Stainless steel agitators for pharmaceutical and food applications
Optimize your production line with tailored agitators designed to enhance heat transfer, mixing, and homogenizing processes, ensuring your complex formulations maintain integrity and quality.

Mixes, Blends, and Homogenizes Complex Formulations
Gpi Process Equipment’s stainless steel agitators are engineered to enhance mixing efficiency across diverse industries, including food, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics. Designed with precision, these agitators ensure thorough mixing, blending, and homogenizing by utilizing a variety of configurations such as anchor, scraper, and propeller designs. Capable of handling both batch and continuous operations, they are ideal for producing end-products like sauces, creams, and fruit purees. These agitators offer excellent heat transfer and come in versatile sizes, making them adaptable to your unique production needs.
With options for customization, Gpi’s agitators are available in materials like stainless steel to provide superior corrosion resistance. Their PLC-controlled systems enable seamless integration into existing production lines for enhanced automation and process efficiency. These agitators comply with stringent hygiene standards, supported by a surface finish of Ra 0.8, and feature CIP systems for effortless maintenance and quick cleaning. Designed to meet specific client requirements, Gpi also offers engineering support for tank-agitator combinations to optimize your production line setup.
Benefits
- Enhances product consistency with precise mixing and homogenizing capabilities.
- Minimizes contamination risk with hygienic design and easy-to-clean CIP systems.
- Ensures versatile application adaptability with customizable agitator configurations.
- Integrates seamlessly into existing production lines with PLC-controlled automation.
- Increases operational efficiency with robust construction and corrosion-resistant materials.
- Applications
- Food,Sauces,Spreads,Confectionery,Fruit fillings,Cosmetics,Dressings,Lotions,Dairy,Pharmaceuticals
- End products
- Jam,Jelly,Soup,Peanut butter,Hummus,Mashed potatoes,Toothpaste,Starch slurry,Fat cream,Marmalade,Tomato sauce,Salsa,Mechanically deboned meat,Apple pulp,Cheese sauce,Egg-based dressings,Caramel,Creams,Fruit puree,Milk concentrate,Yoghurt,Wax,Fruit sauce
- Steps before
- Preparation,Purification,Ingredient measuring,Raw material handling
- Steps after
- Homogenization,Packaged,Quality control,Cooling
- Input ingredients
- soups,sauces,fruit,tomato sauces,fruitfilling,mashed potato,mechanically deboned meat,dressings,fruitpuree,ready-to-eat fillings,salsa,jam,egg,hummus,marmelade,jelly,soup,fruitsauce,peanut butter,starch slurry,applepulp,pharma,spreads,dairy,lotions,confectionary,milkconcentrate,creams,fat cream,cheese sauce,wax,chocolate,yoghurt,toothpaste,caramel
- Output ingredients
- mixed soups,homogeneous sauces,blended fruit mixtures,emulsified products,crystallized materials,dissolved substances,suspended particles,dispersed mixtures,deaerated liquids,improved heat transfer solutions
- Market info
- GPI De Gouwe is known for manufacturing bespoke stainless steel tanks and processing equipment, specializing in the food, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries, with a reputation for delivering high-quality, custom-engineered solutions.
- Capacity
- 50L up to 12.5m³
- Material
- Stainless Steel
- Surface Roughness
- Ra 0.8
- Temperature Range
- Melt up to 6000kg/hour
- Type of Agitation
- Gate / Anchor / Scraping / Propeller / Bottom driven / Dispersing disk
- Mixing Process
- Mixing / Homogenizing / Emulsifying / Crystallizing / Dissolving
- Hygienic Design
- Yes
- Working mechanism
- Agitation with possible scrapers,stators,and different agitator types (e.g.,propeller,gate)
- Integrated steps
- Mixing,homogenizing,emulsifying,crystallizing,etc.
- CIP principles
- CIP capability with hygienic design
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Batch / Inline Continuous
- Automation level
- Manual / PLC / SCADA
- Agitator customization
- Variety of agitators tailored to product and process needs
- Surface finishing
- High-finishing level with Ra 0.8,option for smoother surfaces
- Hygienic design
- Compliant with food and pharmaceutical standards
- Mixing Requirements
- Homogenizing / Blending / Emulsifying
- Product Types
- Soups,Sauces,Dairy
- Tank size
- 50L up to 12.5m³
- Tank material
- Stainless Steel
- Agitator types
- Gate,Anchor,Scraping,Propeller,Bottom driven
- Tank shape
- Cylindrical
- Finishing levels
- Surface roughness Ra 0.8
- Compact footprint
- Customizable
- Control panel type
- Customizable
- Agitator type
- Gate agitator / Anchor agitator / Scraping agitator / Propeller agitator / Bottom driven agitator / Dispersing disk / Rotor/stator / Screw agitator / Combination of agitators / High shear mixer / Turbo mixer / Side entry agitator / Static mixer / External homogenizer
- Surface finish
- Ra 0.8 or smoother
- Agitator finish level
- High-finishing level
- Integration options
- Custom tank-agitator combination