If you are considering an upgrade for your high-speed batch mixing process, discover the advantages of Exact Mixing’s unrivaled range of Continuous Mixing equipment. We can help you reduce labor, cut costs, improve product consistency, and simplify your snack food production process.
Since 1994, Exact Mixing has delivered innovative Continuous Mixing solutions to a growing number of customers and industries around the globe. Our full line of mixer models and sizes can successfully mix a wide range of baked food and snack products.
What is the Difference Between Batch and Continuous Mixing?
The process of batch mixing involves loading ingredients for one batch at a time (either all at once or in a pre-defined sequence), mixing them together, and removing the dough from the mixer before introducing another batch. This means that each batch can produce different, and sometimes undesirable, results.
The main advantage of batch mixing is flexibility. If necessary, you can make small batches, and it’s easy to make slight variations in your products from batch to batch. Batch mixers are typically less expensive in the short-term, but it often takes more labor to make your products than with Continuous Mixers.
Continuous Mixing, on the other hand, is the process of continuously metering ingredients directly into the mixing chamber and generating a constant stream of mixed product at the exit of the mixer. The mixing can be done in stages to ensure all ingredients are properly incorporated.
Exact Mixer production volumes range from 50 kg/hour to over 10,000 kg/hour, and your process can be accomplished in a nearly employee-free environment, increasing cost savings and value.
Although continuous mixers generally involve a higher initial investment cost, they offer many long-term advantages. You will benefit from exceptional scaling accuracy due to the high-tech metering systems for dry and liquid ingredients.
You will also enjoy a more consistent product quality without dough variations. Our mixers are self-monitoring and self-correcting, so once the process is running, it will continue running without bowl cleaning and other work in between. Also, due to limited human intervention and the closed construction of the equipment, there are few chances to contaminate your products.
Our Continuous Mixer Models
MX Continuous Mixer – designed for high energy mixing, our most versatile mixer is well-suited to cookies, snacks, batters, icings, pretzels, pizza, and pastes
EX Continuous Mixer – designed for wheat-based snack products, such as crackers and sweet goods, and other low- to mid-absorption stiff doughs
HDX Continuous Mixer – a two-stage system designed for mixing ultra-high absorption, highly developed doughs at low temperatures, such as buns, bread, rolls, English muffins, and similar products
FX Continuous Mixer – designed for products where critical moisture levels determine the texture of the final product, such as baked potato chips and crisp products.
LDX Continuous Mixer – ideal for cookies and other applications where ingredients are blended before adding flour.
To learn more about high-speed batch mixing vs continuous mixing and to find a mixer that will be best for your process, get in touch with Exact Mixing at (01) 610.693.5816 or contact us online.
