For more than 75 years Silverson has specialised in the manufacture of quality high-shear mixers for the food and beverage industries.

At Silverson Machines, we know that the mixing challenges of the food and beverage industry are unique and constantly changing. As well as being at the forefront of new applications and technologies, Silverson has a wealth of knowledge and experience to draw upon from supplying customers in the food industry in over 150 countries.

Whether you’re concerned with reducing production times, hygienic processing, powder/liquid mixing, producing stable emulsions, homogenising, dissolving sugar, disintegrating solids, blending liquids of different viscosities, or dispersing and hydrating gums, thickeners, and stabilisers, Silverson has a mixing solution for you.

The Silverson advantage

Scale up

We have a wide range of high-shear food mixers available that are ideal for food applications, ranging from our most popular L5M-A Laboratory mixer all the way up to in-tank mixers that can process batches of up to 30,000 litres. Silverson Machines offer the largest capacity range from a single manufacturer and part of our success – and that of our clients – is the accuracy with which we can predict the performance of our production scale mixers based on laboratory trials.

We see no point in using a laboratory mixer capable of speeds of 25,000 rpm or more if the results cannot be replicated in production. That’s why our laboratory mixers are designed and built to the same tolerances as our production units; comparable rotor tip speed and shear rates across our entire product line mean scalable results, every time.

Customisation

As we design and build every Silverson mixer ourselves, giving us the flexibility to custom design and build machines to meet our customer’s exact specifications and requirements. Whether you require a mixer to operate under ultra-hygienic conditions, high pressure or to be constructed in non-standard materials such as Hastelloy or Titanium, Silverson has the flexibility, knowledge, and capability to design and build a mixer to fit your exact requirements.

Try before you buy

And if you aren’t sure what you need or would like to see what high shear mixing can do before you commit to purchasing, Silverson offers extensive testing either at our testing centres or at our customers’ own facilities.

We are confident that we can revolutionise your process – improving product quality and consistency and dramatically cutting mixing times – so we challenge you to put us to the test. A local Technical Representative can visit you and conduct laboratory scale trials on your product or for pilot and production scale applications our trial program allows you to conveniently test a larger mixer at your own facility.

Alternatively, you can visit one of our fully equipped Test Centres, based in Chesham, Buckinghamshire. These are available for the use of all clients and allow you to discuss your application with our experienced in-house technical staff and carry out your testing program. We can replicate many typical process systems and you can test your product on a full range of Silverson high shear mixers. Or our virtual trials allow our customers to test their application on a Silverson mixer without the need for travel. Send us your ingredients and we’ll test your application on the most suitable Silverson machine.

Improving your mixing processes

Time after time, companies specify Silverson mixers as the “standard” equipment for their manufacturing process, with a single Silverson high shear mixer able to perform a wide range of mixing applications with speed and consistency. With the exceptionally rapid mixing action of a Silverson high shear mixer, process times are substantially reduced compared to a conventional agitator.

Silverson mixers are advantageous when:

• Hydrating and deagglomerating gums and thickeners

Agglomerates are instantaneously broken down as they pass through the rotor/stator workhead, resulting in an agglomerate-free mix with maximum yield.

• Reclaiming waste or out-of-spec product
• Dissolving

For example, Silverson mixers can produce a 66 Brix sugar solution at ambient temperature

• Homogenising

In many cases, a Silverson mixer can replace a high-pressure homogeniser in a processing line. They can also be used to create a uniform premix that will pass through a high-pressure homogeniser at a much faster rate and often in a single pass.

• Reducing particle size The Silverson rotor/stator workhead can achieve rapid and uniform milling of both solid and semisolid materials to a low micron size in a single operation.
• High Viscosity mixing

The innovative pumping rotor design of some Silverson mixers allows them to process higher viscosity products.

• Blending liquids of varying viscosities
• Forming stable emulsions

A Silverson mixer can easily create a stable emulsion with a droplet size of 2 – 5 microns, results down to 0.5 microns can be achieved depending on the formulation.

If you’d like to discuss your food/beverage application, get in touch with Silverson Machines today.

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