Mixing it big time
A Lindor drum mixer weighing a massive 20t with 25,000l useful product volume produced for a company that makes high-grade gelatine additives for the food industry is the largest one of its type ever built. It nearly doubles the previous design limit for these 'gentle touch' mixers, available in the UK from Orthos.
The horizontally-mounted rotating drum design of the mixers has no internal moving parts, such as mixing blades and impellers that apply shear forces to the product and cause deterioration both mechanically and from friction-induced heating.
Blending is achieved quickly -- typically in just one to four minutes -- by tapered scoops that cause a non-degrading three-dimensional, figure-of-eight flow pattern.
Since the drum has no 'dead' spaces all material is equally blended, and the machines are self-emptying with virtually 100% discharge.
Contact: Orthos(Engineering),
Tel: 01858 464246
