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.

General


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.

Technical Specifications


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

Operating Characteristics


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

Product type Characteristics


Mixing Requirements
Homogenizing / Blending / Emulsifying
Product Types
Soups,Sauces,Dairy

Physical Characteristics


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

Custom Options


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