There are five types of mixing: low shear, mid-shear, high shear, impact, and particle design. Low shear mixing is a gentle, neat, orderly mixing where the particles are slowly moving in an orderly fashion throughout the mixing process. This is perfect for fragile, heat-sensitive, and free-flowing powders. Hosokawa Micron Powder Systems produces many applications that are capable of conducting low shear batch mixing. These include:

Nauta® Conical Screw Mixer

The Nauta Conical Screw Mixer is a low-shear batch mixer capable of mixing up to 100,000 liters of material. It has a cantilevered screw design and can process various chemical, mineral, pharmaceutical, and food materials.

Nauta Vitomix

The Nauta Vitomix is a low-mid shear batch mixer capable of mixing materials at speeds of 0.4 m/s to 6.0 m/s. It is capable of processing various chemical, mineral, pharmaceutical, and food materials.

Nauta Modulomix

The Nauta Modulomix is a continuous modular mixer for low, medium, or high shear mixing. It is designed specifically to process pharmaceuticals.

Micron Labomixer LV

The Micron Labomixer LV is a laboratory scale conical screw mixer designed for the gentle mixing of dry powders.  It is designed to be a laboratory mixer that works similarly to the Nauta® Conical Screw Mixer. It is capable of processing chemical, mineral, food, pharmaceutical, plastic, and cosmetic materials.

If you wish to learn more about low shear batch mixing, be sure to watch the full webinar.