Sports Nutrition Powder Manufacturing Equipment

INDUSTRIES

Equipment for Manufacturing Sports Nutrition Products

Matcon is proud to work with world-leading Sports Nutrition and Supplement manufacturers, helping them to improve manufacturing flexibility and reach their production targets.

Matcon is well known for delivering high quality stainless steel food-grade equipment that has enabled our Sports Nutrition customers to get started the right way & stay ahead of the competition!

DESIGNING POWDER HANDLING SOLUTIONS

for Manufacturing Sports Nutrition Supplements

An IBC system designed by Matcon with efficient, effective powder mixing will enable Sports Nutrition manufacturers to improve their manufacturing capabilities and handle the complex product portfolios that are driven by ever evolving consumer demand.

Matcon understands how important it is that manufacturers choose the right system to safely handle allergens, ensure sticky protein powders flow and deliver a quality product to the consumer which is vital to build trust and maintain brand reputation.

Within the Sports Nutrition sector, the ever expanding product portfolios present significant challenges for the production team. The need for multiple recipe changeovers impacts on available production time as clean-downs and validation takes place between each batch.

Traditional coupled mixing lines using fixed industrial blenders are not flexible enough. There are lengthy waiting times during the filling, emptying and cleaning process steps, resulting in delays and driving campaign manufacturing, with the consequential risk of inventory obsolescence.

Furthermore, protein powder ingredients are notoriously difficult to handle as they are sticky, poor flowing, and prone to bridging. New plant proteins are likely to be more so. This can result in blockages and work arounds - it is not uncommon to see 'bin rash' and hammers in use.

Increasingly allergen ingredients are included in recipes, which requires additional time for thorough clean-downs of the coupled mixer processing line. Resulting in higher equipment downtime and very low machinery efficiencies.

Matcon specialise in designing stainless steel IBC-based powder handling systems that optimize production capabilities and flow for Sports Nutrition manufacturers.

The Matcon Intermediate Bulk Container (IBC) System is configured to ensure production is efficient and effective, with the minimum amount of down-time in the line. As the batch is 'self-contained' within each IBC, there are no touch points with the blender, enabling instant recipe change over and maximised uptime and output. Cleaning of the IBC is off-line to reduce lost down-time.

What makes Matcon IBCs ideal for making Sports Supplements?

The de-coupled nature of a Matcon IBC system is ideal for businesses with a large portfolio of recipes. Even SKUs that require a small batch run are easily accommodated through using different sized IBCs within the same system.

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

The contained design of a Matcon system reduces the risk of cross-contamination in allergen handling. Any additional cleaning protocols are handled efficiently as more IBCs can be designed into the system to compensate.

The Matcon team has decades of experience working across the globe with the leading manufacturers of Sports Nutrition, fitness supplements, dietary health supplements and Nutraceuticals. We’ve designed efficient and flexible IBC systems that have enabled increased productivity and improved product quality, whilst reducing manufacturing costs.

Matcon has helped some of the first companies go from their very simple start-up to the more complex automated, multi-mixer, multiple packing line configurations we see today. The scalable modular design is perfect to expand upon as you innovate and grow your business.

Central to the Matcon IBC technology is the Cone Valve, which has continually proven itself to overcome the traditional powder handling issues of bridging, rat-holing, segregation and degradation. This protects the Blend Uniformity (BU) which results in improved product quality and consumer satisfaction.

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.