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Continental Products Corp. manufactures the Rollo-Mixer ® Rotary drum batch mixer for many industries worldwide. This batch mixing video series features product samples from several industries as well as accompanying videos, photos, and technical data.

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Uniform distribution of low AI’s (Active Ingredients) is critical in this industry. The Rollo-Mixer ® Batch 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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The first Rollo-Mixer ® Batch 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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Our customers, who blend vitamin mineral premixes, achieve low C.V.’s (Coefficient of Variance) with the Rollo-Mixer ® Batch 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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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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The Continental Rollo-Mixer ® Batch 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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The Mk VII-1 Rollo-MixerŽ rotary drum blender is used in the tea industry to achieve gentle, uniform dry blends and apply liquid flavors efficiently. It is ideal for blending tea uniformly in 3 minutes with no damage - while adding liquid flavors evenly and accurately.

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In 1965, the Mark IV Rollo-Mixer ® Rotary Drum Blender 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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The Rollo-Mixer ® Batch 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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Uniformly mixing 11 different ingredients with thimble amounts of pigment additives is critical to the powdered paint industry. The Continental Rollo-Mixer ® Batch 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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The Rollo-Mixer ® Batch 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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The first recycling application with the Continental Rollo-Mixer ® Batch 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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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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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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The Rollo-Mixer ® Rotary Drum Blender 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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The Rollo-Mixer ® Batch 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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The lighting industry has used the Continental Rollo-Mixer ® Batch 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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