What volume do you need? 304 or 316ss?
For example I can do a 12 gal sized 304SS for around 30k with cartridge heater, high shear homogenizer, and the mixer system all installed.
Everything UL, with a nice panel.
Let me know what you are wanting.
We can do cartridge heaters for non-sensitive products, or full jacketing with oil heaters for items that need precise temperature controls.
Resodyn Acoustic Mixersā¦ check them out! Might be pricey but I recently started working with them and have enjoyed the idea that a formulation lab or facility could take advantage of what they offer. They mix by shaking containers (0.5 kilo up to 420 kg) up and down at 60Hz, and up to 100g of acceleration (can adapt for continuous flows too). Hereās a vid of a viscous paste but it works for damn near anything:
We were the USA CAT distributor for over 18 years. I know what Iām talking about. Ryan @goldleaf_scientific is a tire salesman, he does not. He ordered several DK40ās from the factory without knowing its limitations, he is now stuck with them and will say anything to get rid of them.
YOU MUST HAVE A SANITARY WELD APPLIED AT STEP IN THE INLET CHAMBER!!!
STAY AWAY FROM THE DK40 AT ALL COSTS!!!
Those just have shitty welds and/or stainless steel quality. Theyāre not passivated/polished at all really lol
The ones we have here are flawless. They are polished and there is no rust and the welds are really nice. Obviously if you trap moisture in there and let it sit for months then its going to get some rusting on the surface but as long as you store it and clean it then its not an issue.
This is an example of @goldleaf_scientific flawless DK40 Flow-Through-Chambers.
Stay away from the DK40 and especially Ryan at Goldleaf Scientific.
Hope youāve find success already. But if you havenāt, at least for the lotion, why donāt you make a surfactant-cannabinoid mix with a certain PEG-based surfactant (no carrier oil needed) ā melt it ā add to the base lotion with constant stirring (at maximum possible speed achievable with no splattering)? Run the process in a glass vessel first, in a small batch, with an overhead stirrer, so that you can monitor the homogenization (or lack thereof). Also, calculate beforehand to ensure that the total volume of the components inside the vessel does not exceed 50% of the vessel.
They make drum mixersā¦If itās viscous, you could try warming it by putting it in a warm room or using a drum wrap heater. The idea of pre homogenizing into a small amount of your base is good.
We use 5 gallon food grade buckets and a large mixer (plastic fin version) and a plug in hand drill. Some of the mixing ability and technique comes from the actual ingredients that cannabanoids are being mixed into.
Do you get uniform heating with the wrap heater? Or do you use a full-fledged heating jacket? Just curious because the latter costs quite more.
Can you share an image of the mixer? Iām very interested. You mentioned plastic. How high a temperature can it withstand?
Why would you need to go that hot? Itās actually silicone I believe so temp shouldnāt be an issue
I donāt use them for this purpose, so I donāt know for sure. You wonāt get uniform heating unless you have the mixer running. Iād try to figure out how warm you have to get the base. Alot of salve bases go liquid at relatively low temperatures. I donāt know how much you want to invest up front, but you could probably get a drum of salve base liquid by putting it in a closet with a space heater, but itād take a while. If you got the room up to 110, itād be liquid if it was similar to the salve base Iāve used. Itās not too techinical. The more watts you can apply without overheating/smoking/burning, the faster. The better you can get that heat transferred and distributed into the entire mass of the base, the more homogenized. If you got the room up to 110, itād be liquid if it was similar to the salve base Iāve used.
Hey Iām looking for a white label thc:cbd (true full spectrum) wholesaler
Of topicals* specifically my bad didnāt include that
