Overlapping paddle mixer for precise food processing
For precise and thorough mixing in food processing, this solution ensures efficient product blending and discharge, seamlessly integrating into existing lines to enhance productivity and solve sanitation challenges with its unique quick-release shaft seals.

Mixes, Blends, and Transports Food Products
The Overlapping Paddle Mixer with Feedscrew Discharge from Cozzini is designed to deliver efficient, thorough mixing and precise discharge in food processing operations. Featuring a rounded tub and overlapping paddles, it ensures consistent blending of ingredients across applications such as meat preblends and cereal formulations. With capacities ranging from 2,000 to 15,000 lbs (900 to 6,800 kg), this mixer meets various batch and continuous processing needs. It incorporates Allen-Bradley controls, offering both standard and fully programmable options for seamless automation. The heavy-duty stainless feedscrew auger provides reliable transportation of mixed product to subsequent process stages, minimizing wear and maintenance costs. For industries requiring strict hygiene standards, the mixer’s quick-release, watertight shaft seals facilitate full washdown sanitation, proving advantageous in meat and vegetable processing. Compliance with USDA and CE standards, alongside adherence to AMI sanitary equipment design principles, ensures the mixer meets rigorous quality requirements. Optional load cells and cooling systems, such as glycol jacketing or CO2 injection, accommodate applications demanding precise ingredient handling and temperature control. Cozzini’s overlapping paddle mixer offers food processing plants, meat processing facilities, and ingredient blending operations a robust, customizable solution tailored to meet exact production specifications.
Benefits
- Ensures thorough mixing and discharge, enhancing product consistency across batch operations.
- Reduces maintenance costs due to minimal wear parts and durable stainless construction.
- Supports stringent hygiene standards with full washdown sanitation capability.
- Offers precise process control with customizable automation through Allen-Bradley controls.
- Meets industry compliance standards including USDA and CE, ensuring quality and safety.
- Applications
- Meat preblends,Cereals,Food processing,Formulation mixing of ingredients,Spices,Ground meat operations,Vegetables
- End products
- Ready-to-use seasoning blends,Chili powder,Meatballs,Cornflakes,Granola mixes,Sausage mix,Diced vegetable medley,Burger patties,Soup bases,Pastry fillings
- Steps before
- Grinding,Ingredient Preparation,Weighing,Pre-blending
- Steps after
- Packing,Formulation,Temperature Control,Further Processing
- Input ingredients
- meat preblends,ground meat,cereals,spices,vegetables,formulation ingredients
- Output ingredients
- mixed product,precisely output product,processed food mixture
- Market info
- Cozzini (Middleby) is known for manufacturing industrial food processing equipment, specializing in grinding, mixing, and emulsifying machinery, with a strong reputation for innovation, quality, and customer service in engineered-to-order solutions for the food processing industry.
- Capacity
- 2,000 lbs. to 15,000 lbs. (900 kg to 6,800 kg)
- Feedscrew Diameter
- 9″-16″ (230-406 mm)
- Automation
- Standard or fully programmable Allen-Bradley controls
- Sanitation
- Quick-release watertight shaft seals
- Construction Material
- Stainless steel
- Cooling Options
- Glycol jacketing or CO2 injection cooling systems
- Automation level
- Standard or fully programmable Allen-Bradley controls
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Batch operation
- Cleaning method
- Quick-release,watertight shaft seals for washdown sanitation
- Product discharge method
- Feedscrew discharge
- Cleanability
- Full washdown sanitation
- Abrasion resistance
- Heavy duty,stainless steel
- Corrosive resistance (e.g. acids)
- Stainless steel construction
- Biological compatibility
- USDA accepted
- Mixing Applications
- Meat preblends,ground meat,formulation mixing for cereals,spices,vegetables
- Tub Shape
- Rounded
- Capacity
- 2,000 lbs. to 15,000 lbs. (900 kg to 6,800 kg)
- Feed/Discharge Method
- Feedscrew Discharge
- Paddle Configuration
- Overlapping Paddles
- Feedscrew Diameter
- 9″-16″ (230-406 mm)
- Control panel type
- Standard or fully programmable Allen-Bradley controls
- Discharge method
- Feedscrew discharge
- Capacity range
- 2,000 lbs. to 15,000 lbs. (900 kg to 6,800 kg)
- Shaft seals
- Quick-release,watertight
- Load cells option
- Available
- Cooling Systems
- Glycol jacketing or CO2 injection