How to Keep Your Industrial Mixer Working For You Not Against You

Handling numerous product recipes and maintaining high hygiene standards while keeping manpower and production costs low is a major challenge for the food industry. Having the wrong industrial mixer in place often makes matters worse. This was the challenge faced by a market-leading tea grower in Malaysia, producers of a range of three in one tea mix drinks. Whilst they were the first to be accredited with ISO 22000 certification for complying with worldwide food safety standards, they realised further investment was required to maintain their exemplary hygienic manufacturing and quality standards. A Demanding Brief The manufacturing operation they were looking for needed to allow simultaneous multiple recipe production, with quick changeovers and clean-downs. It also needed to use their existing floor-space yet have the ability to expand in the future. They looked to Matcon to help them achieve these exacting criteria. By installing a future-proof powder handling system using Intermediate Bulk Containers (IBCs) Matcon’s solution meant materials could be transported between manufacturing steps including the all-important blending stage. Decoupling all the different process steps meant the tea producer could operate each, concurrently, as a stand-alone stage of the manufacturing process. And because the materials move between each production stage in IBCs, product flows smoothly around the system; no more waiting for one step to be completed before moving on to the next. With processes being continuously fed, the tea manufacturer experienced a significant increase in Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) rates and plant productivity. The Right Industrial Mixer

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