powder handling equipment for manufacturing nutraceuticals

INDUSTRIES

Manufacturing Equipment for Nutraceutical Products

We provide manufacturers of nutraceuticals, functional foods and nutritional supplements with the equipment they need to improve flexibility and production capacity. Increasing operational effectiveness.

As consumers demand a wider range of nutraceutical products to suit varying diets, lifestyles, preferences, allergies and tolerances, nutraceutical manufacturers are under increasing pressure to meet this demand in order to remain competitive and address the needs of their customers. This increase in diverse recipes and product portfolios means more changeovers during a shift, which significantly impacts active production time.

Many powders used in nutraceutical products are notoriously difficult to handle and can be sticky and poor flowing. Some of these powders have a tendency to segregate during discharge, impacting dosage accuracy and end product quality.

Increasingly, recipes need to be allergen-free or diet-specific, which will result in extra time being spent carrying out thorough clean-downs between recipe batches to reduce the chance of cross-contamination.

Matcon IBC Systems are designed to optimize your production line and make it more flexible. By employing parallel processing, the manufacturing process steps (formulation, mixing, packing and cleaning) are decoupled, with each process step taking place independently. This allows manufacturers to produce more than one batch or different recipe batches at any given time, hence becoming more efficient.

It is vital to use manufacturing equipment that removes the risk of any cross-contamination, without losing significant amounts of production time. IBC blending means that you spend less time cleaning and significantly reduce the risk of cross-contamination across your product lines as all powders are kept within the IBC.

Our Cone Valve technology enables precise, automatic discharge and flow control of all powder types, reliably preventing common issues such as bridging, rat-holing, segregation and degradation.

The scalable modular design of our powder handling systems is perfect to expand upon as you innovate and grow your product portfolios and increase throughput to develop your business.

PROVEN EXPERTISE

Working with nutraceutical manufacturers

We deliver a wide range of IBC powder handling systems and blending equipment, from the simple start-up to the more complex automated, multi-mixer, multiple packing line configurations.

We’re experts on designing systems that allow manufacturers to grow by increasing production output and enabling them to widen their product portfolio without the risk of cross-contamination across batches.

Our experience spans over 40 years of working across the globe with leading manufacturers of nutraceuticals, functional foods and nutritional health supplements. We have also helped customers in the sports nutrition industry overcome their production challenges.

SYSTEM MODULES

Powder Handling Systems for Nutraceuticals

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.