• ASABE has named The Praxidyn Mixmate Fusion a winner of a 2019 AE50 award

    ASABE has named The Praxidyn Mixmate Fusion a winner of a 2019 AE50 award

    • December 10, 2018

    St. Joseph, Michigan. – The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) has named The Praxidyn Mixmate Fusion a winner of a 2019 AE50 award. AE50 awards honor the year’s most innovative designs in engineering products or systems for the food and agriculture industries. The Mixmate Fusion will be featured in the January/February 2019

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