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Tea mixing Equipment

Industrial mixing equipment is used to combine two or more solid, liquid or gaseous segregated ingredients into a homogenous single product. The choice of mixing technology depends largely on the physical state of the ingredients and the desired final product. But the sensitivity of the ingredients, the process temperature, and pressure requirements are also critical factors. All these parameters result in a wide range of industrial mixers.

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Chinese legend has it that tea was created by accident over 2700 years BC. A servant boiled drinking water for his emperor when leaves from the Camellia sinensis tree fell into it – and the emperor decided to taste the drink. While to make tea nowadays on a medium to large-scale you need tea processing equipment like dryers instead of just a tree and wind blowing it, mythology adds a special flavor to the tea industry story.

When you want to mix segregative, free-flowing powders and pastes that require perfect mixing quality and accuracy but require careful treatment, a conical screw mixer is a proven solution.


<h2>Gently mixing with perfect accuracy</h2>
The Vrieco-Nauta® conical screw mixer from Hosokawa Micron is a convective mixer with high mixing efficiency and accuracy for large volumes of up to 100.000 liters, specially designed for segregative, free-flowing powders and pastes. The conical vessel design allows a wide range of filling capacities and the mass flow characteristic design minimizes segregation upon discharge. Because there are no horizontal internal surfaces, products are completely discharged, minimizing product loss and providing for easy cleaning. Suitable for a wide range of processing activities in the pharmaceutical, food, plastic, metals &amp; minerals, nuclear, chemical, pigments and coatings industries.

Conical screw mixer

A high-impact mixer can help you to produce a homogeneous mixture when you are mixing powders and liquids of different viscosities. High impact mixers are often used the production of detergents, pesticides, water-soluble polymers, fine chemicals, veterinary/bulk pharmaceuticals, milk replacers, instant soups, beverages, and sauces.


<h2>Compact high impact mixer for large volumes</h2>
The Schugi® Flexomix from Hosokawa Micron is a high-impact mixer developed to achieve a highly homogeneous mixture of powders and liquids. It is unlike any other continuous mixer with its vertical cylindrical chamber and vertical rotating shaft and is capable of handling high volumes of product. Its high rotational speed and turbulent mixing keep the mixer chamber clean; it provides accurate dosing of both liquid and solid components and is suitable for even the stickiest of media. Liquids of varying viscosity and steam can be added using atomizing nozzles mounted to the upper part of the chamber just above the upper mixing blades.

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Continuous high impact mixer

The blending process is critical to the flavor quality of tea. But the physical impact of the mixing mechanism on the tea leaves risks downgrading their aromatic profiles. Internal friction breaks the leaves and produces dust, causing the unwanted release of volatile compounds.


<h2>Protect the leaves during tea mixing</h2>
The gentle tea mixer machine from Lindor applies gentle blending to protect the leaves from breakage. The mixing drum is designed with non-movable blades that scoop up the tea leaves and let them flow under gravitational force.

The absence of paddles or ribbons found in conventional technology means that the delicate material is not subjected to collision with tooltips. This technique protects the integrity of the leaf size and shape, conserving its natural flavor.

Further aromatization is possible with an optional liquid injection system or by mixing in flavor granulates. Alternatively, the two methods can be combined.

Mixing under gravity facilitates short mixing times for homogeneous blending, including tea leaves with complex shapes.

The gentle tea mixer comes in batch capacities ranging from 10 to 25,000 liters and integrates with other equipment, including sieves, bag filling stations, metal detectors, and magnets.

Gentle mixer for tea blending

Lindor is a supplier of special mixers, coaters, impregnators and vacuum dryers for powders or granulate - especially those that are sensitive and require gentle treatment. Lindor's gentle touch technology can be applied by producers in the food, fine chemicals &amp; special plastics, as well as pharmaceutical industries.

From the rolling hills of Scotland to the tranquil gardens of Asia… What could a glass of whiskey and a cup of tea possibly have in common?

Single malt whiskey and single crop tea both rely on the uniqueness of their single ingredient - malted barley from a single distillery and tea leaves from a single plantation. However, when tea was introduced to Europe by means of traders, tea producers started to blend tea leaves from different plantations to suit the taste of Europeans.

When making blended tea, in addition to keeping the taste as consistent as possible in every batch, it's important not to break the tea leaves to avoid changes in color, flavor, taste, and the creation of tea dust.


<h2><em>“Keeping the integrity of the tea leaves is our mantra”</em></h2>
This is what Bastiaan Soeteman, Managing Director at Lindor, told us when we broached the topic of tea blending.

“<em>Tea blends can contain up to 35 different teas. Tea leaves can be very small, like powder, and very long, like pine needles – up to 2 – 3 cm</em>,” Bastiaan explains.

To balance out the characteristics of different teas, you can play with different factors, such as the rotation speed, the time, or the sequence in which the ingredients are put into the blender. For instance, some herbs and flower petals are added at the very last moment because they are very delicate.
<h2>Just like gravity pulling you down. There’s no force, it’s just a movement.</h2>
Everything in life is a metaphor, so Bastiaan gives us one.

“<em>When making a cake, you have to mix the ingredients in a bowl using a spoon and your arm’s power. After stirring for a while, the friction generated between the spoon and the mixture forces you to push harder and harder. This might damage the mixture.</em>”

The same happens during tea blending. Using a paddle or a ribbon mixer, the frictional force between the leaves and the paddle’s edge might break the leaves.

Lindor’s blender has no paddles or ribbons, which represent the <em>spoon</em> in Bastiaan’s metaphor. Instead of using a tool to mix the leaves, the whole drum is rotated – the <em>bowl</em> in the kitchen metaphor.

“<em>We use very little power... gravity is doing the rest. The only thing that we do is lift up some tea leaves and let them roll out of the scoops continuously. Our electric motor rotates the drum with 20% of the power of a traditional mixer</em>,” Bastiaan concludes.

In this way, the amount of tea dust created is negligible. Damaging the leaves means throwing away valuable raw material, which has undergone so many processes before arriving in Europe.

So why use force when you can make use of gravity?

Down with gravity – how to make tea blends without breaking the leaves

Food

A beverage is any kind of liquid or drink, usually other than water, made for human consumption. Beverages are further classified into two categories: alcoholic beverages and non-alcoholic beverages. Alcoholic beverages refer to liquids that contain 1% to 75% of liquor and are produced by fermentation such as wine, beer, or distillation such as vodka, rum, tequila. Non-alcoholic beverages are drinks that don’t have any liquor such as tea, coffee, fruit juices, soft drinks, and carbonated beverages. They can be produced premix or postmix, depending on the setup of your production line.

Beverages

Our food chain starts in the soil, growing crops and livestock. But between the fields and the stores, there is a line of industrial food processing equipment. Processes may be as minimalistic as cleaning fruit and as complex as homogenizing milk alternatives made from pressed legumes. In each case, processing technology is an important link in the food production chain.

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