Mixing And Blending, Powder Flow, Food Texture, Bulk Mixing, and Food Processing news and information
PRODUCTS
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![CDA-300 Dual Shaft Mixer]( "Dual Shaft Mixer For High-Performance Applications")
ROSS Dual Shaft Mixers are durable, versatile systems designed for precise processing of high-performance formulations across diverse rheologies, solids loading, temperatures, and pressures.
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![fairbanks-5440]( "Pentair Fairbanks Nijhuis 5440 & 2440 Series Vertical Close-Coupled Solids Handling Pumps")
Fairbanks Nijhuis vertical close-coupled solids-handling pumps have over 100 years of proven experience in the pumping of solids, slurries, sludge, pulp, trash, sewage and grit. These pumps are specifically designed to pass solids, trash and long, stringy materials.
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![hyperflex-wShadow_04132022-1-1]( "Flexible, Solderless Coaxial Cables To 67 GHz: HyperFlex Series")
MegaPhase’s patented HyperFlex™ Series Cable offers superior flexibility when compared to traditional solder-terminated connectors of similar sizes and applications.
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![GettyImages-1311494525 Vaccine Vials]( "Container Closure Integrity Testing (CCIT) For Pharmaceutical Vials")
Container closure integrity testing (CCIT) is crucial in the pharmaceutical industry to ensure that vials maintain their sterility and product quality throughout their shelf life. These systems are designed to detect any leaks or defects in the vial's seal that could compromise the product.
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![WEAD-product]( "WEAD By LeakZon: The Future Of Water Loss Management Has Arrived")
In an era where every drop of water counts, LeakZon is proud to announce the launch of WEAD – the most advanced Water Loss Management (WLM) platform on the market. This groundbreaking AI-powered solution is set to transform how utilities, municipalities, and multifamily property owners manage their water distribution networks.
WHITE PAPERS AND CASE STUDIES
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![GettyImages-515606800-medical-tubing]( "Designing Extrusions With Additional Processing")
Designing Extrusions With Additional ProcessingA medical device company worked to redesign a critical component and consolidate extrusion and secondary operations. The project was successfully completed in six months.
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![GettyImages-2160715091 lab analysis]( "Developing Amorphous Solid Dispersions For Poorly Soluble Drugs")
Developing Amorphous Solid Dispersions For Poorly Soluble DrugsDiscover how a strategic amorphous solid dispersion approach improved bioavailability and advanced a low-solubility compound toward clinical readiness in just four weeks.
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![GettyImages-1371925389-lab-scientist-collaboration-computer-clipboard]( "Bridging The Gap During Organizational Restructuring For Continuity")
Bridging The Gap During Organizational Restructuring For ContinuityNavigating workforce turnover and restructuring can threaten project timelines. Discover how leveraging an experienced on-site team can ensure long-term continuity.
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![GettyImages-1094435082 Home Health Nurse]( "Authentic Engagement: Reaching Underserved Lupus Patients")
Authentic Engagement: Reaching Underserved Lupus PatientsBy partnering with the ICLF, see how we were able to gain access to and build trust with influential community leaders and advocates within the African American communities located near study sites.
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![GettyImages-1311494525 Vaccine Vials]( "2R Vials And Deep Cold Storage - Determining Mechanical & CCI Performance")
2R Vials And Deep Cold Storage - Determining Mechanical & CCI PerformanceReview the implications of this study on the storage of sensitive molecules that require deep-cold storage and learn how 2R Fina glass vials are poised to enhance cold storage practices.
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![GettyImages-1338010147 beijing]( "How To Tackle Water Scarcity In A City Of 22 Million People")
How To Tackle Water Scarcity In A City Of 22 Million PeopleMaking Waves spoke with Bing Liu, Sales GM of Xylem’s Water Infrastructure business in China, about the country’s growing water reuse opportunity and one utility leader that is leading the way: Beijing Drainage Group.
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![GettyImages-1269813787 mobile visit nurse]( "Enhance Access And Improve Retention In Rare Disease Trials With HTS")
Enhance Access And Improve Retention In Rare Disease Trials With HTSHome Trial Support (HTS) provides a solution to improving participant recruitment and retention during musculoskeletal studies.
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![GettyImages-1357830750 diversity]( "Educating Globally Diverse Populations Through Branding & Visuals")
Educating Globally Diverse Populations Through Branding & VisualsSee how this customized educational approach significantly enhanced recruitment and retention efforts, helping to ensure a more inclusive trial for Nonobstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (nHCM).
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![GettyImages-1305685152 vaccine]( "eClinical Platform Accelerates COVID-19 Treatment Trial By 2 Weeks")
eClinical Platform Accelerates COVID-19 Treatment Trial By 2 WeeksExamine a COVID-19 treatment trial that utilized integrated EDC, eConsent, eCOA, RTSM, and TeleVisit solutions, all within a single platform, to address three critical challenges.
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![GettyImages-869290346 protocol]( "Delivering A Registrational GI Trial Through Ongoing Protocol Shifts")
Delivering A Registrational GI Trial Through Ongoing Protocol ShiftsA biotech developing bispecific antibodies partnered with a flexible CRO to launch its first U.S. GI oncology trial, requiring strategic insight and full-service clinical support.
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![GettyImages-675822742 bioreactor]( "Addressing The Challenges In Lentivirus Harvest Clarification")
Addressing The Challenges In Lentivirus Harvest ClarificationTraditional depth filtration struggles with lentiviral harvest clarification, leading to low yields and high costs. However, single-use centrifugation offers a promising alternative.
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![image]( "How Waterloo Harnessed Qatium's Digital Platform")
How Waterloo Harnessed Qatium's Digital PlatformRead about the City of Waterloo, that needed an intuitive, low-cost tool to empower operators without requiring specialized technical expertise.
NEWS
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Dielectric Partners With Foccus Digital For Brazilian Broadcast Growth8/15/2025
Dielectric’s Brazilian presence is about to radiate stronger through a new partnership with Foccus Digital that expand Dielectric’s broadcast business throughout the country.
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New Land Grant Research Detects Dicamba Damage From The Sky7/9/2025
Drones can now detect subtle soybean canopy damage from dicamba at one ten-thousandth of the herbicide’s label rate — simulating vapor drift — eight days after application.
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Drawing Inspiration From Ancient Chemical Reactions3/20/2025
To help find solutions to the planet’s climate crisis, MIT Associate Professor Daniel Suess is looking to Earth’s ancient past.
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Aircraft Toilets Could Flush Out Spread Of Global Superbugs8/18/2025
Wastewater from aircraft toilets could provide a critical warning system for the global spread of antimicrobial resistant (AMR) superbugs, a silent pandemic that threatens to kill more people than cancer by 2050.
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ZEISS Introduces The New Smartzoom 100: The Future Of Digital Microscopy For Efficient Optical Inspections5/6/2025
ZEISS presents the new ZEISS Smartzoom 100, an innovative digital microscope for fast and efficient quality assurance.
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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.