Dairy — sports supplements
Sports supplement
powder handling.
Whey proteins, creatine, flavour systems and actives — blended products whose label claim depends on the mix surviving to the scoop.
In brief
Sports supplement manufacture is blending at its most demanding: proteins, carbohydrates, flavours and actives of different densities that want to segregate in every transfer. TLG builds supplement lines around anti-segregation design — short mass-flow paths from mixer to pack — with accurate dosing and fast allergen changeover.
The powder problem
Process requirements.
A tub that assays right at the top and wrong at the bottom failed in the conveying, not the mixer. Segregation happens in every drop, every surge hopper, every long dilute-phase line — so supplement plants are laid out to blend late and pack close.
Changeover is the other economics: flavour and allergen switches must be fast and verifiable, favouring tool-free strip-down conveyors and equipment that cleans in minutes.
- Challenge
- Multi-density blends that segregate in transfer
- Answer
- Blend late, pack close — mass-flow throughout
- Changeover
- Tool-free strip-down, allergen-verified cleaning
- Dosing
- Actives and flavour systems to gram accuracy
The process — stage by stage
The sports supplement 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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