Reduce Powder Segregation and Eliminate Fine Powder Waste

Snacks and Powder Beverage Company

A global company of snacks and powder beverages is seeking to minimize product losses provided by fine particles in the filling step.

Application Deadline
February 5th, 2025
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Summary

Background

The great challenge for powdered beverages process is to deliver a homogeneous product and guarantee quality criteria, since their composition is a heterogeneous mixture made up of powders of different densities, shapes and particle sizes, which, associated with high-speed lines, lead to segregation and a consequent impact on quality.

Given the trend towards reformulation, especially hybridization with a reduction in the amount of sugar, formulas have become thinner and more susceptible to the effects of segregation, causing fine powder to be released during the filling stage, unbalancing the formula and generating process losses. 

Challenge

The aim of this initiative is to reduce the current segregation intrinsic to the process and eliminate the generation of fine powder that occurs at the end of the line, during product filling.

The path, not only limited to this, involves working on the size, shape and/or density of the particles of the critical ingredients that are associated with the problem of segregation and dispersion of fine powder at the end of the line.

The key success criteria is to reduce segregation and eliminate powder losses in the filling step, maintaining product integrity for quality standards and legislations. 

What's in it for you?

A successful collaboration could mean, for individuals, becoming part of the wider company group, while for organisations, forming a potential partnership with one of the world’s most iconic brands to co-develop and co-launch the idea to market.

These are global challenges and the company are willing to collaborate with both individuals/freelancers and other industry participants/universities etc. and solutions can be at any stage of development.

If you have or are developing solutions, or if you have expertise in the above, please click "Apply" to submit your solution/expertise to the Network.