Ploughshare® GMP Batch Mixer for pharma and food applications

Product catalog summary

Overview
The Ploughshare® GMP Batch Mixer by Lödige is designed for pharmaceutical and food applications, ensuring GMP compliance and high-quality mixes in short times. It offers reliable reproducibility, gentle product treatment, and low maintenance, with combined processes in a single machine and easy access to internal parts.

Design and Features
The mixer can be equipped with a heating/cooling jacket and features special Ploughshare® Shovels. It is available in various sizes, with volumes up to 30,000 liters on demand. The design supports intensive and gentle mixing, even at low speeds, and can handle pastes and pumpable mixtures.

Mode of Operation
The mixer operates on the hurling and whirling principle, ensuring constant involvement of all product particles and preventing dead zones. This allows for homogeneous mixing of components with different bulk densities and structures, including the addition of liquids and particle coating. High-speed choppers can enhance the mixing process.

Equipment and Customization
Lödige offers tailor-made solutions adapted to specific applications and products, emphasizing individual design and technical realization. The company's expertise lies in meeting unique customer requirements for long-term production efficiency.

Applications
Lödige Ploughshare® Mixers are used across various industries, with over 30,000 machines supplied worldwide in 70 years. In the food industry, applications include oven-ready flour mixes, baking powder, dried soups, stock cube mixes, flavorings, spice mixes, table salt, muesli, tea mixes, soluble cocoa and fruit drinks, sweets, chocolate, filling ingredients, cheese spread ingredients, vitamin mixes, decor sugar, and crispy coatings.

Catalog excerpts

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Ploughshare® GMP Batch Mixer for pharma and food applications GMP compliant design Highest quality mixes in short mixing times Reliable reproducibility of the mix quality Gentle treatment of the product Low maintenance design Combined processes in one single machine Easy accessibility to all inside parts of the mixer

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■ Oven-ready flour mixes ■ Baking powder ■ Dried soups ■ Stock cube mixes ■ Flavourings ■ Spice mixes ■ Table salt ■ Muesli ■ Tea mixes Mode of Operation The Batch Mixer operates on the hurling and whirling principle introduced by Lodige to the mixing technology and technical literature. The mixing elements ensure constant and total involvement of all product particles - preventing the formation of dead or low-movement zones. In that way, components of extremely different bulk density and structure can be mixed; even mixing in of aerosils for example is achieved homogeneously and without demixing....

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