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Bacteria, fungi and enzymes help produce pharmaceuticals, for example penicillin. Fermentation is used to modify starch, preserve food, polymerize environmentally friendly plastics, purify rare earths, produce alcohol, biogas, cheese, yogurt, yeast, baking dough or vinegar.

Thickeners optimise the viscosity of liquids. They must be chemically neutral and have no effect on colour and taste. In addition, thickeners can stabilise emulsions and suspensions. amixon® mixers homogenise and improve the properties of powdered thickeners.

In the broadest sense, spices are flowers, buds, fruits, seeds, barks, roots, rhizomes, bulbs or parts thereof, usually in dried form. Herbs are fresh or dried leaves, flowers, shoots or parts thereof.

The aim of evaporation is to increase the concentration of solids in the liquid by evaporation. Evaporation is strongest when the liquid is boiling. The boiling temperature drops when a vacuum is applied. In the amixon® apparatus you can evaporate, thicken, mix, apply vacuum and also dry solids.

Container mixer: maximum flexibility through decoupling.

These days, instant foods are offered as hot or cold meals. Instant food is all the better quality the more nutritional it is and the more natural it tastes. The preparation process must be simple, preferably with a “success guarantee”.

The quality of a powder or a powder mixture is first determined by the purity and effectiveness of the ingredients. A powder is more effective the more specific surface area it has; that is, the finer it is ground. This means that the finer it is ground. For example, small quantities of a color pigment should be sufficient…

Wherever powdery goods are processed, dusts occur. Their unpleasant property is that they can escape through the smallest of leaks. For example, from big bags, mixers, silos, pipelines or from filling/ packing plants. Dust can remain suspended in the air for a long time and be deposited everywhere.

Many dietary products are available in powder form, quite a few even as powder mixtures. Powder preparation is therefore of special importance. In contrast to liquid preparations, powders have a longer shelf life.

Disperse active ingredients and substances sometimes have an unfavorable consistency when they are wet. Then they are viscoplastic, pasty, highly viscous, lumpy, poor flowing and sometimes even toxic. Products that result from the synthesis of active ingredients sometimes have similar properties.

amixon GmbH spoke to owners of medium-sized feed manufacturing companies about the challenges and advantages in their industry. How can these companies benefit from regionally available raw materials and modern technology?

Pressure and vacuum resistant reactors are required when vacuum drying is to be carried out. Then the wet or moist product must also be heated. This is usually done by giving the mixer a double jacket. A heat transfer medium circulates in the double jacket. This is steam, water, thermal oil or a molten salt (at particularly…