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Custom Stainless Mix Tanks
Apache fabricates custom mix tanks and agitated vessels engineered to support demanding process operations across chemical, energy, food, pharmaceutical and specialty manufacturing applications. Each vessel is built to meet customer-defined requirements, ensuring mixing performance, mechanical integrity, and long-term service.
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Agitation & Mixing Capabilities
Apache has proven expertise with a wide range of agitation technologies, allowing each mix tank to be optimized for the specific product, viscosity, and mixing objective. Engineers and project managers work closely with the customer to determine the agitator selection and required performance.
- Standard Propeller Agitation
- Full‑Sweep Agitators
- High‑Shear Rotating Mixers
Each agitation system is selected and engineered based on customer preference as well as process goals, rheology, operating temperature, and cleaning requirements.
Custom Mix Tank Features
Apache builds mix tanks to exact customer specifications, incorporating process, mechanical, and operational requirements. Common tank features include:
- Sight glasses for visual process monitoring
- Integrated lighting for internal inspection and verification
- Pressure provisions and code requirements
- Spray balls for clean‑in‑place (CIP) operations
- Instrumentation and control interfaces for process automation
All components are selected to meet applicable pressure, sanitary, and operational standards, ensuring compatibility with the customer’s facility and process controls.
Surface Finishing & Sanitary Capabilities
Apache offers in‑house surface treatment services critical for many processes and sanitary applications.
Passivation and Pickle Passivation
- Enhances corrosion resistance of stainless-steel surfaces by formation of a passive oxide layer
- Removes free iron and fabrication contaminants
- Commonly required for chemical and sanitary process tanks
Electropolishing
- Produces a smooth, mirror finish, high-performance sanitation stainless surface
- Extremely fine capabilities of roughness average capabilities
- Often code-specified for pharmaceutical, food, and specialty chemical applications
These finishing capabilities allow Apache to deliver ready‑to‑install vessels that meet stringent cleanliness, corrosion resistance, and regulatory requirements.
We are Application Experts
Contact Apache Vessel Solutions experts for highly engineered, code‑compliant stainless vessel manufacturing.
Test. Optimize. Validate.
The Validation Lab gives you hands-on access to test equipment, verify compliance criteria, and optimize your product and process before full scale production.
End-to-End Quality Assurance
Apache’s Quality Assurance protocols are designed to meet ASME and other applicable standards through comprehensive validation, testing, FAT, and detailed documentation—so your equipment performs as expected from day one.
Apache's Integrated Advantage
By choosing Apache Vessel Solutions, you are partnering with an organization whose internal business groups provide seamless, end-to-end project execution.
Vessel Solutions delivers a seamless experience where engineering excellence, certified compliance, and operational assurance converge.
Dedicated field service, ASME R-stamp repairs, and audit contracts to protect and extend the life of your vessel.
In-house passivation, pickling, and electropolishing to guarantee the precise corrosion resistance and hygienic finish required.
Specialized air-ride transportation for safe, timely, door-to-door delivery of even the most oversized and high-value equipment.