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The Smart Mixer stationary mixing tank offers an easier and more efficient way to mix calf milk powder.
During calf rearing, logistics can play an important role in getting the job done quickly and efficiently.
Offered by Advantage Plastics, Rangiora, the Smart Mixer stationary mixing tank offers an easier and more efficient way to mix calf milk powder, by taking the back-breaking work out of manual mixing and speeding up the whole process.
Manufactured from UV stable, food-grade polyethylene, the 1600l main tank features side inspection/ top lid, mounted in a heavy-duty galvanised steel frame, with fork pockets for easy movement.
Utilising 50mm hose and ball valves throughout, discharge is via a 25mm outlet, with complete discharge and easy clean out.
Featuring a re-circulation cone bottom tank design, an easily accessible self-loading side funnel sucks milk powder through when recirculating. Once a mix is completed, the system is ideal for filling mobile feeders/trailers, calfeterias, buckets or coupling to a piped system installed in a calf shed. Overall dimensions are 2300mm high, 2100mm wide, 1500mm deep and loading access at 1100mm.
In operation, users fill the main tank with water and start the circulation system, then add milk powder via the side funnel hopper, which is “pulled” into the main body of water while recirculating to quickly dissolve the powder sand create a homogenous blend.
Calf rearer, Simon Raisbeck, Ashburton, who raises between 800 and 1000 animals each season comments, “The mixing system works really well, and I’m especially pleased with how quickly it mixes a tank full of milk to produce a very consistent blend. I’m finding its saving me between 15 to 20 mins each day in reducing mixing
times”.
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