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Manufacturing Equipment for Animal Nutrition Products

Matcon is proud to work with leading names in the Animal Nutrition sector.  Providing well designed IBC systems that ensure each serving of animal feed, pet food, and nutritional supplements is correctly balanced for maximum efficacy. 

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DESIGNING POWDER HANDLING SOLUTIONS

for Animal Nutrition Product Manufacturing

The versatile Matcon powder and materials handling system can overcome your dry processing challenges when producing animal nutrition, livestock feeds and nutritional supplements.

Matcon's powder processing and mixing equipment enable the decoupling of your manufacturing processing steps. We help companies to achieve flexible and efficient manufacturing system practices using the principles and practices of lean manufacturing of dry powder materials.

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YOUR CHALLENGES

Mixing Challenges for Animal Nutrition Manufacturers

Powder flowability problems are a key challenge when making animal nutrition products.  Variations in particle size, shape, density, moisture can cause powders to stop flowing, bridge or rat-hole inside hoppers and silos. 

Furthermore, after blending, these powders are prone to segregate if they are not handled carefully. In manufacturing Animal Nutrition or Pet Food, it is vital to ensure the correct dispersion of micro and minor ingredients across each serving, so that the animals get all the nutrition they need - no under or over-supply of critical nutrients. 

The powdered ingredients used can also pose cross-contamination challenges, a constant risk with traditional fixed mixer production systems. This creates cleaning challenges, worker safety hazards and explosion risk. 

HOW MATCON CAN HELP

Improving Animal Nutrition Manufacturers Productivity

The requirement to manufacture such a varied portfolio of products has directed producers to adopt highly flexible manufacturing operations to meet with demand. Matcon IBC Technology will allow you to adapt to market changes, adhere to regulations, modify the way you operate and create new ways to enhance your production.

The de-coupled nature of the Matcon Intermediate Bulk Container (IBC) system makes it easy to produce a variety of products in a short timeframe.

Improve productivity with in-bin blending

In-bin powder mixing reduces downtimes for recipe changeovers and removes risk of cross-contamination as the batch ingredients are fully contained within the IBC, so with no need to stop the production line entirely to clean down the Blender, lengthy product changeovers can be a thing of the past.

The unique Cone Valve technology contained in each Intermediate Bulk Container (IBC) protects any blends
against segregation and provides guaranteed discharge, helping even the stickiest of products to flow effectively and under control.

MATCON PROVEN EXPERIENCE

Working with Animal Nutrition Manufacturers

In the animal nutrition sector, Matcon have experience of nutrition, medicinal and agricultural applications, handling a range of ingredients including grains, proteins, vitamin and mineral nutrient premixes, and extruded products.

IBC tumble blending is proven to increase the range and quality of pre-mixes that our customers manufacturing dry pet foods can offer, whilst retaining their high-quality assurance standards. As batch ingredients are fully contained within the IBC, there is no need to clean down the Blender, significantly reducing downtimes for product changeovers and any risk of cross-contamination is also removed.

Animal Nutrition manufacturers that make the move to IBC-based production, have the ability to run smaller, tailored, flexible batch sizes in parallel, reducing loading, cleaning and discharge times. And the great thing with an agile system like this, is that new bins of varying sizes can be added at any time, so scaling to meet market demands doesn’t mean costly factory extensions or refits.

OUR APPROACH

Helping Animal Nutrition Manufacturers Improve

The need for flexibility in any manufacturing process is one of the biggest challenges in  industry. Manufacturers must evolve and adapt their production methods so that they can easily and quickly respond to customer orders.

The Matcon IBC System achieves this flexibility by following the principles of Lean Manufacturing and through parallel processing, where the manufacturing steps are decoupled. Formulation, blending, packing, and cleaning take place simultaneously, maximizing the Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) of the feed manufacturing process.

Advancements in IBC tumble blending technology allow manufacturers to use Intermediate Bulk Containers (IBCs) to quickly change over recipes, add liquids to blends, and curtail the risk of cross-contamination with improved containment.

Our unique Cone Valve technology inside each IBC provides automatic and controlled discharge of virtually any powder type and has continually proven to overcome powder handling issues such as bridging and rat-holing, whilst protecting the blend against segregation. 

SYSTEM MODULES

Powder Handling Systems for Animal Nutrition

This simple system is all you need to get started the right way. By decoupling the processing steps we enable companies to achieve a flexible manufacturing system.

The Matcon system is based on using Intermediate Bulk Containers (IBCs) to transport powders between manufacturing steps and as a blending vessel. Because everything is contained within the IBC, there is no clean-down of the blender between recipe changes, which gives you the ultimate flexibility of operation.

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Formulate

No waiting for formulation. Fill Intermediate Bulk Containers off-line for improved efficiency.

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Blend

Mix any recipe, any time. Eliminate time-consuming cleaning for instant recipe changeovers.

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Pack

Prevent mix segregation. Use the IBC Cone Valve for consistent, reliable results.

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Clean

Hygienic design for quick cleaning. No system down-time with off-line cleaning of IBCs.

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