Mixing And Blending, Powder Flow, Food Texture, Bulk Mixing, and Food Processing news and information
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Opto Diode offers a line of high-performance infrared (IR) and near-infrared (NIR) LEDs designed for extreme environments and mission-critical applications.
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ClinAI helps you centralize RFPs, budgets, and vendor data—so you can select the right partners, manage change orders, and keep your studies on track.
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Oral administration remains the most widely used route for the successful delivery of active pharmaceuticals to patients.
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Neither traditional nor hybrid clinical trials can operate on rigid EDC systems.
They require flexible data collection systems that support protocol amendments without downtime and accept mobile data without hassle. As a cloud-native solution, TrialKit bends to accommodate mid-study changes. And as the first full-featured EDC platform available as a native mobile app, TrialKit flexes to meet the demands of traditional, hybrid/decentralized, and completely remote clinical trials.
Give your team the freedom to build, deploy, and manage their studies, their way—weeks faster than with rigid EDCs and for a fraction of the cost of the major players.
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The SSV-h Checkweigher is a great cost-effective solution for industrial, pharmaceutical, and packaged food products that need to meet stringent accuracy and reliability standards. It is equipped with a force balance load cell that produces faster response and readings with maximum accuracy of +/- 0.01 g. The Smart Measurement Function uses improved signal processing, filtering, and scale resolution to reduce rejections due to double product errors. The giveaway feature calculates product excess both as total weight and percentage, allowing you to adjust filling levels and reduce costs. The SSV-h series comes with an IP30 dustproof rating that makes it ideal for non-washdown applications. Its lightweight and rigid conveyor can be easily disassembled and wiped clean without any tools.
WHITE PAPERS AND CASE STUDIES
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Rapid Results In A High-Stakes Dry Eye Disease Trial
This time-sensitive Phase 3 trial in dry eye disease required precision project management leveraging strong site relationships, ophthalmology-specific expertise, and data-driven site selection.
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Bend Successfully Rescues Powder-Filled Capsule Program
Learn how to overcome tech transfer challenges and ensure consistent content uniformity by leveraging multidisciplinary expertise and decades of commercial encapsulation experience.
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A Community-Focused Approach To Metabolic Disease Trials
Learn how innovative strategies like free health exams, community engagement, and a comprehensive patient database helped this project achieve rapid enrollment with a high level of patient diversity.
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Quick And Easy Pipe Repair In Virginia Saves Thousands Of Dollars
Learn how JCSA efficiently replaced ten dresser-style couplings on a 16" steel pipe spanning a 600-foot bridge using the versatile HYMAX VERSA coupling, enabling a quick and cost-effective repair without removing the pipe.
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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.
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Use Of Epiontis ID In A Phase 2 Psoriasis Trial
Mirikizumab’s Phase 2 trial explores IL-23 inhibition in psoriasis, measuring immune cell changes to assess its potential for long-term disease control and flare-up prevention.
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Robust, Scalable Strategy For Monodisperse Nanosuspensions Of Poorly Soluble Drugs
By tailoring the formulation strategy, selecting the appropriate excipients, and fine-tuning process conditions, see how our team was able to improve bioavailability and in vivo exposure.
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Global Start-Up For Multinational Geographic Atrophy Trial
This partnership allowed a leading biopharmaceutical company to navigate the complexities of a Phase IIb study investigating a novel pegylated RNA adapter for geographic atrophy secondary to dry AMD.
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Re-Engineering A Complex Process For FDA Compliance
Discover the strategies that helped a company navigate a complex and shifting regulatory landscape to rapidly re-engineer a COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing process for FDA compliance.
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GxP Inventory Delivers Real-Time Visibility, Operational Efficiency
Modernize your clinical supply chain to streamline global trial operations, ensure regulatory compliance, and deliver investigational therapies to patients efficiently and reliably.
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Flexible Data Management For Growing Portfolio
Explore strategic enhancements to a small biopharma's biometrics capabilities involving the deployment of 20 specialized professionals, which effectively bolstered the client’s organizational capacity.
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CAR-T And Laminar Flow Glovebox Isolators
A request was made for a containment system that would protect operators during lentivirus transfer, as well as provide a controlled environment for IL-2 charging of media, bead addition, and blood bag spiking.
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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Evonik Partners With ST Pharm To Increase Its Offerings For RNA And Nucleic Acid Delivery1/8/2025
Evonik is partnering with ST Pharm, a company that manufactures active ingredients for gene therapy, to expand its RNA and nucleic acid therapeutic services.
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NX Filtration And Eau d'Azur Partner For Advanced Micropollutant Treatment In Nice8/25/2025
NX Filtration, a global leader in advanced hollow fiber membrane technology, is proud to announce its collaboration with Eau d’Azur, the public company responsible for drinking water and wastewater services for the Nice Côte d'Azur Metropole.
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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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Anritsu Unveils New Software-Based Solution For 5G IoT Chipset And Device Development Tests2/28/2025
Anritsu Corporation is proud to introduce the Virtual Signalling Tester NR Software MX844030PC, a software-based test simulator for developing 5G IoT chipsets and devices. The solution supports 5G IoT test by using a new simulator that operates in a virtual environment on a PC using advanced architecture, as well as a Software Defined Radio (SDR) that implements most conventional radio functions in software.
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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.