Mixing And Blending, Powder Flow, Food Texture, Bulk Mixing, and Food Processing news and information
PRODUCTS
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For a nasal spray production fill-finish solution that offers unparalleled versatility, look no further! The Hull i-Dositecno BI and MI Nasal Spray Filling Machines simplify your manufacturing workflow to enable accurate and consistent rotary filling, stoppering and capping. With simple servo-driven motion-controlled design they can fill up to 50 or 200 units per minute (upm).
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The PBS-0.1 Mini single use bioreactor is compatible with 60mL-100mL working volumes and is the best starting point for optimizing cell therapies by leveraging the benefits of Vertical-Wheel mixing that can be easily scaled up for larger volumes.
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From the production floor to the shipping door, your unique clinical or commercial requirements will be fulfilled at each step of the process.
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Planning to launch a patient-centric decentralized clinical trial? Give your clinical trial patients an app that makes it easy to participate—from anywhere at any time.
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In the pharmaceutical industry, every capsule and tablet begins with a concept. Transforming that idea into a tangible product requires an expert manufacturing partner. Natoli stands out as a leader in pharmaceutical equipment and services, providing a comprehensive journey from formulation to full-scale production.
WHITE PAPERS AND CASE STUDIES
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AMERICAN SpiralWeld Pipe Delivers For City Of Phoenix Drought Pipeline Project
Phoenix’s Drought Pipeline Project, supported by AMERICAN SpiralWeld Pipe, secures clean water for North Phoenix, delivering up to 75 million gallons daily and earning top industry awards.
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Explore A High-Performing Basal Medium And Feed Pairing
A customer sought to replace a chemically defined CHO medium with a more efficient medium and feed pairing strategy in bioreactors.
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Optimizing Early-Stage Oncology
A strategic partnership enables a U.S. biotech company to address the struggles with their Phase I first-in-human oncology trial.
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Expanding Diabetes-Related Eye Health Equity
20/20 Onsite, American Diabetes Association and Genentech collaborated on an event to provide immediate diagnostic services, including retinal imaging and visual acuity assessments, directly on-site.
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Innovative Measurement Technology Enables Next Level Industrial AM
Reichenbacher Hamuel uses Ophir’s BeamPeek system to enhance laser quality in additive manufacturing, ensuring optimal beam performance and reliability across development, maintenance, and troubleshooting stages.
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Life Sciences Corporation Implements eLogbooks Across 15 Sites
New regulations challenged how surgical kits were tracked and processed across 15 U.S. sites. Discover how one team balanced compliance and efficiency to keep life-saving procedures on schedule.
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Accelerating Early Phase Oncology Study Development
Explore a close collaboration to co-develop a comprehensive, adaptive protocol designed to support key decisions across multiple trial phases for an innovative cancer therapy.
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Leveraging Single-Use Solutions To Solve Working Cell Bank Challenges
Discover how custom manifolds enhance allogeneic therapy development from formulation to commercialization by improving process control, scalability, and efficiency.
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Collaborative Tech: How Dunea Is Boosting Network Visibility And Resilience
Integrating high-frequency sensor data with digital twins enhances network visibility and accelerates response times. This collaborative approach allows utilities to detect anomalies instantly, optimize maintenance, and simulate operational scenarios to ensure long-term system resilience.
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Outgrowing Excel: Implementing RTSM In A Live Phase I Trial
Learn how a clinical-stage oncology biotech successfully transitioned a live Phase I trial from manual spreadsheets to RTSM without disrupting site momentum or patient enrollment.
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Navigate The Complexities Of CGTs With Regulatory And CMC Expertise
Explore how strategic regulatory and CMC expertise helped guide a biopharmaceutical company’s regulatory and development strategy for a cell and gene therapy product.
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Leveraging High-Pressure Sterile Filtration For Highly Viscous Solutions
This research demonstrates the potential of high-pressure sterile filtration to enhance efficiency, reduce waste, and accelerate the development of innovative therapies.
NEWS
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Fine-Tuning Zinc Supplementation, Light Exposure To Boost Microgreens' Nutrition8/26/2025
Microgreens, which are young, edible plants that only take one to three weeks to harvest, are more than garnish at trendy restaurants — they could be the answer to global hunger, according to plant scientists at Penn State.
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Agilitas Energy Expands Into Hydropower With Acquisition Of Two Projects In West Virginia And Maryland6/24/2025
Agilitas Energy, a leading developer and operator of renewable energy and energy storage systems, today announced the acquisition of two late-stage hydropower development projects from Advanced Hydro Solutions.
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PulpFixin Announces Strategic Distribution Partnership With Wildcat Laboratory Solutions To Expand Sustainable Lab Products Across The UK And EU4/14/2025
PulpFixin, an innovator of sustainable laboratory products, announced today a new distribution partnership with Wildcat Laboratory Solutions a leading provider of lab equipment and solutions across the United Kingdom and European Union.
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U.S. Department Of Energy Announces $6.9M In Projects To Support Effective Community Waste-To-Energy Strategies For Local Transportation Needs1/7/2025
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) and Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) announced $6.9M in funding for nine projects to support local waste-to-energy management solutions for transportation energy needs.
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Stoichiometric Crystal Shows Promise In Quantum Memory7/7/2025
For over two decades, physicists have been working toward implementing quantum light storage—also known as quantum memory—in various matter systems.
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Mixing and Blending
Mixing and blending are terms that have specific meaning in the food industry. Most food processing experts use the word mixing to describe the process of combining wet and dry materials.
Blending is the term used to describe the process of combining only dry ingredients. The term blending is generally reserved for powders, flakes and granules of varying bulk densities and particle size that require gently blending and minimal contact with blender blades.
Agitation is often used synonymously with the term mixing. However, in food processing, agitation is used to ensure the mixing process to get a homogenous mix is completed faster.
Many industries require the mixing of free-flowing powders. The art of mixing involves different dilution geometries (a geometry is a way of combining unequal amounts of fine powders to ensure an equal distribution).
The geometric mix used depends on the size distribution, shape, particle density, composition and internal structures. Other properties include flow ability, bulk density, mixture quality, dustiness and properties of segregation.
Industrial mixers are used to do the blending and mixing. The shape and hardness of the materials being mixed affects the horsepower required to run the mixer. The type of mixer used in a production line varies depending on the materials that need to be mixed or blended. Paddle mixers are often the best choice for production line mixing because they are easy to clean, have less surface area, and have a minimal number of parts.
Mixing and blending is generally a sub-process within an overall process cycle so when placing a mixer it is important to consider how it integrates into the whole system. That includes impacts to both upstream and downstream product handling.