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John R Boone is exhibiting at the Total Show at the NEC, Birmingham, UK from May 25th to 27th.
On the stand John R. Boone will demonstrate several powder, granule and paste mixers including The New Tilting Helical Blade Mixer for sugar paste and delicate fruit cake & pastry mixes.
Other uses include Thick gel mixes, building adhesives, spice and flavours, meat mixes, and Breakfast cereals prior to extrusion. Batch Sizes from 2 litres to 10,000L.
This is one of the highly efficient Industrial Mixer range, which guarantees Mixing Process improvements by matching Innovative design with the latest power saving drives and process control to deliver custom built equipment to meet individual customer requirements.
Other equipment on the stand will include:-
The Rotary Drum Blender - a Low shear drum for Tea, Coffee, Cocoa, Spices, Muesli, Rice Flakes, Seeds Confectionery, Gelatine, Salts, Vegetables + spray coating applications. Batch Sizes from 2 litres to 25,000L.
The Horizontal Delta Blade Mixer - a high shear plough for Catering Mix, Cookies, Molassed Sugar, Adding Minor liquid additions to powders without agglomeration, breaking down soft agglomerates & cohesive powders when mixing . Batch Sizes from 2 litres to 7,500L.
Latest Case Studies
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.
Click to download the Tea Blending Plant User Story
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 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.
Click to download The Augean PLC Case Study
Instarmac Group
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.
Click to download the Instarmac Case Study .