Beverages — instant drinks
Instant drink
powder systems.
Instant coffee, drinking chocolate, fruit drink bases — products judged in three seconds of stirring by the person who buys them.
In brief
Instant drink powders are agglomerated for solubility, and handling that breaks the agglomerate breaks the product. TLG builds instant-drink lines with gentle conveying, anti-segregation blending and transfer, and packing feeds that deliver the blend the mixer made.
The powder problem
Process requirements.
Agglomerated particles dissolve because of their structure — porous clusters that wet and sink. Attrition in conveying turns them back into fines that float and clump in the cup. Dense-phase or vacuum transfer, minimal drops and gentle blending protect the property the spray dryer and agglomerator built.
- Products
- Instant coffee · chocolate · fruit drink bases
- Care
- Agglomerate-safe conveying and blending
- Blending
- Low-shear mixers, anti-segregation discharge
- Packing
- Jar, sachet, pouch and bulk feeds
The process — stage by stage
The instant drink line, stage by stage.
Every stage below is equipment TLG designs and builds — follow any of them into the solutions range.
- 01
Raw material intake
Sacks and bulk bags enter the line contained — dust captured at the tip point, foreign objects screened out.
- 02
Conveying
Transfer matched to the powder — pneumatic phase chosen for friability, mechanical for short controlled runs.
- 03
Raw material & finished goods storage
Silos with discharge engineered to the powder's measured flow properties — storage that empties reliably.
- 04
Automated batching
Every ingredient weighed to recipe on isolated load cells, majors to minors, with the batch record generated automatically.
- 05
Mixing
Blenders matched to the recipe's shear tolerance, with discharge designed so the blend survives to the pack.
- 06
Foreign material removal
Magnets hold ferrous wear metal; check-sieves reject oversize — placed where HACCP analysis puts them.
- 07
Bulk packaging
Filling by weight on live load cells — densified, dust-sealed bags that stack and ship at declared weight.
- 08
Dust extraction
Capture at every transfer point, ducted to reverse-jet filtration — hygiene, compliance and recovered product.
- 09
Automation & controls
One control system sequencing the whole line — recipes, interlocks and records included.
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