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Agitated media mills stir the grinding media to break down the target material into ultra-fine particles. The grinding media generally consists of spherical metallic or ceramic beads that are stirred into action by the agitator. Agitated media mills are designed in both vertical and horizontal configurations. The choice of a suitable mill depends on the properties of the material to be processed, the particle size required, the production volume, and the desired grinding time.

Agitated media mills

A ball mill uses the impact of ceramic or stainless steel balls, falling from near the top of a horizontal shell to crush the material into fine particle sizes. Ball milling is all about size reduction by using grinding media. In this case, the grinding media are ball, either ceramic or steel. The outer cylindrical shell rotates to lift the grinding balls to the top from where they fall; grinding and blending the materials at the same time. Ball mills are typically used in the ceramic, glass, paint, pyrotechnics, and porcelain industries and are also often used in food and chocolate production. By choosing the right combination of rotational speed, ball material, size, and weight it is possible to process a wide range of materials to produce ultra-fine products.

Ball mills

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Industrially manufactured soups gained traction in the 19th century when canning was invented and they have been warming us ever since. Whether it’s a classic ready-to-eat canned soup, condensed soup or a dry soup mix, soup manufacturing equipment for mixing, cooking, boiling, or sterilizing caters to every manufacturer’s production requirements.

Soup

Sauces bring personality to a dish. From a spicy, dense Zhoug to a tangy, runny Suero, sauces add an extra dimension of flavor, texture, and mouthfeel. But developing recipes into industrial products with long shelf lives and consistent tastes is a complex process. Specialized sauce making equipment prepares and combines the ingredients into delicious, high-quality foods. The result is a sauce ready to elevate meals.

Sauce

Spreads

Whether for personal consumption or agricultural purposes, you process seeds to make them clean and maximize yield. Seed processing equipment includes the steps of polishing, threshing, separation, sorting, and drying. Some cases require additional processes. For example, the extraction of the seed from fruits or vegetables. Or, pressing the seed to extract oil.

Seeds

<span style="font-weight: 400">Spice manufacturing is one of the world's oldest trading products. The word spice refers to any dried part of a plant other than the leaves and is used for seasoning and food coloring. Spices are made from dried barks, roots, berries, and twigs, while green leafy parts of plants are considered herbs. Well-known examples include cinnamon, chilies, star anise, ginger, garlic salt, turmeric, cumin, or pepper, as well as pre-mixed blends such as Masala, Five-Spice Powder, or Old Bay.</span>

Spices

<span style="font-weight: 400">If Popeye needed spinach for his power, you need healthy snacks to boost your energy! From dried fruit chips to nuts and protein bars, healthy snacks have become more popular since the 2000s, and t</span><span style="font-weight: 400">he global healthy snack market will reach USD 98 billion by 2025. </span><span style="font-weight: 400">In the wide range of healthy snacks, raw fruits and vegetables appear as the main ingredient, and these snacks focus on the high protein content and reduced fat or carbohydrate percentages. Also, “less processed” and “less amount of added chemicals” are the primary trend in making healthy snacks as the clean eating movement began after the 2000s. </span>

Healthy snacks

Eating is more than just nutrition, but we have found ways to increase the nourishing power of our foods. Nutraceuticals manufacturing, from vitamin C powder and probiotics to omega 3 oil, is a concentration of natural ingredients and health supplements that complement our diets. While dietary supplements are not quite haute cuisine, the process of extraction and purification is no less a blend of science and art.

Nutraceuticals

Pigments are colorants that are not soluble in the host material and scatter light and are therefore opaque. Pigments can be organic or man-made and derive from animals, plants, rocks or minerals and metal oxides, like for example titanium oxide.

Pigment

Can it be said that we live in the Plastic age? Basically, yes. From pillows over toothbrushes, and packaging to utensils, plastic is a widely used material in our day-to-day lives. But what is it? Plastics are synthetic or semi-synthetic materials built of polymers that are easily shaped into various structures with the help of plastic processing equipment such as extruders and molders.

Plastics

Synthetic fertilizers are made of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium and are often produced as dry pellets or soluble product.

Synthetic fertilizer

With the increase in the world population and rising concerns for environmental sustainability, the market for suitable new protein sources is expanding rapidly. Traditional agricultural methods alone can’t deliver sufficient protein to meet the projected food demand over the next decades. Insects provide an alternative source of nutrients. But insect protein does not mean direct insect consumption. Extracting protein and amino acids from farmed insects is more sustainable and efficient. Specialized insect protein processing technology is driving the transformation toward new protein sources.

Insect protein

Pet food is a specialty food mostly based on formulated ingredients for various nutritional and dietary requirements. Pet food formulas are becoming more diverse and complex, considering the special health conditions and needs of young and aging pets that live in cities. The production of pet food is similar to processing food in general when it comes to fresh feedstock and flesh products.

Pet food

The nearly 5,000 known minerals on earth share some characteristics to be classified as minerals – they are inorganic, solid, naturally occurring elements and have a particular chemical formula and an ordered internal geometric structure. However, minerals are not all the same. One way to divide them is based on their physical characteristics such as hardness, luster, color, and shape. For example, the diamonds we use to make jewelry are very hard minerals while talc is a soft mineral; gold is a shiny mineral while others are less so.

Minerals

Feed ingredients

With the right processing machines, almonds, cashews, pine nuts, hemp, coconut, oat and soy can be processed into healthy plant-based milk. To produce it, grind the raw materials, screen, soak and mix them till you obtain a milky white liquid.

Plant-based milk

<span style="font-weight: 400">Cocoa production and the cocoa industry uses industrial processing technology to process and manufacture high quality cocoa products in many different forms. Did you know that cacao cultivation goes back centuries - to be specific, about 5300 years? </span><span style="font-weight: 400">This plant, with its long history, is also known for its versatile usage. From </span><span style="font-weight: 400">cocoa nips to cocoa butter, cocoa becomes a base to produce multiple products, ranging from food products to cosmetics. As you may already know, chocolate products are all made from cocoa as well. Hence, depending on what you intend to produce as the end product, as well as your recipe, your cocoa processing equipment line may change.</span>

Cocoa

Herbs have always been shrouded in mystery. The delicate plans produce overpowering bouquets and potent remedies. Herbal extraction technology gets to the core of this mystery and makes bioactive compounds available for a range of applications. Rich in antioxidants, anti-inflammatories, and aromas, herbal extracts are vital ingredients for medicines, foods, cosmetics, and wellness products.

Herbal extracts

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.

Batch

The ball mills are a type of grinder, with a cylindrical shape, used in the process of grinding (or mixing) and refining chocolate and other cocoa products. This chocolate laboratory ball mill is used to test and develop new chocolate recipes in any laboratory or technology center, suitable for quality control and to be used before production to design coatings.


<h2>Test and develop new chocolate recipes</h2>
The w-1-s-laboratory-ball-mill from Royal Duyvis Wiener is designed and manufactured to meet worldwide industrial standards. With its manually adjustable agitator speed and a 2.5 kg capacity grinding tank, the laboratory ball mill is out on its own.

Its temperature is controlled with a screw pump, re circulates the chocolate through the laboratory ball mill during processing. The w-1-s-laboratory-ball-mill includes a complete laboratory grinding line for variable media sizes.

Ball mills are perfect for making cocoa products and energy efficient designed to ensure a low product temperature.

Chocolate laboratory ball mill

Grinding

Milling machines are used to reduce the size of material by cutting, crushing, or grinding it. The choice of industrial milling equipment depends on the industry and the materials to work with. Besides, there is a significant difference between those aimed to remove layers from metal or other materials workpieces and those designed to reduce particle size for materials that come in bulk.

Milling

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Continuous

Universal in operation for the size reduction of soft materials in the range 50 µm to 5 mm. Most applications are to be found in the chemicals industry, foodstuffs and animal feed industry, as well as in the pharmaceuticals industry.


<h2>Generously dimensioned mill door for easy cleaning and exchange of grinding elements</h2>
The Fine Impact Mill Ultraplex UPZ from Hosokawa Alpine is a versatile size-reduction system with exchangeable grinding elements such as beater disc, pin discs, swing beaters and plate beaters, sieves and grinding tracks.

It is featured by offering an end-product fineness in the range 50 µm to approx. 5 mm in accordance with the grinding equipment installed.

Alpine Ultraplex UPZ fine impact mills offer versatility in use combined with simplicity in operation. The overall result is a host of practice-oriented and perfectly coordinated equipment combinations.

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Fine impact mill

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

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

Do you want to grind your beans on-site at your coffee shop, but are you limited for space? Bench-top coffee grinders can grind 16 kg of fine coffee per hour and up to 62 kg of medium fine coffee per hour.


<h2>Bench-top professional coffee grinding that saves space</h2>
TKS Series Shop coffee bean grinder from Toper R&amp;D provides an unparalleled grinding experience. Created and manufactured by Toper's deep-rooted past and experience on grinder manufacturing since 1954, TKS series grinders are real space savers with high performance. Specifically designed for space saving grinding of coffee beans, the grinders are also much looked after for R&amp;D or pilot scale grinding of  black pepper, sesame, peanuts, poppy seeds, lentils and wheat rice.

Shop coffee bean grinder

If you are looking to grind up to 50 kg of fine coffee per our or up to 440kg of medium fine coffee er hour,  it is time to invest in a professional coffee bean grinding solution.


<h2>Premium coffee beans grinders for professional capacities</h2>
Industrial coffee bean grinders from Toper R&amp;D are accurately engineered and manufactured with high technology and quality components for a premium grinding. The TKS 36 Multipurpose coffee grinder from Toper grinds fine coffee at 50 kgs/h and medium fine coffee at 440 kg/h. For large points of sale requiring high grinding capacity, Toper has also developed the TKS 36 Lux which features a practical hygienic grain silo and grinded material drawers. This representative and practical execution is also often purchased by coffee shops, markets, touristic sites as well as laboratories.

Industrial coffee bean grinder

Being able to obtain an on-point grinding is easily achievable with these hammer mills, from coffee to multiple seeds can be crushed and filtered on a fast pace due to its capacity.


<h2>Hammer mill optimized for grinding coffee beans</h2>
The Toper TRY Series is a famous hammer mill for coffee beans that provides an accurate grinding. Primarily aimed for coffee beans, the TRY Series is also known for its utilization in the crushing and grinding of cereals, legumes, dried plants, animal feeds, minerals, flowers, spices, dried food and non-food materials. The TRY series hammer mills have a crushing rate of 290 kg to 2.5 tons per hour, depending on the model, whether it be the TRY-20, the TRY-26 or the TRY-38.

Hammer mill for coffee beans

Pressure from the grinding process can cause damage to food products as well as induce unwanted heating or loss of natural oils.


<h2>Process nuts and other foodstuffs gently, without squeezing</h2>
The IR 250 industrial food processor spins the raw material against the grating drum, before rotating vanes discharge the grated product. Brunner Anliker’s ingenious pre-rotation system utilizes centrifugal force to reduce contact whilst pushing up to 2,000 kilograms of material through the system per hour without undue pressure.
Additions include a sieve drum for breaking up clumped, powdery materials and a mesh drum for straining vermicelli, apple puree and mashed potato.

Industrial nut grater

Gentle grinding of coffee down to all grades from coarse to fine requires high precision processing to ensure repetition.


<h2>Achieve the perfect grind every time</h2>
The Brunner Anliker M8 grinder can be used for diverse grind levels from filter coffee to Turkish coffee, as well as spices such as pepper and poppy seeds.
With a 50 liter hopper and grinding output of 250 to 350 kg/hour, its long life grinding discs can be resharpened several times.
This reliable grinder features temperature control and overload protection as well as a maintenance-free induction motor.

Grinder for spices and coffee

Many confectionery and bakery processes rely on the uniform grinding of raw ingredients such as nuts, nougat, cookie, chocolate and other small-size hard items. A modern grinder produces repeatable, consistent grinds for a wide range of raw ingredients without affecting flavour or quality.


<h2>Accurate and durable grinders for small particle down to powder grinding of hard products</h2>
The Crick-Crock Grinder from MIA Food Tech has been specifically designed for the efficient grinding of toasted nuts (including almonds, peanuts, walnuts, hazelnuts, and more), as well as other hard ingredients such as chocolate, nougat, cookies, crunchy, and other similar ingredients.

Engineered with small scale production in mind, the Crick-Crock Grinder is available in a range of sizes and capacities to suit all grinding requirements, from grain to powder.

Features of the Crick-Crock include rotary blade modules for rapid interchange and cleaning; all stainless-steel construction for longevity and ease of sanitising; product throughput of between 70 and 110kg per hour, depending on grind grain size.

Rotary blades provide an exceptionally uniform grain size while introducing minimum heat to the raw ingredients, ensuring maximum taste and flavour is carried through the grinding process.

Operator safety is ensured through the use of non-removable guards over the product entry hopper and exit chutes, and grind adjustment can be easily carried out in operation by use of the external grind adjustment knobs without the need to stop the machine or for the operator to come in to contact with moving parts.

Small scale nut grinder

When designing a new chocolate line or experimenting with new ingredients for existing processes, the ability to have a scalable roasting solution is particularly advantageous. Precise and repeatable temperature and grinding settings are necessary, and the ability to have a portable unit makes for efficient use of space a distinct advantage.


<h2>Portable roaster and grinder for lab-scale cocoa bean and nuts production</h2>
The IDB25 from DSC is a dedicated lab-line roasting and grinding solution for cocoa and nuts, with a design capacity of 15kg to 25kg per hour, depending on product and process.

This unit consists of an infrared toasting unit, a cooler/peeler unit, a grinding unit, and a sieving unit.

As well as cooling for cocoa beans, almonds and pistachios, the combined cooler/peeler can also clean toasted hazelnuts and peanuts.

The patented grinding system allows granulation without pressure or heat, retaining product quality, oils, and flavor compounds. It’s adjustable to provide grains above 4mm, 2 to 4mm, or flours of less than 2mm. In addition, it comes in all-stainless steel construction for strength and ease of cleaning.

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R&D roaster for cocoa beans

Industrial drying machines are designed to remove moisture from your product. But the drying process must cater to variations in the state of matter and molecular structure of the input material. Industrial dryer technology exploits the modes of heat transfer (convection, conduction, radiation, evaporative cooling) to control the moisture content.

Drying

<span style="font-weight: 400">The heating process is a step of raising the temperature of food, pharma, cosmetics, and many other types of products. You may employ different heating solutions for this process, depending on the type of product you intend to manufacture. Selecting the appropriate heater machine for your product is quite important since various products require different ranges of temperatures and different ways of heat transfer using exchangers. Industrial heating equipment varies in two ways - the type of material it can process and the reaction you want to achieve.</span>

Heating

Roasting involves extended exposure to heat in an oven or over a fire. Depending on your end product, roasting equipment makes sure that the raw materials you put in undergo even roast intensity before they are transferred for further processing. Some roasting technologies may also be used for other cooking requirements, including toasting and drying. When thinking about roasting, the idea of roasted coffee comes to mind. However, there are a wide array of food products that go through a roasting process. For example, nuts such as almonds and cashews go through a roasting machine

Roasting

Drying and grinding can be an important feature when trying to process products such as raw and refined minerals, organic and inorganic chemicals, food ingredients and waste streams. It is crucial to maintain particle size and consistent quality of the finished product during such processes. You will need an efficient and abrasion resistant attrition solution to pulverise and dry your product into your required particle size.


<h2>A simplified process while drying and grinding ensuring high product quality</h2>
Atritor’s Dryer-Pulveriser is able to grind and dry the product simultaneously. It is an air-swept mill that uses an air stream to efficiently process the product and controls the final particle size. It is able to process feedstocks of up to 50+mm and production capacities from 100kg/h up to 30t/h with evaporation rates up to 6,000 kilograms per hour.

The mill acts as an efficient dryer when the process air is heated using a hot air generator or waste heat from another process. It can reach an inlet temperature of up to 550ºC. Heat energy from the process can be recovered from the heated air stream. After flash drying, the product is kept cool due to evaporative cooling. The output temperature of the product is maintained accordingly to control the moisture content of the product.

The Flash drying grinder for powders is configured with a combination of variable speed rotor, hammer arrangement and fixed pins. Turbulence inside the grinding area creates attrition to reduce the particle size, which can be controlled for simple deagglomeration of the product. An internal classifier configuration can also be used to further control particle size.

The ‘A’-series is constructed with internals that are resistant to abrasion for applications that can cause high amounts of wearing to the equipment. Where the desired amount of evaporation required far exceeds the grinding duty, the ‘B’-series machine of a lighter weight, fully fabricated configuration permitting higher airflows can be used for non-wearing product or duties, as well as for for applications in which stainless steel contact parts may be necessary.

Flash drying grinder for powders

Classifying

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The first step of producing almost any kind of chocolate starts with grinding cocoa beans to get fine liquor. In order to achieve the highest quality end product, you need to use a system that is capable of grinding down cocoa beans into smooth liquor while preserving the aroma, flavour, and quality of paste.</span>


<h2>Grind cocoa beans into fine cocoa paste</h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">The Vulva Cacao Grinder 40 KG MC-I by Nemisto has been specifically designed for the efficient grinding of cacao beans with the goal to extract the highest quality liquid cacao paste.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Engineered for small-scale production, with size of just 60cm x 90cm x 140cm, this 80KG stainless steel cocoa grinder has the capacity of processing anything from a single bean to 40-kilogram batches at a time.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">With motors independently installed for each of the three stages, the unit provides for exceptionally uniform processing of cacao beans, ensuring the highest quality of output.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The safety of the operator is ensured through the sophisticated and safety-driven design of the unit which leaves all dangerous parts of the system out of the immediate reach of the operator. Furthermore, the control unit has a run control system that can shut the entire process down with the single click of a button.</span>

Small capacity cocoa grinder

Utilization of biomass for energy and other applications requires consistent and reliable compaction to increase bulk density and provide a consistent an easy to handle input product to subsequent processes such as combustion. This line of pelleting presses has been under development since the energy crisis of the 1970’s and is well suited for today’s renewable raw materials industry needs.


<h2>Robust biomass pelletizers with impeccable pellet quality and high up-time</h2>
Amandus Kahl produces pelletizing presses with proven success for many types of biomass including wood, straw, dried forage, and agricultural byproducts among many others. The presses use pan grinder rollers to compact the biomass and force it through a flat pelletizing die forming continuous strands of compacted product. The strands are then cut to the desired length using rotating knives. The pan grinder rollers and knives rotate slowly ensuring optimum pellet quality and minimized generation of noise and heat.

The grinder roller gap and strand cutter are adjustable for optimized pellet quality for the customer’s particular needs.  The presses are designed for maximized plant up-time and include reinforced press chamber, die supports and cutting knives, oversized and permanently lubricated roller bearings, and active gearbox lubrication. The flat die design ensures even distribution of feed material and optimized pressure in a more compact package than traditional ring die type presses. Amandus Kahl has pelletizing presses with capacities from 300 Kg / h to 8,000 Kg / h.

Pelleting press for biomass

Compaction machines and technologies crush or compress materials and make them denser. Compaction can be used to simply save space or to shape materials into a desired form or format. Tablets, pellets, or briquets are formed by compactors but powder presses also help form cosmetic eyeshadow or face powder.

Compaction

Pelleting equipment transforms powdered, mashed, or grounded material into a denser cylindrical shape. Pellet processing compresses the fine material against a perforated die, where it will be shaped and cut. Although granulating and extrusion also produce pellet-like products, manufacturing pellets is a distinct process.

Pelleting

The production of agricultural feed and pet food products requires machines and plants that supply stable-abrasion resistant pellets tailored to the customer’s needs. A proven, robust press design is required to ensure a consistent, high quality product and efficient operation.


<h2>Robust feed pelletizers with a proven design from an industry leader</h2>
Amandus Kahl produces pelletizing presses with proven success for many types of animal feed including compound feeds for all species, raw components, mineral mixtures, dried forage and straw mixtures. The presses use pan grinder rollers to compact the input material and force it through a flat pelletizing die forming continuous strands of compacted product. The strands are then cut to the desired length using rotating knives.

The pan grinder rollers and knives rotate slowly ensuring optimum pellet quality and minimized generation of noise and heat. The grinder roller gap and strand cutter are adjustable for optimized pellet quality for the customer’s particular needs. The presses are designed for maximized plant up-time and include reinforced press chamber, die supports and cutting knives, oversized and permanently lubricated roller bearings, and active gearbox lubrication. The flat die design ensures even distribution of feed material and optimized pressure in a more compact package than traditional ring die type presses.

Amandus Kahl works with customers to combine pelletizing machines and other supporting equipment including conditioners, coolers, dryers, and a coating system to provide an optimized plant solution for producing the customer’s product.

Pelleting press for feed and petfood

The production of pelletized or granularized food products requires hygienic presses designed for high quality output and robust efficient operation.


<h2>Robust food pelletizers with a proven design from an industry leader</h2>
Amandus Kahl produces pelletizing presses with proven success for many types of food products including those with powdery or lumpy input products.  The presses use pan grinder rollers to compact the input material and force it through a flat pelletizing die forming continuous strands of compacted product. The strands are then cut to the desired length using rotating knives.

The pan grinder rollers and knives rotate slowly ensuring optimum pellet quality and minimized generation of noise and heat. Temperature is monitored and the grinder roller speed is infinitely adjustable. The grinder roller gap and strand cutter are also adjustable for optimized pellet quality for the customer’s particular needs. The flat die design ensures even distribution of feed material and optimized pressure in a more compact package than traditional ring die type presses.

The hygienic presses are also designed for easy cleaning and meet GMP guidelines for food processing equipment. Pellet dies are readily changeable without specialized tools for easy experimentation and process development aiding the customers in developing a process that is optimized for their product.

Hygienic pelleting press

Many industries require reliable pelletizing equipment with smaller scale production capacities. These industries include chemicals, pharmaceuticals, synthetic material manufacture, waste disposal and recycling, minerals, and energy where compaction and uniform output are important but high volume production of a pelletized product is not necessarily the industries’ focus.


<h2>Robust smaller scale pelletizers with a proven design from an industry leader</h2>
Amandus Kahl produces smaller scale pelletizing presses with proven success for many types of products that often do not require the high volume production of larger presses. This line of presses uses the proven technology of Amandus Kahl’s larger sized presses in a scale more appropriate to the smaller production volumes. The presses use pan grinder rollers to compact the input material and force it through a flat pelletizing die forming continuous strands of compacted product. The strands are then cut to the desired length using rotating knives.

The pan grinder rollers and knives rotate slowly ensuring optimum pellet quality and minimized generation of noise and heat. The grinder roller speed is infinitely adjustable. The grinder roller gap and strand cutter are also adjustable for optimized pellet quality for your particular needs.

The flat die design ensures even distribution of feed material and optimized pressure in a more compact package than traditional ring die type presses. Pellet dies are readily changeable without specialized tools for easy experimentation and process development aiding the customer in developing a process that is optimized for their product. Amandus Kahl variable speed proportioning screw is often used in conjunction with these units to ensure consistent and uniform feeding of raw materials.

Small scale pelleting press

Production of certain pelletized products requires working with output products of a pasty consistency. These products include pigments, clay, detergent additives, vitamin products, and many other products where problems of adhesion of fresh pellets are often encountered. Processing of these types of products requires a pelletizing press that allows the fresh pellets to be directly deposited on a gently transporter such as a conveyor.


<h2>A pelletizing press for depositing pellets directly onto your conveyor</h2>
Amandus Kahl produces pelletizing presses with overhead drives that allow pellets to be deposited directly onto a conveyor from above-eliminating the adhesion issues of fresh pellets often encountered with pasty products. This line of presses uses the proven technology of Amandus Kahl’s other pelletizing presses but the drive unit is above the pelletizing die rather than below it allowing gentle direct deposition of the fresh pellets onto a conveyor. The presses use pan grinder rollers to compact the input material and force it through a pelletizing die forming continuous strands of compacted product. The strands are then cut to the desired length using rotating knives.

The pan grinder rollers and knives rotate slowly ensuring optimum pellet quality and minimizing generation of noise and heat. The grinder roller speed is infinitely adjustable. The grinder roller gap and strand cutter are also adjustable for optimized pellet quality for the customer’s particular needs.

Pellet dies are readily changeable without specialized tools for easy experimentation and process development aiding the customer in developing a process that is optimized for their product. A Kahl variable speed proportion screw is often used in conjunction with these units to ensure consistent and uniform feeding of raw materials.

Pelleting press with overhead drive

Dicing nuts can generate a large volume of wasteful and messy powdered nut residue.


<h2>Cube hazelnuts, almonds, peanuts and pistachios quickly and cleanly</h2>
With a high level of operating safety, Brunner Anliker's KSM-N nut dicer is a progressive, technically mature product. Swiss made, it uses rotary cutters to slice the nuts into a consistent end product at a rate of up to 100 kilograms per hour. As with all Brunner Anliker equipment, the KSM-N complies with the most stringent safety aspects and is easy to operate and clean.

Nut dicer

Many confectionery and bakery products use nuts as a key ingredient or decoration. The ability to accurately chop nuts into the desired size for a wide range of purposes is vital in many recipes. Traditional small-scale machinery tends to crush the ingredients, affecting quality and taste. A chopping solution provides flexibility as well as excellent product quality.


<h2>Accurate and adjustable chopper for chopping and granulating nuts</h2>
The TR100 from DSC is a versatile chopping and granulating machine for small scale production. Portable and robust, the TR100 is the ideal solution not only for nuts but also for other hard ingredients, including chocolate and biscuit.

Made from stainless steel and featuring removable feed hopper, the TR100 is easy to clean inside and out.

The machine features two pairs of individually adjustable chopping rollers, and a final pair of granite finishing rollers, again adjustable to allow a uniform final size of the product grains. Chop size can be adjusted from coarse grains down to a powder in increments of 0.1mm.

The unit has a simple control panel where the speed of the chopping rollers and finishing rollers can be individually controlled. The TR100 can utilise only one set of chop rollers if the production requires this.

Small scale nut chopping machine

When you need to produce ultra-fine powders, the milling and drying process employed is what ensures the consistency of your product. To process minerals and chemicals, you need a machine which is powerful, flexible, simple to maintain.


<h2>Versatile and highly efficient milling and drying</h2>
Atritor’s cell mill has been constructed to produce ultra-fine powders. It is able to grind, flash dry, classify and surface coat powders at the same time. Its capacity ranges from 50 kilograms per hour to 15 tonnes per hour, with evaporation rates up to 3,000 kilograms per hour.

The feed can be dosed directly into the machine via a screw feeder or via the inlet air duct. It is then ground in a vertically mounted, multi-stage rotating rotor. Each of the rotor sections is constructed with up to 200 quick-change blades. There is also the possibility for a classifier which is mounted at the discharge section to ensure that oversized feed particles are either discarded or recirculated.

The mill acts as an efficient dryer when the process air is heated using a hot air generator or even waste heat from another process. It can reach an inlet temperature of up to 450ºC. Heat energy from the process can be recovered from the heated air stream and utilized to preheat the intake air. After flash drying, the product is kept cool due to evaporative cooling via the constant exposure of new surface areas of the product created during attrition.

In the case of minerals that require surface treatment, the cell mill provides a range of coatings and surface modifiers that can be added on the side of the machine during the milling process. It has a wide range of applications, from minerals like GCC, clay and limestone to chemicals, dyes, pigments and a wide range of food ingredients and by-products.

Milling and drying machine for fine powders

<span style="font-weight: 400;">One of the challenges when setting up a small-scale cocoa processing factory is making all of the equipment work together for maximum output. Rather than experimenting and compromising on both quality and capacity, a complete entry-level bean to bar line system can help you begin the production of high-quality cocoa-based products right away, at maximum level of output.</span>


<h2>Initiate production of artisan chocolate with small-scale bean to bar line.</h2>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">This entry-level Bean to Bar system by Nemisto contains a range of different units and is the ideal solution for the complete processing of artisan chocolate. The complete line includes bean roasting, nib and shell separation, mixing and refining, conching by refiner conch, and chocolate tempering units that work seamlessly together to produce a high-quality end product.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The cacao roaster is capable of processing 5 kilograms per batch at a time while the winnower, or more well known as the bean nibs separator can separate up to 20 kilograms of different-sized beans per hour. On the other hand, the pre-grinder can grind approximately 15 kilograms per hour and turn the cocoa nibs fine to a size of between 50 and 100 microns. The pre-grinder can also be adjusted for better quality output, making the overall capacity of this entry-level bean to bar line up to 15kg per day.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Finally, the 2 roll refiner and conch allow you to set the temperature in 2 places: the rollers and in the bowl. During this process, the speed of conching in the bowl can be customized to determine the fineness of the end product like cocoa liquor and artisan chocolate.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">All units are predominantly made out of stainless steel, guaranteeing longevity, easy maintenance, and cleaning.</span>

Entry level bean to bar line

Conching is a critical step in the manufacturing of chocolate. In this phase, your chocolate mix is agitated and superficially scraped by a conch, allowing the cocoa butter to separate amalgamated particles and distribute your cocoa butter more evenly. The heat generated by the process volatilizes acids improving the texture and aroma of the finished product. Early machines used vessels in the shape of a conch shell, giving the equipment its name.

Conching

Dosing systems are a line of hoppers, feeders, filling machines, and checkweighers that operate in sync to dispense materials accurately. Dosing is an essential feature of the packaging process, whether you’re filling shampoo bottles or tea bags. But dosing equipment is critical for formulations, too, particularly in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries. Imprecise dosing may cause quality degradation in the best-case scenario. In the worst scenario, it creates serious health risks.

Dosing

Enrobing your food products means coating them with additional ingredients such as chocolate, syrup, or sugar. By automating this process you produced homogeneous results and reduce wastage. Items are fed to the enrobing machine to be fully or partially covered. Following this, a blower and an agitator combine to shake any excess coating off the individual products.

Enrobing

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

Tempering equipment is most commonly used in manufacturing chocolate products as well as bakery products. However, tempering can also be found in the metals industry for processing alloys. The idea behind the tempering process is to heat two or more items to a certain temperature so that they can be blended together easier. Chocolatiers pass the chocolate through a heating cycle and then a cooling tunnel to give their final products a smooth and glossy finish. Tempering machines automate this process, evenly distributing the crystal structure in melted chocolate across the entire production line. Besides enhancing the look and texture of coatings, denser and consistent crystallization also has the benefit of slowing down fat migration in your chocolate-filled products. A vibrating table is an important component for tempering chocolate. First the chocolate mixture goes through a dispenser into the chocolate mould. After which the vibrating table is used to evenly distribute the mixture in the mould so that there are no air bubbles. Thus, creating a smooth and consistent final product.

Tempering

liquid

When it comes to vegan alternative plant-based sources, we always think about replacing meat and dairy. But have you ever thought of replacing food additives such as gelatine, an animal-derived ingredient? Agar-agar is emerging as a seaweed-based alternative. The appeal of agar-agar is that it doesn't need to be refrigerated and can stay at room temperature; it is insoluble in cold water and dissolves well in liquids at over 90° Celsius. You find it in powder format for most industrial applications. But agar-agar processing also delivers flakes or threads for food production.

Agar-agar

Some people call it Lucerne; others call it Alfalfa. But whatever its popular name, the botanical species Medicago sativa remains one of the most important forage crops. Thanks to its high nutritional value as animal feed, demand, and production of alfalfa meal are rising exponentially. The global alfalfa market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 5.2% between 2022 and 2027.

Alfalfa meal

From being grown in the field to roasting and slicing, the manufacture and processing of almonds is a multi-tiered operation. After removing their hull, also known as almond hulling, you can process almonds in various ways to achieve the requested consistency. Whether you chop the almond, finely mill them or turn them into almond milk, they require special care and equipment for nut processing.

Almonds

Aluminium oxide or alumina is a naturally occurring compound of aluminium and oxygen made from bauxite, a dull and earthy rock with high aluminium content. Bauxite is the most common ore of aluminium and you can find it in tropical areas Most of the bauxite mined end up producing aluminium with specific aluminium oxide equipment. Statistics have shown that Australia and Guinea have the largest bauxite deposits in the world. Countries like China, Brazil, and India also have a large amount of the rock.

Aluminium oxide

Brewers' grain, also known as brewers' spent grain or BSG, is the residue of malt and beer production. This brewing by-product is sometimes wasted causing an important environmental impact, nevertheless, with the circular economy in mind, brewers' grain processing can turn waste into value mainly for the feed and food industry, tackling some of the sustainable development goals (SDGs).

Brewers grain

Calcium carbonate makes up almost one-twentieth of the earth’s crust. But the abundant mineral is found in many living things, including the human body. However, processing calcium carbonate extracts the multi-purpose material from inorganic sediments, namely limestone, chalk, and marble.

Calcium carbonate

The name Canola comes from ‘Canadian Oil Low Acid’. In the 1970s researchers in Canada developed rapeseed varieties with low erucic acid and glucosinolate. These properties made the seed safe for consumption while improving its palatability. Today, the varieties are grown worldwide and include the rapeseed double-zero, as it is known in Europe. In only a few decades, canola oil and canola meal processing carved out a central role in the global food and feed industry.

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Canola meal

Carbon blacks are fine pigment particles that consist mainly of carbon. Its production became popular in the second century with the establishment of paper production. Hydrocarbons such as oil and natural gas are the basic raw materials for manufacturing them. However, the properties of carbon black differ depending on the processes carried out with the use of carbon machinery and production technology.

Carbon black

Creamier, sweeter and versatile are the key adjectives when talking about cashew milk, especially compared to other plant-based milk. Additionally, it is rich in vitamins B and D, as well as essential minerals. Being a blend of cashew kernels and water, the cashew nut milk processing equipment includes a peeling and washing machine, a colloid mill, and a blending tank.

Cashew milk

Cement

Chili powder

Known as part of the chocolate-making process, cocoa nibs come from the beans derived from the Theobroma cocoa tree. They are nothing else but cocoa beans that have been dried, fermented, and then cracked and separated from their husk.

Cocoa nibs

Around a third of your natural protein composition is collagen. But the human body still finds good use for more of it, whether to reinforce joints or aid digestion. Collagen powder processing breaks the chains of amino acids into smaller units, allowing them to be consumed at higher concentrations without changing your diet.

Collagen powder

Cotton has been used for about five millennia in ancient civilizations in America, Africa, and Asia. But up until the nineteenth century, cottonseed was not considered a product of value. The first cottonseed oil production started in 1833, consequently forming the cottonseed cake. Nowadays, we know cottonseed meal is a useful by-product for the feed industry and the fertilizer sector.

Cottonseed meal

In classical Greek, oregano means “mountain adornment,” Indeed, the desiccated herb embellishes many age-old recipes. Traditionally, the fragrant leaves were collected and left to air dry in a shaded area. But that method leaves the plants exposed to open field risks such as pest attacks. Today, dried oregano processing equipment creates a hygienic environment that allows the plant to release moisture faster while retaining more natural compounds.

Dried oregano

Around 1860, American businessman James Spratt made dog biscuits by mixing vegetables, flour, beetroot, and meat. His novel idea came after he noticed dogs eating leftover biscuits from ships in England. Following the commercial success in Britain, he started production in America, and it didn’t take long before others developed their own baked pet food formulas. But the need for more palatability led to experiments beyond the oven. In 1956, extruded dry pet food production made its splash on the market.

Dry pet food

If you want to make your eyes more attractive and add depth and dimension to them, applying color to your lids is what it takes. Eyeshadow serves this purpose and is available in powder, liquid, pencil and mousse form. In an eyeshadow production line, compact eyeshadows are produced by grinding and mixing powders before compaction, whereas molded eyeshadows are made from waxes and oils mixed with pigments and then poured into molds. Instead, by mixing oils, gelling agents, elastomers, and pigments you can make a mousse eyeshadow.

Eyeshadow

In the feed sector, it's common to talk about feed as balanced, compound, or concentrate. Many people use one of these terms to refer to any feed mill product. However, the processing of feed concentrates, only requires grinding and mixing. The further transformation into pellets adds is an added value for the market.

Feed concentrates

The fishmeal powder market forecast shows that its global market value will reach USD 10.3 billion by 2025. Expanding since 2019, at an annual growth rate of 6.5%. Fishmeal powder production has strong business potential with the increase of applications in animal feed, pet food, and fortified foods.

Fishmeal powder

There are two misconceptions about floating pellets. The first one is that they are made with a pellet mill, when the proper floating pellets-making machines are extruders. The second misconception is that floating feed is only used for fish. However, many other species consume feed on the water, such as crocodiles and birds.

Floating pellets

In 1682, Denis Papin found a method to remove collagen from animal bones, discovering gelatin. But it was the inventor Peter Cooper who developed gelatin powder processing. In 1845 he secured his invention with US patent 4084 for a dessert of gelatin powder called “portable gelatin”.

Gelatin powder

Granola is one of the most beloved breakfast menus for its versatility and convenience - you can put it in milk, use it as a topping for yogurt, or even make healthy cookies out of it. Setting up a granola production equipment line is quite similar to muesli. The only difference would be that the sheet of hard grains, nuts, and dried fruits goes through the baking process.

Granola

Ground cinnamon

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Any coffee-drinker can agree that a cup of coffee in the morning can brighten up their day. As the most convenient way of making coffee, many people choose to make coffee at home. Whether you want to make Moka coffee or filtered coffee, you need ground coffee that is grind appropriately for the coffee brewing method of your choice. These ground coffee are manufactured by roasting and grinding processes. </span>

Ground coffee

In Ancient Rome, hazelnut plants were valuable gifts as it was believed to bring happiness. In modern days, hazelnuts still bring happiness, mainly in the form of Nutella. While most nuts are botanically classified as fruits, hazelnuts are, along with chestnuts and acorns, <em>true nuts. </em>Once harvested, the nuts are dried and ready to be processed in various hazelnut processing equipment.

Hazelnuts

Jelly gets its name from its primary ingredient – gelatin. Substances such as pectin and agar-agar offer vegan alternatives to the original animal extract. But there’s more to making jelly products than a semi-rigid, flexible ingredient. Jelly powders blend sugar, starch, and thickening agents to give body to the dessert. Last but not least, food colorants and flavorings bring the otherwise bland mass to life.

Jelly

Kaolin, also called china clay, is made from natural rock composed of aluminosilicate clay or kaolinite. Kaolin has wide applications in different industries. Moreover, their classification depends on their industrial use, which includes film formation, fiber extension, polymer extension and chemical composition. Choose a kaolin processing machine to help you make kaolin for beauty products, paper filler, coating, ceramics and even medicine.

Kaolin

Lavender oil is one of the most common essential oils in the market currently. Extracted from the herb Lavandula spp., this essential oil is used as a complementary medicine and as an additive. Studies have shown that lavender oil has sedative, carminative, anti-depressive, and anti-inflammatory properties. Like other essential oils, lavender oil extraction equipment must be capable of distillation, condensation, collection, and separation processes.

Lavender oil

Limestone

Landline telephones in the 1980s were minimalist gadgets that kept getting slimmer in the 1990s. In contrast, cell phones in the same period were bulky and cumbersome. And once they lost their charge, they turned into a giant paperweight. Then came a revolution in batteries and automation with lithium-ion battery manufacturing equipment. Mobile phones packed more power, recharged faster, and endured more recharge cycles. Above all, they were light and small, making cell phones the inseparable companions they are today. But Lithium-ion batteries power much more than phones. As a result, the world is seeing steady growth in battery manufacturing equipment and lithium-ion production lines.

Lithium-ion batteries

Sweets, candies, ice lolly, confection, lollypop, and even popsicles - lollipops, the hard candies attached to a short stick, go by different names. While choosing your lollipop equipment now is very different from the time of its creation, back in 1908, the opportunities to differentiate the product in the market are wider.

Lollipops

Meat and bone meal production is used in pet food and animal feed, but the risks of mad cow disease make it unsuitable for ruminant feed. Bone meal and meat meal are by-products from slaughterhouses and livestock farms. They can come as separate meals or mixed into meat and bone meal (MBM) which offers more nutrients and increases amino acids in animal feed formulations. But besides feed, MBM can also be used as fertilizer and fuel.

Meat and bone meal

Forged metal objects appear seamless, simple items. But as the use of metals changed over time and constructions became more intricate with additive manufacturing, a new way of processing materials surfaced. Metal powder manufacturing replaces the classic blacksmithing techniques, reducing scrap waste in the meantime. The final metal products, however, retain that shiny allure of the archetypal metal pieces.

Metal powder

White, black and brown seeds from the mustard plant are the key constituents of this colorful and classic condiment. The various mustard production technology includes a mixer that mixes the mustard seeds with a handful of other ingredients and a mill that finely grinds the seeds to impart their characteristic flavor.

Mustard

Nougat is a delicious confection that contains lots of nuts and dried fruits. The word “nougat” itself derives from an old Latin word for nuts. In addition to nuts, the white variety of nougat contains egg whites, honey, and sugar. Similar ingredients make brown nougat variations, except caramelized sugar replaces egg whites as the base ingredient. Depending on your intended scale of production, there are quite a few nougat making equipment you should consider getting.

Nougat

Toast spread, oatmeal topping or salad dressing - nut butter can be used in various ways. Although in a culinary sense classified as such, peanuts, almonds, cashews and pecans, the popular choices for nut butter are, botanically speaking, not nuts. They are processed in a series of nut butter processing equipment to get the creamy, rich product ready for consumption.

Nut butter

Although invented in the 1990s by Rickard Öste, oat milk has only recently grown to be one of the most popular milk alternatives in coffee shops, and it owes it to its smooth mouthfeel and creamy texture. Extracted the plant materials from oats with water, this non-dairy milk is high in fibers, low in saturated fats, and eco-friendly. Oat milk processing equipment helps prepare raw materials, starting with harvest over kilning and making them into flakes or flour, and mixing the prepared materials with water and enzymes.