Ribbon mixer ME series
Characteristics
- Technology
- ribbon
- Batch/continuous
- continuous
- Product type
- powder, for liquids, granulates
- Configuration
- horizontal
- Loading
- side-loading
- Applications
- for the plastics industry
Description
The ME mixers are the Valtorta horizontal slow speed mixers, to be used mainly for those processes which require a slow mixing action which is physically not aggressive: they can provide a high quality of the compound, even when the product to be processed is fragile or it must keep unchanged specific starting physical characteristics. The excellent capability of these mixers to guarantee quality consistency in the compound, is due to a relatively slow rotation of the horizontal central shaft, which can have different profiles such as paddles, ribbon or double ribbon or, anyway, with the profile which better copes with the product to be handled.Thanks to the outer blades which are close to the tank sidewalls, the product is conveyed towards the tank center, where the rotation of the main section of the mixing blades conveys the product again towards the tank sidewalls; this creates a sort of convective mixing which, without stressing the compound, guarantees in any case the mixing in relatively short times. Main applications are the mixing of TPR, PVC, powders or dry granules but, if necessary, also powders and low viscosity pastes, added with liquid components.
