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Mixing markets
Ian Wilson, business unit director for Tangential Mixers on the
‘Best-of-Best’ product – Banbury
®
BM305N.
Most advanced and optimum design ever
Talking to Ian Wilson about HF MIXING GROUP’s ‘Best-
of-Best’ product, you can clearly see how he is truly ex-
cited about this innovation: ‘We announced the new
Banbury
®
BM305N Tangential Rotor Internal Batch Mixer
in January 2012. It is a complete redesign of HF MIXING
GROUP’s previous tangential mixers.’
Mixing Together:
Ian, what makes this product so
special?
Ian Wilson:
Well, the BM305N takes all the advantages
of the successes realised over the years from each of the
Group’s mixer companies. Our companies around the
world – Farrel, Harburg Freudenberger, and Pomini –
utilised this ‘Best-of-Best’ approach to offer our custom-
ers the most advanced and optimum Banbury
®
design
ever.
Mixing Together:
Can you tell us something about the
features of this ‘Best-of-Best’ product?
Ian Wilson:
Standard features of the new Banbury
®
Mixer are for example the new end-frame design for en-
hanced dust stop access or the two-piece water cooled
rotor end plate, which improves the heat transfer for the
process and allows a better control of the dust stop tem-
perature. Also we developed new Hydraulic Cylinder
Direct dust stops, which significantly improve sealing
performance. Besides these features a better batch
discharge is reached by the new wide drop door; a new
KEEL BOTTOM weight increases productivity and im-
proves distributive mixing. For enhanced corrosion and
abrasion resistance, we introduced a new hard coating
for the mixing chamber body.
Mixing Together:
All the features you mentioned so far
are part of the standard design?
Ian Wilson:
Yes, indeed. And on top of that these features
also include:
•
Increased net chamber volume for higher throughput
•
HF rotor technologies: NST-SC, MD-SC, ZZ4
•
Hydraulic power unit with iRAM
(intelligent RAM control)
Mixing Together:
What exactly are the benefits for our
customers?
Ian Wilson:
The benefits are not far to seek. Our ‘Best-
of-Best’ product clearly reduces lead times and with the
enhanced specification you receive a fully hard-welded
chamber assembly. Also the parts availability with the
HF MIXING GROUP is much higher and we are able to
react considerably quicker, if customers report a break-
down. Of course, the mixer is available for a highly com-
petitive pricing.
Mixing Together:
Can you tell us about the advantages
for the mixing process?
Ian Wilson:
In combination with the HF MIXING GROUP
Tangential Rotor technology, we offer new rotor geomet-
ries plus increased volumes for tangential mixers as well
as super-cooled rotors. All in all one could say that this
complete redesign of the HF MIXING GROUP’s previous
tangential mixers exceeds all expectations for our part,
but above all, convinces customers around the world of
the extreme innovative energy, which the HF MIXING
GROUP displays on a daily basis.
Mixing Together:
Thank you very much for your detailed
remarks on the new Banbury
®
BM305N Mixer!
