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A Ploughshare Mixer is often suitable for materials that tend to agglomerate.
Its plough-shaped mixing tools generate intensive circulation of the material, while optional high-speed choppers can break up lumps and agglomerates during mixing.
The final selection should be based on the material characteristics and process requirements.
Vortex mixers are designed for a wide variety of powders, granules, and powder-liquid mixtures.
Typical applications include chemical powders, food ingredients, pharmaceutical powders, animal feed, dry mortar, ceramics, battery materials, fertilizers, pesticides, minerals, refractory materials, and other bulk solids. The actual mixer configuration should be selected according to the physical and chemical properties of the material.
Vortex manufacture a wide range of industrial powder and bulk solids mixing equipment, including:
- Horizontal Ribbon Mixers
- Ploughshare Mixers
- Double Shaft Paddle Mixers (Paddle Mixers / “No-Gravity” Mixers)
- Conical Twin-Screw Mixers
- Vertical Screw Ribbon Mixers
- Double Cone Mixers
- V-Type Mixers
- 3D Motion Mixers
- Customized mixing systems and complete mixing lines
The most suitable mixer depends on your materials, production capacity, mixing ratio, required mixing time, and process conditions.
Mixer capacity should be evaluated using both the total vessel volume and the effective working volume. The required volume depends on material bulk density, batch weight, filling ratio and the mixing principle of the selected machine. A mixer should not normally be filled to its total geometric volume because sufficient space is required for material movement and effective mixing. For this reason, selecting a mixer based only on vessel volume can result in an unsuitable configuration.
The appropriate industrial powder mixer depends on several factors, including:
- Material characteristics
- Bulk density
- Particle size
- Required mixing uniformity
- Batch size or production capacity
- Moisture content
- Whether heating or drying is required
- Whether liquid addition is required
- Required discharge configuration
- Production and automation requirements
Vortex provides different powder mixer designs so that equipment can be selected according to the specific process requirements.
Vortex powder mixer selection depends on several factors, including:
- Material type and characteristics
- Bulk density and particle size
- Material flowability
- Moisture content
- Viscosity
- Mixing ratio
- Batch size or required production capacity
- Whether liquid addition is required
- Required mixing uniformity
- Temperature, pressure, vacuum, or other process requirements
Vortex engineers can recommend a suitable powder mixer based on your material and process requirements.
Yes, We can supply simple stand alone panels or automated PLC controlled systems. We normally install and test all controls on our mixers before they are shipped.
Yes, we normally test the mixers before they are shipped and mark out the wire need to connect on the control box.
We manufacture specialty mixing equipment for powder & bulk materials. Included are ribbon blender, plough mixer, conical screw mixer, twin shaft paddle mixer, V blender, double cone blender and other auxiliary equipment such as screw conveyor, quantitive auger filler.
We sell across the world, our cusotmers distribute 5 continents.
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The largest Russian ingredients manufacturer use vortex ribbon blender
Commercial and industrial group of companies «Soyuzsnab» established in 1991 is the largest Russian company in the market of supply and manufacturing of ingredients for Russian and CIS enterprises.
Soyuzsnab are industrial and commercial holding “Soyuzsnab”, the biggest Russian distributor of food, feed ingredients and raw materials of about 50 world-leading producers for over 5000 food, feed and chemical processing plants in Russia, Belorussia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan. We are leading supplier of chocolate glaze to confectionary factories in Russia.
Last year, Olga from Soyuzsnab contact us for a kind of powder mixer to mix mixer starch, salt, maltodextrin, spices etc. they also need to add different aromatic components (oleoresins of nutmeg, black and red pepper oleoresins etc. They also require heating jacket to heat some mixture, what’s more, they use heating jacket also for drying of the mixer after it’s washing.
Currently, they use a jacket type vertical double screw conical mixer from Netherland. We discussed ribbon blender at first, due to the dead zone, this proposal was denied.
Second, we start to talk about the conical screw mixer with heating jacket and insulation jacket. As they couldn’t stand any residue, we agree to use gate knife valve.
At last, our conical screw mixer satisfy Soyuzsnab a lot, they order two more larger mixer after we finished the first one.
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