High Shear Mixers
For over 40 years, Scott Mixers has manufactured high-performance, stainless-steel, high-shear mixers for the food, beverage, cosmetic, personal care, biopharmaceutical, and chemical industries. Our open-rotor mixing head technology is purpose-built for the applications that go beyond standard agitators: powder wetting, dispersion, de-agglomeration, and emulsification.
Across North America, processors rely on Scott Mixers as a single-source provider of batch mixers, inline mixers, and complete mixing systems engineered to reduce batch times, improve product consistency, and meet strict hygienic standards, including 3-A certified designs available.
Scott Mixers Mixing Technology
The Scott Mixers head uniquely draws product from the top and bottom of the batch simultaneously, rapidly dispersing the product throughout the tank. This rotor technology provides excellent horizontal and vertical batch flow, ensuring that the product will be evenly sheared and dispersed, saving you time and resources.
Applications:
- Powder wetting and dispersion
- Gums and Rheology modifiers such as Xanthan gum, CMC, Carbopol
- Mineral powders such as Titanium dioxide, Calcium Carbonate, Zinc Oxide
- Flavoring, Color, sweeteners
- Emulsions
- Oil/water, immiscible phase mixing and homogenizing
High Shear Batch Mixers
Scott Mixers offers several batch mixer configurations, each designed around a specific installation need. The TM (Top Mount) mixer is built for rapidly incorporating and dispersing the most difficult-to-handle ingredients. Options are available for washdown, stainless steel, industrial, outdoor, and explosion proof environments. The BM (Bottom Mount) model provides the same high-shear mixing capability in a compact footprint mounted beneath the tank when there are headroom restrictions above the tank as well as smaller minimum batch sizes.
For operations that need a fully integrated solution, our Mixing Modules combine a high-performance mixer with an optimized vessel geometry and electrical controls, Hydraulic Ram mixers add further flexibility, allowing the mixing head to be positioned at different heights to accommodate varying batch sizes and viscosities. We also offer laboratory-scale high-shear mixers with geometrically correct heads that support new formulations and direct scale-up to production models.
For top mounting installations, Scott Mixers offers the rugged design, model TM mixer. Ideal for use in washdown environments, the TM model high shear mixer is used to rapidly incorporate and disperse the most difficult-to-handle ingredients.
Applications:
- Powder wetting and dispersion
- Gums and Rheology modifiers such as Xanthan gum, CMC, Carbopol
- Mineral powders such as Titanium dioxide, Calcium Carbonate, Zinc Oxide
- Flavoring, Color, sweeteners
- Emulsions
- Oil/water, immiscible phase mixing and homogenizing
For bottom mounting installations, Scott Mixers offers the compact design, model BM mixer. Ideal for use in washdown environments, the BM model high shear mixer is used for high shear mixing duty in a variety of applications, rapidly incorporating and dispersing the most difficult-to-handle ingredients.
Applications:
- Powder wetting and dispersion
- Gums and Rheology modifiers such as Xanthan gum, CMC, Carbopol
- Mineral powders such as Titanium dioxide, Calcium Carbonate, Zinc Oxide
- Flavoring, Color, sweeteners
- Emulsions
- Oil/water, immiscible phase mixing and homogenizing
The Scott Mixers Mixing Module marries our high-performance mixers, with an optimal geometry vessel, electrical controls, and optional discharge pumps and accessories into an engineered package.
Applications:
- Powder wetting and dispersion
- Gums and Rheology modifiers such as Xanthan gum, CMC, Carbopol
- Mineral powders such as Titanium dioxide, Calcium Carbonate, Zinc Oxide
- Flavoring, Color, sweeteners
- Emulsions
- Oil/water, immiscible phase mixing and homogenizing
Scott Mixers Hydraulic Ram (HR) Mixers are a flexible and high capacity platform for the Scott Mixers Mixing head technology. Designed and built for pilot to full-scale operation, the ability to position the Mixing head at different heights enables the processing of a variety of batch sizes and viscosities.
Applications:
- Powder wetting and dispersion
- Gums and Rheology modifiers such as Xanthan gum, CMC, Carbopol
- Mineral powders such as Titanium dioxide, Calcium Carbonate, Zinc Oxide
- Flavoring, Color, sweeteners
- Emulsions
- Oil/water, immiscible phase mixing and homogenizing
Scott Mixers Laboratory High Shear Mixers are designed for use by product formulators in benchtop development applications, process scale-up in pilot plants, and are ideal for small-scale production of small volume, high-value products.
Applications:
- Benchtop and pilot scale high shear mixing
Low Shear Mixers
We offer a wide range of low shear mixers for batch mixing. White washdown and stainless steel options for every application. There are a variety of mounting options such as clamp or fixed. Low shear mixers are ideal for many applications in food & beverage, cosmetic & personal care, pharmaceutical, and chemical industries.
High Shear Inline Mixers
Scott Mixers manufactures a wide range of high performance, long lasting inline mixers for high shear mixing duty across a variety of industries. Typically installed in a process line between tanks or in a truly continuous process with no tanks, inline mixers provide focused, single pass, rapid mixing. Our inline mixers take up less space than other kinds of tank mixer systems, are easy to maintain, and simple to operate.
Applications:
- Powder wetting and dispersion
- De-agglomerating and product smoothing
- Product texturizing
- Emulsions
Scott Mixers manufactures a wide range of high performance, High Shear Inline mixers for producing emulsions, product smoothing, texturizing, and wet-milling applications. Our inline mixers take up less space than other kinds of tank mixer systems, are easy to maintain, and simple to operate.
The Scott Mixers Vacu-Blend generates strong vacuum rates, pulling in powders and dispersing them lump-free into the liquid stream. Powders can be conveyed from a variety of sources; wanding from small bags or drums, manual bag addition directly to the mixer hopper, or integrated with bulk bag unloading systems.
The Vacu-Blend will reduce batch times by up to 90% while improving the consistency and quality of the product.
In the Scott Mixers CDM (Continuous Dispersion Mixer) mixing system, powder ingredients are added at a controlled rate from either a volumetric or loss-in-weight (LIW) feeder. Dry ingredients merge with a metered liquid feed stream in a powder liquid interface device and are immediately drawn into the high shear mixer. The unique design of the powder-liquid interface eliminates plugging and minimizes air entrainment into the process.
Mixing Systems
Scott Mixers has developed a number of application-specific mixing systems the food processing industry that address the most challenging material handling and mixing applications you will come across.
Back by our Application Engineers and Specialists, a Scott Mixers mixing system will provide the performance, efficiency, and safety you need and expect for your production.
Engineered for efficient and large capacity production, a Scott Mixers Sauce and Dressing System will be the centerpiece of your operation. At the core of this system is the Scott Mixers Hydraulic RAM mixer, integrated with one or more processing vessels, an operator platform, and controls to seamlessly combine raw material staging with batch production. operation.
Top Applications:
- Salad dressings
- Sauces
Mixing isn’t the only challenge processors face in sauce production. Bulk material handling and raw ingredient staging can pose many challenges for the safe handling and addition to a mix tank. Tomato paste, used in many sauce-based formulations, presents not only a challenging mixing application, but due to its paste like nature that resists flowing, is difficult to add to the mix tank. For large scale production, a Scott Mixers Tote Slurry System has a fully automated lifting/dumping mechanism that lifts full totes in place and safely dumps the paste contents into a high-powered mixer for rapid processing.
Top Applications:
- Tomato based sauce production
Specialty Mixers
The Scott Mixers Turbo Dixie Mixer is capable of mixing powdered ingredients and solids into highly viscous liquids, even those as thick as peanut butter. The rotor design generates a unique flow pattern, providing high pumping rates which makes it ideal for the preparation of pre-mixes and pre-emulsions for mayonnaise and other dressings, prior to further downstream processing.
Top Applications:
- Dressings – pre mixes, pre-emulsions
High-Shear Inline Mixer Options
When processing large volumes or running continuous operations, a high-shear inline mixer is often the most efficient approach. Scott Mixers manufactures inline mixers that install directly as a re-circulation tool to improve mixing quality or directly in a process line to smooth out the product in single pass, providing focused, high-shear mixing in a compact footprint.
Our High-Shear Pump (HSP) model handles inline blending, product smoothing, and de-agglomeration with a self-pumping rotor/stator design that eliminates the need for a separate process pump. The High-Shear Mill (HSM) model delivers higher energy input for wet milling and fine emulsion production. For powder-into-liquid applications, the Vacu-Blend system generates a strong vacuum to pull powders into the liquid stream lump-free, reducing batch times by up to 90%. The CDM (Continuous Dispersion Mixer) pairs metered powder and liquid feeds with a high-shear mixing head to enable true continuous dispersion without the plugging and air entrainment problems common in traditional inline setups.
Industries and Applications
Scott Mixers ' high-shear mixers serve processors across multiple sectors. In food and beverage manufacturing, our equipment produces salad dressings, mayonnaise, sauces, hummus, condiments, batters, purees, beverages, and flavorings. Cosmetic and personal care producers use our mixers for creams, lotions, body butters, shampoos and conditioners, lipstick, and pigment dispersions. Pharmaceutical manufacturers depend on our sanitary designs for tablet coatings, ointments, gels, syrups, and sterile ingredient processing. Chemical processors apply our technology to adhesives, paints, coatings, resins, and specialty formulations.
Common mixing applications across these industries include gum and rheology modifier dispersion (Xanthan gum, CMC, Carbopol), mineral powder incorporation (titanium dioxide, calcium carbonate, zinc oxide), and emulsification.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between a batch mixer and a high-shear inline mixer?
A batch mixer processes a set volume of ingredients inside a vessel for a specified period, drawing product from the top and bottom simultaneously and rapidly dispersing product through the tank, ensuring an evenly sheared and dispersed product. Vessels or mixers can move quickly from batch to batch, producing consistent results. A high-shear inline mixer processes material continuously as it flows through a compact mixing chamber installed in the process line. Inline mixers are ideal for adding to an existing process line. Scott Mixers offers both configurations and can recommend the right approach based on your batch size, viscosity, and throughput requirements.
Can high-shear mixers handle powder ingredients that clump or form fisheyes?
Yes. Agglomeration is one of the primary challenges high-shear mixers are designed to solve. Dry ingredients like gum thickeners, cellulose derivatives, and carbomers tend to form lumps when added to a liquid with standard agitators. Scott Mixers’ heads force all material through the high-shear zone, breaking down agglomerates and ensuring lump-free, fully hydrated dispersions. Our mixers are specifically engineered for difficult-to-wet powders.
How do I scale up from lab testing to full production?
Scott Mixers’ laboratory high-shear mixers use geometrically correct mixing heads that match our production hydraulic rams and top/bottom mount mixer models. This means results achieved at benchtop or pilot scale translate directly to larger equipment. Our application engineers work with you throughout the scale-up process to ensure vessel geometry, mixer speed, and system configuration deliver consistent results at full production volumes.
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