Premier Nutrition has heavily invested to develop an advanced premix facility that will deliver premix assurance to its animal feed customers. Already using pharmaceutical-standard manufacturing systems, the company announced the new facility will build on its practice of using the residue-free tumble mixing system.
The facility's new automated system increases safety and manufacturing capacity. All premixes are delivered with the same level of homogeneity and traceability.
For safety and traceability, each batch of micro-ingredient is sampled and validated using the company's in-house near infrared system prior to mixing. This allows all ingredients to be positively identified, bar-coded and verified as being free of contaminants and safe for use prior to premix manufacturing.
Advances have also been made in the automated weighing systems. These systems, plus a micro-dispenser, ensure that premixes are created accurately and consistently. Retention of hand-weighed micro-ingredients and dispensaries give complete flexibility to meet individual customer requirements. The use of bar-coding and check-weighing provides additional levels of assurance.
The automation of Premier Nutrition's tumble mixing system allows each stainless steel tote bin to move seamlessly to each dispensing point on laser-controlled conveyors. Each tote is filled, mixed and discharged without the use of augers, elevators, belts, blowers that are used in conventional systems and can result in cross contamination.
