreams, and small workshops are transformed into super factories
Qi Yunshan has been focusing on the food field of southern jujube for 32 years. Looking back on the development process:
In 1958, the predecessor of Jiangxi Qiyunshan Food Factory - Chongyi County Food Factory was formally established;
In 1992, Qiyunshan Company pioneered the "Qiyunshan" brand southern sour jujube cake;
In 1997, Qiyun Shannan sour jujube cake won the "green food" certification for the first time, becoming the earliest and only food of its kind in China that has passed the "green food" certification so far;
In 1998, the first domestic technology of "artificial grafting and survival of wild and preferred southern jujube trees" was successfully broken through in Qiyunshan Company;
In 2014, the first "Jiangxi Nansour Jujube Engineering Technology Research Center" in China was established in Qiyunshan Company; The company was recognized as a national "high-tech" enterprise;
In 2016, the first "National Forest Germplasm Resource Bank of Southern Jujube" in China was established in Qiyunshan Company;
In 2018, Qiyunshan Company successfully applied for the national geographical indication protection product of "Chongyi South Sour Jujube Cake";
In 2020, the project of "Innovation and Application of Key Technologies and Equipment for the Industrialization of Southern Jujube" won the first prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award;
In 2021, Qiyunshan Company will extend the deep processing industry chain of southern jujube, increase research and development efforts, and expand production and efficiency. The overall relocation covers an area of 105 acres, with a construction area of more than 50,000 square meters, a fixed investment of more than 100 million yuan, and an annual output of 350,000 tons of modern Qiyun Shannan jujube food new factory; In the same year, it was promoted to "National Key Leading Enterprise of Agricultural Industrialization";
In 2022, Qiyun Shannan Sour Jujube Cake will become the only brand authorized to use the geographical indication of "Chongyi Nansour Jujube Cake";
In 2023, Qiyun Shannan Sour Jujube Cake won the "Municipal Intangible Cultural Heritage Chongyi South Sour Jujube Cake Production Technique"; Qiyunshan Company was listed on the list of the first Ganzhou brand value evaluation information release list, with a brand value of 131.8 billion yuan...
From a small handmade workshop with an annual operating income of less than 500,000 yuan and on the verge of bankruptcy to an industry leading enterprise with an annual revenue of more than 500 million yuan, Xiaosour jujube has successfully "gone out of the circle" and turned into a big industry. However, behind these sales, a factory with strong production and scientific research strength, outstanding innovation ability, high degree of automation, and solid and serious quality management is needed to ensure the quality and quality of products.
The company's independent scientific and technological innovation has broken through the blank of the southern jujube industry
Although the production of southern sour jujube cake has a history of more than 300 years, it has not been paid attention to by the outside world because it is too niche. Even in the early 90s, Qiyunshan Company took the lead in applying the traditional craft of southern sour jujube cake to industrial production, but it was also faced with no industrialization experience to learn from, almost zero related industrial research, and lack of southern sour jujube food processing machinery. At this time, only the independent scientific and technological innovation of enterprises can break through the blank of the southern jujube industry.
The production of southern sour jujube cake is a relatively labor-intensive industry, and a large number of labor restricts the development of the industry. In order to solve the technical bottlenecks such as production efficiency and product quality in the processing process of Nansour jujube cake, and realize the modern industrialization and large-scale high-quality development of Nansour jujube products. After more than 30 years of unremitting efforts of Qiyunshan people, today's Qiyunshan company has filled the gaps in more than N industries in the technological innovation and progress of Nansour jujube food processing, and has also achieved the first in many industries: the earliest realization of automatic machine peeling, nuclear meat separation, mechanical filtration and purification of fruit pulp, automatic steam drying, automatic pillow packaging and other technologies, and Nanchang University to complete the "Nansour Jujube Industrialization Key Technology and Equipment Innovation and Application" project also won the first prize of Jiangxi Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award. It realizes the intelligent and mechanized production of the whole process from fresh fruit processing to finished product packaging.
Intelligent manufacturing empowers the Nansour jujube food industry to improve quality and efficiency
When it comes to the intelligent manufacturing of Nansour jujube cake, we must first introduce the production process of Nansour jujube cake: the fresh Nansour jujube fruit purchased from farmers first needs to complete the raw material processing through 9 processes: fruit selection, cleaning, grading, scalding, peeling, kerneling, meat extraction, packaging and quick-freezing and refrigerated storage; Then the pulping, drying and forming, cooling and cutting will be completed in the production of finished products, and finally the automatic packaging production process inside and outside the product will be completed, and then sold to the market after bagging and packing to form sales packaging.
According to estimates, the second-generation southern jujube peeling machine independently developed by Qiyunshan Company can replace 52 workers to manually peel the skin, and the peeling rate can be as high as 90%. The successful research and development of a series of related automatic machines and continuous optimization and improvement have greatly improved the production efficiency, product quality and health and safety of Nansour jujube cake.
In order to make the quality of the southern jujube pulp uniform and stable, the appearance is crystal clear, and the taste is tender and glutinous, Qiyunshan Company is equipped with advanced vacuum continuous sugar boiling unit, double spiral conical mixer and vacuum degasser, after pulping and degassing, the finished fruit pulp can fully retain the beneficial components of the fresh fruit such as polyphenols, dietary fiber, pectin, organic acids and other beneficial components of the southern jujube plant.
Whether Nansour jujube cake can achieve the ultimate taste of toughness and smoothness, drying is one of the key production processes. In order to ensure the product color, moisture content, reducing sugar, taste and other quality indicators of Qiyun Shannan sour jujube cake, the workshop is equipped with a number of industry-first automatic steam drying rooms (each drying room is 70 meters, with a daily drying output of more than 45 tons), and the invention patent of "multi-stage variable temperature drying process" independently developed by Qiyunshan Company is applied in the production to realize the intelligent temperature and humidity control of the whole drying process.
In the past, due to the limited production capacity of the old factory, Qiyun Shannan sour jujube cake was often in short supply. In 2021, Qiyunshan Company will invest more than 100 million yuan in the planned construction of an annual output of 3The new GMP factory of 50,000 tons of modern Qiyun Shannan jujube food was put into operation. In the new packaging production workshop of Qiyunshan with constant temperature, constant humidity and air purification, the company's independent research and development of the first continuous slitting machine and glutinous rice paper machine have been put into application, equipped with more than 30 automatic cutting pillow cold sewing packaging machines, each machine can run at a speed of 420 minutes, 8 hours can package 1500 kg of southern sour jujube cake, and the inner packaging capacity of the whole workshop can reach 120 tons 24 hours.
"Ingenuity" promotes innovation, and "craftsmanship" creates high-quality products. As a leading enterprise in the southern jujube food industry, Jiangxi Qiyunshan Food will continue to intensively cultivate the southern jujube industry, continue to innovate and make breakthroughs, and help the sustainable and high-quality development of the southern jujube food industry.