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Consumer products like detergent or soap can face flow challenges during storage and handling, leading to issues like arching, ratholing, and powder caking, causing production delays, increased operator intervention, and potential product losses. Even seemingly free-flowing products, such as dry cell battery cathode blends, may experience segregation, negatively impacting batch quality, product uniformity, and final performance.

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Overview

Consumer Products

On-time delivery and product quality depend upon reliable bulk material handling.

This industry is continuously searching for means to increase production, reduce manufacturing costs, improve product quality, or develop innovative products offering a competitive edge. In order to meet these demands, producers must design the material handling equipment to provide consistent, reliable feed and maintain consumer product quality from formulation through final packaging. Market success can quickly degrade due to a recall, series of customer complaints, or poor product performance.

Soap production

Factory for the production of cosmetics and perfumes.

Sevices

Consumer Products Industry Services

Whether you are batching raw materials to a mixing operation, transporting ingredients from a storage silo to a dosing bin, or high-speed filling of your product into bags, boxes, cartons, or sacks, Jenike & Johanson can help you achieve reliable material flow and maintain your consumer product quality from its inception to final form.

On-site review of flow, segregation issues
Bulk powder flow testing
Silo, feeder, and chute design
Pneumatic conveying testing
Structural engineering of storage vessels
Blending trials for feasibility studies
Anti-segregation equipment supply
Modeling of unique process or material

Press hopper

Press feed system

Engineering site visit to a battery plant

Engineers visiting a production plant to determine existing bulk material handling issues.

Challenge

Common Consumer Products Industry Challenges

Many consumer products, such as detergent or soap, can be prone to poor flow due to arching or ratholing during routine storage and handling. These flow problems can result in powder caking, production delays, increased operator intervention, or product losses. Some products like dry cell battery cathode blends may be free-flowing, but have a high tendency to segregate. Segregation of the final blend components can have an adverse effect upon batch quality, product uniformity, and final product performance.

Caking of powdered material.

Materials

Common Materials Handled

Here is a shortened list of some of the most common bulk materials we have successfully handled in the Consumer Products industry to date. For more materials, please refer to our extended list of materials or ask us about your specific material.

Antacid
Baby Powder
Detergent, cleansers, soaps and sanitizers
Construction Materials
- Asphalt
- Grout
- Plastic Lumber Product
- Roofing Granules
Cosmetics
- Brake Lining Mix
- Dental Adhesive
- Deodorant
Dyes (various colors)
Fertilizer, grass, and plant seeds
Fungicide Ingredient
Kitty litter
Diaper material, super absorbent polymer
Tobacco
Toners