Mixing And Blending, Powder Flow, Food Texture, Bulk Mixing, and Food Processing news and information
PRODUCTS
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The DR3900 is a benchtop visible spectrum (320 - 1100 nm), split beam spectrophotometer with over 220 pre-programmed methods optimized for laboratory water analysis. With your daily routine of water analysis in mind, the DR3900 spectrophotometer is optimized for safe processes and accurate results.
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The Exodus AMP20147 is a solid-state high-power amplifier designed for a wide range of applications including EMI/RFI testing, laboratory use, continuous wave (CW) and pulsed operations, and communication systems.
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The AMP20078 is a solid-state, high-power amplifier from Exodus Advanced Communication, purpose-built for EMI/RFI testing, laboratory work, continuous wave (CW), pulse, and communication applications across a broad frequency spectrum.
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Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and emerging contaminants don’t break down easily, making them difficult to remove from our water sources. Newterra offers pre-engineered adsorber filtration systems for effective removal at any flow rate.
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Discover our range of chimeric antibodies, find your ideal solution for multiplex imaging and spatial proteomics, and discover how you can save time and improve the reproducibility of your results.
WHITE PAPERS AND CASE STUDIES
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Biometric Services For Large Pharmaceutical Company
This case exemplifies the effectiveness of flexible staffing solutions in meeting the dynamic needs of the biopharmaceutical industry while maintaining control over project deliverables and timelines.
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Optimizing Kitting For Cell Therapy Trials In Pediatric Oncology
Precision for Medicine’s Kitting team played a crucial role in overcoming this challenges of a Phase I multicenter pediatric cell therapy trial targeting relapsed or refractory solid tumors.
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Clinical Phase Manufacturing With A Self-Contained Cleanroom Facility
Explore the development of a mobile Biosafety Level 2+ (BSL-2+) facility adhering to cGMP for early-phase clinical trial manufacturing.
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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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Monoclor® Residual Control Manages Residual For Problematic 5.5 Million Gallon Tank For Eastern Municipal Water District
Eastern Municipal Water District (EMWD) serves about 142,000 customers in Riverside County, California. The EMWD service area is one of the largest for any water district in arid southern California. On the drinking water side, EMWD manages two water treatment plants and over 15 reservoirs. With 70% of the district’s water coming from the Metropolitan Water District with chloramine disinfection, EMWD has become reliant on chloramine disinfection to manage long transmission lines and longer detention times due to on‐going water scarcity.
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CMO Validation As A Service
Learn about the highly successful commissioning and qualification of Wheeler's Oklahoma City CDMO facility with the overarching goal of ensuring all equipment was qualified for a Phase 3 clinical production campaign.
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The Value Of Peptones For Enhancing Biopharmaceutical Productivity
Peptones, versatile media additives derived from various sources, offer numerous benefits for biopharmaceutical production.
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Eagle Mountain Eases Into Technology Upgrade With Sensus FlexNet EasyLink Solution
Learn how a Utah Water Utility adapted to rapid growth with the help of Sensus.
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Maximizing e-Builder To Reduce Review Times
Discover how the Miami-Dade Water & Sewer Department (WASD) streamlined their project evaluation with e-Builder, saving time and enhancing project documentation reliability.
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Increase Capacity And Improve Consistency By Replacing Flat Sheet Filtration
Learn how a large distillery that produces several million liters of various brands of Canadian whisky achieved cost-effective and quality-enhancing filtration with SUPRApak technology for distilled spirits production.
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Accelerate Your Oncology Breakthroughs
Finding the right partnership can help your oncology clinical trials overcome trial complexities through strategic planning, a deep scientific understanding, and operational excellence.
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Early-Stage Development In Rare Pediatric Oncology
Learn about the strategic approach a biotechnology company utilized to address significant hurdles in launching a Phase 1 clinical trial for a novel therapy targeting a rare pediatric cancer.
NEWS
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Alvotech Signs U.S. Agreement To Expand Access For Newly Approved High-Concentration Interchangeable Biosimilar To Humira® (adalimumab)4/19/2024
Alvotech (NASDAQ: ALVO), a global biotech company specializing in the development and manufacture of biosimilar medicines for patients worldwide, announced today a long-term agreement with a strategic partner to further enhance access to Adalimumab-ryvk in the U.S. market, the newly U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved high-concentration interchangeable biosimilar to Humira.
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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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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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Securely Propagating Entanglement At The Push Of A Button7/11/2024
Entanglement, Einstein's "spooky action at a distance", today is THE tool of quantum information science. It is the essential resource for quantum computers and used to transmit quantum information in a future quantum network. But it is highly sensitive.
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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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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.