Mixing And Blending, Powder Flow, Food Texture, Bulk Mixing, and Food Processing news and information
PRODUCTS
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If you need robust and reliable fill-finish equipment that causes minimal disruption to your existing footprint, the Hull i-Dositecno LI Versa-Line™ Pharmaceutical Filling equipment is here to help! Accessibility from one side means you can install at the wall for a linear filling and capping system that fits neatly into any space.
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More than just an electronic data collection tool, our robust clinical data management system combines an intuitive user interface, seamless online and offline data capture capabilities, and comprehensive data management for clinical trials in a single solution.
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For your efficient and error-proof production: Our world-leading Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Suite PAS-X controls, monitors, and documents your processes digitally and in real time throughout the entire manufacturing cycle.
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TR-35 is Arcoplast's suspended lay-in ceiling panel grid system designed for use in high-demand wet and/or dry cleanrooms that typically have toxic or sterile environments.
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Optical filters enhance system precision by selectively transmitting or blocking wavelengths, supporting machine vision, spectroscopy, fluorescence microscopy, and medical imaging with customizable solutions.
WHITE PAPERS AND CASE STUDIES
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Modernizing Operational Maintenance At Treatment Plants
In 2017, the Harford County Division of Water and Sewer began looking for a modern work management solution to help automate preventive maintenance, coordinate work activities between groups, manage material inventories, and capture important data.
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When Beer Becomes Hazardous Waste
Faced with restaurants and bars suddenly closed for the foreseeable future due to COVID-19, a beverage distributor was forced to take back 40,000 gallons of expired beer.
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Transforming Reusable Device To Single-Use Improves Patient Safety And Saves Costs For Global OEM
A medical device OEM needed a contract manufacturing partner with expertise in DFM, vertically integrated capabilities, and a focus on quality to transform a reusable orthopedic instrument kit into a single-use version.
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How Syneos Health Tackles Protocol Complexities
Explore solutions employed by Syneos Health, a global contract research organization, to optimize Phase IIV clinical trials, particularly under a complex adaptive trial protocol.
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EPM Models Aburra Valley Sewerage System To Increase Flood Resilience And Mitigate Climate Change
Using advanced hydraulic modeling, EPM is analyzing how water flows through the sewerage system to inform decisions about operations, maintenance, network expansion, and environmental impact mitigation.
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Efficient Data Aggregation And Oversight: A CRO Success Story
Explore how a full-service CRO and tech-driven life sciences provider streamlined data aggregation and clinical trial oversight, yielding significant time and cost savings.
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How Aquacycl Helped PepsiCo Reduce Costs By 22% And Address Climate And Water Goals
Read about a company that was looking for a technology to address a diverse and variable array of beverage products and improve the existing wastewater management at one of their bottling facilities.
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Proactive WWTP Design And Innovation Improves Health Of Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Read about the $568 million, decade-long upgrade of a Water Pollution Control Plant that would expand the plant’s capacity from 30 mgd to 40 mgd while also reducing nitrogen and phosphorous to the limit of technology.
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Global Phase 3 Study Rescued In Record Time
DSG was selected as the preferred vendor for providing global support and enhanced data quality. Find out how the company was able to dramatically improve database build and study conduct.
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Global Biotech Improves Clinical Trial Patient Recruitment With Digital Matching
A global biotech initiated a phase III study for severe allergic asthma. Study protocol originally accounted for enrolling 222 patients across nine UK-based investigator sites. After deploying traditional recruitment methods, the sponsor only managed to randomize 20% of the target patient population in 11 months. By partnering with a solution provider they were able to get patient recruitment back on track and meet enrollment targets faster, which would not have been possible with a traditional recruitment approach.
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Analytics–Powered Approach To Patient Recruitment Strategy
In a Phase 3 psychiatry trial, a pharmaceutical company partnered with Signant to revolutionize patient recruitment through data-driven site selection using PureSignal Analytics.
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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.
NEWS
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Meatable And TruMeat Collaborate To Accelerate Cost-Effective Cultivated Meat Production4/30/2025
Meatable, the leader in cultivated meat technology, and TruMeat, specializing in the contract manufacturing of cultivated meat at commercial scale, have formed a strategic collaboration to advance the global commercialization of cultivated meat.
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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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Celestia TTI Brings Unique GaN Based SSPAs In DBS Band To Broadcast Satcom5/16/2024
Satellite operators running large teleport operations and satellite broadcasters seeking the ultimate technology to power their businesses now have a range of options to choose from thanks to a new generation of GaN SSPAs in DBS introduced to the market by Celestia TTI.
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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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Researchers Discover Smarter Way To Recycle Polyurethane8/16/2024
Researchers at Aarhus University have found a better method to recycle polyurethane foam from items like mattresses. This is great news for the budding industry that aims to chemically recover the original components of the material – making their products cheaper and better.
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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.