Beverage & Powder Drink Manufacturing & Mixing Equipment

With a growing appeal for more varied beverage and drink flavours as well as dietary trends including lactose-free and veganism, beverage manufacturers are having to change how they produce their products - from the processes they use to the industrial powder handling and mixing equipment they choose.

Increasingly large recipe portfolios mean many changeovers which significantly impacts production time.

Powder mix segregation is a risk, particularly with 3 in 1 coffee mixes, due to the different particle characteristics.

Problems with dust create cross-contamination risks, putting both employees and customers at risk.

Matcon's bulk material processing IBC solutions are designed to optimize your production line to ultimately make it more flexible. By employing parallel processing, each manufacturing process step can take place independently to allow manufacturers to produce more than one batch or different recipe batches at any given time.

The system remains closed at all times as all powders are contained within the IBC, eliminating any risk for cross-contamination and offering dust containment for a cleaner environment and operator safety. As ingredients are fully contained within the IBC tumble blender, cleaning between batches is reduced.

With a wide range of IBC sizes available, we can accomodate different batch sizes and support pilot scale testing with seamless scale up.

Our unique Cone Valve Technology located within each IBC protects your blended powders against segregation during the discharge process, maintaining their integrity and quality. It offers automatic and controlled powder discharge, overcoming the traditional powder handling issues of bridging, rat-holing, segregation and degradation.

Keeping dry ingredients contained is vital for beverage drink industry manufacturers that use 'free-flowing' powders.

Matcon has years of experience from working within the food, drink and beverage sector therefore we understand the importance of complying with strict food safety, hygiene and nutritional regulatory standards such as FDA Food Safety Modernisation Act (FSMA), Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and European Hygienic Engineering & Design Group (EHEDG).

We have supplied flexible and efficient production systems to numerous companies around the world making a wide variety of instant beverage mixes including 3 in 1 coffee, tea blends and powdered drink mixes. Our IBC systems have enabled our customers to increase productivity, reduce costs and improve product quality.

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SYSTEM MODULES

Powder Handling Systems for Beverage Manufacturers

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.