Applications

Tea Blending Company

Leading industrial process and mixing specialists JR Boone Ltd have designed, installed and commissioned a comprehensive tea blending and mechanical handling system for a leading UK specialist tea manufacturer.

The customer set challenging technical specifications for the overall project and the new system replaces a smaller manually-intensive system, which had limited blending capacity up to 100 litres.

The new system is designed to blend batches up to 500 kg, made up from a wide range of black and green base leaf teas.

To meet the operational requirements, a compact design was generated in close co-operation with the customer’s plant operators and project engineers. This allows a single elevator to feed tea leaves and a variety of dry flavourings into the blender directly from tote bins and then discharge finished tea blends back into the tote bins without damage.

Following comprehensive in-house trials, Boone engineers confirmed that the larger blender could achieve a shorter time to blend, whilst maintaining the tight quality control on the finished product.

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Augean PLC

New rules for managing hazardous wastes posed a challenge for leading hazardous waste management company Augean PLC.

Since November 2008, the treatment of chemical wastes prior to landfill has to be carried out under much more tightly controlled conditions. In particular, the mixing of waste with binding agents must be carried out in a closed vessel inside a building to minimise the risk of contamination to both the environment and workers.

With the legislation pending, Augean took the decision to make a substantial investment to provide the company with the most advanced treatment unit for chemical waste in the UK.

Augean’s Alec Hirst has been project manager from the beginning, and is very pleased with the results from the new plant.
“This is something new to our industry, and we are pleased with the results”

At the heart of the £1.2m project is the HHBM mixing unit , which combines the shredded waste with cement and PFA (pulverised fly ash) to form a cake which can then be safely consigned to designated hazardous landfill sites.
The mixing is a pretty brutal process and the mixing machine needs to be up to the job.

So Augean turned to one of the most experienced companies in the business, J R Boone of Congleton, to provide the machine they were looking for.

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Instarmac

For Instarmac Group plc, efficient and reliable mixing of complex pastes lies at the heart of its adhesive business.

As one of the leading independent manufacturers of specialist cements, adhesives and grouts for the highway maintenance, streetscape, commercial flooring and contract tiling markets, Instarmac places great demands on its mixing plant.

.Instarmac selected a 4000 litre helical blade (ribbon) mixer from J.R.Boone Ltd of Congleton, which has doubled the size of batch production while at the same time produced consistently reliable results.



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Avana Bakeries
We have supplied mixing equipment to Avana Bakeries for smoother cake mix production. The new equipment is a horizontal helical blade mixer featuring a unique combination of rapid, gentle mixing with a tipping action to provide complete discharge of the unit into mobile containers.

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Adams Foods
We recently completed one of our more difficult assignments - building to a strict specification, a 1,500-litre capacity Horizontal Helical Blade Mixer (HHBM) for mixing milk powder - and all done in double-quick time.

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GC Hahn
This leading supplier of ultra-high quality food ingredients challenged us to supply a complete mixing complex, with exceptional hygiene requirements to meet Halal and Kosher food specifications. A Boone Horizontal Helical Blade Mixer was the answer.

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Tarmac Topsport - mixing in the Premier League
At the heavier end of the scale - an application for mixing specialist sports turf that is in use in top level sports facilities all over the country, and a challenge to mix together very different materials. No problem for Boone's unique Delta Blade Mixer.

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Unbar Rothon
We helped this specialist spice producer to increase production speed and efficiency with a pair of Helical Blade Mixers.

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