IKA Master Plant all-in-one mixing
IKA Master Plant all-in-one mixing provides improved product quality, reduces maintenance and eliminates costly equipment
IKA Master Plant presents ‘All-In-One Mixing’ to eliminate costly equipment, reduce maintenance and improve product quality.
The Master Plant is the newest and most advanced complete processing system including vessel, circulation piping, valves, controls and two revolutionary mixers.
It is designed to emulsify, homogenize or mix virtually any materials.
New Laboratory Homogenizer
The Niro Soavi NS2002H Twin Panda table-top laboratory/pilot plant homogenizer is ideal for feasibility testing and process development in the food, food ingredients, and dairy industries
The Niro Soavi NS2002H Twin Panda table-top laboratory/pilot plant homogenizer is ideal for feasibility testing and process development in the food, food ingredients, and dairy industries. The Twin Panda homogenizer is a tabletop model designed for the laboratory/pilot plant needs of companies processing food and dairy products. It is a unique unit, with the ability to process small volumes of liquids and pumpable fluids.
The Twin Panda is designed to homogenize samples at pressures up to 8700 PSI.
The internal design has special features permitting the homogenizer to handle feeds at high viscosity up to 20,000 cP and at temperatures up to 90C (194degF) without any feeding pump.
The Twin Panda 600 homogenizer is an ideal piece of equipment, easy to commission and operate.
It can easily be dismantled for maintenance and cleaning by the laboratory operator.
Homogenization conditions can be optimised and the results used in scale-up to industrial operations.
The Twin Panda 600 homogenizer is supplied with an analogue pressure gauge (0-600 bar).
The feed system is by gravity through a feed funnel, without any feeding pump.
For high viscosity products a pneumatic feeding system with jacketed stainless steel feeding hopper is available.
The jacket can be used both for cooling and heating the test product.
An integral stainless steel casing enables easy cleaning and maintenance.
The standard toothed direct drive belt incorporates an AC high-duty motor which is supplied with a main switch including magnetothermic motor protection.
The Twin Panda 600 is delivered ready to use complete with a set of special tools, spare parts, and operation/maintenance manual.
Glenro and TRCM Consolidate Operations
For over 45 years Glenro infrared heaters and ovens, hot air dryers and process heating engineering have helped customers reduce energy costs, increase line speeds and productivity
Glenro of Paterson, New Jersey and TRCM of Maysville, Kentucky announce that Glenro and TRCM have consolidated operations since January 01, 2005. The name of the consolidated entity is Glenro and the manufacturing operations in Maysville will be known as the TRCM Division of Glenro. Since 1988 TRCM, a contract manufacturing company, has manufactured hot air dryers and thermal oxidizers that Glenro has sold, designed and engineered.
More recently, TRCM has also been manufacturing Glenro flatbed laminating machines.
Glenro has manufactured infrared heaters and ovens in New Jersey since 1958 and in Paterson since 1979.
TRCM is now expanding and manufacturing some of Glenro’s infrared heaters and ovens.
In announcing the consolidation Gary Van Denend, President of Glenro and TRCM said, ‘As a manufacturer I know the importance of working with innovative suppliers who offer goods and services that enable Glenro to reduce costs, increase efficiencies and create new capabilities.
For over 45 years Glenro infrared heaters and ovens, hot air dryers, thermal oxidizers, flatbed laminating machines, and most importantly, process heating engineering have helped customers reduce energy costs, increase line speeds and productivity, as well as develop and make new products.
This consolidation will give Glenro the flexibility and capacity to continue to provide innovative industrial ovens and dryers that are manufactured in the United States at competitive costs.’ Glenro has been supplying process heating equipment since 1958.
‘We intend on serving the process heating needs of our customers well into the future,’ said Van Denend.
‘In fact, we have recently added high intensity infrared heat tunnels to our infrared oven line and are now offering our popular Radround infrared heaters with the same rapid response infrared heating elements that we use in our Radplane infrared heaters and ovens.’ This product line extension will enable manufacturers of tubing, insulated wire and extruded profiles to enjoy the benefit of almost instant heat-up and cool-down that manufacturers who dry and predry technical textiles and coated webs enjoy with Glenro infrared heaters and ovens.
Glenro will continue to offer one of the broadest lines of process heating equipment that includes infrared, convection and conduction heat transfer technologies.
Since late 2000 Glenro has been offering flatbed laminating machines and complete flatbed laminating production lines.
Glenro also offers contract laminating services for making technical textiles and consolidating nonwovens and is expanding contract laminating services.
Thomas Van Denend, Vice President and Product Manager Lamination said, ‘Contract laminating allows Glenro to process high value added products for customers until they see fit to do the manufacturing themselves with one of our flatbed laminating machines.
Having laminated the product on one of our flatbed laminating machines in the contract laminating facility insures that the Glenro laminating machine that the customer purchases will produce a high quality laminated product immediately.’ Glenro engineering, lab, sales support, marketing, accounting and human resources will continue at the current location in Paterson.
Glenro sales consultants will continue to work from regional sales offices and the Paterson facility will continue to have a shop for fast turnaround on repairs for northeast and southeast customers and for building developmental infrared heaters, dryers and ovens.
The TRCM division of Glenro will also continue to provide contract manufacturing of metal fabrications and laser cut parts.
The company operated for over 100 years in Ripley, Ohio where it was known as The Ripley Corporation.
TRCM also offers design capabilities to help customers who need engineering services as well as contract manufacturing services.
A recent example of TRCM success was designing and manufacturing stainless steel coal chutes to replace old tile lined coal chutes.
The new chutes improved the flow of coal dust to lime purifying furnaces while reducing time consuming maintenance and fire hazards.
Chemineer Mixers achieve compliance with BPE 2002
Kenics KMR-SAN Static Mixers for bio-processing are now fully compliant with ASME-BPE quality, demonstrating an exemplary standard for manufacturing high purity equipment suited to critical industries
Kenics KMR-SAN Static Mixers for bio processing, available exclusively from Chemineer, are now fully compliant with ASME-BPE quality, which demonstrates an exemplary standard for manufacturing high purity equipment ideally suited to critical industries. Already firmly established as a very reliable, cost-effective and extremely efficient mixer, this high quality Chemineer product is now compliant with all ASME-BPE requirements, which reinforce the increased efficiency and economic benefits it brings to a mixing process. * Electro polished and passivated housing and elements.
* Complete documentation package, including material certifications, EP passivation procedures and certifications and certified drawings and factory certificate of conformity.
* Full Document Package, including Certified Mixer Drawing.
* ASME-BPE stamped/compliant housing - and the mixer safely delivered - hygienically heat-sealed in plastic.
(ASME is the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, BPE signifies bio processing equipment)
Lindor makes the biggest ‘gentle touch’ drum mixer
A Lindor drum mixer with 25,000 litres useful product volume produced for a company that makes high-grade gelatine additives for the food and pharmaceutical industries is the largest one ever built
A Lindor drum mixer with 25,000 litres useful product volume produced for a company that makes high-grade gelatine additives for the food and pharmaceutical industries is the largest one of its type ever built and is thought to be the word’s biggest drum unit. Developed to nearly double the previous design limit of 14,000 litres volume for the fast-acting ‘gentle touch’ mixing technique of Lindor mixers, available in the UK from Orthos, this new mega-mixer weighs nearly 20 tons. The unique Lindor horizontally-mounted rotating drum design has no internal moving parts, such as mixing blades and impellers that apply shear forces to the product and cause deterioration both mechanically and from friction-induced heating.
Blending is achieved quickly, typically in just one to four minutes, by tapered scoops that cause a non-degrading 3-dimensional figure-of-eight flow pattern in the product.
Since the drum has no ‘dead’ spaces all material is equally blended, and the machines are self-emptying with virtually 100% discharge.
Also ensuring energy savings, the versatile Lindor mixers are used in the food processing, chemical and compound feed sectors as well as pharmaceuticals and even in manufacturing such things as batteries, rubber granulates and highly explosive products like aluminium powder.
Brochure details agitator drives and impellers
A new brochure details the unsurpassed design, R and D and application expertise behind the Mixing Solutions leading range of standard and customised agitator drives and process efficient impellers
A new brochure from Mixing Solutions details the unsurpassed design, R and D and application expertise behind the company’s leading range of standard and customised agitator drives and process efficient impellers - all combine to provide the lowest life-cycle cost of ownership and maximise fluid mixing reliability.
The brochure shows how Mixing Solutions’ process optimisation solutions reflect ‘total unit responsibility’, from exhaustive testing and hands-on installation through after-sales support including overhaul and drive exchange, with technology upgrades of agitation equipment utilising the latest state-of-the-art knowledge to improve mixing performance and efficiency.
Chemineer mixers meet Zone 0 ATEX directive
Chemineer is one of the first makers of mixers and agitators to meet the ATEX Directive 94/9/EC Zone 0 for equipment and protective systems intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres
Chemineer has become one of the first makers of mixers and agitators to meet the ATEX Directive 94/9/EC Zone 0 for equipment and protective systems intended for use in potentially explosive atmospheres (named after the French: ‘ATmosphere EXplosible’). This latest adherence to high standards gives additional peace of mind to any company using Chemineer DT, GT and HT mixing equipment across the many industries served, which include chemical, water, food and pharmaceutical. ATEX Zone 1 adherence has already been achieved by Chemineer XP, MR, HS and Greerco high shear mixers.
The Directive applies to equipment that has its own source of ignition; is intended for use in a potentially explosive atmosphere (air mixtures); and is under normal atmospheric conditions.
In addition to meeting the ATEX Directive, Chemineer has also recently achieved compliance with ASME-BPE quality, which demonstrates an exemplary standard for manufacturing high purity equipment ideally suited to critical industries.
This followed Chemineer successfully becoming one of the very first designers and manufacturers of mixers and agitators to achieve the stringent requirements of the new EU Pressure Equipment Directive (PED) - an important safety issue often overlooked by some contractors.
Landia mixers suspend leachate for treatment
Highly durable, custom-made mixers from Landia are helping Cleanaway, one of the UK’s leading waste management companies, successfully treat leachate at its Rainham landfill site in Essex
Highly durable, custom-made mixers from Landia are helping Cleanaway, one of the UK’s leading waste management companies, successfully treat leachate at its Rainham landfill site in Essex. One of only two landfills in the whole of the UK capable of receiving waste by river-borne transportation, this strategically important Cleanaway site is utilising Landia specially-coated POD-I submersible mixers to suspend solids in two underground 160m3 leachate tanks. Working to very tight confines, with only a 6mm margin to spare, Landia custom-designed the POD-I mixers to fit the narrow access points of the Rainham site leachate tanks.
Able to withstand very harsh conditions, these 2-component-coated cast-iron mixers, all with 316 stainless steel submerged equipment, continuously agitate and homogenize to ensure that solids are not allowed to settle.
Operating around the clock, the 700rpm mixers have replaced aeration units that were no longer suitable for the high standard of leachate handling required by Cleanaway, as their Environmental Scientist Mr Andrew Whiteman explains: ‘Landia equipment is proving very reliable and effective at Rainham.
We have every confidence in the long term performance of these mixers which meet our established, stringent criteria for a highly engineered, professionally managed landfill site’.
He added: ‘Cleanaway recognise considerable experience in Landia in providing top quality mixers and pumps for leachate, as well as their impressive customer support’.
Microjet Fluid Technology for homogenizing
Microjet Fluid Technology overcomes the limitations of conventional mixing and homogenizing techniques, and offers particle size reduction and a process control capability that is second to none
Christison have launched Microjet Fluid Technology, a system which overcomes the limitations of conventional mixing and homogenizing techniques. Developed in-house in conjunction with the University of Northumbria, the system offers particle size reduction and process control capability that is second to none. Produced in the UK, Microjet systems are engineered for liquid/liquid and liquid/solid processing of pharmaceuticals, coatings, inks, pigments, vaccines, lotions, creams and disruption of cells.
Operating at up to 24,000 psi in the laboratory, each unit is fitted with unique diamond-wear interaction chambers.
The Microjet produces extremely high levels of shear resulting in very fine, tight particle size distributions and very small particle sizes.
These are of exceptional consistency and ensure better products, longer shelf life, increased yield, and improved texture.
Temperature control is an integral part of the device which is also very easy to ‘clean in place’.
Since no grinding media is used there is no product contamination.
The process is fully scaleable, and can be made fully cGMP compliant.
Jaeckering appoints UK representation
Altenburger Maschinen Jaeckering has appointed G W Consumables to market their air turbulence based range of milling and micronising machines within the UK
Altenburger Maschinen Jaeckering has appointed G W Consumables to market their range of milling and micronising machines within the UK. Jaeckering builds machines for milling and simultaneous milling and drying on the basis on a unique principle - the use of air turbulence. Under the brand name Ultra Rotor - a universally adaptable mill - many successful projects have been executed world wide.
More that 2000 mills have been installed world-wide, many of the early models still in operation today.
Our engineers are constantly working on improvements as well as developing new ideas for new applications.
References exist in the pharmaceutical, chemical, food, and general industries.
A large test centre is available and in constant use with trials on customers samples.