Mixing And Blending, Powder Flow, Food Texture, Bulk Mixing, and Food Processing news and information
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In today’s complex clinical research landscape, sponsors and CROs face numerous challenges that can impact study timelines, costs, and data quality. The iMednet platform offers innovative solutions to address these critical issues.
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PHCbi brand's 3.0 cu.ft. (85 L) undercounter refrigerator is designed to be incorporated into ADA compliant workspaces and fits under most tables, cabinets, and benches. Its convenient glass door provides visibility into the interior of the unit to avoid unnecessary door openings. Temperature performance for your critical storage items in your tight spaces. Units can be stacked with an adapter to maximize valuable laboratory floor space. This space-saving lab refrigerator includes an automatic defrost function and is ENERGY STAR® certified.
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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 Qorvo QM33120WDK2 Ultra-Wideband Development Kit is an all-in-one solution for developers and engineers working on UWB (Ultra-Wideband) product development and demonstrations.
WHITE PAPERS AND CASE STUDIES
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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.
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Leverage Apps To Reduce Line Changeover Time From 14 Days To 3
A global biopharma leader modernized its complex equipment changeover process using an innovative platform to achieve faster execution, fewer errors, and greater visibility through digitized, validatable SOPs.
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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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Mobile Gowning Cleanroom, Built To Meet ISO 7 Requirements
Uncover how Germfree designed and installed a mobile cGMP cleanroom on a 53′ tractor-trailer chassis to provide a flexible and efficient cleanroom solution tailored to the company’s needs.
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No More Swiss Holes: Filling The Gaps In Clinical Trial Disclosure
This use case shows how sponsors can gain clarity on disclosure requirements when entering a new country.
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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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Streamlined Facility Design: A Success Story
Examine how one medium-sized US company's need for a new aseptic compounding and fill-finish facility was addressed with a tailored solution within a challenging time-frame.
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Water Disinfection At Feldschlöesschen Brewery In Switzerland
Despite meeting European drinking water standards, contamination levels at a brewery reached as high as 800 CFU/ml, prompting the brewery to seek a reliable disinfection solution to protect the integrity of its production processes.
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Merck Process Transfer And Scale-Up Of Batch Protein A
Explore cost-saving innovations in purification using a system that achieves consistent product quality and yield while significantly reducing resin use and enhancing large-scale efficiency.
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Transferring From Microfluidics To A Turbulent Mixer
What solutions did the client featured in this case study find when they sought help in transferring their formulation process to a turbulent Impinged Jet Mixing (IJM)?
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EHR-To-EDC Success In A Complex, Adaptive Platform Trial
I-SPY 2, one of the longest-running adaptive platform trials in oncology, is revolutionizing breast cancer research through a dynamic, data-driven approach to evaluating novel therapies.
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Boosting Recruitment Strategy For Phase III Study In Ulcerative Colitis
Learn about the successful execution of a challenging three-arm, randomized, placebo-controlled Phase 3 study in Ulcerative Colitis despite strict inclusion criteria and a limited patient pool.
NEWS
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Vodafone Reduces Its Advertising And Media Carbon Footprint By A Third1/7/2025
Vodafone has reduced the carbon footprint of its media and advertising activities by more than a third in a year across thirteen markets in total after benchmarking its media-related greenhouse gas (‘GHG') emissions and introducing global guidelines to mitigate them.
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The Persistence Of PFAS - IDTechEx Covers Growing PFAS Regulations4/24/2025
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a broad group of chemicals that includes both polymers and non-polymers used in many applications, from transport to consumer products.
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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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How Lakes Connect To Groundwater Critical For Resilience To Climate Change7/9/2025
The study drew on data from 350 lakes across 18 European countries, collected between 2022 and 2024, to provide a comprehensive picture of how the continent’s lakes are coping with climate change.
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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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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.