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.