Do you work with pectin or other gums and thickeners? Do you have problems with fisheyes, batch times, clogged filters or wasted ingredients? If you answered “yes” to either of these questions, you are not alone. We hear these kinds of problems every day, and it makes us wonder… how many other customers have simply accepted these problems as a part of everyday life at their plant? Well, Admix has the solution. Please read on…
Since the first spec of powder was mixed into water, very few customers have made significant progress in upgrading this process. You will still see people slowly sprinkling powders into liquids and watching to see if they’ve been pulled below the surface before sprinkling in more powder. What they don’t see is that below the surface, they are pumping fisheyes around the tank – those annoying little balls of powder that have a shiny glaze on the outside but, untouched powder in the center. The powder began to hydrate before the clump of powder got disbursed and an outer shell formed around the clump of powder. Sure, there have been advances in the methods of powder delivery (eductors, conveyors, powder handling systems, etc.) but, that sprinkle-and-wait approach hasn’t changed much at all. It takes a while, it’s a bottleneck, every process has a bottleneck somewhere, just deal with it and move on, right? Wrong!
What if there was a way to disburse the powder before the fisheyes had a chance to form? You’d need a lot of flow to do this and you’d also need shear. A lot of flow means that everything passes through the shear zone more often. Shear insures that the powder does not agglomerate and helps the hydration process to occur on a micro level. Some customers have discovered that they can have both flow and shear in a tank by using two mixers, one that provides flow and one that provides shear. Savvy customers have discovered that you can accomplish this with one mixer, the Rotosolver, the one and only Rotosolver.
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Still skeptical? Admix has trial equipment. For a nominal fee, you and a factory trained Admix representative can run tests in the friendly confines of your own facility.
Don’t wait, call us today and we’ll prove it to you!