Mixer and Degassing Machine

Description
The THINKY ARE-250 Mixer is an industrial non-contact "planetary" mixer for all engineering compounds. It mixes, disperses, and degasses your materials in seconds to minutes, in a sealed or lid-less container such as a jar, beaker, syringe tube, or cartridge. The non-contact mixing principle makes it possible to formulate compounds from very small amounts such as 0.5ml to large production scales.

The Thinky ARE-250 Mixer makes it possible for the processes of mixing and bubble removal to be carried out simultaneously. It is a conditioning mixer. It can be used for the mixing and/or bubble removal of not only epoxy but also silicones, conductive pastes, medicines, chemical materials, etc.

The Thinky ARE-250 Mixer is a lightweight benchtop model, which can hold up to 310g of material. The Multi-Step Mixing feature allows you to program 5 different sets of mixing and degassing conditions (time and speed per mode) in a single batch cycle. Precise control of the process makes it possible not only to improve formulation quality, but also to eliminate human errors or operator skills throughout the process. It is also effective in controlling shear, so as not to damage your materials. Cooled materials or heated materials can be processed with special adapters. The ARE-250 can accept syringes up to 55ml or up to 75ml (2.5 oz) cartridges with optional adapters.

Mixing Principles
The material container revolves and rotates in a planetary manner at high speeds. Centrifugal force presses the material outwards to the inner wall of the container. Other forces cause the material to move downwards in a spiraling direction along the slope of container wall. The material then moves back to the centre of the container and up to the top.

As a result, material circulation from top to the bottom generates kneading effects, forcing trapped air out of the material. The THINKY mixer is designed to create more than 400G of force.

Start	30 seconds	2 minutes	7 minutes

Applications
The Thinky ARE-250 consolidates time consuming formulation processes into a single step, completing in seconds to minutes. It eliminates non-productive cleaning between batches with the use of your own product's container. Thinky's 18,000 customers use the mixer to formulate and mix adhesives, sealants, molding compounds, lubricants, slurries, coatings, inks, paints, abrasives, bio chemicals, cements, medical compounds, cosmetics/personal care materials, detergents, conductive pastes, dental materials, foods, construction materials or any other materials which are hard-to-mix, hard-to-degas, or hard-to-wet.

Epoxy resin Epoxy resin, hardener and aluminium powder are mixed in 6.5 minutes. Ingredients are dispersed evenly.
Solder paste Creamy solder paste with no air bubbles is made from solder powder and flux. Processed with ARE-250 in 45 seconds.
Cosmetics Ingredients for face cake, wax and coloured iron oxide, are mixed completely with the ARE-250 in 5 minutes.
Ointment It mixes yellow pigment into zinc oxide. Without solvent, it dispersed perfectly with the ARE-250 in 20 seconds.

Engineering benefits

• For high viscous, materials with various densities, or dry particle mixing
• Simultaneous process of dispersion and degassing in one batch
• Process in seconds to minutes
• Process in your containers such as jar, barrel, cartridge, syringe or tube
• Remove voids and re-disperse filled materials packed in syringes
• Non-invasive processing ends the risk of cross contamination between batches
• Process from 0.5ml - save valuable material wastage
• Re-mixing of separated materials to prolong shelf life
• Vacuum-less processing, degassing and de-aeration
• No damage to material unlike the use of rollers, mixing blades or propellers
• No unit cleaning between batches eliminates non-productive work

Business benefits

• Saves significant time and lowers costs
• Improves yield rate
• Reduces production cycle time in seconds to minutes
• Improves productivity
• Production on demand reduces material stock
• Improves product quality
• Produces consistent quality, regardless of operator skills, with digitally controlled processing
• Improves formulation quality on dispersion and degassing

Control panel

Simple operation with easy access

Examples of adapters

Other Information

•  Thinky ARE-250 Mixer Product Data Sheet - pdf (310Kb)

See also!  Automatic liquid dispenser  Dispensing consumables

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December 2008
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