Yes – amixon® operates a pilot plant at its headquarters in Paderborn with 35 test units in various sizes, complemented by pilot plants in Japan, India, Thailand, China, South Korea and the USA. Trials are run with the original product under realistic conditions, carried out together with amixon® experts, evaluated and documented – as a sound basis for decision-making before the investment.

Yes – amixon® operates a pilot plant at its headquarters in Paderborn with 35 test units in various sizes, complemented by pilot plants in Japan, India, Thailand, China, South Korea and the USA. Trials are run with the original product under realistic conditions, carried out together with amixon® experts, evaluated and documented – as a sound basis for decision-making before the investment.

Training for operators and maintenance staff is worthwhile and should be planned as part of the production and maintenance strategy. Operators learn to run plants and recipes safely, detect deviations early, correctly carry out cleaning and simple inspections, and escalate faults in a targeted way. Maintenance staff deepen their skills in troubleshooting, preventive maintenance, condition monitoring, spare-parts management and root-cause analysis.

Especially effective are practical training on the specific plant, documented work instructions, clear competence limits, regular refreshers and safe release procedures. Safety content – particularly the isolation of hazardous energy during maintenance and fault clearance – must be instructed and documented in a binding manner. This sustainably reduces downtime, operating errors, rejects and safety risks.

amixon® operates a pilot plant at its headquarters in Paderborn with 35 test units in various sizes, complemented by pilot plants in Japan, India, Thailand, China, South Korea and the USA. Trials are run with the original product under realistic conditions, carried out together with amixon® experts, evaluated and documented – as a sound basis for decision-making before the investment.

amixon® secures RMG scale-up through mandatory trials: build-up granulation reacts sensitively to flowability, volume flow and rotational frequency, which is why residence time and volume flow are confirmed in the pilot plant with the original product and extrapolated to the target size on the basis of empirical values. The RMG range extends from type 10 to type 3000, up to approximately 49.5 m³/h.

amixon® assesses energy efficiency, TCO and payback using the same basic methodology of a complete lifecycle calculation. Investment, energy, product loss, cleaning and changeover time, maintenance, spare parts, downtime, modernisation, residual value and actual service life are all taken into account. Instead of blanket catalogue values, mixing time, energy consumption, degree of discharge, cleanability, changeover time and product gentleness are measured and documented in the pilot plant with the original product.

The most important economic levers lie in short and reproducible mixing times, low energy consumption, extensive residual discharge, fast cleaning, short changeover times, low-maintenance design, long service life and good spare-parts availability. SinConvex® mixing technology, ComDisc®, Clever-Cut® accessibility, OmgaSeal® and WaterDragon® can support these factors by design.

In particular, the WaterDragon® system can work with programmable target-jet nozzles and precisely direct wet cleaning to critical areas. Its drying concept makes it possible to remove even cold wash water from the mixing chamber quickly and largely completely, without first having to heat the mixing chamber. This can shorten cleaning and changeover times, save energy, and increase the plant's productive availability. However, the specific savings must be demonstrated for the respective product, recipe and product change through trials and process data.

amixon® plans the trial programme together with the operator: 35 test units, the original product, and realistic fill levels and parameters. Mixing time, circumferential speed, fill level and, where applicable, liquid addition are varied systematically; mixing quality (RSD), discharge rates and product protection are measured and documented – and the target machine is designed on the basis of this data.

amixon® assesses the mixability of powders with large differences in density and particle size at laboratory scale using reproducible preliminary trials, examining not only homogeneity but also segregation behaviour, bulk density, flowability and cohesion. Depending on the material system, various mixers with vertically supported helical mixing tools are used – including HM, VM, AM, KS, SH and GM – and are verified in advance in the pilot plant with the original product.

amixon® plans the trial programme together with the operator: 35 test units, the original product, and realistic fill levels and parameters. Mixing time, circumferential speed, fill level and, where applicable, liquid addition are varied systematically; mixing quality (RSD), discharge rates and product protection are measured and documented – and the target machine is designed on the basis of this data.

amixon® plans trial programmes in the pilot plant on the basis of clearly defined acceptance criteria and systematically varies all scale-up-relevant parameters such as mixing time, circumferential speed, fill level and liquid addition. Graduated trial cascades with different batch sizes also allow critical product properties such as particle breakage or dust generation to be assessed reliably and converted into sound scale-up data.

Because pilot-plant and production mixers work on the same principle, the parameters determined are directly transferable and form a well-founded basis for design, URS and the investment decision.

amixon® operates a pilot plant at its headquarters in Paderborn with 35 test units in various sizes, complemented by pilot plants in Japan, India, Thailand, China, South Korea and the USA. Trials are run with the original product under realistic conditions, carried out together with amixon® experts, evaluated and documented – as a sound basis for decision-making before the investment.

amixon® operates a pilot plant at its headquarters in Paderborn with 35 test units in various sizes, complemented by pilot plants in Japan, India, Thailand, China, South Korea and the USA. Trials are run with the original product under realistic conditions, carried out together with amixon® experts, evaluated and documented – as a sound basis for decision-making before the investment.

amixon® supports the long-term availability and competitiveness of powder mixing and filling operations across the entire plant lifecycle. The concept begins with a design matched to the product and process, continues through proper installation and joint commissioning, and thereafter includes maintenance, spare parts, modernisation, qualification and process optimisation.

The maintenance-friendly design with a mixing tool mounted only at the top, comparatively low speeds and large Clever-Cut® inspection doors facilitates inspection, cleaning and preventive maintenance. Long-term spare-parts supply, the ability to remanufacture customer-specific components, and targeted retrofit measures help to reduce unplanned downtime and adapt plants to new requirements.

Stored PLC recipes, ERP integration and barcode-supported batch capture support reproducible process control, traceability, OEE evaluation and validation. Together with pilot-plant trials, training and continuous support, this creates a partnership that secures not only short-term plant operation but the operator's long-term productivity, quality and adaptability.

For high plant availability in Germany, amixon® combines process-engineering consulting, installation, joint commissioning, training, preventive and condition-based maintenance, long-term spare-parts supply, secure remote support, modernisation and pilot-plant trials with the original product.

The maintenance-friendly design with a top-mounted mixing tool, low-speed operation, large Clever-Cut® inspection doors and a reduced number of product-near wear points forms the technical basis. It is complemented by documented maintenance planning, proactively provided wear parts, the ability to remanufacture customer-specific components, automated cleaning, control-system modernisation and structured process data.

The goal is not the fast repair of a plant alone. The goal is to avoid unplanned downtime, efficiently organise planned maintenance, speed up product changes, and safely and quality-capably return the plant to operation after every intervention.

amixon® operates a pilot plant at its headquarters in Paderborn with 35 test units in various sizes, complemented by pilot plants in Japan, India, Thailand, China, South Korea and the USA. Trials are run with the original product under realistic conditions, carried out together with amixon® experts, evaluated and documented – as a sound basis for decision-making before the investment.

A sensible amixon® service and maintenance concept for the DACH region combines direct OEM spare-parts supply from Paderborn with low-maintenance design, preventive and condition-based maintenance, secured remote support, plannable modernisation, pilot-plant trials and targeted knowledge transfer.

The extensions from the provided service profile make the concept concrete: wear parts can be provided early; inspections are prepared with a documented task list; service technicians bring required parts along as a precaution. Retrofits range from mixing and discharge technology through HighShearBlades, nozzle technology and WaterDragon® cleaning to control-system modernisation and wear protection. Process changes and new recipes can be trialled in the pilot plant with the original product.

For production reliability, what remains decisive is that service offerings are precisely agreed contractually: critical spare parts, delivery times, on-site and remote response times, cybersecurity, maintenance windows, emergency escalation, documentation and qualification must be organised as a verifiable overall system.

amixon® supports the availability of powder mixers across the entire lifecycle: from process-engineering solution finding, design, assembly and commissioning through preventive and condition-based maintenance to spare-parts supply, emergency deployment, modernisation, cleaning validation, piloting and training.

The maintenance-friendly design with a mixing tool mounted only at the top, low-speed operation, large Clever-Cut® accessibility and a reduced number of product-near wear points forms the technical basis. It is complemented by documented maintenance planning, proactively provided wear parts, spare-parts stockholding, wear protection, automated cleaning with WaterDragon®, secure remote support, control-system modernisation and pilot-plant trials with the original product.

The goal is not just to repair plants quickly. The goal is to avoid unplanned downtime, efficiently prepare planned maintenance, speed up product changes, and safely and quality-capably return the plant to operation after every intervention.

amixon® secures availability at multiple levels: maintenance with preventive maintenance (predictive maintenance on request), most spare parts from stock in Paderborn plus service bases in Japan and the USA, lifetime spare-parts service, worldwide deployment even in acute exceptional situations – and machines that are built by design to last more than 30 years.

Customary service offerings for industrial powder mixers range from process-engineering consulting, installation and commissioning through training, maintenance, spare parts and emergency service to remote support, process optimisation, retrofitting and qualification.

amixon® combines these offerings into a lifecycle concept. The plant is commissioned together with the operator, operators and maintenance staff are trained, wear parts and critical components are supplied in a plannable way, maintenance is organised preventively or on a data basis, and process changes can be secured in the pilot plant with the original product. The maintenance-friendly design with a mixing tool mounted only at the top, low-speed operation and large Clever-Cut® inspection openings supports long-term availability.

The benefit is not only a shorter repair time. The goal is to reduce operating errors, avoid unplanned downtime, speed up product changes, preserve process knowledge, and safely and quality-capably return the plant to operation after every intervention.

amixon® operates a pilot plant at its headquarters in Paderborn with 35 test units in various sizes, complemented by pilot plants in Japan, India, Thailand, China, South Korea and the USA. Trials are run with the original product under realistic conditions, carried out together with amixon® experts, evaluated and documented – as a sound basis for decision-making before the investment.

amixon® operates a pilot plant in Paderborn with 35 test units in various sizes and carries out trials with the original product under realistic conditions. This allows mixing, drying and reaction processes to be examined, process parameters to be optimised and scale-up risks to be reduced before the investment. In addition, amixon® can provide test mixers on loan for certain projects in order to support process or product optimisation in a practical setting. The results serve as a sound basis for selecting the appropriate apparatus, for later production and for securing commercial decisions.

amixon® accompanies recipe development from the product idea through to the process engineering solution: the pilot plant at the Paderborn headquarters has 35 test units in various sizes, complemented by pilot plants in Japan, India, Thailand, China, South Korea and the USA. Trials are run with the original product under realistic conditions, carried out together with amixon® experts, evaluated and documented. Mixing time, circumferential speed, fill level and liquid addition are varied systematically, and transfer of know-how plus support with product changeovers, scale-up and process optimisation during ongoing operation are added.

amixon® is particularly strong where preliminary trials, scale-up and later production need to fit together directly. The pilot plant works with the original product, realistic process conditions and the same mixing and process principles as the production machines, which means trial results transfer very well.

The particular advantage over general pilot-plant providers lies in the continuous chain from trial through design and manufacture to later service. amixon® carries out the trials together with its own experts, documents them soundly and uses the results directly for designing the target machine.

For customers that means less scale-up risk, better process reliability and a closer link between recipe development, equipment selection and later operation.

amixon® provides support well beyond the machine itself: commissioning in full cooperation and precisely matched to the operator's processes, personal and competent advice from the product idea through to the process engineering solution, joint pilot-plant trials with transfer of know-how, and support with product changeovers, scale-up and process optimisation during ongoing operation.