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<h3>Reduce the metal ore with a reactive agent to separate it from impurities</h3>
<p>Smelting is an ancient craft that has continued to develop with new metal manufacturing equipment. Treat the ore to high thermal pressure in a blast furnace until the heat exceeds the melting point of the metal.</p>
<p>Add a reducing agent such as coke to strip away the oxides in materials and separate the metals from rock and gangue. The coke <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780080450513000075" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reacts with oxide</a> and splits it into carbon dioxide and metallic content.</p>


<p>The molten metal is channeled out of the furnace and deposited in molds. Allow the material to cool down and solidify into casts.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://sites.esm.psu.edu/courses/emch13d/design/design-tech/manufacturing/manuf_2.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">two main types of mold casting</a> are expendable casts and permanent casts. The former class needs to be broken to release the cast metal, while the latter type is fabricated out of ductile material and can be reused.</p>


Cast the molten metal to form an ingot

<p>Metal deformation <a href="https://www.doitpoms.ac.uk/tlplib/metal-forming-2/printall.php#:~:text=A%20forming%20operation%20is%20one,yield%20stress%20of%20the%20material." target="_blank" rel="noopener">prepares the material</a> for the intended industrial application. One method for bulk deformation is rolling the metal to reduce it to a uniform thickness and smoothen the surface.</p>
<p>Extrusion and drawing are more suitable for alloys. The blend of metals is moved through a die opening by a ram. In the case of extrusion, no tensile forces are exerted, and the material is pushed out. On the contrary, drawing applies tensile force and pulls the metal out of the opening.</p>


Finish metals for bulk manufacturing with the deformation process

<h3>Manufacturing metal powder from the ore</h3>
<p>An alternative way to finish metal for further production is to <a href="https://making.com/metal-powder" target="_blank" rel="noopener">process it into powder</a>. The atomization technique passes the molten metal through a narrow opening against a jet of air or liquid.</p>
<p>The pressure causes the liquid metal to split into droplets, quickly turning into solids as the temperature decreases.</p>


Let's make metals

We carry dozens of metals around every day. The ubiquitous smartphone is built with no less than 20 metals, each with specific behaviors and purposes. Metals are a pervasive class of materials that have defined entire eras of human development. It is no exaggeration to say that metal production equipment is the core of our metallic world. But, paradoxically, this manufacturing technology itself is mainly made of metal.

Batch

Oftentime utilized as an alternative to mechanical conveyors when a requirement for dust free conveying or low maintenance arises.


<h2>Industrial vacuum conveyor for maximized throughputs</h2>
The piFLOW®i from Piab is a conveyor, widely used in the general industry and sometimes in the chemical industry. It has a high throughput performance as well as a small footprint. One of the main features of the Industrial vacuum conveyor is that it is entirely based on COAX® technology which is the most energy-efficient way to vacuum.

The piFLOW®i serie is designed with a full opening option making it possible to maximize the material throughput and increase the overall capacity of its system; it offers a capacity up to 4 tons/h. The full opening of the Industrial vacuum conveyor gives an instant discharge, i.e. increased material throughput.

Industrial vacuum conveyor

Conveyor systems are used for moving materials from one location to another. Considerations for choosing a suitable conveying system include the nature of the product, its physical state, the desired conveying rate, and sensitivity of the product to heat and mechanical shock. Conveying systems are used in the food, pharmaceutical, chemical, biomass, and mineral industries to transport bulk powders, granules, and grains for processing and filling.

Conveying

solid

Continuous

If you are looking for high end-product fineness for suspensions with good flow properties with a steep particle size distribution, a horizontal agitated media mill can be a good solution. Often used for wet materials like chemicals, foodstuffs, metals, pigments, and paints.


<h2>Continuous wet milling of particles down to the submicron range</h2>
The Agitated Media Mill AHM from Hosokawa Alpine is a horizontal, cylindrical milling chamber that is universal in use for the continuous wet milling of particles down to the submicron range. This horizontal milling chamber was especially designed for suspensions with good flow properties where a steep particle size distribution and high end-product fineness are demanded.

Ball mills rotate around a horizontal axis, partially filled with the material to be ground plus the grinding medium. The mill is suitable for both continuous and batch operations, also available in sizes suitable for the laboratory, the testing center or for large-scale production.

Chemicals, minerals, PCC, ceramics, foodstuffs, metals, pigments, paints (mass production), laboratory, nanoparticles, abrasives, pharmaceutics. This mill is suitable for small amounts of product and for development trials, also in the nanotechnology sector. Extremely small grinding beads (&lt; 0.2 mm) can be employed with this mill, and investigations regarding the stabilization of suspensions in the submicron range can be executed.

Horizontal Agitated Media Mill

Milling &amp; grinding technologies are used to reduce the particle size of your product while preserving its essential properties. The choice of a suitable solution depends on your product feed, desired particle size distribution as well as your production volume.

Milling

Agitated media mills are media mills that employ an agitated (or stirred) grinding media action for grinding of the ultrafine particles. In this case, a ceramic grinding media grinds mineral, metal, or chemical powder. The most typical application is the manufacture of GCC slurries used for the production of paper, but also ultrafine limestone slurries, such as calcium carbonate, limestone, and marble.


<h2>Cost-efficient grinding of highly concentrated limestone slurries</h2>
The agitated media mill ANR from Hosokawa Alpine is designed for the cost-efficient ultrafine grinding of highly concentrated limestone slurries. The operating mode and the design permit the production of extremely high qualities with regard to fineness, degree of whiteness, and abrasiveness.

The mill design ensures low-maintenance continuous system operation with no expensive downtime periods. The flow pattern goes from bottom to top, whereby the feed material is ground to the required end fineness with the aid of ceramic grinding beads (zirconium silicate or zirconium oxide).

Efficient cooling of the mill stator removes the heat generated during grinding.

The agitator elements and the grinding chamber wall are made of wear-resistant hardened materials.

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Vertical agitated wet media mill

liquid

A vertical agitated media mill is used for grinding ultrafine particles, in an agitated (or stirred) grinding media action, such as mineral fillers, glazing raw materials and non-mineral hard materials. It comprises a cylindrical grinding chamber that is filled with grinding beads of a few millimeters in diameter.


<h2>Ideal for mineral fillers, glazing raw materials and non-mineral hard materials</h2>
The ATR vertical agitated media mill from Hosokawa Alpine is a vertical agitated media mill that comprises a cylindrical grinding chamber, with a double-walled mill housing to permit water cooling, that is filled with grinding beads of a few millimeters in diameter.

Because of the small grinding beads, the particle size of the feed material should not exceed 100 µm. The agitator shaft with its arms dips into the bed of material and grinding beads and is set into slow rotation by a gear unit connected to a motor.

Typical used for milling mineral fillers, glazing raw materials, and non-mineral hard materials. Examples: limestone, quartz, zircon sand, talc, ceramic colors and frits, titanium dioxide, etc.

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Vertical agitated dry media mill

A horizontal rotary ball mill drum can be used for grinding of dry hard materials, such as hard minerals for the ceramic, glass or porcelain industry and processing of soft minerals with abrasive properties.


<h2>Dry ultrafine grinding of mineral powders and ceramic raw materials</h2>
The Super Orion ball mills from Hosokawa Alpine are employed for the dry ultrafine grinding of mineral powders and ceramic raw materials. The ball mill is designed for the dry comminution of hard materials, especially for the ultrafine range &lt; 10 µm in circuit with an ALPINE ultrafine classifier.

Ball mills are giant drums that are filled with between 30 and 40% of their volume with freely moving grinding media, in this case balls. The diameter of the balls is between one and several centimeters to suit the application - smaller balls for fine milling results and larger ones for coarser milling tasks.

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Horizontal rotary ball mill drum

For high throughputs, with a fineness range of approx. d97 = 32 µm - 200 µm. Ideal for use in the mineral powder industry, especially for ceramic powders that need to be produced without iron contamination.


<h2>Stepless fineness adjustment during operation</h2>
The Ventoplex C from Hosokawa Alpine is a circuit-air classifier, which consists of a fan and classifying wheels that are coaxially arranged and driven by means of two separate hollow shafts. This makes it possible for the user to set different speeds and thus permits a significant extension of the fineness range from currently 32 µm to 200 µm.

Thanks to the low-wear design and the possibility of stepless fineness adjustment, it is able of processing different materials such as limestone, quick lime, fertilizing lime, feed lime, bentonite, dolomite, gypsum, chamotte, quartz, feldspar, pegmatite, raw kaolin, ore, phosphor, glass powder, abrasives, rice flour, bone meal, and so on.

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Circuit-air classifier

Separation process to separate components of a liquid mixture, for recovering dissolved solids from liquids. Choice of a suitable technology depends on the identification of the key physical or chemical property, such as size, mass, density, or boiling point, which sets the product of interest apart from the rest of the components. Separation technology are widely used in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries for the isolation of active ingredients and high purity chemicals.

Separation

Standard classifier for high outputs in the fine to medium-fine separation range of d97 = 20 - 200 µm. Ideal for processing feldspar, quartz, nepheline, wollastonite and so on.


<h2>Even at high feed rates, the quality of classification is maintained</h2>
The ASP Stratoplex from Hosokawa Alpine is a high-efficiency classifier, designed for the fine to medium-fine separation range with a D97 of approximately 10-200 µm. Even at high feed rates, the quality of classification is maintained.

A compact and modular system that permits not only a top performance but also a trouble-free, space-saving system installation. Many sizes are available with feed capabilities of up to 100 tons/hr.

Often used in the Mineral Filler Industry for separating glass (ground), metal oxides, calcium carbonate, zircon flour, kaolin, bauxite and so on.

It is available in wear-resistant construction for even the most abrasive applications. Integration with ball mill circuits is easily accomplished.

High throughput air classifier for minerals

Air-flow classifier (pneumatic product feed) for the fine classification of talc, calcium carbonate, bentonite, kaolin, loam, dolomite, quartz, kieselguhr, pigments, fine-grade chemicals, and so on.


<h2>Precise classifications of even the finest particles</h2>
The Micron MS from Hosokawa Alpine is an airflow ultrafine classifier designed as an air-flow classifier (pneumatic product feed), that works in a range of approx. d97 = 15 to 150 µm and has as feature its high throughput capacity.

Energy-saving because of the low classifier speed at the same fineness in comparison with other classifiers. This also means a low degree of wear.

Depending on the industry, the airflow classifier can be manufactured in a wear-protected design for operation with abrasive feed materials, and for applications in the food or pharmaceuticals industries, the classifier can be manufactured in stainless steel.

Air flow classifier

For ultrafine classifying operations of mineral fillers such as limestone or calcite, dolomite, talc, baryte and perlite, and in the ceramics industry for the classification of quartz, feldspar and kaolin.  The results are superfine powders in the range d97 &lt; 2-20 µm.


<h2>Ultrafine classifying for superfine powders</h2>
The ATP Turboplex from Hosokawa Alpine is an air classifier for ultrafine classifying operations, obtaining with this superfine powders in the fineness range d97 = 5 to 10 µm; with the NG model, finenesses of d97 = 2 µm (d50 = 0.3 µm) are possible. The horizontal arrangement of the classifying wheel reduces wear even with abrasive products and guarantees a long service life.

The ultrafine air classifier operates across the entire separation range without oversize particles and ensures a high yield thanks to the integrated coarse material classifier, which also increases the cut point. With Turboplex multi-wheel classifiers, several horizontally arranged classifying wheels of the same diameter are driven separately. The common speed control is achieved via an adjustable static frequency converter.
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Ultrafine air classifier

For ultrafine classifying operations in inline mode of all types of fine to medium-fine products, such as acrylate, epoxy-polyester, gypsum, plastics, petroleum coke, polyurethane and it is especially suitable for dedusting powder coatings in the particle size range from 5 to 10 µm.


<h2>Efficient classification as a result of internal recirculation of the feed material</h2>
The MikroClassifier CC air classifier from Hosokawa Alpine is a high-performance classifier and it can be easily integrated in-line into a grinding system or can be employed off-line as an independent classifying system. The Mikro classifier CC was designed for all types of fine to medium-fine products. It is especially suitable for powder coating classification aimed at reducing the ultrafine portion under 5 – 10 µm.

The cut point of this air classifier can be adjusted between 5 and 100 µm, because it is easy to clean, it is often employed for producing powder coatings of 5 to 10 µm. This air classifier is also suitable for use in potentially explosive areas.

Widely employed in the following industries: powder coatings, chemicals, pharma, food, cosmetics and minerals.
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High performance classifier

For medium-sized fines yields in the mineral powder and filler industry.


<h2>Compact and functional design</h2>
The Turbo Twin Single TTS from Hosokawa Alpine is a classifier that belongs to a newly designed series of Single-wheel air classifiers. The development is based on the established ATP/NG technology and it's considered impressive thanks to its compact design. The TTS is designed for medium-sized fines yields in the mineral powder and filler industry. Just as with the TTD, the TTS is characterized by its low-pressure drop and thus reduced energy consumption. Over and above this, its ease of maintenance is convincing.

Ideal for the ultrafine classification of soft to medium-hard materials such as industrial fillers, calcium carbonate (GCC), talcum, dolomite, barite, kaolin and so on.

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Single-wheel air classifier

Especially designed for classifying toner and pigments.


<h2>Hinge-back housing makes the machine easy to clean when changing product</h2>
The Toner classifiers TSP and TTSP from Hosokawa Alpine are one- or two-stages ultrafine classifiers that were especially developed for dedusting toner and that have as feature a high precision of cut for optimum coarse products.

The demands made of the end-product quality in toner processing are so high that particle counters (Coulter Counter) are employed for quality control. Specification of the dedusted coarse material is given in number %, whereby the specification generally permits 3-10 number% &lt; 5 µm.

TTSP tandem toner classifier is an improvement of the TSP toner classifier, in the precision of cut; reaching a higher loading factor. This makes it possible to almost treble the throughput in comparison with the TSP.

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Toner classifiers

Developed especially to meet the requirements of sugar grinding, it is also suitable for similar applications within the food industry.


<h2>Meet all safety and accident prevention regulations</h2>
The Fine sugar grinder Impact Mill - Sugarplex SX from Hosokawa Alpine is a versatile size-reduction system with exchangeable grinding elements for sugar with a high grade of fineness in the range 50 µm to approx. 5 mm in accordance with the grinding equipment installed.

The Fine sugar grinder was developed exclusively for the food industry, it meets all basic safety and health regulations of the EC Machine Directive 98/37 EC Annex II and all safety and accident prevention regulations of the Federal Republic of Germany.

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Fine sugar grinder

Grinders use a spinning blade or rotating abrasive elements to reduce the size of various materials. The specifications, RPM and grit of the engineered grinder, will result in various particle sizes. As a result, what you want to make will determine the type of grinder you need. Grinding is used for improving the texture and flow properties of various products and to enhance the flavor of food products such as coffee, spices, sugar, nuts, sesame, poppy seeds, lentils, wheat, and rice. Choosing the right rotational speed, grinding elements, and processing power allow the grinding and shredding of a wide range of materials into coarse or fine powders. Popular types of heavy duty grinders in food processing include angle grinders, bench grinders and meat grinders.

Grinding

Particularly designed for humid, oily, and greasy products.


<h2>Ultrafine pill mill proved to process even sticky materials in a wide chamber housing</h2>
The Contraplex Wide Chamber Mill - Contraplex CW from Hosokawa Alpine is an ultrafine pin mill, with two driven pin discs. Designed aiming to achieve high-power fineness values at a range of approximately 10 to 500 µm.

The fineness can be adjusted by altering the fine pin mill disc speeds. The centrifugal forces acting on both discs allow the processing of humid, greasy, and sticky products, primarily as a result of the utilization of the design within the wide chamber housing.

The feed material stands out for being embrittled by intensive mixing with liquid nitrogen. Ultrafine Pin mills are considered among the most reliable and versatile equipment currently available in the materials processing market. It features a generously dimensioned mill door that can be attached wide-open, for easier cleaning.

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Ultrafine pin mill

Ideal for a combined process operation where several process steps are executed simultaneously in one single unit. A product can be simultaneously comminuted, dried, coated and/or mixed.


<h2>Outperform conventional impact mills for maximum fineness</h2>
The Long Gap Mill – LGM from Hosokawa Alpine can be used for various processes, e.g. grinding and drying as well as coating or mixing a product. Several processes can also be carried out at the same time with this machine in one single process step.

It reaches a fineness of maximum 97% &lt; 5 – 500 µm, depending on the product. Either dry materials, slurry or wet cakes can be processed with this mill.

The range of products that can be processed with the LGM is extremely wide. The most common applications are size reduction of mineral powders, plastics and rubber, soya, wheat bran, carbon black, cellulose and derivatives; Impact drying of hydrogels, cellulose derivatives, ceramic slurries and coating of Fine fillers with stearates or silanes.

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Long gap mill

Suitable for the comminution of numerous products and it's utilized in every branch of industry. It is also suitable for the fine and ultrafine grinding of soft to medium-hard products.


<h2>Most versatile size reduction equipment available on the market</h2>
The Mikro ACM Air classifier mill from Hosokawa Alpine is one of the most versatile types of size reduction equipment available in the market. Size reduction is a result of the feed product impacting against the rotating grinding elements and against the stationary liner. At beater tip speeds of up to 140 m/s, fineness values of d97 = 10 µm are achieved.

The fines pass through the classifying wheel and exit the mill. The cut point is a function of the classifying wheel speed, which can be adjusted even during operation.

The most common applications of the Air classifier mill, are materials for powder coatings, cosmetics, food, pharmaceutical, chemical, and Mineral industries.

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Air classifier mill

For grinding soft products up to a Moh´s hardness of 3.5. The end products are free from oversize particles and have a steep particle size distribution and an exact top cut.


<h2>Designed for processing sticky products that tend to deposit</h2>
The Classifier Mill - ZPS Zirkoplex from Hosokawa alpine is a universal classifier mill for materials to a Moh´s hardness of approx. 3 when the requirements call for extremely high end-product fineness values at the lowest possible energy consumption.

It works by rejecting the particles that are too coarse by the classifying wheel and are comminuted by the beater unit until they can pass through the classifying wheel and thus correspond to the required fineness as specified by the classifying wheel speed.

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Classifier mill for soft products

This device is mainly employed for grinding sodium-hydrocarbonate used in flue-gas cleaning.


<h2>Easy cleaning, inspection and exchange of grinding elements</h2>
The Classifier Mill - APP Powderplex from Hosokawa Alpine is a single-rotor classifier mill for powder fineness values of d97 = 20 to 200 µm. It is easy cleaning, inspection, and exchange of grinding elements. It has an integrated air classifier with a high precision of cut for fines with no spatter.

Universal in use for materials with a Mohs’ hardness of approx. 3.5; it is the right solution when powders have to be produced with constant fineness over a long period of time.
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Sodium-hydrocarbonate classifier mill

Gently crush down brittle, easily broken materials to fine particle size.


<h2>Gentle milling action for minimum fines generation</h2>
The Flake crusher from Hosokawa Alpine offers a gentle milling action that minimizes fines; which means that the Flake Crusher is often used in hazardous dust areas. Typically the circumferential speed is around 1 m/s.

The material to be crushed is strained through a screen with a horizontal rotor. The crushing movement of the rotor can take place both in an oscillating and rotating manner.

The most common applications of this device are crushing of lumped salts and hygroscopic substances, deagglomeration after drying and mixing, crushing of flakes to granulate, recycling of tablets, and dust-free crushing.

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Flake crusher

Crushing is the process of applying an amplified force to a material to break it down into smaller pieces. A crusher is a machine designed to crush large chunks of material into smaller bits or a powder. They are used to reduce mineral rocks to smaller rocks, gravel, or dust. They are also used to reduce the size of waste materials for easier disposal/recycling or to reduce the size of a solid mix of raw materials. Crusher selection depends on the physical properties of the material to be processed, the in-feed size, and the desired output particle size.

Crushing

For the gentle crushing of soft to medium-hard substances. Widely used in food industries for size reduction, pulverization, deagglomeration or delumping before they become a finished product.


<h2>Gently crush soft to medium-hard substances</h2>
The Bexmill from Hosokawa Alpine is a Conical gentle crusher, used to crush soft to medium-hard substances.

The mill can be charged both continuously and discontinuously.

Due to its conical form, the Bexmill can be operated in contrast to the classic Flake Crusher at higher revolutions. Through these larger throughputs, a higher fineness can be achieved.

The product spectrum ranges from wet to dry feed material.

This Conical gentle crusher is often used in processes of homogenization of mixtures, after mixer agglomeration, the disintegration of agglomerates, after fluid beds and kilns, and in the finishing of granulates.

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Conical gentle crusher

With a pre-crusher continuous flakes are made into pieces, before granulation.


<h2>Proper pre-crushing before granulation</h2>
Pre-Crusher type PC from Hosokawa Alpine is a pre-crusher of plates quite suited for the first crushing levels before the granulation and production of clumped materials for free-flowing.

The crushing takes place with counter-rotating grinding rollers which are either equipped with bars or discs, that reach particle sizes up to 30 mm, dust-free coarse crushing in the preliminary crushing of flakes

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Pre-crusher of plates

A hammer mill crushes aggregate material into smaller pieces; the most common applications can be found in food, chemical, plastic and cosmetic industries.


<h2>Grinding, mixing and homogenization in one single process</h2>
The Mikro Pulverizer MP from Hosokawa Alpine is a hammer mill for the gradual crushing of soft to medium-hard products. This unit comes with three operations such as grinding, mixing and homogenization.

Easy to clean and maintain, the MikroPulverizer MP grinds, mixes and homogenizes in one single processing step. The system is well-proven in combined grinding and drying systems, as well as in cryogenic and inert gas systems.

Different rotors, liners, screens and grinding elements are available for a wide range of applications and products, e.g. carbon black, iron oxide, casein, melamine, sugar, urea, etc.

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Hammer mill

When high cutting forces and high throughput are required, you need a granulator that has proven its reliability under the hardest of tasks.


<h2>High troughput proven economical granulation</h2>
The Ro Rotoplex from Hosokawa Alpine consists in a cross-scissor-cut rotor that offers process technological superiority, saves energy, increases the service life, and improves the material feeding characteristics. These large granulators are capable of extremely high capacities due to our unique design and multiple knife geometry. Besides the classic field of plastics size reduction, Rotoplex large-scale granulators are exemplary for fiber, film, purgings, wire and cable and many more difficult materials.

Characterized by performance capacity, economy, and operating reliability. High-grade spheroidal graphite cast iron ensures that even in continuous heavy-duty operation, the Rotoplex granulators do their job reliably over many years.

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Large granulator

A granulator is a high-speed knife mill designed to cut down large components of feedstock and reduce them to smaller particle sizes. Selecting the right scissor geometry and configuration allows granulators to process plastic bottles, organic fibers, films, wires, cables, and other difficult materials. Agglomeration granulators combine fine particles into larger granules by creating bonds between them. Bonds are formed by compressing fine particles or through the use of a binding agent. Granulation is used extensively in the pharmaceutical industry to prevent segregation of the constituents of a powder mix.

Granulating

If you are shredding very difficult materials, you may need to choose a special construction to avoid the risk that plastic film or fibers winds themselves around the shaft and block your process.


<h2>Even the most difficult material can be shredded without problem</h2>
Shredder - DL DuraLine from Hosokawa Alpine are characterized by a heavy, torsion-resistant support construction, knife shafts made from solid and special perforated screens that permit precise determination of the product.

A menu-guided control system permits variable settings to be programmed and operating modes for different materials (as a function of their specific properties) to be stored in memory. The torsion-resistant shredder can reliably shred even the most difficult material without problem.

Because of the positive engagement of the knife blades with respect to the knives on the opposite side, materials such as plastic film or fibers are stripped reliably and cannot wind themselves around the shaft.

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Torsion-resistant shredder

A shredder is used to reduce the size of various materials through the cutting action of its contra-rotating shredding rollers or knife shafts. Industrial shredders come in many different designs, sizes, and variations. Shredders are best used for the disposal of used tires, scrap metal, car wrecks, garbage, recycling of plastics, paper, and shredding of various foods such as cooked cereals. The choice of a suitable shredder depends on the properties of the material to be processed, the desired shred size, the size of the in feed material, and the volume of material to be processed.

Shredding

Jet mills are frequently used in the pharmaceutical industry and also for the production of fine-grade chemicals. Jet milling uses highly compressed air or other gasses to reduce particles into powders with dimensions as small as one micron across.


<h2>Milling with high purity and minimal contamination</h2>
The Spiral Jet Mill - AS Aeroplex from Hosokawa Alpine is used to manufacture fine-grade chemicals for ultrafine size reduction of dry materials with a crystalline structure up to a Mohs hardness of 3.

Because it has no rotating components, there are consequently no bearings and shaft seals, and thus no lubricants are used. Contamination from these sources is therefore impossible.

This device is frequently used in the pharmaceutical industry to manufacture fine-grade chemicals, to create polymer powders for the plastics industry, adhesives, cosmetics, paint and ink compounds, pharmaceuticals, and more.

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Spiral jet mill

When you want to mix segregative, free-flowing powders and pastes that require perfect mixing quality and accuracy but require careful treatment, a conical screw mixer is a proven solution.


<h2>Gently mixing with perfect accuracy</h2>
The Vrieco-Nauta® conical screw mixer from Hosokawa Micron is a convective mixer with high mixing efficiency and accuracy for large volumes of up to 100.000 liters, specially designed for segregative, free-flowing powders and pastes. The conical vessel design allows a wide range of filling capacities and the mass flow characteristic design minimizes segregation upon discharge. Because there are no horizontal internal surfaces, products are completely discharged, minimizing product loss and providing for easy cleaning. Suitable for a wide range of processing activities in the pharmaceutical, food, plastic, metals &amp; minerals, nuclear, chemical, pigments and coatings industries.

Conical screw mixer

Industrial mixing is used to combine a heterogeneous mix of two or more solid, liquid or gaseous ingredients into a homogenous product. The choice of a suitable mixing solution depends on the physical state of the ingredients and the desired mixing process; the sensitivity of the ingredients and process temperature and pressure requirements are also important factors.

Mixing

Fluidized bed opposed jet mills rely purely on particle-to-particle attrition in the center of a fluidized bed of material; this is achieved by focusing in compressed gas nozzles into the milling chamber which accelerates the particles to produce collisions where energy is released causing particle breakdown.


<h2>Maximum fineness with the highest product purity</h2>
The Fluidized Bed Opposed Jet Mill AFG from Hosokawa Alpine is used for manufacturing powders with a steep particle size distribution and sharp top size limitation in the range &lt; 5 µm to 200 µm; maximum fineness values at maximum product purity. Such particle sizes can only be obtained in connection with an air classifying step. Fluidized bed opposed jet mills are equipped with a dynamic deflector-wheel classifier.

Even difficult products can be processed efficiently with the AFG jet mills. Heat-sensitive materials such as toner, resin, wax, fat, ion exchangers, plant protectors, dyestuffs, and pigments; highly pure materials where the requirement is contamination-free processing such as fluorescent powders, silica gel, silica, special metals, ceramic raw materials, pharmaceuticals.

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Fluidized bed opposed jet mills

The roller compactor is used for briquetting larger throughputs. Briquetting is the compression of powders into briquettes between two counter-rotating rollers, and the typical applications for this machine are chemical products, minerals, refractories, charcoal, and metal powder.


<h2>Robust briquetting of chemicals, minerals, and metals</h2>
Kompaktor MS from Hosokawa Alpine is a robust device used to compress powder to granulate or briquettes. Due to high press forces, the machine base unit is made from carbon steel. Briquetting of chemicals and minerals/metals are the strong points of the Kompaktor MS: production of briquettes out of sponge iron, magnesium oxide, burnt lime, and many other products; dry granulation of salts, NPK fertilizers, torrefied biomasses, charcoal, and many more.

Roll diameters ranging from 300 mm up to 1110 mm cover a broad range of different throughput capacities (0.5– 120 t/h). Several vertical feed screws provide for an ideal product distribution over the roll width at high throughputs. This guarantees a homogenous compression density. Dual gear reducer providing for exactly matching circumferential speed of the rolls.

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Roller compactor

You may press finely sized powders together into dosages and quantities using compaction machines. The process separates the fed material into predefined measurements and packs the powders into blocks according to the specified density and shape to accommodate different end products.

Compaction

For the laboratory or small amount compaction, granulation and briquetting of mineral and chemical products, abrasive products, and for frequent product changes.


<h2>Small scale granulation with effortless product changes</h2>
The Kompaktor® CS 25 from Hosokawa Alpine is particularly suited for the laboratory and for small product amounts. Where you will be able of processing powder to get granulate or briquettes. This process is described as compaction or briquetting.

This Laboratory roller compactor is made for frequent product changes and abrasive products because the rollers can be easily replaced. Due to the cantilever bearing the Kompaktor CS 25 is particularly easy to maintain and this with 25 tons of press force.

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Laboratory roller compactor

Pharmaceutical granulators are often used with active substance mixtures to be processed into granulates, a process also known as compaction.


<h2>Dry granulation of pharmaceutical powders</h2>
With the Pharmapaktor® Serie (Pharmapaktors series L, K, and C 250) from Hosokawa Alpine, active substance mixtures are processed into granulate.

For this, the powder is first pressed into flakes/pellets. These are often crushed with a Flake Crusher into granulate.

Compaction (dry granulation) is understood to be the compression of powder between two synchronized, counter-rotating rollers. The powder is fed to the counter-rotating rollers in a regulated manner. Here, adhesive forces between the product particles are created under high pressure between the rollers.

For capsule or sachet filling the granulate must be de-dusted in a screening machine. The sieved fines can then be directly fed to the Pharmapaktor again

Pharmaceutical granulator

For pre-crushing before fine grinding, non-fine crushing, sharp-edged granules, and narrow granule distribution. With high-pressure roller mills products are produced with a precipitous granule distribution.


<h2>Compact mills for sharp-edged granules</h2>
The high-pressure roller mill from Hosokawa Alpine is also called roller crusher or roller press. In comparison to compaction processes, it uses lower press forces between the rollers because no new adhesive forces need to be created.

With high-pressure roller mills products are produced with a precipitous granule distribution.

Because only the outer particles of the material bed have contact with the surface of the rollers, milling that is almost contamination-free is possible.

Often used in the cases of medium-fine crushing of hard materials such as ceramics, minerals from 5 up to 9 on the MOHS hardness scale metals and metal alloys.

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High pressure roller mill

For the compression of charcoal powder into briquettes between two counter-rotating rollers, this process is called briquetting.


<h2>Efficient compactor for charcoal briquetting</h2>
Kompaktor HK from Hosokawa alpine was made to compress charcoal powder into briquettes.

Mechanical spring assemblies provide for the elasticity of the swing arm which protrudes due to its light construction. This leads to a very good price-performance ratio for this application.

Hosokawa manufacturers the roller mill for charcoal in two different executions: HK 150 and HK 200, with a roller diameter of 400 and a throughput in of 1 and 2.5 t/h respectively.

Roller mill for charcoal briquettes

A Laboratory air jet sieve is used for determining the particle size distribution of powdery and granular materials.


<h2>Intuitive analysis of particle size distribution</h2>
The e200 LS from Hosokawa is ideal for analyzing any kind of dry material. Samples of between 0.3 and 100 grams in weight can be analyzed easily and quickly. The batch weight is dependent on the sieve mesh width and material density. The extraordinarily good dispersion of the material being analyzed by the nozzle jet permits analyses down to 10 µm with the micro-precision sieves.

The only thing that moves the material being analyzed is the airflow. This system makes it possible to do without any and all mechanical means of influencing the sieving process of different materials, such as non-organic or organic granular materials including sands, crushed rock, clays, granite, feldspars, coal, soil, a wide range of manufactured powders.

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Laboratory air jet sieve

Evaporation equipment is used to reduce or remove the moisture content of a mixture. Considerations for choosing suitable evaporation equipment include the moisture content in the mixture, the boiling point of the solvent, heat sensitivity of the product, and the amount of material to be processed. Evaporators are used for applications such as obtaining fruit and vegetable concentrates in the food industry, concentrating aromas and herbal extracts in the cosmetics industry, and to isolate active ingredients in the pharmaceutical industry.

Evaporating

A crucial step before your products leave the production line is a quality check for dosage and standards. Equipment for measurement and control employs a range of technologies to detect inconsistencies in volumes, sizes, weights, and fill levels as well as to inspect goods for quality against a set of criteria. Specialized systems allow you to minimize the probability for error to its lowest possible, ensuring that both products and packaging meet your benchmarks.

Measurement &amp; Control

Sieving machines are available in various designs such as linear sieves, tumbler sieves, and vibrating sieves each employing a different sieving action. The choice of a suitable sieving machine depends on the desired particle size distribution, required amplitude and frequency of vibrations, and the physical state of the mixture. Sieving machines are used for removing dust from granular products and for grading grains. They are also used for the classification of granular material and the separation of solids from a slurry mix in the food processing industries.

Sieving

A laboratory fine impact mill is used for fine and ultrafine grinding, for defibration, and for cutting soft materials.


<h2>Small scale size reduction of soft materials</h2>
The 100 UPZ und 160 UPZ Fine Impact Mills from Hosokawa Alpine are designed for fine and ultrafine grinding, for defibration, and for cutting materials of Mohs' hardness up to 3. Depending on the equipment, powder fineness values range from approx. 100 µm to 1500 µm.

The fine of the final product is adjusted by the selection of the corresponding size reduction elements and as a function of the machine speed.

This mill has many applications in the chemical industry, foodstuffs, and animal feed industry as well as in the pharmaceutical industry.

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Laboratory fine impact mill

A Laboratory hammer mill in pharma design for the comminution of pharmaceutical and chemical products. Depending on the project, the mill can be delivered integrated into an isolator.


<h2>Easy to clean pharmaceutical grade hammer mill</h2>
The Laboratory Hammer Mill 20/10 from Hosokawa Alpine is a laboratory device to perform size reduction and disintegration of agglomerates and lumps of pharmaceutical and chemical products with an achievable end-product fineness of &lt; 500 µm with minimum fines.

It is easy to dismantle, this results in easy and effective cleaning of all product-contact components. The inside of the machine can be cleaned with the beater unit removed and a special cover installed to protect the bearings.

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Laboratory hammer mill

When creating new products whose grinding properties cannot always be predicted in advance are constantly being developed, maximum flexibility is quite imperative.


<h2>Reproducibility and accuracy for scaling up to production-scale equipment</h2>
The Laboratory multi-processing systems, from Hosokawa Alpine offer process reproducibility and the possibility of scaling up at a later date to production-scale equipment.

This is where so-called multi-processing systems have established themselves as veritable all-rounders: it takes only a few minutes to exchange the following modules: fluidized bed opposed jet mill, ultrafine classifier, classifier mill, spiral jet mill, and fine impact mill.

To ensure the highest degree of resistance to chemical attack and against corrosion, all product-contact surfaces of Alpine's multi-processing systems are made of rust- and acid-proof stainless steel.

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Laboratory multi-processing systems

Ideal for the ultra-fine size reduction on a laboratory scale of dry materials up to Mohs' hardness 3 and powder fineness of 5 µm to 40 µm. Suitable for high-grade pharmaceuticals and fine-grade chemicals.


<h2>Ultrafine size reduction of mini-batches</h2>
The laboratory spiral jet mill, 50 AS from Hosokawa alpine is used for ultra-fine size reduction of dry materials with a crystalline structure up to Mohs hardness of three and production of a powder with a high ultra-fine portion between 0.5 and 30µm.

Often used for processing pharmaceutical active substances like parenteralia, DPIs (dry powder inhalants) and other active substances.

This compact and portable design meets the highest pharmaceutical standards and is ideal for the operation in an isolation containment device.
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Laboratory spiral jet mill

Tabletop model for the wet grinding of small to ultra-small product batches down to the nano fineness range. Suitable for a wide range of applications such as engineering ceramics, mineral substances, pigments, paints, fine-grade chemicals, pharmaceutical products, dental ceramics, food supplements, abrasives, submicron, and nano grinding.


<h2>For the wet grinding down to the nano fineness range</h2>
The Wet mill 90 AHM from Hosokawa Alpine is a laboratory device for the wet grinding of small to ultra-small product batches down to the nano fineness range. It is suitable for small amounts of product and for development trials - also in the nanotechnology sector. Extremely small grinding beads (&lt; 0.2 mm) can be employed with this mill, and investigations regarding the stabilization of suspensions in the submicron range can be executed.

In contrast to the other AHM mill types, the laboratory version has a variable-speed direct drive; it is easy to fill in, empty, and clean up due to its pivoted support.

Laboratory horizontal agitated ball mill

An up-stream classifier that separates different compounds with any precision of cut in the range of 100 µm to 6000 µm. Widely used in different industries, such as removal of sand or stones from spices in the food industry, dust extraction at approx. 100 µm in vitamins and so on.


<h2>Demonstrate classification under a plexiglass cover</h2>
The Multi-Plex zigzag classifier MZM from Hosokawa Alpine is an up-stream classifier, with a zigzag geometry of the classifying tube, which ensures that the coarse material is repeatedly rinsed by the classifying air.

This results in a multi-stage classification and the classifier achieves an extremely high precision of cut. The cut point can be adjusted over a range from 0.1 to approx. 6 mm. The classifier is mainly used for sorting and separating different materials. Because the classifying process can be viewed through the Plexiglas cover, the 1-40 MZM is ideal as a demonstration model for up-stream classification and as a test stand for laboratory trials during the course of teaching activities.
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Laboratory zigzag classifier

Form pellets with the uniform length for a dust-free, cylindrical granulate, pellets with smooth surface and high stability of the granulate.


<h2>Stable pelleting with uniform length</h2>
The Gear pelletizer from Hosokawa Alpine is also known as the low-pressure extruder or pelleting machine. This process is known as extrusion, and helps to get stable pellets with uniform length are formed. The extrusion takes place by a pair of counter-rotating hollow toothed rollers. The product is drawn in by the rollers and pressed by nozzle bores or press nozzles.

The compression is determined by the relationship of the nozzle diameter to the nozzle length. The nozzle diameter is within the limits of 1 to 10 mm.

The Gear Pelletizer can be run dust and gas-tight. Operation with inert gas and solvents it’s possible without any problem.

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Pelleting machine

In order to produce items of a uniform shape and size, you will typically use an extruder machine that presses a fluid or solid material through a die. Depending on your use case, extruders adopt single- or twin-screw systems to push the mixture, first through a barrel that forms the items and, then, through a knife head that cuts them into your designed shape.

Extrusion

A pellet mill is a type of mill used to make small, round, compressed, pellets from powdered materials. Selection of a suitable pellet mill requires consideration of the desired pellets size and shape, nature of the material to be processed, ease of cleaning, and the scale and mode of pellet production. In the animal feed and pet food industries, pellet presses are used to combine various nutritional ingredients into each pellet. In biomass combustion, a pellet mill is used to increase bulk density and provide a consistent, easy-to-handle input product made from raw materials such as sawdust.

Pelleting

A spheronizer produces spherical pellets with a smooth surface and a narrow particle size distribution.


<h2>For pellets with a smooth surface and a narrow particle-size distribution</h2>
The Bexroller from Hosokawa Alpine is also known as spheronizer. It has a cylindrical product chamber that integrates a rotating variable-shaped disk. Within this chamber, the pellets rotate and roll intensively. In addition, the spherical pellets produced by spheronization have a smooth surface and a narrow particle size distribution, ideal for aggressive chemicals.

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Spheronizer

The process of forming allows you to shape your products homogeneously. Forming machines are fed the manufactured material in bulk and cut it down to specification, so the process takes place between formulation of the mass and the packaging of the final item.

A special class of this equipment – Form, Fill, and Seal Machines (FFS) – creates bags and pouches from flat material such as plastic sheets, fills them with your designated product, and seals them.

Forming

Table roller mills are robust and time-proven mills for soft to medium-hard mineral raw materials and industrial bulk materials. The advantages of the table roller mill are the simple fineness adjustment and fast product change. Table roller mills are used wherever a high degree of production flexibility is demanded.


<h2>Flexible production of large amounts of fines</h2>
The Table Roller Mill AWM from Hosokawa Alpine operates in accordance with the principle of pressure comminution, making them suitable for brittle but elastic feed products to deliver end-product fineness values of between approx. 10 µm and 100 µm.

A fundamental feature of Alpine's table roller mill is the optimized kinematics of the grinding rollers and grinding table to permit the production of large amounts of fines

Table roller mills are used wherever a high degree of production flexibility is demanded, for example for limestone, gypsum, dolomite, talc, petroleum coke, bentonite, quick lime, and so on.
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Table roller mill

Pusher centrifuges are continuously operating filter centrifuges and can have several basket stages depending on the application. Widely used for processing salts, fertilizers, but also plastics, soda and cellulose.


<h2>Continuous solids throughput under the toughest conditions</h2>
Pusher centrifuges from Ferrum are continuously operating filter centrifuges that are based on the very successful Sulzer Escher Wyss design. The slurry is fed continuously to the product acceleration disc via the filling pipe. The solids are transported out of the centrifuge basket into the discharge channel, from where they leave the pusher centrifuge. The cake is cleaned in the centrifuge by adding washing liquid on to the solid cake.

Various models have been developed with basket sizes ranging from 230mm to 1200mm. The most common applications are developed in agricultural and petrochemical industries, such as filtration for obtaining zinc sulphate, lysine, nitrocellulose, sea salt, sodium carbonate, urea, Glauber’s salt, potassium chlorate, potassium nitrate, linters and so on.

Pusher centrifuge

Industrial centrifuges are widely used for mechanical solid-liquid separation of components in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries. This is achieved by rapidly rotating the contents within a container to separate fluid of different densities or to remove liquids from solids.

Centrifuging

Drying technologies are used to remove moisture from your product. Energy or heat can be supplied directly by blowing hot air or gas, through a product, or indirectly by using a heating medium. Choosing drying equipment depends on your product feed and the required flow of your commercial or industrial production line.

Drying

The system is perfectly suited for pilot plants as well as small-quantity productions in the fine chemical and pharmaceutical industries.


<h2>Compact and mobile centrifugation</h2>
The mobile pilot plant centrifuge from Ferrum, combines centrifuge, control and drive components as well as inertisation system in one mobile turnkey unit. The system is perfectly suited for pilot plants as well as low volume production in the fine chemical and pharmaceutical industries. The solids are discharged vertically upward manually or using a filter bag.

Mobile pilot plant centrifuge

Freeze-drying is used for dehydrating high-value products that are too sensitive for conventional drying processes. The product is dried by freezing, subsequently to the sublimation and ice formation, typically with a vacuum and at low temperatures.


<h2>Mixing and freeze-drying in one step</h2>
The active freeze dryer from Hosokawa Micron uses very low temperatures and a vacuum to dry your product and to obtain it in very good quality. Due to the low temperatures usage the damage of heat sensitive products, such as enzymes, flavors, proteins, vitamins and so on is avoided. Hand traditional tray-type freeze dryers are slow and labor-intensive. Hosokawa's Active Freeze Dryer ® eliminates these drawbacks.
Typical applications include pharmaceuticals like antibiotics, collagens, <a href="https://making.com/active-pharmaceutical-ingredients-api/">APIs</a> and electrolytes; Food industry and in special materials like nanomaterials, polymers, ceramics, pigments, fillers, limestone, catalysts, glass powder and salts.

Active freeze dryer

For continuous intensive mixing of fine and cohesive powders, a continuous high-speed paddle mixer offers the advantage of short residence times and accurate temperature control.


<h2>Intense continuous mixing with short residence times</h2>
The high-speed paddle mixer from Hosokawa Micron is a continuous horizontal paddle mixer with paddles located in a single helical or double helical pattern around the rotor shaft. This continuous paddle mixer has been developed for fine and cohesive powder applications. Capacities from 100 kg/h to 100 000 kg/h. Typical residence times range from 1 to 20 seconds. The system can be used for a wide range of applications, such as high-intensity mixing, coating, fine agglomeration or continuous reaction of powders with gases. It is capable of extremely high, heat transfer efficiency due to close contact between the material and the heated inside surface. Units can also be fitted with a heating or cooling jacket depending on the process requirements.

Continuous high-speed paddle mixer

The laboratory-scale active freeze-drying is used for dehydrating high-value products that are too sensitive for conventional drying processes. The product is dried by freezing and subsequent sublimation of ice formation, typically in vacuum and at low temperatures, in a small laboratory and pilot plant scale, enabling a smooth transition to the production plant.


<h2>Start innovating with freeze-drying technology</h2>
The 1-liter laboratory-scale freezer dryer from Hosokawa Micron is quicker and less labor-intensive than traditional tray-type freeze dryers. It offers the possibility of producing loose and free-flowing powder at low temperatures and low pressures, all in one vessel. Ideal for testing and simulating processes, the lab unit is "plug and play", including controls and all necessary equipment for reliable operation in your laboratory environment. Ideally suited for pharmaceuticals like antibiotics, collagens, APIs and electrolytes; food industry and special materials like nanomaterials, polymers, ceramics, pigments, fillers, limestone, catalysts, glass powder and salts.

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Laboratory scale active freeze dryer

Mid shear mixers are typically used for processes where high shear leads to product deformation and low shear results in inadequate mixing.


<h2>Combine gentle and mid low shear mixing in one machine</h2>
The Vitomix® from Hosokawa Micron is a mid-shear mixer capable of ultra-short cycle times with up to 8 times more transport volume than conventional ribbon screw mixers. It is also known as a ribbon screw blender, also has a wider range of operation using tip speeds from 0.4 m/s to 6.0 m/s. This multi-functional mixer combines gentle mixing and mid to low shear in one compact machine. It's ideal for the addition of liquids and creates a homogenous mixture without using lump breakers.

Mid-shear mixer

Enable vacuum, atmospheric and pressurized processing of a variety of materials such as powders, filter cakes, pastes and viscous slurries, especially when they are brittle and/or heat sensitive.


<h2>Fast-drying in a compact, multi-functional design</h2>
The Conical Paddle Dryer from Hosokawa Micron is a vertical, centrally-driven dryer that combines extremely fast drying rates with a compact design. This combination of several processes in one vessel offers savings on investment costs, labor and space.
Originally designed for vacuum drying of solid-based materials, but can be used in a wide range of other applications requiring thermal processing or vacuum treatment of solids.
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Vertical paddle dryer

When your product or process is sensitive to humidity, using air dehumidifiers may result in substantial savings on the running costs of your plant.


<h2>Precise humidity and temperature control</h2>
The Air dehumidifiers from Ventilex come in variety of configurations depending upon air volumes, temperature range, available energy and any need for additional biocidal capacity. The systems keep the air at a constant, precise humidity regardless of weather conditions or load variations.

Any manufacturing or processing operation, which is humidity, temperature or micro-organism sensitive, is a natural application for a dehumidification system. Whether your space conditions are 25 ºC and 20% RH, or 5ºC and 40% RH, or even –20ºC and –40ºC dew-point, the system can provide those conditions every day. Result, a better bottom line.

Ventilex Drygenic air dehumidifiers are easy to operate, eliminate airborne micro-organisms and save energy and investment costs.

Air dehumidifiers

Refrigerant and desiccant dehumidifiers are used to reduce or maintain the level of humidity. Refrigerant dehumidifiers pass the air over a cold coil, cooling the air to the point where its water vapor begins to condense. Instead, desiccant dehumidifiers pass the air through a rotor containing a moisture-absorbing material.

Dehumidifying

Filtration equipment separates solid matter from liquid by using a filter medium. The filter allows only the fluid to pass through but retains the solid matter. The choice of filtration equipment depends on the particle size, the consistency of the mixture, and the nature of your product.

Filtration

A belt dryer typically applies the product through an infeed chamber onto a perforated horizontal belt, which carries the product through the drying area which is divided into several sections.


<h2>Carefully controlled, high through-put, hygienic drying</h2>
The belt dryer from Ventilex is a stainless steel perforated horizontal belt, designed for durability, sanitation; it controls temperature and humidity as required, delivering desired levels even with varying air inlet conditions.

Helping the industry to produce better quality products, controlling temperature / humidity environment while minimizing utility usage and maximizing production rates. Besides the drying of food and agriculture products such as flaked, striped, noodle, cube and granule materials; it can also be used for dehydration of various chemical and pharmaceutical products.

The dryer capacity, size and performance depend on the available heat transfer area and the operating conditions for the specific product. The combination of temperature cycles and drying times can be adjusted to control the final product physical properties.

Hygienic belt dryer

In a Fluid Bed, a product or solid is made fluid by an upward moving flow of gas. The mechanical movement of the Fluid Bed strengthens this effect. Thus, the gas and product are intensively mixed so that high heat transfer and an optimum physical reaction speed are achieved.


<h2>Continuous fluid bed dryer for an energy-efficient drying</h2>
Ventilex Continuous fluid bed dryers apply world-leading fluid bed technology to high-throughput bulk processes. By choosing a good combination of gas speed and mechanical movement, you will be able to process granular products with a wide range of grain sizes while forming a minimum amount of dust.

A whole range of products can be processed in the fluid bed for long residence times, up to two hours per machine are possible. Ventilex Fluid bed dryer can function at temperatures from–15ºC to +600ºC. The gas speed can vary from 0.2 to 3m/sec.

Continuous fluid bed dryer

Turning your pallet may allow for more effective pallet changing than the conventional lifting and grabbing solutions.


<h2>No need to apply pressure, change your pallets by turning your load</h2>
The Toppy Pharma Advance is a pallet changer. It changes pallet via turning of load. There is no need to apply much pressure to the load because it uses a special system that is able to replace simply, quickly and safely. This changer has a touch screen display which is responsible for running any operation. The Toppy Pharma Advance is capable of lifting and turning loads with a maximum weight of 1000kg with pallet size up to 800x1200mm or 1000x1200mm in pallet DIN. The load can be as tall as 1550mm given that pallet is included.

Like other Toppy equipments, the Toppy Pharma Advance complies with the strictest European and American rules and is finished with special attention to GMPs, with smooth surface and beveled shape. They are provided with a touch screen display that is responsible for any peration by a single touch.

Mobile pallet turner

A pallet is a flat structure, on which containers of the packaged products are stacked to consolidate the product and to make it easier for a forklift to lift the goods for warehousing and transportation. A palletizer is a machine that automates or simplifies the process of stacking product containers onto a pallet. The choice of a palletizer depends on the type of product packaging such as bags, drums, or boxes, the level of automation required, and the in-feed to the palletizer. Palletizers find applications in all major industries including food, chemical, and pharmaceutical.

Palletizing

When you need to opt a pallet changer that is capable of lifting and turning loads and can be supplied also for bottom-closed pallet, with a wide base. This mobile pallet turner is vital.


<h2>Pallet changer for lifting high loads</h2>
The Maxi Toppy Pharma Plus and Maxi Toppy Pharma Plus WB is presented by Toppy. It can lift the load with the maximum of 1500 kg, with pallet size up to 800x1200 mm or 1000x1200 mm in pallet DIN. The load can be as tall as 1780 mm and 2370 mm, given that pallet is included, for both Maxi Toppy Pharma and Maxi Toppy Pharma Plus.

The high loads are capable to lift up and turn with this mobile pallet turner. The Maxi Toppy Pharma WB Plus pallet changer is realized with wide base of the legs, so that it is possible to pick up pallets closed at the base (for instance, UK pallets). They also comply with the strictest European and American rules. It pays special attention to the GMPs and smooth surface and beveled shape assuring the utmost hygiene and cleanliness.

Mobile pallet turner for higher stacks

Here is the versatile mobile pallet turner that completes the typical features of all mobile pharma machines. You are not at the wrong set, if you wish to change the pallet by two side pressers, runned by oleodynamic cylinders.


<h2>A pallet changer when working with steady and compact materials</h2>
The Dual Press from Toppy is highly beneficial because the operator has the possibility of changing the pallet with two side pressers. The process of pallet changing is a special one for this device and can be taken advantage of, especially when working with compact and steady materials, including drums and boxes. While the side pressers
hold the load, the lower forks are let come down to release the pallet.

Toppy Dual Press can be used in two different ways;  180° load-turning mode, for raw material packed in bags or bottles and side pressure (no turning) for finished products, like boxes or drums.

This model is realized with wide base of the legs, so that it is also possible to pick up pallets closed at the base (for instance, UK pallets).

Versatile mobile pallet turner

If you are looking to change the pallet without turning the load, through a lateral pressure of the product, this mobile pallet changer will be your top choice.


<h2>Pallet changer with no height limitation</h2>
The Side Press from Toppy is a mobile pallet changer for replacements of loads. The machine features include two rubber-covered side compactors, that keep the product steady while the pallet is taken out from below and replaced.

Toppy Side Press meets with the European and American standard assuring the utmost hygiene and cleanliness. This Mobile pallet changer without turning pays special attention to the GMPs and the replacement of the pallets is up to 1000 kg.

Mobile pallet changer without turning

For turning loads and exchanging them on pallets, here is a stationary pallet changer that will load and unload pallets using a forklift.


<h2>Stationary inverter/stationary pallet changer</h2>
The Toppy Inverter is a stationary pallet inverter that will turn loads and exchange pallets on loads with maximum weight of 1500 kg and maximum height of 2000 mm. The pallets are loaded and unloaded using a forklift.

The pallet turning is accomplished with: 90° rotation without pressure, for steady loads (i.e. boxes); 180° rotation without pressure, for unsteady and fragile loads (i.e. cruets and bottles); 180° rotation with pressure, for unsteady but not fragile loads (i.e. bags, larger size bags and drums).

Toppy inverter is also available with a PLC control (fully automatic), and as a floor level version that can be loaded and unloaded using an electric pallet jack. The stationary pallet changer is mainly used in industries where some products, i.e. liquids, cannot be inverted as this would cause problems with validation or, in industries, where goods are packed in fragile packaging materials.

Pallet changer

For transferring goods from wooden pallets to plastic pallets, or vice-versa, this Pallet changer floor level will be a great acquisition.


<h2>Efficient stationary solution for the inversion of loads and change pallets</h2>
The Floor Level Inverter from Toppy is a stationary pallet inverter that turns loads and exchange pallets on loads of maximum weight of 1500 kg and maximum height of 2200 mm.

The turning of the pallet is accomplished with: 90° rotation for steady loads (i.e. boxes) and 180° rotation for unsteady and (not) fragile loads (i.e. cruets and bottles).

The pallet inverter allows the transfer of a product to pallet or slip sheet, damaged pallet exchange and damaged carton replacement. It also enables damaged product recovery from the bottom of stack.

Pallet changer floor level

If you are looking for a sturdy pallet changing solution, a stationary V-shaped pallet changer can be the right installation for you. The pallet changer receives the load on its lower platform, placed at the ground level by fork lift or by pallet jack.


<h2>Fully automatic and quick stationary pallet changer</h2>
Toppy V-shape is a stationary pallet exchanger built with a unique, strong V shape frame. It is manufactured in painted steel, and with a full stainless steel model also available. All moving parts are operated by hydraulic and electrical systems. The pallet to be replaced is loaded onto a lower platform at floor level by either an electric pallet jack or forklift.

At the start of cycle, a pallet latch secures the pallet to the platform and the upper compactor plate moves down until a sensor detects the top of the load. In this position the plate provides a gentle support to the load. The load, secured by the V-shape frame, is then lifted and rotated backwards. When the load is in the tilted position, the lower platform moves back to the floor and the pallet is released. The operator can quickly and easily replace the pallet at floor level. With the new pallet, the load is returned to floor level and removed.

V-shaped pallet changer

Stable vertical lifting of the load from the pallet to enable EPAL or industrial pallet exchange.


<h2>Exchange fully loaded pallets without inverting or turning the loads</h2>
Non-tilting pallet changers or Toppy four finger will work with EPAL pallets (800 x 1200 mm) or industrial pallets (1000 x 1200 mm). The pallets used for this system are required to meet all EC rules and regulations.

The palletized load is placed onto the lift platform from the side, either through a conveyor system or forklift. Once the pallet is placed onto the platform, four forks (fingers) are inserted automatically through the open slots of the pallet under the material load. Two rubber side plates gently close to help stabilize the load and reduce the weight that the forks need to support. The pressure of the plates adjusts automatically and does not damage the load. The pallet is lowered, allowing the forks and plates to support the load. Either using a forklift or a conveyor system, the pallet is removed and replaced. The new pallet on the lift platform is then introduced under the load and the forks are removed.

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