Consistent Mixing for Complex Foods
Blentech’s agitator options mix, blend, or gently fold ingredients in across a wide, heated surface, resulting in even cooking, faster batch times, better texture, and easier cleanup—even with your most challenging recipes.
WHY FOOD PROCESSORS CHOOSE HORIZONTAL AGITATION
Instead of swirling ingredients around, our systems gently fold them to protect delicate inclusions and ensure uniform cooking. It’s the ideal solution for foods where quality, texture, and cook time all matter. Our engineers help you pick the right agitator style based on viscosity, particulates, and cleanability.
Faster, More Even Cooking
Full-surface contact and reversing motion eliminate dead zones and shorten cook times.
Gentle, High-Quality Mixing
Protects texture of delicate ingredients while improving yield through clean discharge.
Easy to Clean & Maintain
Scraped surfaces reduce burn-on, speed sanitation, and extend equipment life.
AGITATOR STYLES THAT MATCH YOUR RECIPE
Every product moves differently. Our process engineers help you pick the right horizontal agitator: paddle, ribbon, or helical, with or without scrapers, to hit your texture and viscosity targets, protect inclusions, and speed cleanup.
Ribbon
Sticky or fragile mixes (cheese, fruit blends, hamburger, powders)
Double Ribbon
Fast, even blending of low-viscosity products (sauces, soups, dry mixes)
Ribbon Paddle
Excellent heat transfer + blending (stir-fry, noodle-in-broth applications)
Sickle Paddle
Aggressive folding (forming-grade poultry, high-yield blends)
Solid Screw
High-shear smearing/conveying (processed cheese, emulsions)
Hollow Flight
Internal heat transfer (pet foods, pastes, thick soups)
Custom Designs
Specialty processes (rice cooking, bacon, cryogen blending, grinding)
We offer hygienic solid-shaft configurations for AMI/RTE, reinforced shafts that handle side-loads without drift, and drivetrain protection that prevents overload damage and cuts unplanned downtime.
High Shear Agitation Styles
To handle the most demanding emulsification and smoothing tasks, Blentech offers advanced high-shear agitation solutions that can be integrated directly into our horizontal vessels to maximize performance and product quality.
Inline High Shear Loop
This integrated external emulsifier system is optimized for high-flow processing of viscous products requiring superior stability, such as hummus, refried beans, and cheese sauces. The system can be configured as an individual or shared unit across multiple cookers and features interchangeable screens for pureeing, smoothing, and emulsifying. It ensures 100% product passthrough for high emulsion stability and integrates with AutoChef™ for automated, recipe-driven shear control that maximizes OEE.
Onboard High Shear
For applications requiring immediate lump reduction during the cooking phase, Blentech offers a high-intensity mixing element mounted directly to the main horizontal agitator shaft. This onboard element—utilizing a rotor-stator head or toothed impeller—is specifically engineered for critical recipe steps like roux formation or starch hydration. It allows processors to achieve perfectly smooth dispersions instantly while the primary ribbon agitator maintains gentle bulk flow, preventing scorched product and ensuring total batch homogeneity without the need for an external loop.
We offer hygienic solid-shaft configurations for AMI/RTE, reinforced shafts that handle side-loads without drift, and drivetrain protection that prevents overload damage and cuts unplanned downtime.
Let’s Talk About What You’re Making
Looking to scale production, launch new products, or cut cleanup time? We’ll help you build a more efficient line that supports your growth.