High Viscosity Mixer: Types, Specifications & Price Guide 2026 | POLYC

Flowing Slurries & Pastes (10,000 to 100,000 cps)

If your material flows slowly under gravity and requires high-speed powder wetting without splashing, a concentric coaxial system is ideal. The outer anchor continuously brings wall material to the high-shear central disc.

Thixotropic Adhesives & Sealants (50,000 to 300,000 cps)

If your product thins under shear but forms thick body structures at rest (e.g., silicone sealants, glass adhesives), you need dual dispersing shafts to cover a wider tank radius alongside heavy PTFE wall scraping.

Non-Flowing, Sticky Doughs & Pastes (300,000 to 1,500,000 cps)

For extremely dense pastes like battery active slurries, thermal putty, or rubber compounds that do not circulate in fixed-shaft vessels, planetary twisted blades physically sweep every cubic millimeter of the tank volume.

High-Volume Industrial Batch Processing (600L to 5,000L)

When scaling thick chemical formulations to multi-ton batch sizes, a single motor cannot efficiently supply the varying torque demands of both high-speed shear and heavy low-speed anchor scraping. Dedicated motors per shaft are required.

1. PCM Series Concentric Double Shaft Mixer (Up to 100,000 cps)

The PCM series features a space-saving coaxial design where a solid high-speed dispersion shaft operates inside a hollow low-speed anchor shaft. The outer frame (with flexible PTFE wall scrapers) rotates at 0–50 rpm to peel material off the vessel wall and bottom, while the inner Cowles disc rotates at 0–1450 rpm to generate intense hydraulic shear. Ideal for offset printing inks, wall putty, and medium-viscosity chemical resins.

Typical Applications: Offset lithographic inks, heavy industrial primers, polymer emulsions, decorative wall putties.

2. PM Series Offset Double Shaft Mixer (Up to 150,000 cps)

The PM series mounts two parallel, independent shafts side-by-side: a low-speed anchor scraper and a separate high-speed disperser shaft. This configuration allows independent motor sizing and variable speed control (VFD) for both shafts, providing high mixing flexibility for body fillers, plastisols, and textured architectural coatings.

Typical Applications: Automotive body fillers, PVC plastisols, textured mineral pastes, synthetic resin mastics.

3. PS / PSK Series Triple Shaft Mixer (Up to 300,000 cps)

Engineered for high-viscosity structural adhesives and silicone sealants, the PS/PSK series incorporates three distinct agitators: two high-speed dispersing shafts running parallel inside the vessel, surrounded by an outer anchor frame scraper. Working under deep vacuum (≤ -0.098 MPa), it completely de-aerates thick pastes while rapidly wetting difficult solid powders.

Typical Applications: Neutral silicone sealants, structural glass adhesives, polyurethane glues, high-strength mastics.

4. PSM Series Powerful Multi-Motor Disperser (600L to 5,000L)

When processing heavy formulations at high tonnage, the PSM series deploys three independent electric motors powering three dedicated agitation assemblies. Operators can tune low-speed scraping during initial dry powder charging to prevent dust flight, and ramp up high-speed shear shafts only when required, optimizing energy efficiency and preventing formulation overheating.

Typical Applications: High-tonnage industrial mastics, heavy composite resins, waterproof bitumen slurries, rubberized sealants.

5. PMX Series Vacuum Double Planetary Mixer (Up to 1,500,000 cps)

The PMX planetary mixer is the ultimate high-torque compounding machine for non-flowing pastes. Two twisted helical or frame blades rotate on their own axes while simultaneously orbiting around the central axis of the kettle. Combined with an independent high-speed dispersing shaft and a precision wall scraper, it kneads and shears dense lithium battery pastes, thermal greases, and silicone mastics without leaving unmixed dead zones.

Typical Applications: Lithium-ion battery cathode/anode slurry, thermal conductive paste, electronic silver solder, dental compounds.

1. Shaft & Gearbox Complexity

Single-shaft dispersers require simple direct drives. Concentric dual shafts, triple independent shafts, and planetary gearboxes demand high-precision CNC gear cutting, dual mechanical seals, and heavy bearing housings, which represent the largest mechanical cost factor.

2. Metallurgy & Surface Polishing

Industrial paint vessels built from standard Carbon Steel or SS304 cost significantly less than pharmaceutical or electronic-grade SS316L vessels requiring sanitary internal mirror polishing (Ra < 0.4 μm) or specialized Hastelloy / PTFE coatings.

3. Vacuum & Pressure Rating

Operating under deep negative pressure (≤ -0.098 MPa) requires reinforced vessel walls, heavy dished heads, automated hydraulic lid lifting columns, and double-end cartridge mechanical seals with pressurized barrier fluid reservoirs.

4. Thermal Jacket Engineering

Jacketed vessels engineered for chilled water cooling or high-temperature thermal oil heating (up to 220°C) require certified pressure vessel welding, internal flow baffles, and external insulation cladding to ensure operator safety.

5. Explosion-Proof & PLC Automation

ATEX / IECEx certified explosion-proof motors and cast-aluminum operator boxes for solvent environments, combined with Siemens PLC recipe touchscreen controls and load-cell dosing modules, adjust the overall investment tier.

6. Hydraulic Extrusion Presses

Because high-viscosity pastes (> 100,000 cps) do not flow out of bottom valves by gravity, adding a dedicated hydraulic extrusion press (PHD series) to push material out into packaging lines affects complete system pricing.