Uniform Iced Tea Blends Achieved Using Rotary Batch Mixer

Founded in 1912, Henry P. Thomson, Inc. is one of the largest tea importers in the US. Although it began on Wall Street (center of the tea trade back then), HPT now warehouses its products in Augusta, GA and sells primarily to tea packagers, who sell to restaurants, food chains and supermarkets in southern states.
"Many coffee roasters based in the South have complementary iced tea lines," explains Eugene Amici, president, Henry P. Thomson. "During the 1920s and 30s, HPT became the tea department for those coffee roasters, who have scaled up nationally since that time."
"Approximately 85 percent of HPT blends are for iced tea, which Americans increasingly choose as an alternative to carbonated beverages with less or no sugar," says John Smith, VP and managing director. "Iced tea is consumed in restaurants, made at home, and bought in the refrigerated sections of grocery stores and convenience stores," he adds.
A key to HPT's 100-year success is maintaining tea blend consistency - a difficult task due to sack-to-sack variations in imported tea. For example, says Smith: "We receive 400 sacks of an African tea, and from sack to sack the tea may be lighter or darker in color or vary in quality due to seasonal variations. Yet the customer expects blends that have no variation in quality from batch to batch."
To deliver this consistency, HTP relies on a Munson 140 cu ft (3.9 cu m) capacity Rotary Batch Mixer.
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