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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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Nutritional Supplement Manufacturer purchased 2000L FDA standard Ribbon Blender
CLS Corp is a nutritional supplement contract manufacturer of liquids and powders. Mr. Farley, president of CLS called Vortex Technology in March, 2016 to seek mixing solutions.
After discussion, Vortex engineer got that they need to mix amino acids, vitamins, protein powders etc. and they want to mix somewhere around 500kg, what’s important, the mixer must conform to US FDA standard, that means the components of the required mixer must be top quality and recognized by US government. The requirement is easy for Vortex Technology, engineers soon write out a detailed configuration list:
Model No.: 2000L Ribbon Blender
Seal & surface treatment: teflon seals with flush and mirror polish.
Safety: safety interlock for the doors to allow a safe start.
Start way: slow-start motor under full load after the unit is full.
Safety grid: grating or wire mesh to charge the material through to prevent operators from dropping foreign objects into the mixer.
Mr. Farley checked the configuration list and soon after that, he visited Vortex company and saw the ribbon blender in vortex’s showroom. The quality standard touched him, he decided to buy a 2000L ribbon blender at site. Our sales agent in US received a cheque from CLS several days later.
2 months later, the ribbon blender is finished and delivered to CLS Corp. Mr. Farley told us the mixer is great and works well, CLS will buy more in the future, CLS will buy more in the future.
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