how much does running a biscuit plant cost ?
- The Prospects of biscuits
General introduction: For biscuit industry, there’s more than 100 years history, at biscuits pattern, biscuit production technology with high development, till now, there’s thousands of biscuits patterns, mainly varieties are hard biscuits, soft biscuits, and soda biscuits, as the diversification of biscuits, high capacity, it’s widely used by many food maker around world.
Investment advantage: Not like the cake, chips and other food products, with the biscuit line, it can make kinds of biscuits by change the pattern and flavors easily, the biscuit line always can get higher capacity, the Danone biscuits, Oreo biscuits, prince biscuits, Chips ahoy, etc.. are all can made by one biscuits line , as the lower cost , make different package, can meet different class of people.
Healthy foods: For now, people are pay more attention on the health, the multigrain biscuits, natural vegetable biscuits, low-sugar biscuits, high protein biscuits, etc.. are chosen by more and more people.
- Manufacturing process of biscuits
- Raw material consumption to make 1000kg biscuits
|
No |
Name |
Quality |
Unit price |
Total price |
|
1 |
Flour |
740 kg |
0.73 |
540.2 |
|
2 |
sugar |
100kg |
1.33 |
133 |
|
3 |
Palm oil 棕榈油 |
64kg |
2.50 |
160 |
|
5 |
Maltose 饴糖 |
13kg |
1.33 |
16.9 |
|
6 |
Soda powder 泡打粉 |
5kg |
2.11 |
10.55 |
|
7 |
Water 水 |
157kg |
0.0005 |
0.0785 |
|
9 |
Shortening 起酥油 |
11kg |
1.30 |
14.3 |
|
11 |
Milk powder 奶粉 |
6.4kg |
1.60 |
10.24 |
|
12 |
Sodium metabisulphite 焦亚 |
1 kg |
0.27 |
0.27 |
|
Total amount |
1097.4kg |
|
885.5385 |
|
|
1097.4kg raw material can get 90% final soft biscuit, which is about 1000kg, cost USD885.5385 Other consumption to make 1000kg biscuits |
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|
1 |
LPG |
24M3 |
0.53 |
12.72 |
|
2 |
Electricity |
190KW |
0.15 |
28.5 |
|
3 |
Labor |
10 |
1.23 |
12.3 |
|
Total amount |
53.52 |
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Total cost to make 1 ton biscuits is about 939.0585USD |
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- Biscuits Retail price in Chinese market:
Plastic bag packing as below for example, the cost is about 400USD (Make the other type of packing like big size plastic bag packing ,box packing, canister packing etc... the packing cost will be higher ,likewise, the selling price will also be higher accordingly):
|
Brand name |
Weight |
Selling price (USD) |
Unit price/T(USD) |
Profit (USD) |
|
Oreo |
500g |
3.5 |
7000 |
4774.08 |
|
Prince |
500g |
3.1 |
6200 |
3974.08 |
|
Haochidian (China brand) |
500g |
2.6 |
5200 |
2974.08 |


For biscuits production line, the capacity is higher, the highest capacity in our factory can get 32tons/day, take daily output of 24tons biscuit line for example, the profit can get between 71377.92USD to 114577.92USD per day, take 200 working days per year for example, the profit can get between 14275584USD to 22915584USD per year.










