Candy Powder Ribbon Mixer uses a ribbon mixing structure to evenly mix and disperse sugar powder, additives, flavorings, etc., and features uniform mixing, clean discharge, and easy cleaning.
Price:$2,000.00-$9,000.00/Set
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Mixing Time: 8-20 minutes
Frequency: 50Hz, 60Hz
Mixing Speed: 15-60 rpm
Voltage: 380V, 400V, 480V
Material: Carbon steel, stainless steel
Single Mixing Capacity: 100-6000 kg (Customization available for over 6000 kg)
Feeding Method: Manual feeding, automatic feeding, or other methods
Discharge Method: Manual unloading, automatic unloading, or other methods
Applications: Flour, fruit pulp, powdered sugar, additives, flavorings
Candy Powder Ribbon Mixers come in various types based on their structure and function. Our factory offers dual-belt and single-belt mixing structures to suit different mixing intensities; they also come in V-shaped and horizontal designs to meet site and production capacity requirements; some models are even equipped with a spray device, enabling simultaneous mixing and liquid addition.
Single-belt mixers employ a single-layer belt structure, relying on rotating belt components to propel materials axially in one direction. They primarily utilize shearing action with relatively weak convection. While simple in structure and low in cost, their mixing efficiency and uniformity are limited, making them suitable for premixing low-viscosity, homogeneous materials. Double-belt mixers, on the other hand, use counter-rotating double-layer belt agitators to create an "8"-shaped convection circulation, achieving thorough horizontal and vertical mixing of materials. They are suitable for high-viscosity, powder-liquid composite, and fine powder dispersion applications.
V-type mixers, horizontal ribbon mixers, and spray mixers are three common structural and functional forms of mixing equipment, meeting the needs of different materials and processes. V-type mixers rely on the rotation of the cylinder to achieve cross-convection mixing of materials. They are simple in structure, stable in operation, suitable for powders with good flowability, and offer high mixing uniformity without dead zones. Horizontal mixers, with a horizontal cylinder as the main body and an internal stirring structure, can achieve continuous or batch mixing. They have a large processing capacity, wide applicability, and can adapt to various powders, granules, and slightly viscous materials. Spray designs achieve precise atomization and spraying of liquids during the mixing process, enabling processes such as powder-liquid compounding, humidification, and coating, improving mixing uniformity and product consistency.
Compared to conventional mixing equipment, the Candy Powder Ribbon Mixer offers significant advantages in candy production, offering comprehensive improvements in production efficiency, product quality, and ease of operation.
Precise Mixing: Targeted at mixing trace ingredients such as pigments and flavors in candy production, the double-ribbon forced convection design evenly disperses these ingredients into the candy powder, preventing issues such as overly sweet, overly fragrant, or uneven color.
Low Residue: The gap between the ribbon and the chamber is ≤2mm, resulting in a material residue rate of less than 0.5%, reducing waste of expensive materials such as powdered sugar and functional ingredients.
High Adaptability: Supporting variable frequency speed regulation, it can accommodate materials with diverse properties, such as pure powdered sugar, granular fillings, and sticky excipients, enabling production of a wide range of candy products without requiring equipment changes.
High Capacity: Customizable batch sizes range from 50L to 5000L, meeting the needs of small workshops to large factories. The mixer features a short mixing cycle, significantly increasing single-shift output.
Safe Material: Material-contacting parts are constructed of 304/316L food-grade stainless steel, which is corrosion-resistant and easy to clean, eliminating the risk of metal contamination and meeting food industry hygiene standards.
Sanitary Structure: The horizontal U-shaped chamber with a mirror-polished interior eliminates dead corners, preventing residual material from agglomerating and deteriorating, and allows for easy cleaning after each production run.
The Candy Powder Ribbon Mixer utilizes a horizontal U-shaped chamber as its core, with a ribbon agitator system performing the mixing process. After startup, the motor drives the reducer to rotate the ribbon shaft. In twin-screw models, the outer ribbon pushes the candy powder toward the center along the chamber wall, while the inner ribbon pushes the material to the sides in the opposite direction, creating strong forced convection. In single-screw models, the single ribbon propels the material in both circular and axial motion. This process continuously shears and blends the material, quickly breaking up lumps and allowing the powdered sugar to fully blend with ingredients such as flavorings and pigments. A uniform mix is achieved within 3-15 minutes, meeting the homogeneity requirements of various candy production processes.
The Candy Powder Ribbon Mixer's structure is designed around food-grade safety and high-speed, homogeneous mixing. Its core components ensure precise mixing of candy powder and auxiliary ingredients in compliance with production specifications.
Mixing Chamber：Its horizontal U-shaped trough design features 304/316L food-grade stainless steel in contact with the material. The interior is mirror-polished for a smooth, seamless finish, minimizing candy powder residue and buildup.
Mixing System：The core component is the ribbon mixing assembly, available in single and double ribbon configurations. The double ribbon model features nested inner and outer ribbons, with the outer ribbon pushing the material toward the center. The single ribbon model features a single ribbon, which propels the material in both circular and axial motion.
Drive System：Comprising a motor, reducer, and coupling, it provides stable power to the mixing shaft. It supports variable frequency drive, adjusting the speed based on the characteristics of the candy powder to prevent material breakage and uneven mixing, ensuring smooth, high-speed operation.
Feed Inlet：Located at the top of the chamber, it can be connected to a loader or feeding station for automatic feeding.
Discharge Inlet：Located at the bottom of the chamber, it features a pneumatic/manual valve to control discharge speed and flow.
The Candy Powder Ribbon Mixer has a wide range of applications, primarily suited for candy production, such as mixing ingredients for hard and soft candies. It is also suitable for the health food industry, helping to homogenize the ingredients of tableted candies. It can also be used in the baking industry to achieve large-scale mixing of premixes, meeting the precise mixing needs of various industries.
Hard/Soft Candy Production: Blends powdered sugar, maltodextrin, citric acid, flavors, and pigments to provide homogenized ingredients for the cooking process, ensuring a smooth texture and uniform flavor.
Tablet Candy Production: Blends candy powder with functional ingredients such as vitamin powder, mineral powder, and probiotic powder, as well as binders, to ensure consistent nutritional content and taste in each candy after tableting.
Covered Candy Production: Blends powdered sugar, oil, nut powder, and other ingredients for sandwich fillings to prevent segregation and ensure a dense and uniform filling.
Specialty Candy Production: Precisely blends sugar substitutes with various functional ingredients for sugar-free and functional candies to meet specific consumer needs.
| Model | LHY-0.25 | LHY-0.5 | LHY-1 | LHY-1.5 | LHY-2 | LHY-3 | LHY-4 | LHY-6 | LHY-8 | LHY-10 |
| One-time mixing (kg) | 100-150 | 200-300 | 400-600 | 600-900 | 800-1000 | 1200-1800 | 1600-2400 | 2400-3600 | 3200-4800 | 4000-6000 |
| Mixing time (min) | 8-20 | 8-20 | 8-20 | 8-20 | 8-20 | 8-20 | 8-20 | 8-20 | 8-20 | 8-20 |
| Mixing speed (r/min) | 60 | 55 | 45 | 40 | 35 | 25 | 25 | 20 | 15 | 15 |
| Motor power (kw) | 3-5.5 | 4-11 | 7.5-15 | 11-18.5 | 15-22 | 18.5-30 | 22-37 | 37-55 | 37-55 | 45-75 |
| Weight (kg) | 500 | 900 | 1800 | 2500 | 3200 | 4100 | 5100 | 6300 | 7500 |
The Candy Powder Ribbon Mixer's primary function is to achieve high-speed, precise, and homogeneous mixing of various raw materials in candy production, providing a stable raw material base for subsequent molding and other processes.
Homogeneous Mixing: The ribbon mixer thoroughly blends base ingredients such as powdered sugar and maltodextrin with trace additives such as flavors and pigments, as well as functional ingredients, ensuring a mixing uniformity of at least 95%, thus preventing uneven flavor, color, and sweetness in candies.
Adaptable to Various Material Characteristics: It can accommodate candy ingredients with diverse characteristics, including pure dry powders, granular fillings, and viscous ingredients. Designs such as variable frequency speed control protect material integrity during the mixing process, preventing clumping or breakage.
Ensuring Production Compliance and Efficiency: Made of food-grade stainless steel and featuring a seamless structure, it meets food hygiene standards and reduces material residue. Its short mixing cycle and customizable production capacity meet the production needs of candy factories of varying sizes, improving production efficiency and product quality.
Food-grade stainless steel is the core material for a Candy Powder Ribbon Mixer, ensuring safety, corrosion resistance, and easy cleaning. 304 and 316L stainless steel are the mainstream options. 304 stainless steel is the preferred base material, containing 18% chromium and 8% nickel. It offers excellent corrosion and rust resistance, resisting the attack of sugars and small amounts of acidic ingredients in candy powder. Its surface can be easily polished to a mirror-like finish, minimizing residual material and fully complying with food industry hygiene standards. 316L stainless steel is a high-end, upgraded material, adding molybdenum to 304 stainless steel for even greater corrosion resistance. It is particularly resistant to acidic candy ingredients like citric and lactic acids, and exhibits superior resistance to intergranular corrosion. It's suitable for producing candies containing functional ingredients or acidic fillings, meeting pharmaceutical-grade hygiene requirements. While more expensive than 304 stainless steel, it offers a longer service life, making it suitable for large enterprises or high-end candy production lines.
The Candy Powder Ribbon Mixer has been applied in various fields, such as chocolate factories ensuring homogeneity of filling ingredients, functional food companies using it to achieve compliant production of pressed candies, and baking ingredient manufacturers relying on it to achieve large-scale production of premixes.
The food and confectionery industry: Facing challenges such as uneven mixing of cocoa powder, powdered sugar, and functional vitamin powder, as well as frequent changeovers and time-consuming cleaning, they introduced a 1000L twin-screw ribbon mixer featuring a 316L stainless steel chamber, a mirror-polished interior, and a precise variable frequency speed control system. The twin-screw forced convection design achieves 98% mixing uniformity, homogenizing complex ingredients containing trace vitamins in under 2 minutes without significantly increasing the material temperature, thus preserving the active ingredients.
The health food industry: The need to meet GMP standards and precise ingredient content requirements has previously led to low batch yields due to high residue and insufficient uniformity in mixing equipment. It utilizes an 800L food-grade stainless steel twin-ribbon mixer, precisely feeding ingredients through a three-stage weighing and batching system. A gap of ≤1mm between the ribbon and the mixing chamber reduces the residual rate to 0.3%. The machine precisely controls the speed and mixing time during operation to prevent probiotic inactivation due to excessive shear forces, and the weight variation of the mixed material is kept within ±3%.
In the baking ingredient industry： the company needed to mix 4 tons of powdered sugar with starch, flavoring, and other auxiliary ingredients. The existing equipment occupied a large space and had low mixing efficiency. The company introduced a modular twin-ribbon mixing system with a compact horizontal structure, equipped with a discharge device and a weighing system, significantly reducing workshop space. The twin-ribbon mixing system reduces the mixing cycle to 5 minutes per batch and accurately disperses trace pigments, ensuring a consistent color of the pre-mixed powder.
The Candy Powder Ribbon Mixer starts at $1,200 and is determined based on equipment configuration, production capacity, and customization requirements. Different specifications and feature combinations create a differentiated price range, catering to diverse purchasing needs from small workshops to large factories. Basic models are mostly single-ribbon models with a capacity of 50-200L. They utilize a 304 food-grade stainless steel chamber and a conventional drive system, suitable for mixing pure candy powder. These models are priced in the entry-level range and are ideal for startups or small-batch production. Mid- to high-end models feature a twin-ribbon design with a capacity of 500-5000L. They are available in 316L stainless steel and equipped with variable speed control, a liquid spraying device, and a CIP cleaning system. These models precisely mix raw materials containing trace additives or viscous excipients. Their price scales with configuration upgrades, making them suitable for large-scale production of high-end candies and functional tableting candies. Furthermore, the inclusion of value-added features such as automated batching systems and explosion-proof devices can impact the final price, allowing for flexible selection based on actual production needs.
We are a professional candy powder ribbon mixer manufacturer integrating R&D, production, and sales. Our core products include single and double-screw ribbon mixers, constructed from 304 stainless steel and precision-polished to ensure hygienic, safe, and durable equipment. We offer customized solutions for the candy industry, capable of handling complex applications such as high-viscosity materials and powder-liquid composite mixing, achieving mixing uniformity exceeding 99% and a residue rate of less than 0.1%. Equipped with intelligent temperature control, a CIP cleaning system, and a modular design, we help customers increase production efficiency by 30%. Our service network covers a nationwide network.
The Candy Powder Ribbon Mixer, with its precise mixing performance, hygienic design, and high-speed production capacity, has become an indispensable core equipment in the modern candy industry. It not only solves the industry's pain points of uneven mixing and high residue, but also, through flexible customization and safe and convenient operation, adapts to the needs of candy production of various scales and categories, providing reliable support for companies to ensure product quality and improve production efficiency.
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