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The history of instant food shows how technological advances and societal needs came together to develop convenient and versatile foods.

Depending on the bulk material and application, continuous mixing can be more favourable than batch mixing. This article compares two types of continuous mixing: Continuous pipe flow versus continuous vessel flow.

Baking improvers are highly complex powdered mixed concentrates consisting of more than 10, sometimes even more than 50 different components, which also include liquid additives such as fats, oils, water, molasses, lecithins, syrups, honey, baking extracts, etc.

In the production of detergents and metal soaps, both mixers and synthesis reactors have to be specially designed. amixon® equipment fulfills the specific special tasks of this industry in an exemplary manner.

amixon® mixers guarantee a wide range of benefits for the user, including low-contamination mixing, ideal mixing qualities, largely residue-free and segregation-free discharge, and convenient inspection and cleaning with minimal handling effort.

A helical mixing tool can mix powder/bulk materials ideally and precisely. It does not matter whether the mixer shaft is vertical or at an angle.

A brief digression on the amixon® single-shaft mixer with EM standard barrel, which is particularly suitable for the pharmaceutical, baby food and nutraceutical industries.

Starch fermentation, starch conversion, starch modification, ... Starch can be cationised in the dry state or chemically or enzymatically modified in the wet state. We can demonstrate numerous processes in the amixon® technical centre.

Methylcelluloses have a wide range of technological properties. They are used for thickening, gluing, dispersing, emulsifying, filtering, flocculating and lubricating. They are used in the processing of paints, tablet masses, toothpaste, meat and fish, ice cream, baked goods, instant products, mayonnaise, etc.

Some materials are less suitable for chemical synthesis due to their inert properties. This applies, for example, to many ceramic materials. In these cases, new syntheses can sometimes be made possible by diffusion. This is more likely the more nanodisperse the powders are.

Powder mixers play a very important role in adaptive manufacturing. Their significance is comparable to that of powder metallurgy. A suitable mixing process enables, for example, the production of completely new materials by ‘mechanical alloying’.

Progress in pediatric and nutritional science is helping manufacturers develop new baby formula ingredients with the goal of making powdered formula that can better meet the needs of growing infants. Here are three recent advancements in the science of powdered baby formula composition that are helping to ensure babies…