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Machines & Systems - IBC Blending
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IBC Blending
Dust-tight powder blending systems using IBC bins!
Accurately blend, mix, and formulate recipes made of powder and other dry ingredients inside stainless steel IBC bins that have a built-in cone valve to reduce or eliminate problems like rat holing, bridging, and segregation. Quickly and accurately blend powders, chemicals, drink mixes, tablets, granules, pellets, seasonings, flavorings, food coatings, seeds, nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals, and more using a food grade powder blending system.
- Build and formulate recipes using IBC discharge systems, or formulate recipes by hand with products discharged from bulk bags or dump stations into an IBC mixing station.
- Uniformly blend and mix your recipe inside an IBC using a tumble blender.
- Package your products as they discharge from the IBC bin using the mass flow cone valve to ensure your final product stays uniformly blended and homogeneous.
- Reduce process down time by easily cleaning each IBC using a wash-down or blown-down process for fast reuse. Then, re-mix the recipe or build a new recipe.
- Easily expand with additional powder blending systems as your business grows!
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Systems and Equipment
Complete Powder Blending Systems using IBC Blending
Incorporate as many components and intermediate bulk containers as required to mix and blend precise powder formulations and recipes. Additional components and machines can also include automated IBC discharge systems, silos, dust collectors, vacuum / pressure conveying systems, roller conveyors, bagging machines, walkways, and more.
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IBC Blending using a Tumbling Blender
Gently mix and blend powder and other dry ingredients directly inside an IBC using a tumbling blender. This greatly reduces the number of product transfers and also provides a sanitary food grade mixing and blending process with minimum dust, damage, or segregation.
- The tumbling IBC blender consists of a free-standing steel frame structure with a trunnion mounted rotating cage to cradle and hold the IBC bin.
- This type of mobile IBC blending uses a forklift to load and unload IBCs to/from the tumble blender.
- The cone valve located at the bottom of each IBC bin is automatically locked into place.
- Once the access gate is locked, the operator starts the IBC blending equipment.
- The cage rotates at a predetermined speed and duration to mix and blend ingredients inside the IBC bin.
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Mobile IBC Blending
These mobile IBC bins are designed for the storing, transporting, screening, grinding, feeding, weighing, and blending of powder and other dry ingredients. The integrated cone valve promotes and controls product flow, while minimizing dust and keeping a uniform mix and distribution of product as it discharges into downstream machines or additional powder blending equipment. The cone valve also helps to prevent rat holing, bridging, and segregation.
- These stainless steel IBC bins have an integrated cone valve that promotes the uniform discharge of blended powder and other dry ingredients.
- Use these bins with an IBC discharge system for automatic connection without manual intervention for dust tight powder handling and blending.
- Easily add more IBC bins as your business or powder blending system grows.
- IBC volumes range from 500L to 3,000L.
- These mobile IBCs are stackable and can be easily moved using a forklift saving valuable floor space.
- Choose contact and non-contact parts for your process.
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Cone Valve Integration
A cone valve is integrated into each stainless steel IBC. When the cone valve is lifted lifted, powder and granules are accurately discharged in such a way as to avoid bridging, rat holing, and segregation that happens with traditional butterfly or slide-gate valves. The cone valve also provides a good level of dust containment for powders used in formulating drink mixes, cake mix recipes, nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals, or specialty chemical powders like the ones used in battery production.
- The IBC's cone valve eliminates the bridging, rat holing, segregation of ingredients, and material flow problems.
- It also eliminates poor flow problems caused by traditional butterfly valves or slide-gate valves.
- A dust-tight seal is made between the cone valve and actuator when the IBC is lowered onto a discharge station.
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IBC Filling System
The cyclonic design of the IBC fill head ensures maximum dust containment. The fill head can only be lowered once the IBC is in position. A sensor on the fill head ensures the IBC lid is removed before filling. The floor locator ensures that the IBC is placed directly under the fill head with the cone valve aligned.
- This IBC filling system can be used with manual loading or automated batching.
- Use it to load an IBC from a bulk silo.
- It is also compatible with a 50 pound bag dump station.
- Unload directly from bulk bags or probox bins into an IBC.
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IBC Discharge Systems
IBC discharge systems safely and hygienically discharge powders and other dry ingredients from a storage IBC into an IBC blending system or other downstream process machines like loss-in-weight feeders, mixers, bagging machines, or conveyors. These can be manual, semi-automatic, or completely automated IBC discharge systems that require a minimal amount of operator intervention.
As the IBC is lowered onto the discharge system, the IBC outlet engages into the system's top line and the IBC's cone valve locates onto the station's central probe. This creates a dust tight seal between the IBC and discharge system.
When the IBC container is empty, it is lifted off of the discharge system and the IBC outlet remains sealed into the top liner just after the valve re-seats in the IBC outlet. This means that the product is never exposed before, during, or after discharge. This feature makes it the perfect system for food grade blending applications.
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IBC Washing and Drying Systems
Automatically wash, sanitize, and dry powder blending equipment without any downtime at the production level. System components can include a water heater, water pressurized system, air cleaning system, and dehumidifier.
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