TODAY, Berbica production team finished two sets of Colloid Mill machines for our customer in Singapore. The customer mainly produces chilli sauce and their food sauce products are getting famous in Singapore market. The first time they ordered the same machine from us was three years back. And now they came to us again in order to expend the production capacity.
From the photo you can see there are two sets of Colloid mill mixer connected to work together. This is special designed for chilli paste production from dry pepper. Put pepper pieces into the hopper - first stage mill - Second stage mill. The first stage mill equips with screw propeller to help the solid pepper moves into the bottom miller faster. The second stage mill equips rotate blade to help with fast emulsion process. The second stage mill gap is smaller than the first stage mill, emulsification up to 2um. Pepper turns to chilli paste through the two sets colloid mill machines.
Some customers know well about Homogenizing, while may not familiar with Colloid mill device. We would like to take this chance introduce you more about it.
A colloid mill is a type of rotor-stator mixer that is often used in the manufacturing of emulsions and dispersions. It can also be used to reduce the particle size of solids in suspension. Colloid mills work on the rotor-stator principle: a rotor turns at high speeds (2000 - 18000 RPM) and pushes the fluid through small holes in a stationary stator, creating extremely high levels of mechanical shear. This process creates a uniform mixture or dispersion regardless of the viscosity of the liquid.
In fact, the application of a colloid mill was narrowed down since it doesn’t have heating system & vacuum system which is required in cosmetic and pharmaceutical industry. The emulsion particles are usually bigger than homogenized emulsions. People can use a colloid mill for pre-mixer, reduce the particles and transfer to another mixing kettle for fine homogenizing or vacuum and heating process. In this way, people can understand it similar to an inline homogenize pump, but it can handle bigger solid particles than inline homogenizing. The raw material for cosmetics and pharmaceutical are mainly powders, thus the inline homogenizer was applied more than colloid mill machine.
Still, colloid mill plays an important role in food industry, process pepper, ginger and garlic etc solid food into sauce / paste. It can also connect to an paddle mixer tank in purpose of adding some food ingredients and flavors and finally process until smooth.
Wuxi Berbica Technology Company specialized in homogenizing, emulsify, various of mixing machines and accessories. Welcome your kind visit to our website and let we know if you have any questions!
After all, the two units of Colloid Mills are on the way to Singapore. :-)
