Animal Bones Processing Market Research

After animals are slaughtered, meat is what the most people need, and the demand of meat and its big economic benefits are the focus of social concern. However, the animal bones are treated as tailpieces with no use value, so they are not getting good utilization, which causes huge waste of available resources, and is not good for creating economic profits and protecting the environment. After bone processing by bone process equipment, such as bone crushing machine and bone paste grinding machine, animal bones can become valuable materials.

Feasibility of Processing Animal Bones
---Animal Bones Have Lots of Nutrition

The intensive study of animal bones makes people have a better understanding of animal bones nutrition. Bones account for 10%-20% of animal body weight, and it is a kind of meat by-product packed with alimentation elements. The fresh bones have a similar protein and fat content with meat.

90% protein in the animal bones is collagen, ossein and chondroitin that can strengthen the metabolism of the human cortical cells; the amino acid in animal bones with balanced ratio and high level is a kind of quality protein, and it has linoleic acid and many other fatty acid that is necessary for human body; also there are a lot of calcium-phosphate salt, bio-active substances, magnesium, various metallic elements and vitamins in fresh bones; the bone marrow has phospholipids, phosphoprotein that is indispensable for human brain. The content of calcium and phosphorus of bones are 19.3% and 9.39% respectively, and their ration is 2:1 which is the optimal proportion for human body absorption. So the animal bones are a real nutrient source.
---There are Many Derivative Products of Animal Bones with Wide Uses
Usually, the traditional processing of animal bones is to make them into bone powder or bone paste. The derivative products of animal bones are applied in multiple areas: condiments, health-care products, nourishment, animal feeds, industrial raw materials, etc.

What Products We Can Get by Processing Animal Bones
Animal bone products has a wide variety that can be divided into two broad categories: the extractive products and the all-bone-using products.
---All-bone-using Animal Bone Products
The all-bone-using product is to grind the fresh animal bones into particles with different sizes, and then process the particle into special products based on manufacturing requirements. And the major productions includes bone paste, and bone powder that can be an alternative of meats, or nutrition additives to be added into meat-based products to improve their flavors.
1. Bone Paste
Processing animal bones into bone paste is an ideal and widely-adopted method to take advantage of animal bones that are preferred to be discarded in the first place. The research of using fresh animal bones to make edible bone paste dates from the 1970s, which is firstly succeeds in Denmark, Sweden, etc. developed countries, then has a rapid spread in Japan, America, etc., and Japan especially has great achievement.
The bone paste is produced by ultra-fine bone grinding machine, grinding the animal bone into particles sized by 200-400 mesh. The bone paste tastes as good as meat, but with more nutrients, like the calcium, protein, fat, vitamin, collagen, chondroitin and micro-elements. Also the bone paste consists of the phospholipid and phosphoprotein for human brain need; the chondroitin, ossein for supplementing body energy and delaying senescence.
The bone paste can be employed as raw material to make bone paste cookies, high-calcium rice noodles, meatballs, meat stuffing, sausage, rice dumplings and bone paste floss.
Bone paste production processFresh animal bones---bones pre-treatment---bones freezing---bones crushing---water adding---bones grinding

2. Bone Powder
The bone powder is high in kalium, calcium, phosphorus, iron, protein, micro-element, amino acid, etc., and the ratio of calcium and phosphorus is 2:1 which is close to the ratio for human body needs, so bone powder is an ideal product for calcium supplement. The edible superfine bone powder can be used as food nutritive fortifier; the crude bone powder can be used as additive for animal feed to help animal growing, or can be used as efficient organic fertilizer to improve acid soil and promote crop growth.
The superfine bone powder is easy to be absorbed by human body to make better use of its nutrition. The superfine bone powder is preferred to use for fast food, snack food, puffed food, catering food, health food and seasoning, etc.
Crude bone powder production process
Fresh animal bones---bones degreasing---bones drying---bones crushing---finished bone powder
Edible superfine bone powder production process
Fresh animal bones---bones cleaning---bones dehydrating---bones crushing---crude bones grinding---fine bones grinding---bones degreasing---superfine bones grinding---cooling and packing---finished bone powder
---Animal Bones Extractive Products 
The animal bones extractive product is to use hydrolyzing, separating, etc. process technology to separate and extract the effective components from animal bones, which involves bone oil, bone glue, gelatin, hydrolysis animal protein (HAP) and calcium and phosphorus preparations, etc. And these extractive products are widely employed in medicine and food industries.

Animal Bones Have Bright Future in Food Production 
In the 1980s, the fresh animal bone exploitation started to carry weight around the world. Nowadays, it is becoming a kind of unique and new serviceable source, and widely used for food, industry, medicine and agriculture fields. Many countries has lent full support to the development of animal bones. Japan and America are the two active and leading countries for developing and researching fresh animal bones products. Some national management organizations and large-scale production enterprises of bone products are available in America, Japan, Estonia and England, etc.
So keep developing comprehensive utilization level of fresh animal bones and manage bones by deep and fine processing to produce wide ranges of new products to make the best use of animal bones is the trend of animal bones processing with large potential.

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Canada Meat Processing Industry Analysis

I. Overview of Canada Meat Processing
The food processing industry is the third largest manufacturing industry of Canada. And measured by shipments and value added, the largest food processing sector is meat processing.
Meat processing is a leading part of the food industry in exports of Canada, and it accounted for 1/3 of the total food exports value prior to the impact of the embargo on meat exports in mid-2003, because there was and identification of a single cow with BSE.

It is reported that meat processing has the second highest number of establishments, largely because of the many small specialty producers of smoked meats and sausages. So, there are many operating post available. And Canada meat processing industry employs the largest number of workers accounting for 28% of all food industry employment. Canada’s red meat processing industry has a total employment of over 46,000 people.
Meat processing plants of Canada are located near the source of farm production. Meat processing is generally the most important activity in each region, particularly in the Prairie Provinces and Quebec.
Due to Canada’s system of supply management, chicken production of Canada is distributed across all provinces in approximate proportion to the consumer market. Sophisticated poultry plants that slaughter and process up to 25,000 broiler chickens per hour account for the majority share of poultry meat output. Most poultry processors run their own egg hatcheries to sell chicks to chicken producers, and then the producers sell the finished birds back to the processors on a live-weight basis.
Canada’s fish and seafood processing quantity is approximate to the production quantity. The fish and seafood processing industry is also a vital part of Canadian food processing industry, with production capacity of C $5 billion. In 2003, there were 1.369 fish and seafood processing establishments in Canada of which 1,001 had employees, and 84% had less than 100 employees, 15% had 100-500 employees and 1% had more than 500 employees.

II. Meat Processing Machinery for Canada’s Meat Production
Meat processing machinery consumption can be divided in to three kinds of percentages by demand: 45% for industrial packers and processing plants, 30% for grocery store chains, and 25% for independent delicatessen and meat shops. And the industrial packer and processing plants contains three categories of meat equipment end users: red meat packers, pork packers and meat/pork processors.
The manufacturers of meat products in Canada import almost 90% of the meat processing machinery, like meat cutting machine, meat patty making machinery, sausage making machinery to satisfy its market demands, which means there is a high degree of import percentage in the Canadian meat processing equipment market. The manufacturer in the Canadian meat processing equipment industry produce ancillary equipment, machinery, controls and inspections equipment and primarily sell to industrial packers and processors of red meat products.

Canana Meat Patty Plant

The meat processing industry continues to grow, there will be a continually increasing needs for the machines. The Canadian market size of meat machines has reached $83.8 million in 2002. At the same time, advanced technologies of the equipment have played an important part in meat processing sector. Therefore, value-added meat processing machinery has good potential in Canada. More companies are moving towards market innovations like branded, case-ready cuts of meat. Increase in demand for products like microwavable, single portion convenience meals, will provide opportunities for equipment manufacturers to supply these niche markets, especially for machinery that can yield box-ready beef and pork. The development in seafood and fish processing machinery and equipment, such as fish scaling machine, fish skinning machine and fish meat separator within Canada has been relatively stable in recent years.

Canada Fish Processing Plant

III. What Meat Products Does Canada’s Meat Processing Industry Make
Meat processing is one of Canada’s largest single manufacturing industries with the largest employer in the food-manufacturing group. And it is one of the earliest food industries that develop mass production technologies to open international markets. And among the meat productions, the red meat processing that includes beef, veal, pork, lamb, mutton, goat, rabbit, horse, as well as version and bison, is a major part. The red meat industry had annual shipments worth $16.3 billion in 2013.
The slaughtering and meat processing sector of Canada covers livestock slaughter and carcass dressing, secondary processors that manufacture and package meat products for retail sale, and purveyors that prepare portion-ready meat cuts for hotel, restaurant and institutional food service. Meat processing plants in Canada manufacture a wide variety of meat products, including fresh, chilled or frozen meats and edible offal, like the organ meat; fresh and cooked sausage; canned and cooked meat preparations; smoked meats; meat patties; meatballs; animal oil and fats; and products of bone and meat meal. About 70% of processed meats in Canada, such as sausages or cold cuts, are made with pork.

IV. Countries That Import Canada Meat Products
The meat processing industry has been a significant exporter since it was started in the 19th century. Led by pork and beef, meat and meat preparations are among Canada’s highest value agro-food exports. The exports of meat products have accounted for about half of total production from the dissolution of the US embargo on Canadian beef in 2005. The US, Mexico, China, Japan and Russia are the most important global importers of Canadian beef and pork, while Canadian chicken products are exported mainly to the US and Asian destinations like the Philippines.
Most of Canada’s fish and processed seafood products are also exported. The US is the single largest market, accounting for nearly 59% of the total exports. And there are many fastest growing markets, such as China, France, Denmark and Thailand,

V. Canadian Meat Processing Market Trends
Canada is one of the most developed countries around the world. Vibrant economy and strong consumer spending, and many other advantages, such as R&D investment tax credits, provincial incentives, low cost energy, excellent infrastructure, abundant primary products, stable business and social environment, as well as the high quality of life in urban centers make it a desirable location for investment, thus over 75% of the world’s leading food and beverage firms have chosen to invest in processing facilities in Canada. As the leading part of food processing in Canada, meat processing can be a leading part of investment as well.
In the mean time, the BSE scare makes the meat processing sector of Canada started to shift its focus to building more and expanding processing facilities. Even through the ban has been lifted, increased processing capacity in Canada will remain.

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