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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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Ribbon mixer equipped with screw conveyor
Abdon Finax AB with subsidiaries, and the sister company Valsemøllen A/S in Denmark, process grain into tasty and healthy food.
Abdon Mills AB and Finax AB, that produce breakfast cereals and other grain based foods, are part of the Swedish company group. Further included in the group is Kobia AB, a nationwide distributor and producer of ingredients to bakeries and confectioners, with three distribution units in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Hässleholm. In addition, there are three bakeries included in the group i.e. Finax Bakery AB, Finax Bröd AB and Skorpmästaren AB. The Danish Valsemøllen A/S operates three flour and oat mills for the Danish market. Also part of the group is Igos A/S, a well known producer of fillings and jams.
Abdon Finax AB and Valsemøllen A/S are part of the family owned group of companies with similar businesses in North America. The total group turnover was 5.465 MSEK, ($750 millions) in ’08, of which one third from the Nordic companies.
The company needs horizontal ribbon mixer to blend wheat flour, sugar etc.
Mr. Leif Abdon contact us in 2012 for the ribbon mixer, which shall be used for blending premixes in one of their bakeries. As the bulk density of wheat flour and sugar is light, they required to reduce the ribbon mixer’s power to save energy. At the same time, they require a screw conveyor with an angel 25 degree to transfer mixer from ribbon mixer to a scale.
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