Mixing And Blending, Powder Flow, Food Texture, Bulk Mixing, and Food Processing news and information
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Open RABS as a housing for aseptic processes, e.g., filling, loading, and unloading of freeze dryers. Product protection is achieved by a barrier (oRABS housing with gloves) between the operator and the product.
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Dewatering Box rentals from Ironclad Environmental Solutions are passive-gravity dewatering containers available in all three configurations: Roll-tarp, Metal-Lid and Vacuum.
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Apollo™ is an innovative platform that empowers you with real-time access to study data, milestones, documents, and program planning tools.
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Visualize Batch Production Like Never Before
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A robust, reliable manufacturing partner offers solutions spanning the entire development timeline. Charles River can help deliver your virus program with speed and reduced costs.
WHITE PAPERS AND CASE STUDIES
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From Lab-Scale To Tox-Batch: A Novel Vascular Calcification Inhibitor API
A leading pharma company developed a small molecule drug candidate to treat vascular calcification disorders using an 8-step synthetic process. Explore the chemical development for non-GMP and GMP manufacturing.
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Pharma Custom Isolator For Sterile Lab Process
This project showcases Germfree’s capacity to provide cutting-edge, bespoke solutions in pharmaceutical manufacturing, underpinning their dedication to innovation, safety, and quality.
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The Savings Are Blowin' In At Port Washington Wastewater Treatment Plant
The municipal wastewater treatment plant in Port Washington, Wisconsin, is located on the picturesque shore of Lake Michigan, so it’s essential that their plant performs as designed.
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eCOA: Unified Approach Streamlines Processes, Speeds Start Up And Improves Data Quality
Discover how a leading biopharmaceutical company revolutionized its clinical development with an eCOA solution that optimized its processes, cut build times, and enhanced data quality.
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Understanding Real-World Patient Characterization And Safety Outcomes Of DEXTENZA
In this study, we can derive confirmation of DEXTENZA’s favorable safety profile across a broader surgical spectrum.
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Addressing Site Selection Challenges In DMD Gene Therapy Studies
Effective site selection is critical for the success of DMD gene therapy trials. This study details innovative methodologies employed to streamline and improve site identification.
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Overcoming Participant Compliance Challenges In A Medical Device Study
Uncover how Catalyst Clinical Research enhanced participant compliance and streamlined scheduling for a TENS device study using the TrialKit platform, with crucial support from CDS.
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Dechlorination Of Boiler Makeup Water At Baseload Generation Facility
Atlantium Technologies installed a HOD UV system at a North American baseload generation facility to replace GAC filters and provide efficient and effective water treatment. The system ensures low chlorine concentration and reduces bacterial growth.
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Reshaping A Biopharma Drug Manufacturer's Real Estate Portfolio Strategy
From strategy to execution and implementation, learn about the partnership that allowed a biopharmaceutical drug manufacturing company to modernize its real estate portfolio and achieve its strategic goals.
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CAPA Management Improvement Process
Gain insight into how a small team of experts worked to collect, trend, and understand the CAPA generation and completion process of a client struggling with on-time batch release, missed CAPA closure deadlines, and more.
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Liquid Oxygen Supply For Ozone Generation
Learn about a project to procure and fabricate large bore piping to reduce field installation.
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Optimizing End-To-End Processes To Reduce Costs And Improve Yields
Explore the challenges faced by a large CDMO as well as the solutions that were provided to achieve significant time savings, cost savings, and the removal of a major downstream process limitation.
NEWS
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Climate-Ready Crop: RIPE Team Shows Increase In Food Mass Through Photorespiratory Bypass In Elevated Temperatures12/4/2024
A team from the University of Illinois has engineered potato to be more resilient to global warming, showing 30% increases in tuber mass under heatwave conditions.
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QuasarMD Unveils Advanced Full-Body Light Therapy Mat To Support Aging Wellness7/29/2025
QuasarMD LLC, a leader in light-based wellness technologies, announces the launch of its Full-Body Light Therapy Mat, a clinically validated, non-invasive solution designed to address the evolving wellness needs of aging adults.
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Be Part of Photonics Future: CIOE 2025 Visitor Registration Live Now!4/9/2025
The 26th China International Optoelectronic Exposition (CIOE 2025) is set to take place from September 10–12, 2025, at the Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center, spanning 240,000 square meters of exhibition space.
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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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Enhanc3D Genomics Launches Suite Of 3D Multi-Omics Solutions To Accelerate Drug Development1/14/2025
Enhanc3D Genomics (‘Enhanced’ or ‘the Company’), an innovator in 3D genomics technology, today announced the launch of a suite of integrated multi-omics solutions to accelerate and improve the precision of drug discovery.
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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.