Industrial Mixers that Keep Your Process Moving

Customization makes a world of difference when it comes to precision mixes, long-term equipment reliability, and operational costs for production lines. Once you and your dedicated team of mixing experts at Marion have determined the most appropriate base configuration, customizing various key components to more precisely fit your needs for sanitation, material handling and durability will deliver the optimum mixing technology to your floor most cost-effectively.

Sanitary Mixing Equipment

Marion mixers offer a range of sanitary design considerations, including:

• Smooth Welded Finishes: Our mixing equipment features completely smooth, crevice-free welded finishes on internal and external components.
• Food-Grade Gaskets: Our patented O-ring gaskets made of FDA-compliant silicone are easy to replace, clean, and retrofit, providing an air-tight seal that protects operators and plant environments alike from dust pollution while preventing material loss.
• Accessible, Easy-Clean Design: We offer mixers with easy-access doors and internal mechanisms for sanitation crews. Cleaning and inspection can be easily carried out with minimal operator training and labor.
• Removable Parts: Gaskets, grates, outflow valves, choppers, load cells, and other components are removable for easy and thorough cleaning.
• 3-A Sanitary Standards: For sanitary operations, choose mixers that have been designed to 3-A standards to prevent contamination.

Material Handling and Agitator Selection

When it comes to innovative mixing solutions, there isn’t a singular, one-size-fits-all approach. Agitators vary in their abilities to handle different sizes, shapes, densities, and viscosities of materials.
Marion has a selection of mixing technologies to suit a wide range of material handling needs, including:

• Paddle agitators provide a gentler blending motion that suits solids with a range of particle sizes, densities, and viscosities. Paddle mixers also provide easier access for cleaning between batches.
• Ribbon agitators are needed to introduce shear or scrubbing action into the mix.
• Hybrid agitators offer the best of both worlds, combining the tumbling action of paddle mixers and the rolling pattern of ribbon mixers for a double-reverse mixing effect.
• Fluidizing paddle agitators can provide dual-directional mixing with multiple paddles. Through a combination of inward and outward motions, fluidized paddle mixers offer careful handling of delicate materials.
• Choppers are an option for applications where materials tend to agglomerate or where the material requires aggressive dispersion or size reduction.

High-Performance, Heavy-Duty Mixers

A variety of options can help address short- and long-term maintenance requirements as well as ultimate equipment life. Replaceable seals, gaskets, and paddles can keep material processing mixers running at top performance for decades. Even simple customization – like ensuring the air supply manifold is at eye level to prevent unnecessary wear on seals – can yield impressive ROI over time.