Original business model: Traditional bagged ice production, serving catering, fishing, and cold chain logistics customers, but facing the following pain points:
1. Intense market competition: bagged ice has serious homogenization, thin profits, and a gross profit of less than 300 yuan per ton;
2. Capacity bottleneck: The original production line had an average daily production capacity of only 8 tons (about 40000 bags), making it difficult to meet the large demand for chain catering or cold chain customers;
3. Low product added value: Customers have reported that bagged ice is prone to leakage and has high transportation losses, and there is an urgent need to upgrade high value-added ice products;
4. Rising labor costs: Packaging relies on manual sorting and packing, with labor costs accounting for up to 40% of production costs.
Market Insights:
• The demand for ice cups is growing rapidly: chain restaurants (hot pot, barbecue), fresh food pre warehouses, cold chain logistics and other fields have an average annual growth rate of over 30% for ice cup demand, and the premium for a single cup can reach 2-3 times that of bagged ice;
• Customer research shows that 85% of B2B customers prefer ice cream cups with customizable cup shapes and brand logos to enhance the end-user experience.
Core configuration and parameters
Core equipment configuration (15 tons/day system)
| Equipment Name | Parameter Specifications | Function Description |
| Edible ice cube machine | -3 units x daily 5-ton ice cube machine -Ice size: 160 × 160 × 60mm (customizable) -Power: 38kW/unit -Material: SUS304 stainless steel+corrosion-resistant coating |
High density square ice production, compressive strength ≥ 90kg/cm ² |
| Fully automatic ice cup production line | - Capacity: 500 cups/hour -Cup size: 150mL-500mL optional -Material: Food grade PET or biodegradable material |
Automatically compresses ice particles into standardized ice cups to meet retail and portable needs, reducing packaging damage rates. |
| Vibration drying system | - Wind speed: 3m/s -Temperature control: ± 2 ℃ precise adjustment -Vibration frequency: adjustable from 30-50Hz |
Ensure that the surface of ice cubes is dry and free of water stains, extending transportation and storage time. |
| Intelligent conveying system | - Full process PLC control -Dual track design (ice making → drying → sorting) -Automatic error correction and fault warning |
Achieve unmanned operation throughout the entire process, reducing the risk of manual intervention and cross contamination. |
Technical advantages and functional applications
1. Core advantages compared to traditional solutions
| Comparison dimension | CBFI scheme | Traditional ice making equipment |
| Capacity stability | Intelligent temperature control system, daily fluctuation<1% | Dependent on manual adjustment, easily affected by environmental temperature and humidity |
| Energy consumption cost | Variable frequency compressor+heat recovery technology, energy consumption reduced by 25% | Fixed frequency equipment, no waste heat utilization |
| Product diversity | Supports synchronous production of three forms: cube ice, ice granules, and ice cups | Single product line, switching requires shutdown adjustment |
| Maintenance convenience | Modular components, single unit maintenance does not affect the overall production line | In case of failure, the entire production line will shut down, and the maintenance cycle will be long |
Functional application and scene adaptation
Target scenario:
1. Cold chain transportation: Ice cups serve as "mobile low-temperature compartments" for aquatic and fresh food transportation, reducing pre cooling time and cargo damage;
2. Chain catering: Customized branded ice cups for hot pot restaurants to enhance consumer experience;
3. Food processing: The source of high-purity ice particles in the cooling process of frozen food production lines;
4. Retail terminal: Mini ice cups (100ml version) for display in convenience stores and supermarket freezers, with a single cup price up to 5 times that of bagged ice.
Core functions:
• Flexible cup type switching: complete cup mold replacement within 10 minutes (supporting 80ml-200ml stepless adjustment);
• Environmental compliance: Made of PLA biodegradable cup film, meeting EU REACH certification and FDA food contact standards;
• Remote operation and maintenance: Monitor device status through the IceCloud cloud platform, diagnose faults in advance, and push maintenance reminders.
Core advantage: Why choose the ice cup production line with ice spring refrigeration?
1. High production capacity x stability
• Redundant production line design with an average of 100000 cups per day: the equipment can be overloaded up to 120000 cups per day during actual operation (certified by 48 hour fault free testing);
• Intelligent redundancy design: A single production line is equipped with a dual backup PLC control system, and single machine failures do not affect the overall production rhythm.
2. Flexible expansion and customization capabilities
• Modular design: For every additional set of ice cup forming and filling unit, the daily production capacity can be increased by another 40000 cups;
• On demand customization: supports cup film printing (can print customer logos), patented cup design (such as portable cups with handles), and ice granule purity grading (food grade/industrial grade).
How to achieve quality control of "one cup, one size"?
1. Core Technology Highlights
• Visual sorting system: Real time detection of ice cube shape, weight, and cleanliness through multispectral cameras, and automatic removal of unqualified ice cubes;
• Dynamic filling algorithm: dynamically adjust the filling speed based on the flow rate of ice particles and the tilt angle of the cup, ensuring that the error per cup is ≤ 1g;
• Aseptic environment control: The production line adopts a positive pressure filtration system, with a dust concentration of ≤ 0.1mg/m ³ and microbial indicators far exceeding food grade standards.
2. Installation and commissioning support
• 72 hour rapid deployment: standardized modular design, from entry to trial production only takes 3 days;
• Full on-site support: Bingquan provides on-site training for its engineering team to ensure that operators are proficient in production line maintenance skills within 3 days.
Customer Case Study Evidence
• Capacity improvement: Upgraded from 40000 bags of bagged ice per day to 100000 cups of ice, doubling production capacity and optimizing product structure;
• Customer structure upgrade: adding service chain hotpot brands and regional cold chain logistics leaders, with a 200% increase in average customer value;
• Cost optimization: saving labor costs by 1.3 million yuan annually, reducing energy consumption by 18%, and increasing annual net profit to 5 million yuan;
• Market reputation: Won the "Best Innovative Supplier of the Year" award from a fresh food pre warehouse purchaser in 2024.
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