Kason processing equipment meets nutraceutical manufacturing’s toughest challenges head-on

Nutraceutical companies benefit from Kason solutions.

Firing Industries Ltd. is Canada’s source for processing solutions by Kason Corporation – including vibratory screeners and separators for nutraceutical powder. These powders frequently have sluggish characteristics that necessitate specialized material-processing equipment; Kason products optimize this process for top results. Two recommendations: the Vibroscreen screener, and the Centri-Sifter sifter.

Nutraceutical manufacturers face the constant challenge of maintaining high throughput and consistent quality, and Kason is up to the challenge.

Very fine particulate ingredients

Due to health-conscious consumers, dietary regimens promoted online, and a desire to strengthen immunity from COVID-19, nutraceuticals are big business these days, including herbal products, vitamin supplements, and fibres. But manufacturers require specialized technology to process very fine particulate ingredients that do not flow freely. Selecting the right sifting or screening equipment affects throughput and quality with respect to capacity, uptime, and downstream productivity.

Producers must transfer the exact energy required to allow good material particles to pass through screens efficiently. Another goal is to remove all contaminants, including products of previous processing. Nutraceutical plants typically have a choice between two innovative technologies, both available from Firing Industries, for sifting, screening, scalping, de-lumping or conditioning ingredients to make a homogeneous powder ready for blending: vibrational screening and centrifugal sifting.

The Kason Vibroscreen circular vibratory screener and separator uses state-of-the-art technology and is available in various sizes and configurations for any nutraceutical-manufacturing challenge. This is a flat-deck, circular vibratory device with screens mounted atop a motor, which drives the vibratory action at amplitudes that suit the material to be sifted.

Kason’s Centri-Sifter centrifugal sifter and separator is a versatile, high-capacity, compact workhorse with features that are perfect for nutraceutical production. It encompasses a horizontal cylinder in which a paddle assembly spins and flings material against a stationary cylindrical screen basket; this technology fluidizes the ingredient, imparting more energy into particles as they arrive at the screen hole openings, increasing the number of particles passing through.

Customers are advised to consider capacity, mix quality, maintenance, and management of demanding material when selecting a processing option for nutraceuticals.

To learn more, contact Firing Industries’ application-sales engineers at ddubuc@firing.com or (877) 688-0974.

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