The Challenge
A company specialising in the production of metallurgical materials used for tool and die manufacturing commissioned us to supply a ploughshare mixer capable of handling up to 700 kg of product per batch. The recipes, composed of extremely hard, abrasive, irregular, and coarse ingredients, require an excellent quality of homogenisation within the shortest possible cycle times.
Installed at the heart of the facility, the unit had to be exceptionally high-performing and capable of resisting severe, high-grade wear. Due to plant layout requirements, two circular discharge outlets were requested to feed different packaging lines downstream of the mixing process.
Given the highly abrasive nature of the ingredients, the use of wear-resistant materials was mandatory for the construction of the mixer. Furthermore, due to an average bulk density exceeding 2.0 kg/dm³ and very poor material flowability, it was necessary to oversize the installed motor power.
