PRODUCT RANGE

Active Freeze Drying

• Short drying time
• Single stage production in one compact vessel
•  Minimal product handling, less risk of contamination
• Continuous operation as required
• Easy, direct product collection

Drum Handling Equipment

• flexDischarge into hopper, isolator or directly into process vessel
• Designed to keep dust creation to a minimum
• Rotation by intrinsically safe air motor or manually
• Special container clamps suitable to handle a range of weights/sizes
• Integration of product control valves

Angle Disintegrator

• Dry pulverising
• Wet grinding
• Dispersing/Mixing
• Fine pulping and pureeing

Downflow Booths

• Operator Exposure Levels (OEL) typically between 50 and 100µg/m3 TWA/Task Duration.
• Lower levels of containment can be achieved by using containment screens.
• Processing or packing equipment and drum handling equipment can also be integrated within the ergonomic design.
• Safer and more user-friendly than PPE (Personal Protective Equipment)

Dispersitron

• Food
• Pharmaceutical
• Chemical
• Pigments/Paints
• Emulsification
• Homogenisation

Extructor

• Robust construction able to withstands shock loads
• No product bruising
• No need for band sawing; no need to thaw blocks; consequently no fluid loss
• Control of particle size
• Low maintenance, no knives to sharpen

Extrudomix

• conThe chamber design (especially in the Pharmaceutical application machines) is designed to promote free material transit with minimal product retention at the end of the processing cycle
• Jacketed housings and hollow shafts enable product heating or cooling
• Efficient and adjustable shear input and heat transfer makes applications very diverse including back mixing or simply forming wet cake products for drying efficiency
• Can also act as a product conditioner before spheronization and drying

Filling & Weighing System

• Dryer pack-off
• Reactor discharging
• Mill/Filter discharging
• Re-packaging into larger/smaller packages
• Flexible systems allow drum, boxes, FIBCs and IBCs

Flexible Compact Isolator

Containment levels <1µg/m³

Isolators and Gloveboxes

• Clear and simple glove integrity verification
• Even detects holes less than 100µm
• Simple to use. Two button operation
• Fully automated measurement
• Wireless, lightweight, handheld device
• Automatic glove filling
• No additional air supply required
• Ready for use straight from the case
• Complete with battery, battery charging stand, and case

Hosokawa Optisizer

• Eliminate problems associated with manual sampling
• Operate plant at optimum efficiency
• Minimise of-spec material produced
• Increase plant throughput
• Reduce energy consumption
• Troubleshoot potential equipment failure

In-line Disintegrator

• Detergent and dyestuffs delumping upstream of spray dryers
• Dispersing colour pigments
• Intimate mixing and delumping of materials
• Grinding in liquid suspension

Laminar Flow Cabinets

Nano Containment

• Single cell work stations to multi cell variants
• Multi use, flexible containment isolators
• Isolators incorporating bespoke integrated equipment

Prebreaker

• Robust construction, low maintenance
• Ability to withstand shock loads
• Available to 150kW power for the most demanding applications
• Optimum hammer/anvil orientation
• Particle size controlled by orifice plate

RM350 Centrifugal Mill

• Low energy milling
• Single-pass material processing
• Consistent fine particle size distribution
• Compact design allows for restricted space installation
• Modular construction for ease of maintenance and cleaning
• Skid mounted assembly for easy transportation to different process locations resulting in low install cost
• Optional wear protection for low maintenance
• Designed for single technician servicing

Rubber Chopper

• Low maintenance
• Minimised noise, minimal wear
• Low temperature rise
• Energy efficiency
• Controlled end particle size

Vertical Disintegrator

• Uniform particle size reduction
• Low power consumption, low noise emission
• Easy clean construction
• Simultaneous milling of solids and incorporation of liquid additives
• The clean running 360˚vertical screen is ideal for product with a high fat or moisture content
• High levels of operational availability compared to conventional hammer mills

AFG Fluidised Bed Opposed Jet Mill

• Heat-sensitive materials such as toner, resin, wax, fat, ion exchangers, plant protectors, dyestuffs and pigments
• Hard and abrasive materials such as silicon carbide, zircon sand, corundum, glass frits, aluminium oxide, metallic compounds
• Highly pure materials where the requirement is contamination-free processing such as fluorescent powders, silica gel, silica, special metals, ceramic raw materials, pharmaceuticals
• High-performance magnetic materials based on rare earth metals such as neodymium-iron-boron and samarium-cobalt. Mineral raw materials such as kaolin, graphite, mica, talc
• Selectively ground composite materials such as metal alloys

Agglomaster

Typical Applications of Agglomerators:

• Drying and cooling of fine granules
• Granulation and micro-granulation of ultra-fines powders
• Spray granulation from slurry
• Micro-agglomeration of antibiotics for inhalation drugs in the pharmaceutical industry

Air Classifier Mill

• Grinding and classifying in one unit
• Easy to clean and maintain
• Compact space saving design

Air Jet Sieve e200LS

Typical Applications of a Particle Size Analyser:

• Comparison analysis
• Trend analysis
• Integrated computer controlled sieving process

ANR Agitated Media Mill

Typical features of the ANR:

• Open-design vertical agitated media mill for single-pass mode
• Suitable for superfine calcium carbonate and other mineral powder slurries
• Suitable for continuous operation
• Low-maintenance machine
• Ceramic wear protection ensures high degree of whiteness
• Cost-effective due to low grinding energy requirement

ATP Turboplex Ultrafine Classifier

• Spatter-grain-free operation over the entire separation range
• Integrated coarse material classifier to increase the cut point
• Low-wear mode of operation

AWM Table Roller Mill

Table Roller Mills are used wherever a high degree of production flexibility is demanded, typically for:

• Limestone
• Gypsum
• Dolomite
• Talc
• Petroleum coke
• Bentonite
• Quick lime

Bextruder

Typical Applications of the Extruder Machine:

• Production of easily dispersible granules, such as: Drinks powder, Pesticides, Sauces and soups, Detergent
• Improvement of handling and dosing properties
• Low densification/compaction
• Low dust cylindrical pellets with large surface
• Good deformation properties

Cone Mill

Typical Applications of Cone Mills:

• Homogenisation
• De-agglomeration of agglomerates
• Improves flow characteristics
• Granulates roller compacted material
• Post mixing
• Post fluid bed and kiln drying
• Crushing of flakes

Conical Mixer

It is especially suited to delicate products and processes where very accurate results are required and is synonymous with gentle mixing of large volumes of up to 100,000 litres, delivering:

• Low power consumption
• Fast mixing times
• Minimum heat generation

Conical Screw Vacuum Dryer

The Vrieco-Nauta® conical screw vacuum dryer also offers:

• Efficient drying of loose powders to heavy pastes and viscous liquids
• Batch volumes ranging from 5 to 22 000 litres
• No segregation and no product degradation
• Full compliance with international standards (FDA, cGMP, EHEDG)
• Automated cleaning solutions with our patented CIP filter and CIP skids
• Sterile processing (SIP)
• Interchangeable screw agitator for dryers larger than 20 000 litres

Contraplex Pin Mills, C & CW

The following industry areas are relevant for Contraplex mills:

• Minerals powders: calcium carbonate, fillers, calcium hydroxide. Coating of fillers with stearic acid, silane, etc.
• Pharmaceutical: vitamins, pharmaceutical auxiliaries
• Food: fatty proteins, spices (nutmeg, cloves, pepper, etc). Disintegration of powders for protein shifting, corn starch, lactose, cacao, fish meal
• Chemicals: fine grinding of plastics (e.g. TPU, PA), pesticides, hydrotalcite, pigments (e.g. ultramarine), carboxymethylcellulose (CMC)
• Recycling: fine grinding of rubber

Cyclomix

It is a multi-purpose, high shear mixer suitable for a variety of applications and offers:

• Fast mixing times (from 30 seconds to 5 minutes)
• Fully self-emptying vessel
• No bearings or seals in the product zone
• Good control of product temperature

Flake Crusher

Typical Applications

• Crushing of soft or agglomerated products.
• Crushing of flakes to granulate
• Disagglomeration after drying and mixing
• Delumping to improve material flowability
• Recycling of tablets

Gear Pelletiser

• The nozzles are easy to change, it is simple to adjust the diameter and length of pellets to produce a wide variety of products
• Easy access to the rolls makes cleaning and nozzle replacement simple and fast
• The rolls can be heated up and cooled down.
• High pressure and shear forces reduce the use of binders to fuse particles
• Dust free operation
• Batch or continuous operation

Mechanofusion® AMS

Mechanofusion offers a range of unique production and particle design benefits:

• Production of composite particles, control particle shapes
• Eliminates the need for pre-mixing particles during particle performance improvement processes
• Compact design
• Easy scale up to commercial production
• Product temperature can be controlled with a cooling jacket

Multi-Processing System

Typical Applications

• Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients
• Excipients
• Nutraceutical and Homeopathic products
• Lactose
• Cell Culture Media
• Inhalants
• Hormones
• Proteins,
• Cellulose
• Dental Compounds
• Amoxicillin

MZM and MZF zigzag classifiers

Typical applications:

• Oleiferous seeds: classifying systems for separating cracked soy beans or sunflower seeds.
• Precious metals: the separation of copper, aluminium or lead from the insulation material of previously cut cable scrap.
• Dust removal from plastic granules, coke, chalk, fertilisers, bauxite, etc.

Nobilta™

• Processing of a wide range of powders from nano to micron size
• Compact design; high energy efficiency
• Particle design and particle treatment in nano range
• Ideal for processing heat sensitive, sticky and abrasive materials

Picobond

Features include:

• Batch mode
• Process chamber can be cooled
• Can be rinsed with inert gas
• Machine can be tilted to allow filling and emptying
• Measuring devices for product temperature, rotor speed and motor output
• 2 rotor variants: Nobilta (NOB) or mechanofusion (AMS)

Picocross

Features include:

• Continuous operation
• Pin disc rotor with contra-rotating pin disc
• Motor bearing rinsed with gas
• Collection bin for the end product
• Filter element as an air vent
• Rinsing air supply via the platform adapter (no tubes)

Picojet

The design and principle of operation are almost identical with that of Alpine’s AFG product line of fluidised bed opposed jet mills.

• For the ultrafine comminution of materials with a Mohs’ hardness of up to 10
• Produces powders with a steep particle size distribution and sharp top cut in the  range 2 µm — 120 µm.

Picoline

Picoliq

Features include:

• The grinding beads are prevented from exiting the mill by means of a dynamic separating system
• Product-contact components made of PU, stainless steel, ceramic or polyethylene
• Grinding chamber can be cooled
• Grinding beads ranging from 0.05 to 1.0 mm in size can be employed
• Mill can be tilted for easy filling and emptying
• Shaft sealing by means of a mechanical seal, double shaft lip seal and rinsing connections (for connection to the on-site water supply)
• Measuring devices for product temperature, sealing liquid pressure, mill speed, motor output and torque
• Filling, venting and sampling via hollow needles in batch mode

Picomix

Features include:

• Batch mode
• Process chamber can be cooled
• Shaft sealing with rinsed shaft lip seal
• Measuring devices for product temperature, rotor speed and motor output

Piconizer

Features include:

• Optimal grinding chamber geometry
• Cover with integrated static classifier and integrated nozzle ring
• Nozzle ring with no dead spaces
• Mill housing with integrated injector assembly for material feed
• Cover and housing connected by a clamp connection
• Filter with housing, product collection bin and membrane filter hose
• Grinding and propellant air supply via the platform adapter (no tubes)
• Adapter for larger filters

Picoplex

Features include:

• Continuous operation
• Collection bin for the end product
• Filter element as an air vent
• Rinsing air supply via the platform adapter (no tubes)

Picosplit

Features include:

• High precision of cut
• Continuous operating mode
• Collection bin for coarse material
• Classifying wheel gap and motor bearing rinsed with gas
• Classifying wheel gap easy to adjust
• Grinding and rinsing air supplied through the platform adapter (no tubes)

Picozirk

Features include:

• Operation with compressed air and/or inert gas
• Continuous operating mode
• Cool and low-intensity milling
• Steep particle size distribution curves
• Sharp and easily adjustable cut point
• Plate beater rotor with grinding track
• Classifying wheel gap and motor bearing rinsed with gas
• Classifying wheel gap easy to adjust
• Grinding and rinsing air supplied through the platform adapter

Powder Characteristics Tester PT-X

• Touch screen computer control, user friendly software reduces analysis time
• Reduced operator intervention for accuracy and repeatability
• Easy clean design with optional HEPA filter and vacuum cleaner
• Multi-language functionality
• Compact design – 34% smaller than prior models

Schugi Flexomix

The Schugi® Flexomix mixer/agglomerator is ideal for use in the production of instant products such as soups, beverages and sauces as well as chemical and pharmaceutical products. It is suitable for:

• Modification of starch
• Agglomeration pesticide formulae
• Agglomeration of fine powders for compaction
• Hydration of phosphates
• Production of detergent powders
• Humidifying products (e.g. pesticides) before extrusion

Spiral Jet Mill – AS Aeroplex

Typical operating advantages are:

• Special grinding zone geometry for products free of oversized particles
• Grinding zone without rotating components
• Material feed via injector
• Exchangeable nozzle ring
• Stainless steel design, product-contact surfaces with a high quality of finish (order-specific)
• CIP/SIP-capable

Spiral Jet Mill 50 AS

This cost effective mill has a range of features including:

• Fineness values of d₉₇ = 5 to 30 µm.
• Suitable for mini batches from 3 to 100 g (50 AS)
• Can be sterilised in an autoclave due to lack of electric components
• Compact, smooth monobloc design, crack- and crevice-free with no dead spaces
• Minimal product loss, i.e. optimal yield
• Surface finish Ra = 0.8 µm or better
• Small and easy to handle – ideal for set-up in a laboratory fume hood
• The standard design requires only compressed air and no electric power
• Different nozzle and grinding chamber geometries possible
• Easily dismantled and cleaned without tools.

Stott Packing Head Systems

Hosokawa Stott packing heads offer:

• Controlled, accurate feed rate
• Easy clean design
• cGMP designs in which seal does not come into contact with the product

Super Orion Ball Mill S.O.

• Grinding drum supported in water-cooled, oil-lubricated journal bearings
• Grinding drum lined with tungsten carbide wear plates or with silex or ceramic elements when the requirement is grinding without iron contamination
• Grinding elements dictated by the type of lining

Toner Fluidised Bed Opposed Jet Mill – TFG

TSP and TTSP Toner Classifiers

• Hinge-back housing makes the machine easy to clean when changing the product.
• Classifying wheel(s) arranged vertically

Ultraplex UPZ Fine Impact Mill

In short, the Alpine Ultraplex UPZ Fine Impact Mill can be tailored to match the individual requirements of every customer. The versatility of different available milling elements fulfils a wide variety of demands on the end-product, for example:

• High fineness with sharp top cut
• Products that are low in fines with good flow properties
• Production of powders with a high bulk density
• Production of powders with a high mass fraction within a defined particle size range

Viblette™ VBL-F

• Easy operation
• Short measuring time
• Repeatable, accurate measuring
• Analysis of slurries up to 10 litres/min
• Screen size to 5 micron without filming problem
• Requires 1/6^th liquid of conventional wet sieve
• Ultrasonic model VBL-FU also available

Zirkoplex ZPS Classifier Mill

Typical benefits of the ZPS mill are:

• Optimum accessibility
• Easy cleaning; a big plus if the product is changed often
• Designed for processing sticky products that tend to deposit.
• Special fluidisation equipment at critical points
• Deposit-free and gentle processing of pigments, wax, resins, powder coatings, etc.
• High air flow rate for cool grinding
• Excellent precision of cut, steep particle size distributions
• Stable classifying characteristics and once set, the classifying fineness remains constant