How To Make A Perfect Mix

Mixing and blending are done daily for thousands if not millions, of products all over the world. When is mixing complete? When are products throughly blended? For many products this is not a critical decision, but for some others it can mean the difference between an acceptable product and an unacceptable one.

One of our recent customers is a case in point. The product was a specially formulated wax for a medical equipment application. Several ingredies are mixed with a combination of waxes to forni small beads. This becomes the raw material prodct. In one process a few beads are melted and poured into a small mold, in another process a fei beads are melted an used as a potting mate­ rial. In either case, so few beads are used because each must be chemically identical. The physical properties of this wax are cntical to its performace, and those properties can be affected by a number of factors including insufficient mixing bore the beads are formed