Sports Nutrition Powder Manufacturing Equipment

INDUSTRIES

Equipment for Manufacturing Sports Nutrition Products

We work with world-leading Sports Nutrition and Fitness Supplement manufacturers to increase their production capacity and improve flexibility. We also ensure they get started the right way and stay ahead of the competition!

POWDER HANDLING SYSTEMS AND EQUIPMENT

for manufacturing sports nutrition supplements

Sports nutrition is a growing market that is continuously evolving to meet customer demand. Currently, consumer demand is moving towards personalised nutrition, clean-label products and plant-based alternatives. Guaranteed product efficacy is important for maintaining brand reputation, whilst full ingredient transparency builds trust.

The bulk dry ingredients commonly used in sports nutrition and fitness products include protein powders (whey, casein, soya, and pea), which are notoriously difficult to handle as they are sticky and poor flowing. New plant proteins are likely to be even more so.

Increasingly, additional recipes that are allergen-free, gluten-free, lactose-free and vegan are in demand, which means even more time has to be spent performing thorough clean-downs across production lines and equipment to avoid cross-contamination.

Expanding product portfolios, quality requirements and demand-driven manufacturing can result in multiple recipe changeovers, significantly impacting on available production time.

Common protein powder ingredients such as whey powder are notoriously difficult to handle being sticky, poor flowing, and particularly prone to bridging. New plant proteins are likely to be even more so.

Increasingly, consumer demand has led to recipe diversity with potential allergens being replaced and therefore additional time is needed to perform thorough clean-downs of the processing line. This can often lead to equipment downtime and low efficiencies.

A powder handling system designed to optimize production flow is what we do.

The Matcon Intermediate Bulk Container (IBC) System is configured to ensure production can continue while one container is being cleaned 'offline'. As the powder recipe is 'self-contained' within each container, cleaning is only required when a discharged container needs to be re-filled or used for another recipe batch.

The de-coupled nature and easy storage of IBCs support businesses with a large portfolio of recipes, even when smaller batches need to be created, without stopping the production line entirely.

The unique Cone Valve in each Intermediate Bulk Container (IBC) protects the blend against powder mix segregation and provides assured discharge, even on 'sticky' plant protein mixes.

If you handle multiple recipe batches across a shift then a fixed industrial blender can be very inefficient with lengthy waiting times during filling, emptying and cleaning. In-bin powder mixing reduces downtimes for changeovers and removes the risk of cross-contamination as the batch ingredients are fully contained within the IBC, so with no need to clean down the Blender, lengthy product changeovers can be a thing of the past.

The Matcon team has many years of experience of working across the globe with leading manufacturers of sports nutrition, fitness supplements, dietary health supplements and nutraceuticals. We’ve designed efficient and flexible IBC systems that enabled increased productivity and improved product quality, whilst reducing costs.

We deliver a wide range of IBC powder handling systems and industrial mixing equipment for manufacturers of sports nutrition, dietary supplements and nutraceutical products, from the simple start-up to the more complex automated, multi-mixer, multiple packing line configurations.

Central to our IBC technology is the Cone Valve, offering automatic and controlled discharge of virtually any powder type. Cohesive materials are stimulated to flow, whilst free-flowing powders are controlled. Our Cone Valve has continually proven to overcome the traditional powder handling issues of bridging, rat-holing, segregation and degradation.

Our scalable modular design is perfect to expand upon as you innovate and grow your product portfolios and increase throughput to develop your business.

SYSTEM MODULES

Powder Handling Systems for Sports 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.