Food — instant mixes
Instant mix
production systems.
Soup, sauce, dessert and beverage mixes — products that are nothing but a blend, sold on dissolving right every time.
In brief
Instant mixes are pure blending products: a dozen ingredients weighed, mixed and packed, with homogeneity as the whole specification. TLG builds mix plants around accurate batching, mixers matched to the recipe, and anti-segregation transfer from blender to packing head.
The powder problem
Process requirements.
A sachet is a tiny sample of a big batch — if the blend segregates between mixer and filler, every sachet is a different recipe. Short mass-flow routes, minimal drops and gentle transfer carry the mixer's work to the pack intact.
- Batching
- Multi-ingredient weighing to recipe
- Blending
- Mixers matched to shear tolerance
- Transfer
- Anti-segregation routes to packing
- Packing
- Sachet, pouch and jar line feeds
The process — stage by stage
The instant mix 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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