Alphie 3 Powder Blender

Alphie 3 Powder Blender

The Alphie 2.5 Liter Powder Blender from Glen Mills is designed for precise, repeatable, and gentle blending of powders and small-batch materials. Its 3D inversion mixing action helps achieve homogeneous blends while reducing the need for product-contact mixing blades or internal agitators.

Ideal for laboratories, research facilities, and process development teams, the Alphie 2.5 Liter Blender is especially useful when working with powders that differ in particle size, shape, density, or proportion. The removable container system supports fast changeover, easier cleaning, and reduced risk of cross-contamination between batches.

With adjustable mixing speed, cycle time, and direction, the Alphie 2.5 Liter Powder Blender gives scientists and engineers the control needed to develop repeatable mixing methods before moving to larger-scale production.

ALPHIE 3 INTRODUCTION

PRODUCT ADVANTAGES

  • Homogeneous 3D Powder Mixing
  • Gentle, Low-Shear Blending
  • Reduced Cross-Contamination
  • Faster Cleaning and Changeover
  • Ideal for Small-Batch R&D
  • Repeatable Process Control
  • Compact Tabletop Design
  • Suitable for Difficult Powder Blends
  • Multiple Container Options
  • Scale-Up Friendly

 

SOLVING ALL OF YOUR POWDER BLENDING CHALLENGES

TYPICAL APPLICATIONS

Pharmaceutical Powders
Metal Powders
Ceramic Powders
Battery Material Powders
Food and Nutraceutical Powders

MANY CONTAINERS, MULTIPLE OPTIONS

The Alphie 2.5 Liter Powder Blender is designed to work with a wide range of interchangeable containers, from small vials and sample bottles up to 2.5 liter effective capacity blending vessels. This flexibility allows laboratories to process very small R&D samples, formulation trials, and larger laboratory batches using the same mixing platform. Containers can be supplied in multiple materials to match the application, including plastic, glass, and several grades of stainless steel. For stainless steel vessels, multiple polishing and surface-finish options are available, including finishes suitable for applications requiring cleanability, corrosion resistance, or electro-polished product-contact surfaces. By blending material inside a dedicated removable container, each batch remains isolated from the machine and from previous formulations, helping reduce cleaning time, protect sample integrity, and minimize the risk of cross-contamination between batches.

ONE MIXER – MANY SIZES

ALL STAINLESS, GMP MODEL AVAILABLE

  • Front Plexiglas safety guard
  • Safety interlock
  • Machine stops when guard is opened
  • Removable stainless steel tray below rotating drum
  • HMI/PLC with 21 CFR Part 11
  • Electropolished containers

 

GLOVE BOX INTEGRATION FOR CONTROLLED ATMOSPHERE POWDER BLENDING

For glove box powder blending, the Alphie 3D mixing principle offers a major advantage over traditional mixer designs. The Alphie can be custom configured so the mixing arms, holder, basket, and sealed container operate inside a stainless steel glove box, allowing powders to be processed in a controlled environment without exposing the material to outside air or the operator. Conventional mixers are often difficult or impractical to place inside a glove box because they require open vessels, internal blades, shafts, seals, or large cleaning areas. The Alphie is different: the powder stays sealed inside its own removable container while the mixer gently moves the container through a 3D inversion motion. This makes the Alphie one of the only practical mixer designs for contained glove box blending, especially for battery materials, advanced ceramics, metal powders, pharmaceutical compounds, and other oxygen-sensitive, moisture-sensitive, or hazardous powders. The result is gentle mixing, reduced exposure, easier cleaning, improved operator safety, and batch processing with minimal risk of cross-contamination.

FUNCTIONAL PRINCIPAL

The Alphie 2.5 Liter Powder Blender operates using a 3D inversion mixing principle, where the sealed mixing container moves through a multi-directional tumbling motion to continuously reposition the powder bed. Instead of using internal blades, paddles, or agitators, the material is gently blended inside a detachable container as it rotates and inverts through changing angles. This motion helps powders, granules, liquids, and suspensions achieve a uniform blend while reducing shear, minimizing product contact with the machine, and lowering the risk of cross-contamination between batches.

RENTAL OPTIONS AVAILABLE

Renting a Glen Mills mixer gives your team the ability to test mixing and blending directly in your own laboratory, using your actual material, process conditions, and analytical methods. This allows you to evaluate performance, confirm homogenity, and determine 3 dimensional mixing is the right solution before making a capital equipment purchase.

Rental units are especially useful for short to long term projects, feasibility studies, process development, and customer trials where flexibility and speed are important. By testing in-house, your scientists and engineers can better understand how the material blends, reducing project risk and helping justify the correct equipment configuration for future production needs.

 

TECHNICAL DATA

Capacity (L)

3

* Effective Capacity @ 80% (L)

2.4

Max mixing mass (kg)

5

Motor Power

0.3 hp

Power Supply

120V

Container Revolution (rpm)

10 – 80

Max Container Size

Dia 115 mm X 275 mm Long

Machine Weight (kg)

70
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