How to Improve Your Industrial Mixing Process

Are you thinking of expanding your manufacturing business in food & beverages, chemical, pharmaceutical, or cosmetics industry? If yes, then mixing of constituents, such as liquids, chemical substances, or even heat, becomes a key element of your manufacturing process. This is where Industrial Agitators play a key role. However, there are certain important attributes to keep in mind before deciding on the type of agitator set-up to be purchased:

Type of Agitator Machine to be used:

Based on the ‘type of mixing’ to be undertaken, the agitator set-up is decided. Be it between liquids, gas with liquid, solids with liquids, or even liquids with solids & gas, a common element between these is the requirement of a Corrosion Resistant lining in the agitator tank. This not only helps extend the agitator set-up’s life but also ensures the sanctity of the constituents being mixed.

Some of the popular Industrial Agitator Equipments include mechanical agitators, rotating tank agitators, agitators working with a pump blasting liquid, static agitators, and agitator mixer padole type, among others. So, it is imperative that based on your existing infrastructure (explained below) and the business requirement, you select the appropriate agitator machine set-up.

Fitment in the existing machine set-up:

Another decision that needs to be made is whether the inclusion of the agitator machine fits into your existing machine set-up. For example, in case of agitators for liquids, the preferred placement is vertically on top of the tank or horizontally on the side of the tank. As a result, it is important to consider how new agitator system will fit into the existing set-up. Further, if you plan on changing the mixer constituents, depending on what you plan to mix, the tank needs to be made Corrosion Resistant, if not already. This in in turn, will require you to re-think the speed of your manufacturing expansion.    

Corosion Resistant & Industrial Agitators

    

The Packaging Material of Choice for your Pharmaceutical Business

Do you own a Pharmaceutical, Cosmetics, or a Food & Beverage business? If yes, than packaging is one of the key aspects of your customer experience. Especially if you operate in the pharmaceutical industry and end up working with jars, vials, cartridges, and ampoules, where protection from foreign particles is of prime importance. This is where Pharma glass becomes a packaging material of choice for many. If you are in the market for packaging glass or setting up a Pilot Plant, you should keep the following in mind:

Pharma Glass

Quality & Conformance of the Packaging Material

Depending on the sensitivity of your solutions/products, the packaging glass with an appropriate quality level should be used. Typically, a pharma glass conforming to the international ISO GMP 15378/ISO 900 standards is considered as base quality suitable for most operations. Then there are region specific standards, such as EU–Pharmacopoeia or US-Pharmacopoeia. With these conformance standards in place, you can be assured that the quality of the packaging materials will satisfy your requirements. 

Requirement of Further Treatment

Based on the methods used to manufacture packaging glass, the number of particles present in the glass may vary. Now, in most cases such particles may not interfere with your product. However, if your product is sensitive in nature and exposure to foreign particles should be at a minimum, such as in case of a Pilot Plant, then manufacturing methods of the packaging materials become important. Here, keep an eye out for manufacturers following the laminar-flow technology or conforming to ISO 8 (category 100 000) standards. These quality standards lets you know that further treatment of the packaging material is not required and can be used directly in sensitive apparatus of the Pilot Plant.