Infant milk, sugar, vitamins, yeast, spreads, detergent formulations, various chemicals, fertilizers, lime, calcium carbonate, aluminas, etc. ... : Continuous mixing of powdery or granular products has become the norm in all production processes involving two to eight components fed by high-precision screw feeders, whose outputs are generally synchronized with the downstream stage, which may be an extruder, a packer, a tabletter, a cereal bar former, etc.
For more than 10 years, even the pharmaceutical industry, which traditionally favored batch mixing processes to isolate batches, has been turning to continuous mixing to improve the efficiency of certain production lines.
The advantages of this technology are manifold:
- very short residence time (approx. 40 seconds)
- small footprint
- direct feed to the filling machines without the need for a buffer hopper, which could lead to unmixing
- optimized mix quality, as there is no risk of segregation
- easy liquid atomization in the dosing zone at the mixer inlet
Gericke offers turnkey continuous dosing/mixing systems that can be tested upstream on an industrial scale, in one of the Group's pilot centers.
