Mixing Equipment for the Pet Foods Industry
The Pet Food Industry
For decades, Admix has designed and manufactured ultra-sanitary high shear batch and inline mixers using FDA-approved materials to meet the highest safety standards in meat, poultry, dairy, food, and pharmaceutical production.
Admix high shear mixers, including the Rotosolver, Admixer, Boston Shearmill and DynaShear, are used in wet and dry companion nutritional and pharmaceutical applications, gravies, vitamin slurries, blending acids/colors, and creating meat emulsions.
As consumers have become more demanding of the quality of their pets’ food, they’ve also become wary of certain ingredients. Admix has stayed ahead of this trend, working with pet food processors to ensure that new healthier ingredients can be incorporated into their processes. Because our sanitary mixers meet the strictest hygienic standards and are 3-A certified, they are ideal for all pet food ingredients and applications.
With our extensive process and ingredient knowledge base, we can maximize production and operator safety, reduce waste of expensive ingredients, lower operational costs, and decrease equipment downtime. Plus our equipment is completely clean-in-place (CIP).
The design of our commercial pet food mixing equipment and the ability to test your ingredients at no charge in our pilot test lab means that your product quality is superior and that your product goes to market quicker with guaranteed scale-up.
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Featured Video
See how the Rotosolver high shear mixer quickly and efficiently creates a smooth slurry from carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC), a popular agent used in pet foods used to control weight, diabetes, and hairball production.
Mixing FAQs from the Pet Food Industry
In this video, Admix talks about several frequently asked questions. Just go to the appropriate frame for the answer you’re after, or view the entire video!
What sets your equipment apart from other suppliers? 0:13
How does Admix address the need for various size batches and maintain scalability? 2:47
Continuous processing is a trend that has gained significant momentum over the last couple years. How does Admix address this trend? 3:54
How does Admix identify and relieve a manufacturer’s process pain points with its mixing technology? 5:32
The Admixer static blender delivers continuous processing with no moving parts. It offers side stream injectors, heat transfer and temperature control with jackets. It has easy-to-clean removable components and specially polished finishes, and meets 3-A sanitary standard #35-04.
The Boston Shearmill inline wet mill can rework out-of-spec product and mill it into a slurry that can be reused upstream. Also, the Rotostat rotor-stator mixer provides bulk tank motion without an in-tank bearing frame or supporting arms so product flow is not impacted.
The Rotosolver high shear batch mixer combines good product motion and intense mixing vortex control with efficient pumping blades and a high shear mixing region to break down agglomerates and reduce rafting. It is easy-to-clean, CIP, and meets 3-A Sanitary Standard #73-01.
Yes! We’ll test your ingredient and application in our fully equipped pilot lab at no charge. You can also consider the BenchMix benchtop lab mixer, which can be configured with Rotosolver and Rotostat heads for maximum flexibility and scale-up to full production.
Want to do unlimited full production run testing at your own facility? Our in-plant trial program allows you to do it for 14 days. Plus, we’re so confident in our scale-up methods that we provide a process assurance warranty with all our equipment.
Absolutely. The Fastfeed powder induction and dispersion system inducts powders and liquids directly into the liquid stream that fills your blend tank at controlled feed rates up to 450 lbs/minute, resulting in batch times that are typically cut in half. Operator injuries from climbing steps, along with inconsistent batches, dust plumes, and air entrainment are eliminated too, since mixing takes place inline rather than in an open top tank.
In addition, the Optifeed and PIC systems provide inline continuous powder dispersion up to 200 lbs/minute and are ideal for higher viscosities. Another option is the VacuShear system, which is specifically designed to convey granular to fine powders at high flow rates into a vacuum rated, CIP-capable mix station.
For inline continuous processing, the DynaShear inline disperser and Boston Shearmill inline homogenizer provide tight emulsions. Typical droplet size with the DynaShear is 2-3 microns and as fine as 0.5 microns with the Boston Shearmill.
These workhorses break down tough fisheyes in a single pass, and deagglomerate a fluid stream to save filter cleaning and wasted raw material. Designed to run 24/7, both DynaShear and the Boston Shearmill meet 3-A Sanitary Standard #36-01.
We sure can. The Rotomixx low-speed agitator is portable and can accommodate various tank volumes, and the RotoMAXX II low shear agitator can handle volumes up to 60,000 gallons. Both agitators are an all-stainless steel design, provide simple blending for miscible fluids, solids incorporation and dispersion, can maintain a suspension, and meet 3-A Sanitary Standard #73-01.