The following industries use the Continental Rollo-Mixer ® to develop and manufacture tomorrow’s finished products:
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Agricultural Chemicals
Uniform distribution of low AI’s (Active Ingredients) is critical in this industry. The Rollo-Mixer ® is involved in processing the entire spectrum of ag chemical products including, rodenticides, fungicides, biocides, algaecides, coating granular insecticides, and mixing powder herbicides.
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Animal Feeds
The first Rollo-Mixer ® was invented in 1960 to mix dairy feed with sticky molasses. Today, our customers in the feed industry manufacture all types of feed products including, poultry, swine, beef, and calf feeds, as well as specialty race horse feeds that are shipped to race tracks around the world.
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Animal Health Products
Our customers, who blend vitamin mineral premixes, achieve low C.V.’s (Coefficient of Variance) with the Rollo-Mixer ®. Continental’s unique Free-Fall Processing ® requires less mineral oil to dedust these products when compared to other batch mixers.
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Building Products
Many building products require homogeneous mixing in order for these materials to function properly on application. Mixing stucco premixes involves blending light density fibers with heavy Portland cement powders, which is a challenge for other mechanical mixers.
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Food Products
The Continental Rollo-Mixer ® is involved with specialty food processing applications that include encapsulating rice with niacin and thiamin vitamins as well as blending dried bean soup mixes with minute ingredients.
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Lawn & Garden Products
In 1965, the Mark IV Rollo-Mixer ® was designed to blend field grade fertilizer. The gentle mix action and dust tight, simple design is well suited for the corrosive fertilizer environment. Today’s leading manufacturers use the Rollo-Mixer ® to blend and impregnate a wide range of fertilizer products.
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Pet Care Products
The Rollo-Mixer ® is a natural when it comes to blending and coating a wide variety of pet care products. From mixing fish and dog foods to blending caged bird seeds, the Rollo-Mixer ®’s gentle mix action maintains the integrity of fragile pet food ingredients.
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Pigments & Colorants
Uniformly mixing 11 different ingredients with thimble amounts of pigment additives is critical to the powdered paint industry. The Continental Rollo-Mixer ® works well for matching delta L,A,B,& E values, batch after batch, which eliminates the need to rework the batch and adjust the formula with more expensive pigments.
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Plastic Products
The Rollo-Mixer ® is involved in many plastic applications from specialty plastics used in the electronic industry to post blending plastic pellets for the automotive industry. Plastic powder blends with liquid and dry additives are uniformly mixed in the Rollo-Mixer ® to create recyclable plastic containers for the packaging industry.
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Recycled Products
The first recycling application with the Continental Rollo-Mixer ® was in 1966; blending course and fine grade aluminum for use in steel mills, automotive applications and the pyrotechnics industry making blasting agents. Today, Continental’s mixing and coating technology is used in many reclamation processes around the world involving aluminum, plastic, rubber, and glass.
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Refractory Products
Monolithic refractory blends are a challenge to most mechanical mixers because of the wide range of the particles’ size and density in the formulas. Uniformly mixing powders with stainless steel nails, structural fibers, and course tabular alumina is critical to the performance and durability of these castable products.
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Rubber Products
One of the most challenging mixing applications we encountered involved blending nitrile rubber with powder additives. The Rollo-Mixer’s ® dynamic mix action divides and combines these materials over 25 times per revolution while maintaining a uniform mixed product to down-line processing equipment.
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Soaps & Detergents
The Rollo-Mixer ® has been blending and coating a wide variety of soap and detergent products for over 20 years. From car wash and truck wash detergents to carpet, floor and specialty cleaners, Continental’s mixing and coating technology gives our customers consistent homogeneous blends.
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Specialty Products
The Rollo-Mixer ® is involved in so many niche markets that rather than listing them all, we grouped them into Specialty Products. Customers manufacturing everything from advanced composites, potpourri, and aspirin, to oil field drilling polymers and catalysts benefit from the gentle mix action and precise coating technology offered by Continental.
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Stone, Clay, and Glass
The lighting industry has used the Continental Rollo-Mixer ® for many years to blend glass cullet and other constituents that are formed into products like glass insulators. These glass blends contain a wide variety of particle sizes and densities along with minor ingredients that must be uniformly mixed going into the furnace, so that the viscosity of the molten glass coming out of the furnace is consistent and uniform.
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