A seasoning manufacturer reaches a gold standard of product integrity using two paddle mixers.When biting into your next taco, consider all the ingredients that go into seasoning the beef to create its flavor. In some cases, more than 2 dozen ingredients make up the seasoning mix. Before the beef can be seasoned, however, a manufacturer
Despite their small proportions, however, minor and micro ingredients are critical to the process or the final product or both. In a dry soup mix, for instance, flavorings are minor ingredients. In an aspirin batch, the active ingredient acetylsalicylic acid is a micro ingredient. In a rubber batch, a colorant is the minor ingredient and
New products, industry competition, and rising consumer expectations are creating a demand for more uniform, consistent dry mixtures. Understanding your ingredients is key to producing a uniform mixture. The ingredients’ characteristics and interaction with each other will determine both what mixer you choose and how you control the mixing process. Dry ingredient mixers can use impellers (such as a ribbon mixer, the mainstay of dry mixing), multiple-motion agitators (such as a kneading mixer), or a gentle tumbling motion (such as a tumble blender) to mix ingredients. Your ingredients determine which type is best.
AL Khair Co. Ltd., Jeddah, Saudi Arabia is a commercial coffee roaster that produces more than 50 million kg of roasted whole bean and ground coffee per year. In 2013, after commissioning a new state-of-the-art production facility, the company decided to improve its flavored coffee production process to increase capacity and reduce operating costs. To
Knowing your material’s flow properties can simplify blender selection by allowing you to predict the material’s behavior in different blender types. This article focuses on three conditions required for blending efficiency-a lack of stagnant regions, differences in flow velocities, and a lack of segregation- and how to match your material properties to a blender to
This article provides useful background information for selecting a mixer by explaining what mixture quality is and how to take and analyze mixture samples to determine how well your product is mixed.Are you in the market for a new mixer: ribbon blender, conical mixer, rotary drum mixer, double cone mixer, paddle mixer or plough mixer?,
Dry bulk solids mixing can be done with several kinds of mixers — batch and continuous,horizontal and vertical,and agitated and tumbling.This article concentrates on one common type —the horizontal batch mixer—and explain show to select this mixer to handle your process requirements. Much of the information also applies to other batch mixers.In batch mixing,ingredients are
Turn a horizontal ribbon blender on its end and you’ll have a rough idea of what the vertical ribbon mixer looks like. But there’s more to the mixer than its orientation: It provides fast, thorough, yet gentle batch blending for dry or slightly moist solids. This article provides a basic introduction to the vertical ribbon
Do you need to mix as well as dry or agglomerate your material? A conical screw mixer can be adapted to handle processing tasks in addition to mixing, which can eliminate the need for additional equipment in some applications. This article introduces you to conical screw mixers, then explains how the mixer can be adapted
A guideline for the selection, specification, and purchase of Vortex mixing and processing equipment.Mixing is possibly the oldest and most widely used technical process present in virtually every industry processing powders. There are very few products used in everyday life that do not have a mixing process as part of the manufacturing system. Mixing is