How It Works

Tumble blending is a dual action blending principle. The first blending action is produced by a wave as the material is tumbled.  This wave (or shear plane) occurs in the top ¼ of the product load.  The second blending action is produced by the cradle orientation.  The IBC is held in the blender at an angle to position the IBC horizontal center of gravity 20° from the Blender tumbling centerline.  This geometry places the IBC shell walls at cross flow producing angles to the blend axis, acting as baffles as the product is tumbled.

Features:

• Clean, cGMP design
• Adjustable blending speed
• Single and double pedestal designs
• Column post blender
• Digital tachometer
• Electric drives
• Blend duration configurable by timer or revolution count
• PLC based controls
• FDA 21CFR Part 11 compliant controls – Electronic signature and records

                   

Options:

• Bottom clamp – for pallet jack loading
• Side clamp
• Column Blender Design
• Deluxe controls
• Remote communications package
• Safety gate
• Mid-blend pause – facilitates ingredient addition

Blend Uniformity Solutions

CPS, partnering with Bruker Optics, offers the first true “plug and play” Near-Infrared PAT System for blend uniformity analysis for IBC tumble blending.  The LANCIR II System’s unique design consists of a self-contained, battery operated wireless NIR diode array spectrometer mounted on the blending container with a quick release clamp. The wireless signal can be received up to 1,000 feet away from a wireless PC running the System’s proprietary software. 

Read more about it by clicking here.
 

Column Blender Design

The Column Blender offers additional capabilities over a pedestal style blender.  In addition to its blending function, the Column Blender serves as a Column Lift to lift and place IBCs.  This is especially useful for combined suite systems and allows the IBC to be blended and immediately moved over a tablet press for compression.

The Column Blender can accommodate a wide range of IBC sizes as Column Blenders clamp IBCs from the sides on horizontally oriented side lugs.  The Lugs are positioned at the IBC’s center of gravity so the height of the IBC is not a factor.

Click Here to read “A Containment Blending Overview”, a white paper by Scott Heffern, our Director of Pharmaceutical Systems, for a better understanding of the principles of containment blending.