The important things for successful and profitable flake ice selling business

If you want to invest in flake ice business, listen to the following suggestions and you will be a great success in ice business.

1. Conduct market research and design the ice making plant based on it.

How many tons of ice flakes should you produce on average every day? What is the ice storage capacity of the ice room?

In some places, customers come to buy ice every day, and the ice flakes are sold out every day.

In this case, there is no need to invest in a large ice room.

Just make sure that the ice room is large enough to collect all the ice flakes made at night.

The ice storage capacity of the ice room is 1/2 of the actual ice making capacity of the machine.

In some places, customers do not come every day, they may come to buy ice once a week.

You make ice continuously for a week, and then sell all the ice flakes in one day.

In this case, you should prepare a very large ice room, and the ice room should be equipped with a cooling device to keep the internal temperature at minus 5 degrees.

This way the ice flakes can be kept inside for a long time without melting.

You do not have to choose a machine with a large daily production capacity because you have a week to fill that ice room.

2. Prepare the power supply and water source.

Try to get a stable industrial three-phase power supply from a local power station.

If the voltage is unstable, please buy an industrial voltage stabilizer

Otherwise, you will have to use a diesel generator to run the machine. Please calculate whether it is worth using a diesel generator to make ice.

Ice making requires fresh water. Fresh water should be very abundant.

3. Choose a water-cooled condenser + water-cooling tower instead of an air-cooled condenser.

Water-cooled systems are more efficient in tropical areas and save more electricity.

Users only need to prepare chemicals to clean the condenser regularly.

After the condenser is cleaned, the system efficiency will be higher.

In contrast, an air-cooled system consumes more electricity to produce the same amount of ice.

And many Chinese suppliers use cheap and low-quality air condensers, which will become less efficient after a year.

The fins of these low-quality air condensers will corrode and be covered with an oxide layer, and the efficiency will become lower and lower.

4. Run the machine at night.

At night, the ambient temperature is lower, ice making is more efficient and saves more electricity. Off-peak hours

At night, the electricity price in some cities is much lower. The authorities encourage factories to use off-peak electricity.

If possible, increase the machine’s production capacity and try to use off-peak electricity to fill the ice room.

In many areas, the voltage is more stable at night.

5. Try to find the best-priced ice machine.

Tell the various suppliers you are comparing. Let them know that you are serious about buying an ice machine.

Tell them when you can place the order and force them to start a price war to find out the lowest price in the industry.

Then talk to the most professional supplier with the lowest price.

Be nice to this supplier because you will buy from them.

Tell this supplier that this machine is just a trial order for a large project. Or use other better stories.

Try to get this supplier to agree to your low price offer for a quality machine.