The pet treat industry is growing fast, with increased consumer demand for high-quality, consistent products. To keep up, manufacturers need mixing equipment that delivers precision, reliability, and efficiency. Exact Mixing provides advanced continuous mixing systems for pet treat production, helping processors maintain product consistency, reduce waste, and streamline their lines from raw ingredients to final form.
Why Continuous Mixing?
Pet treats may vary in shape, size, and formulation, but they all rely on well-developed dough or slurry mixes for successful processing. Traditional batch mixing often struggles to keep up with the high-volume, high-consistency requirements of modern production lines.
Exact Mixing’s continuous mixing systems eliminate the inefficiencies of batch mixing by:
- Delivering a constant flow of uniformly mixed dough or paste
- Controlling hydration, temperature, and ingredient ratios in real time
- Integrating seamlessly with extruders, formers, dryers, and cutting systems
- Reducing batch-to-batch variation and product loss
Whether making soft chews, dental sticks, or baked biscuits, our systems ensure your mix is production-ready from the first gram to the last.
Engineered for High-Performance
Exact Mixing offers five core mixer models, each customizable based on your product type, throughput requirements, and processing conditions. For pet treats, our solutions can handle everything from high-viscosity doughs to low-moisture, extrudable mixes. Our systems include:
Hydrobond Technology: Hydrobond instantly hydrates dry ingredients by combining them with liquids before they enter the mixing chamber. This pre-hydration process improves ingredient absorption, eliminates dry pockets, reduces mixing time, and enhances overall dough consistency, which is critical for producing soft chews, baked biscuits, and extruded treats with reliable texture and structure.
Automated Ingredient Metering: Our equipment uses advanced metering technology to deliver accurate, consistent amounts of dry and liquid ingredients into the mixing system. This automation minimizes human error, ensures formulation accuracy, and maintains consistent product quality across long production runs, which is essential for complex, nutrient-rich pet treat formulas.
Clean-in-Place (CIP) Systems: CIP systems allow internal mixer surfaces, pipes, and contact components to be cleaned automatically without disassembly. This reduces downtime between runs, decreases labor required for cleaning, and supports compliance with USDA, FDA, and other pet food safety standards. CIP is especially valuable in operations producing multiple treat types with varying flavor or ingredient profiles.
Real-Time Controls: Integrated control systems continuously monitor key parameters such as dough consistency, temperature, moisture content, and mix energy. Operators can make on-the-fly adjustments or rely on automated corrections to maintain ideal conditions throughout production.
Modular, Scalable Design: Exact Mixing systems can be configured to produce between 50 kg and 10,000 kg of product per hour, depending on your scale and application. As demand increases, systems can be expanded without requiring a complete equipment replacement.
Efficient Use of Ingredients, Labor, and Energy: Our mixers reduce ingredient waste to under 1%, cut labor requirements by up to 70%, and lower energy consumption compared to batch mixing. This results in a more cost-effective and sustainable production process, ideal for high-volume pet treat lines.
Ready to Improve Production?
If you want to improve operations with advanced production line mixing equipment, Exact Mixing helps pet treat manufacturers get the most out of every ingredient and every minute of production time. Use our Continuous Mixing Calculator or contact us today to learn how we can support your next production line upgrade.
