Lab mixer for high-accuracy powder and paste mixing
Achieve precise mixing of powders and pastes with a gentle convective action, ensuring product integrity in R&D settings, while offering scalable insights for production-level processes.
Mixes and Blends Powders, Slurries, and Pastes
The Nauta® Minimix from Hosokawa Micron is a lab mixer designed for precision mixing in research and development settings. This conical screw mixer operates on a convective mixing principle, where a rotating screw combined with an orbital motion ensures thorough and gentle blending of powders, slurries, and pastes without product distortion. It is ideal for creating high-quality formulations in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, plant-based proteins, and more.
Capable of operating in batch and pilot-scale processes, the Minimix facilitates easy scalability to production levels, delivering essential mixing data. The equipment includes models with a vessel capacity from 5 to 20 liters and is known for its energy efficiency, featuring a typical motor power of just 0.18 kW. Its design supports liquid addition and temperature treatments, with special configurations available for vacuum and pressurized conditions.
Available in atmospheric and thermal/hazardous models, the Minimix is constructed from stainless steel for durability and compatibility with a variety of materials. It integrates seamlessly into lab environments with its full control systems, including PLC and frequency converters, and allows easy cleaning with features like quick-release fasteners and half-hinged acrylic covers.
Benefits
- Enables precise scaling from lab to production with reliable mixing data.
- Conserves energy with an efficient low-power motor design.
- Protects product integrity with gentle, distortion-free mixing.
- Flexible operation supports a diverse range of materials and treatment processes.
- Facilitates easy maintenance and rapid cleaning with user-friendly design features.
- Applications
- Chemicals,Beverages,Food,Animal feed,Marine algae,Battery materials,Nuclear,Ceramics,Metals,Plant-based proteins,Cosmetics,Kaolin,Gypsum,Minerals,Pharmaceuticals
- End products
- Cosmetic powders,Nutraceutical blends,Nutritional supplements for marine algae,Plant-based meat alternatives,Protein shakes,Gypsum plaster,Battery electrodes,Nuclear fuel pellets,Metal powder coatings,Ceramic powders,Fine chemical additives,Animal feed pellets,Pharmaceutical powders,Kaolin clay
- Steps before
- Size Reduction,Grinding,Powder Preparation,Drying
- Steps after
- Temperature Treatment,Cooling,Heating,Packing
- Input ingredients
- free flowing powders,fragile powders,segregative powders,pastes,slurries,liquid addition,sticky products,segregative products
- Output ingredients
- high quality powder mixtures,mixed pastes,mixed slurries
- Market info
- Hosokawa Micron is renowned for specializing in the manufacturing of powder and particle processing technologies, including mixing, drying, and milling equipment. They are respected for their innovative solutions and engineering excellence in industrial engineered-to-order equipment markets.
- Mixing speed
- Variable
- Mixing accuracy
- High accuracy
- Vessel volume
- 5,10,20 litres
- Power consumption
- 0.18 kW
- Vessel height
- 1140 mm
- Total height
- 1710 mm
- Automation
- PLC-controlled
- Outlet to floor
- 492 / 582,439 / 529,286 / 376 mm
- Frame width
- 760 mm
- Temperature treatment
- Cooling / Heating
- Pressure handling
- Pressurized / Vacuum conditions
- Vessel filling volume
- 4.2,8.4,16.5 l for powder
- Working mechanism
- Convective mixing
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Batch
- Automation level
- PLC-controlled
- Cleaning method
- Manual
- Energy efficiency
- Low power consumption
- Temperature treatment
- Cooling / Heating
- Pressure conditions
- Pressurized / Vacuum
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Vessel shape
- Conical
- Vessel size
- 5,10,20 litres
- Total height
- 1710 mm
- Frame width
- 760 mm
- Discharge method
- Manually operated ball valve
- Outlet to floor (feet/wheels)
- 492 / 582 mm,439 / 529 mm,286 / 376 mm
- Control panel type
- Full controls incl. PLC and frequency converter
- Integration possibilities
- Prepared for fork truck transportation
- Vessel type
- Forced stainless steel vessel with quick release fasteners
- Cover type
- Stainless steel cover with DN100/150 charging opening with tri-clamp fastener
- Execution type
- Atmospheric execution / For hazardous and thermal applications