Shampoo, Conditioner & Handcream Manufacturing

Background / Requirement

• Dispersion of Carbopol, HPMC , Xanthan Gum (powders are high viscosity thickeners, highly hydrophilic and difficult to disperse without fisheyes), flake wax and other minor ingredients into water and/or alcohol
• Typical batch size 6000L
• High capacity, single pass dispersion into water and/or alcohol.

Quadro's Approach to Manufacturing Shampoo, Conditioner, Handcream

• ZC3 Powder Disperser with liquid feed from water supply line for single pass powder incorporation and dispersion. Powders are manually dumped into the hopper from a mezzanine
• Full flow ball valve to ensure mass flow of powders in the hopper
• Pressure gauge on the discharge to monitor pressure on the discharge line.

Quadro Ytron^® ZC Powder Disperser Advantages

• Rapid incorporation & dispersion of solids during the liquid fill cycle
• Powder incorporation time was reduced to less than 1 hour. Total batch time was reduced from 72 to 8 hours. Previous method included dumping the powders into the vessel and mix using a 3 blade pitch impeller resulting in baseball size lumps and 'fish-eyes'
• Less air entrainment
• Improved product consistency from batch to batch
• Increase in viscosity. Single pass processing eliminates over-processing common with conventional mixers preserving the rheological properties of shear-sensitive products
• Instant dissolution of wax flakes at a reduced temperature. Reduced from 85 to 67°C results in reduced cooling time
• Did not have to expand manufacturing facility to increase production and they were able to eliminate mix tanks to free up manufacturing space
• With the reduced batch times, they can now produce the products as ordered and reduce inventory and warehouse demands and still meet their 3 day delivery requirements
• Comments from end user: impressive features include "speed & versatility". "Draw less air into product". "The ZC3 is a remarkable piece of equipment".