Feed

amixon® vertical mixers are suitable for a wide range of mixing tasks in the animal nutrition industry. amixon® offers mixing solutions for both robust feed blends in livestock feed as well as highly precise mixing of active ingredients, vitamins and nutrients for medicines and nutritional supplements.

  • Molassing of livestock feed and addition of liquid components such as lysine, soybean oil, etc. to powder blends with without clumping. Short mixing times and low energy input assure that the mix remains cold and pourable.
  • Blending of fragile components such as petals, flakes and leaves for specialty feed. Particularly gentle homogenization prevents the breaking of the ingredients.
  • Contaminant-free addition of active ingredients for veterinary and nutritional supplements, manually or automatically

Applications in the feed industry:

  • Animal nutrition, pet food, food for rodents
  • Pellets, compressed and extruded goods, sticks
  • Cereals, seeds
  • Mineral feed, lick stone mixes
  • Flakes, herbs, petals, leaves
  • Litter, bedding
  • Insects, shellfish
  • Veterinary medicine, tablets

Mischer, Trockner, Reaktoren von amixon®

agglomeration
dispersing
mixing
drying
coating

agglomeration

Inerting of pet food, tea, dried animal food, influencing of solubility, sinking behaviour and dispersibility.

dispersing

For the development of the flavours, spices are separated, liquids are distributed very finely and agglutinated materials are pulverised; lecithin distribution in baking agents, breaking down of block grease and block lecithin.

mixing

Gentle homogenising or intensive mixing in the same device: pat food, dried animal food..

drying

Usually after agglomeration, gentle drying of pet food, dried animal food..

coating

Coating of spice compounds with hard fat, coating of marinades with powder; drawing up of lecithins, coating of pressing materials, coating of salts with fat.