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The Natoli NCF-45 Capsule Filling Machine offers unmatched speed, precision, and versatility for efficient powder and pellet encapsulation, maximizing your production output and minimizing waste.
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WHITE PAPERS AND CASE STUDIES
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![1500368452-molecule]( "ArxZyme™ Acetone Removal For AMPAC Fine Chemicals")
ArxZyme™ Acetone Removal For AMPAC Fine ChemicalsAMPAC faced a critical challenge with acetone management. The high acetone levels in the effluent from its chemical processing operations required an effective industrial wastewater treatment solution to meet environmental regulations and ensure safe discharge.
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Improving Patient Health And Safety: SOPs And Process MappingIn this study, a biotech company faced compliance challenges due to inadequate SOPs that lacked detailed process maps. Propharma stepped in to provide a strategy and project plan.
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Aquatic Invasive Species Control At Hoover DamIn this case study, learn why Hoover Dam installed Atlantium's HOD UV treatment system to protect its cooling water systems from Quagga mussels.
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Innovative Measurement Technology Enables Next Level Industrial AMReichenbacher 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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The City Of Fayetteville's Flood Resiliency In The Face Of Climate Change: Mapping 15 WatershedsThe city of Fayetteville, North Carolina has always had flooding issues, but it’s been getting worse as weather patterns have been changing. They were hit four years in a row by storms Matthew (2016), Irma (2017), Florence (2018), and Dorian (2019).
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Organizational Assessment For A Large MedTech CompanyExplore an organizational assessment run for a medical technology company specializing in tissue repair and regeneration, and the actionable recommendations provided to facilitate future growth.
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Naples Aviation Authority ARFF TransitionIn a groundbreaking effort to help airports transition from harmful PFAS-laden firefighting foams, the Naples Airport Authority enlisted ECT2 to manage the cleanup of PFAS-contaminated vehicles.
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Advancing Genomic Discoveries With Comprehensive Sequencing SupportSee how a leading genomics facility advances long‑read sequencing through rigorous QC and flexible workflows, offering practical insights for researchers aiming to improve sequencing outcomes.
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Implementing A Next-Gen MES At A Fraction Of The CostDiscover how a top medical device manufacturer accelerated product launch by digitizing assembly processes, streamlining training, and ensuring compliance.
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![GettyImages-2163836351_DNA_Cell Gene]( "Strategic Pre-IND Consulting For Gene Therapy In Rare Leukemia")
Strategic Pre-IND Consulting For Gene Therapy In Rare LeukemiaLearn about the collaborative efforts of an innovative biotech startup and Ergomed Consulting to overcome challenges in the pre-IND phase for a novel gene therapy targeting a rare form of leukemia.
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Navigate The Complexities Of CGTs With Regulatory And CMC ExpertiseExplore 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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Partnering For Precision In An IPF Study: Securing Timely Deliverables And Key EndpointsA pharmaceutical company enlisted Worldwide Clinical Trials to help achieve on-time results for their Phase IIa IPF clinical trial, enabling them to manage vendors and meet challenging deadlines.
NEWS
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University Of St. Thomas Offers No-Cost Machining And CNC Optimization Training7/18/2025
The University of St. Thomas is launching a new, no-cost training program to help manufacturing professionals, engineers, and students upskill and gain valuable insights into using computer simulations to optimize CNC machining.
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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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Redex Preloaded Systems Deliver Precise Positioning For Machine Tools1/16/2025
Redex is pleased to announce its patented DualDRIVE and TwinDRIVE preloading technologies now give CNC machine designers several ways to build a zero backlash system.
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Consulta Remedios Selects Kevel's Retail Media Cloud To Power Its Next-Generation Advertising Platform5/2/2025
Kevel, the leading provider of API-based retail media ad serving technology, today announced that Consulta Remédios, Brazil's largest medicine price comparison platform, has selected Kevel's Retail Media Cloud to power the development and enhancement of its in-house retail media network.
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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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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.