5–6 T/H Tapioca Animal Feed Pellet Machine in Indonesia

Why Cassava Made Sense for a Poultry Feed Mill in Lampung

Lampung is an important agricultural region in Indonesia and has an established cassava-processing industry. For an integrated poultry company with access to cassava land and nearby commercial cassava supply, the crop can provide an alternative energy ingredient when its nutritional value, processing cost and delivered dry-matter cost are competitive.

Cassava should not be treated as a direct one-for-one replacement for maize.

Dried cassava root meal is rich in starch but relatively low in protein and several essential amino acids. Its nutrient profile therefore has to be balanced with protein ingredients, amino acids, minerals, vitamins, oils and other feed materials according to the broiler formulation.

The customer uses cassava meal as one component of a complete poultry ration rather than manufacturing pellets from cassava alone.

This distinction matters because the pellet mill performs a physical processing function. It converts an already formulated and mixed mash into pellets.

It does not make an unbalanced cassava-heavy formula nutritionally complete.

The customer’s feed nutrition team therefore determines cassava inclusion from laboratory analysis, bird stage, amino-acid balance, fibre, residual cyanogenic compounds, ingredient economics and target nutrient specifications.

Indonesia also has substantial domestic maize production, so the project is not built around an assumption that the country imports most of its feed corn. Local corn remains an important feed ingredient, while commercial feed mills also adjust their formulations according to seasonal availability and prices of maize, wheat, soybean meal and other ingredients.

SZLH350 Selected for a 15,000 T/Y Broiler Feed Operation

The 55 kW SZLH350 provides a reference output of approximately 5–6 T/H for suitable animal-feed formulations.

At a 15,000-ton annual production target, the new pellet mill does not need to operate continuously at full capacity for two shifts.

At 5 T/H, producing 15,000 tons requires approximately 3,000 pellet-mill operating hours per year. At 6 T/H, it requires approximately 2,500 hours.

If the feed mill operates around 300 days per year, this represents roughly 8.3–10 actual pelleting hours per day before allowing for maintenance, changeovers and other production interruptions.

This makes the SZLH350 a sensible capacity step above the old SZLH250.

The old 1.0–1.5 T/H machine could theoretically require around 10,000–15,000 operating hours to pellet 15,000 tons, which is clearly impractical for one machine within a normal annual production schedule.

Upgrading the pelleting section therefore gives the customer more realistic production hours and more flexibility for formula changes, maintenance and seasonal production peaks.

Fresh Cassava Cannot Go Directly into the Feed Pellet Mill

The cassava grown on the customer’s land enters a separate preparation route before it becomes a feed ingredient.

Fresh cassava roots contain a large amount of water and naturally occurring cyanogenic glucosides. Depending on variety and processing, these compounds can release hydrogen cyanide.

For poultry-feed production, cassava therefore requires appropriate processing before formulation.

1. Fresh roots are inspected and cleaned to remove soil and foreign material.
2. Roots are chipped, sliced, grated or otherwise reduced according to the selected cassava-processing route.
3. The material undergoes a validated processing method that reduces cyanogenic compounds to an acceptable level for the intended feed use.
4. Processed cassava is dried to a storage-stable condition.
5. Dried material is ground into cassava meal at a particle size compatible with the feed mill’s mixing and pelleting system.
6. The cassava meal is sampled and evaluated before formulation.
7. It is combined with the other ingredients required to meet the broiler feed specification.
8. The finished mash is conditioned and pelletized through the SZLH350.

Drying is particularly important because fresh roots are far too wet for direct use in a conventional poultry-feed pellet mill.

The drying method can include sun drying, mechanical drying or another validated process depending on local weather, production volume and product-quality requirements.

The customer has to distinguish cassava root meal from cassava peel, cassava pulp and cassava leaves because these materials have different fibre, protein, ash and cyanogenic characteristics.

This project focuses on processed cassava root meal as the main cassava-derived energy ingredient.

The Conditioner Does Not Detoxify Cassava

The SZLH350 includes a 4 kW conditioner ahead of the ring die.

Its role is to prepare the complete mixed feed for pelleting by adding controlled steam and changing the mash temperature and moisture condition.

Conditioning can improve the physical response of a starch-containing ration during pellet formation, but it is not the cassava detoxification stage.

Hydrogen cyanide control has to be handled before cassava meal is accepted into the feed formulation.

This is important for an integrated poultry producer because relying on the pellet conditioner to make inadequately processed cassava safe would create an unnecessary feed-safety risk.

The correct conditioning temperature also cannot be reduced to one permanent 75–80°C target.

Broiler formulas containing cassava meal, maize, soybean meal, oil and other ingredients can respond differently depending on composition, incoming mash moisture and target pellet properties.

Steam pressure, steam quality, retention time and feed rate also influence conditioning.

RICHI therefore commissions the pellet mill around motor load, pellet formation, throughput, fines and final product condition rather than promising “complete cassava starch gelatinization” at one temperature.

Cassava starch can contribute useful binding behavior under suitable processing conditions, but pellet durability is still determined by the complete formulation and process.

Two Hundred Hectares of Cassava Supply Only Part of the Feed Requirement

The customer’s approximately 200 hectares of cassava land provide an important internal raw-material source, but the land area has to be translated into dry feed ingredient rather than fresh-root tonnage.

Fresh cassava contains substantial water.

For example, if fresh roots contain around 65–70% moisture, only about 30–35% of their mass is dry matter before processing losses.

A hypothetical 4,000 tonnes of fresh roots therefore does not become 4,000 tonnes of cassava meal.

At 30% dry matter, 4,000 tonnes of fresh cassava contain approximately 1,200 tonnes of dry solids. At 35%, they contain approximately 1,400 tonnes.

After drying and processing, the usable stored ingredient remains in roughly this order of magnitude rather than thousands of additional tonnes.

This is significant when compared with a 15,000 T/Y feed mill.

If the farm produced around 1,200–1,400 tonnes of dry cassava material annually, its own land would supply only around 8–9% of the total annual feed mass if all of it were used in the feed mill.

That does not prevent the company from using a higher cassava inclusion in selected formulas.

It simply means that additional cassava meal would have to come from outside suppliers if annual cassava consumption exceeds the production from the company’s own land.

This dry-matter calculation is much more useful for equipment planning than comparing fresh cassava tonnes directly with finished feed tonnes.

Cassava Inclusion Is Set by Nutrition and Ingredient Quality

Cassava root meal can provide energy in poultry diets because of its high starch content, but practical inclusion depends on much more than starch alone.

Commercial feed formulators evaluate metabolizable energy, crude protein, amino acids, fibre, ash, residual cyanogenic compounds and other nutritional factors before fixing the inclusion rate.

Cassava also has relatively low protein compared with maize and especially compared with soybean meal.

If cassava replaces part of the cereal energy fraction, the formulation may require corresponding adjustments in protein sources, amino acids, oil and other ingredients.

The customer therefore does not operate with a fixed 40–50% cassava formula for every broiler feed.

High inclusion can be possible with suitably processed cassava in properly balanced diets, but poultry studies report varying results according to cassava type, processing method, inclusion rate and complete formulation.

For an industrial farm, the safer approach is to establish the actual nutrient profile of the available cassava meal and formulate from that data.

Economics are handled the same way.

Fresh cassava should not be compared directly with dry maize on a simple price-per-kilogram basis because much of the fresh root mass is water.

A meaningful comparison considers dry matter, processing and drying cost, usable nutrient value, storage loss, transport and the additional protein or amino-acid supplementation required by the final feed.

Broiler Grower and Finisher Feed Are the Main Pellet Products

The upgraded pelleting section primarily produces broiler grower and finisher feed.

This keeps the physical product specification aligned with the capabilities of the existing feed mill.

For younger birds, a commercial feed plant may produce a parent pellet and use a crumbler to manufacture the required starter-feed structure. The starter product therefore should not simply be defined as a finished 3.5 mm pellet because small chicks commonly receive crumble or another appropriately sized product.

Grower and finisher feeds can use larger pellets according to the customer’s feeding program and market specification.

Ring die selection is based on pellet diameter together with formula characteristics, working length, required compression and target throughput.

A fixed die thickness such as 32 mm for one product and 45 mm for another should not be applied universally.

The customer evaluates die configuration together with actual cassava inclusion because changing formula composition can change friction and compression behavior inside the feed pellet mill.

Higher oil addition, fibre level, particle size and mash moisture can all influence production rate and pellet durability.

The Existing Feed Mill Still Has to Support 5–6 T/H

Replacing an SZLH250 with an SZLH350 only solves the production problem if the surrounding feed mill can support the higher throughput.

The customer already has grinding, mixing and downstream equipment, so RICHI evaluates those retained assets before treating 5–6 T/H as usable complete-line output.

The hammer mill must supply enough ground ingredients.

The batching and mixer system must complete enough cycles per hour to maintain continuous mash flow.

A surge bin between the batch mixer and pellet mill helps separate batch processing from continuous pelleting.

Steam generation has to support the conditioner without large pressure fluctuations.

After pelleting, the cooler needs enough capacity for the hot pellets, while the screener, conveyors, elevators and packaging section must also keep pace.

If any one of those sections is limited to 3 T/H, installing a 5–6 T/H pellet mill will simply move the bottleneck elsewhere.

The rainy season creates another possible constraint for a cassava-integrated operation.

If the company plans to process fresh roots mechanically rather than relying only on purchased dry cassava meal, cassava drying capacity needs to be balanced with feed consumption.

The pellet mill cannot compensate for insufficient upstream cassava drying.

Tapioca Animal Feed Pellet Machine in Indonesia

The SZLH350 was prepared for export from Qingdao and delivered toward the customer’s feed mill in Lampung. Panjang provides a practical port option for southern Sumatra cargo, while the final routing, customs process and inland transport depend on the actual shipment arrangement.

The customer retained its existing feed-production infrastructure and focused investment on the pelleting section because the older SZLH250 was no longer suitable for the annual production requirement.

This tapioca animal feed pellet machine in Indonesia uses a 55 kW main motor, 1.5 kW feeder and 4 kW conditioner, with a reference capacity of approximately 5–6 T/H for suitable animal-feed formulations.

The project is not based on cassava replacing all maize.

Processed cassava meal is used as one energy ingredient within balanced broiler formulations, while maize and other energy sources can remain part of the feed program according to local supply and feed economics.

The company’s 200 hectares of cassava provide vertical integration, but the dry-matter calculation shows that this land supplies only part of the annual ingredient requirement of a 15,000 T/Y feed mill.

Additional processed cassava can be sourced commercially if the company decides to use larger volumes.

Feed safety begins before the pellet mill.

Fresh cassava is cleaned, reduced in size, processed to control cyanogenic compounds, dried, ground and tested before it enters the feed formulation. The conditioner then prepares the complete mixed feed for pelleting; it does not replace cassava detoxification.

For another poultry producer searching for a tapioca animal feed pellet machine in Indonesia, cassava feed pellet machine, cassava poultry feed pellet mill, broiler feed pellet machine Indonesia, SZLH350 pellet mill or 5–6 T/H feed pellet machine, RICHI first evaluates both the feed formula and the cassava supply chain.

Useful project information includes annual broiler-feed requirement, processed cassava meal availability, whether the cassava is root meal, peel, pulp or another by-product, measured moisture, residual cyanogenic control method, intended inclusion rate, other major feed ingredients, finished pellet or crumble specification, operating hours and existing equipment capacities.

For customers growing their own cassava, RICHI also needs fresh root yield, moisture and dry-matter recovery rather than only hectares planted.

A farm that has abundant fresh roots but no reliable drying and detoxification process may need cassava preparation equipment before investing in a larger pellet mill.

A feed mill that already purchases safe, stable dried cassava meal may only need to adjust grinding, formulation, conditioning and pelletizing.

The same distinction applies to production capacity.

At approximately 15,000 T/Y, the SZLH350 provides a practical pelleting range when the upstream mixer, steam system, cooler and packaging line can support roughly 5–6 T/H.

RICHI Machinery can review these existing systems before confirming the retrofit so that additional pellet-mill capacity becomes usable feed-factory capacity rather than another isolated machine rating.

For an Indonesia cassava-based feed project, send RICHI your annual feed output, bird stage, cassava form and daily dry quantity, cassava processing method, formula inclusion range, pellet size, existing mixer and cooler capacities, steam conditions and plant electrical supply. These parameters provide the basis for selecting and configuring the SZLH350 around the actual feed operation.