Human Nutrition & Health · Products · Functional Powders

Agglomeration Systems.

Balchem’s agglomeration technology enhances solubility to create high-performance powders that drastically improve the quality of protein or lipid beverage bases by increasing particle size and porosity. We utilize continuous and batch agglomeration technology, to make ingredients or finished food or beverage products less dense, more free-flowing, and dispersible in liquids.

When you’re creating food and beverage products, you need a powder that goes into a solution instantly. Our batch agglomeration creates a uniform particle size and distribution which reduces dustiness and improves mouthfeel.

What’s Agglomeration?

Fluid Bed Batch Agglomeration connects multiple particles together with space to allow water to flow between particles. Agglomeration creates increased particle size and porosity to spray-dried powders resulting in improved dispersion and dissolution with reduced compaction. Diverse fluid binding mixtures allow for function and co-processing solutions, while closely defined particles solve unique application requirements.

In other words, the process of agglomeration improves powders by increasing particle sizes which results in a powder product that is much more soluble. This drastically improves the quality of beverage bases, whether creating protein powders or lipid nutritional systems.

Markets Served.

Convenience, single-serve, and sports nutrition continue to drive the need for efficient and technically advanced agglomeration capability.

Some of the food systems or single ingredients that can be agglomerated include:

Single Serve Systems Applications

Coffee pods, stick packs, pods/disks, and pouches

Multi-Serve Systems Applications

Canisters and bag/bag-in-box for food service dispensers

Bulk Ingredient
Applications

Proteins, hydrocolloids, starches, and carbohydrates

Manufacturing Capabilities.

Our ability to create such high performing agglomeration systems is all due to our manufacturing capabilities which include:

State-of-the-art agglomeration technology with blending, milling, and particle sizing
Segregated packaging space including bags and bulk totes
Multiple complementary processing steps allow for delicate particle size control
Environmental controls
Segregated blending & packaging

Product Offerings

We offer a wide range of options to choose from including fully formulated systems, co-manufactured systems, and single instantized ingredients that deliver the following: