Consumers value quality. This is especially true when it comes to their food and beverages. Take a blended powder beverage product for instance: when you’re pouring a powdered drink into water, you want to ensure your powders dissolve instantly so you can enjoy your beverage. Agglomeration ensures this, and is critical to crafting exceptional quality powdered beverages that lead to higher customer satisfaction. What is the agglomeration process and how does it work in enhancing product quality? Let’s dive in.

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A Closer Look at the Agglomeration Process

The agglomeration process is a crucial part of ensuring powdered food and beverage products are optimally prepared. Fine powder particles are assembled into larger particles. Larger particles are less likely to clump together and can more easily break through the surface tension of the liquid, which allows it to be wetted and then dissolve in cold and hot liquids.

The Benefits of Agglomeration

Improved Solubility

Solubility, or the ability to be dissolved in liquid, is essential for the success of powdered products. Smaller particles are light but have a larger surface area, making it difficult to wet the entire particle. They often float on top of the liquid instead of dissolving. Agglomerants, on the other hand, have a smaller surface area and can be wetted more easily, improving overall solubility.

Better Uniformity

Uniformity is especially important in supplements and products that require accurate dosing. At Tipton Mills Foods, our process includes pre-blending and milling of components prior to agglomeration so that all particles enter the agglomerator at the same size, ensuring uniformity throughout storage, packaging, and shipping.

Dust Reduction

Larger, agglomerated particles are heavier than fine powders, reducing airborne particles. This significantly reduces dusting, which can improve working conditions.

Enhanced Consumer Satisfaction

These benefits result in a better quality product, which ultimately enhances the overall consumer experience. Brand owners value quality, so it’s clear that the agglomeration process is an essential part of powdered product manufacturing.

Trust Tipton Mills Foods for Expert Agglomeration Services

At Tipton Mills Foods, we are well-equipped to provide you with the exceptional agglomeration services your powdered product deserves. We have a state-of-the-art Krueger Continuous Agglomerator, the only one of its kind in the country. Using water vapor and air, this machine builds larger particle sizes, a crucial part of improving a product’s solubility. Let’s take a closer look at the agglomerator’s process:

  • First, fine powders are suspended in air in an enclosed chamber in which water vapor is injected in order to slightly wet the particles.
  • These wetted particles collide and stick together, building the larger particles.
  • The particles then fall to a conveyor belt that carries them to another chamber where warm air dries off excess water and the dried particles are sized to the desired particle size.

Tipton Mills Foods is Ready to Enhance Your Powdered Products

At Tipton Mills Foods, we have a wide range of capabilities that allow us to provide you with the exceptional products you deserve. In addition to our expert agglomeration services, we also offer formulation and packaging solutions for your powdered products.

We prioritize food safety and quality, and hold several valuable industry certifications, such as SQF, NSF, Kosher, Gluten-free and much more. With our agglomeration expertise and commitment to customer support, you can trust Tipton Mills Foods to provide you with the quality products you deserve. Get in touch with us today to learn more.