From September 28th to October 2nd, 2009 we successfully established new contacts and discussed existing projects on the booth of our Russian representative Philipp Industrievertretungen .

The poster shows a Kompaktor type MS 600. This biggest type of Kompaktor is used for compacting or briquetting potassium salts, for instance.

Fine dispersed bulk materials are processed with roller compactors to hard flakes and briquettes. Minerals, metals and chemicals have today much higher purities and are often more corrosive and abrasive than in the past. Extremely abrasive and corrosive products cannot be processed with usual materials of construction. Abrasion and corrosion have consequences to contamination of the products and wear costs of the equipment. The target is to work without or at least with a minimum of contamination and to improve the service life of the equipment.

The paper reported about interdisciplinary research work using finite elements and plasma physics. As a result a matrix was developed which allows a close consideration of the resistance against corrosion and wear versus mechanical and thermal requirements of the parts in contact with the product to be processed.

For more information, please see:
www.sheffield.ac.uk

The highlight of Hosokawa Bepex GmbH was a universal Roll Press, the Kompaktor MS 150, for agglomeration and high pressure roller grinding . This roll press with smooth rolls is used for compacting the most different bulk products in a contamination-free way. Even agglomerating highly abrasive products like aluminium oxide, feldspar or silicon oxide is possible.

You did not have the chance to visit us during the ACHEMA? You are welcome to contact our powder experts at compaction@bepex.hosokawa.com

Hosokawa Bepex was proud to delegate their “magnesia expert” Mr. Hermann Stahl to this international convention, presenting a paper about “Briquetting of caustic magnesia for dead burning purposes”:

Usually rotary kilns or vertical shaft kilns are used to obtain a sintered material (Periclase) from caustic magnesia. Typically all caustic magnesia grades are very fine and have a low bulk density. The sintering process needs in general a feed material with a certain density from which the thermal process can start to increase the density further until the final MgO Periclase is obtained.
All types of kilns require not only a dense product but also an agglomerate, pellet or briquette with a high dropping and crushing strength in order to survive the thermal and mechanical stresses while the agglomerates are passing the kiln. The feed to the kilns has to be dust free and with a certain particle size. The request for high purity of the Periclase end product does not allow any binders or additives.

During the conference, the important role of the briquetting process in caustic magnesia plants under consideration of caustic properties like particle size, loss of ignition and chemical properties was discussed. Layout features and state of the art plant designs were presented.

Please see www.indmin.com/MagMin for further information.

• 30.09.-03.10.2008
  Industrial Processing in Utrecht, Netherlands: Simultaneously to the Powtech, we were present on the booth of our sister Hosokawa Micron B.V.
• 07.-09.10.2008
  Processteknik in Goetheborg, Sweden: We showed a selection of product samples on the booth of our Swedish representative Roland Carlberg Processystem AB.
• 20.-24.10.2008
  On the booth of Frances Micron Espana at the Expoquimia in Barcelona, Spain, we exhibited our Bextruder BX150 as well as a compacting/granulating plant consisting of a Pharmapaktor and a Flake Crusher.
• 12.-14.11.2008
  The booth of the Hosokawa group at the 13th China International Pharmaceutical Industry Exhibition ChinaPharm in Beijing, P.R. China represented an ideal platform for the group members for presenting their technology for the pharmaceutical industry.
• 25.-28.11.2008
  The Pharmtech 2008 in Moscow - the exhibition for pharmaceutical production in Russia - was an ideal stage for Hosokawa Bepex to show its competences in compacting pharma, food and cosmetics.
• 09.-11.12.2008
  At the IPB Shanghai, the international trade fair for powder, granule and bulk solids technology in China, we had the chance to constitute our scope in the area of granulation and compaction of powdery materials and bulk solids of chemicals, pharma, food and minerals/metals on the booth of Hosokawa Micron (Shanghai) Powder Machinery Co., Ltd.

• Pharmapaktor C 250 P
  The new generation of the Pharmapaktor® type C250P offered now by Hosokawa Bepex considers all relevant and demanding user requirements of the pharmaceutical industry.
• Bexmill BM 80 for de-agglomeration of lumped pharmaceutical powders and pharma granules. Processing of midget badges (up to 5 kg/h) in research and development and in galenic pharmaceutical production. Isolator-compliant.
• Bextruder BX 150 for gentle densification of products, also in research and development. Application: Low-pressure extrusion of pharmaceuticals, food and pesticides.
• KOMPAKTOR® MS 36 – a high pressure roll press with vacuum de-aeration for compacting talcum.

On the small booth of Hosokawa Bepex GmbH, our minerals experts were available for any discussion. Due to the good contacts gathered during the exhibition, further Mining World appearances are planned.

->PDF Mining World 2008

In the course of autumn 2007, Hosokawa Bepex’s business division “Compacting Technology” presented itself at numerous trade shows around the globe.

The “world tour”, coming up to the Hosokawa globe logo, started in Russia at the “Chemistry Moscow” at the beginning of September, the marketplace of Russia’s chemical industry. The next exhibition place was IPB Expo in Shanghai, where our sister company Hosokawa Micron (Shanghai) Powder Machinery Co., Ltd. represented us at the end of October. Only a few days after China, we attended the India ChemExpo/PharmExpo in Mumbai. After having presented our technology at the CFIA in Strasbourg, France at the end of November, we finished our exhibition tour where we started: in Russia, this time at the exhibition PharmTech Moscow.

We would like to thank all visitors to our booths and are looking forward to our next trade show, the Interphex in Philapdelphia, USA in March 2008!

On the booth of their representative AZO Inc., Hosokawa Bepex GmbH presented the Pharmapaktor C250P, a new generation roller press being specifically designed for the needs of the pharmaceutical industry.

• A compacting/ pelleting plant consisting of a Pharmapaktor L200/50P and a Flake Crusher FC200 in dust-tight design for producing pharmaceutical granules before tabletting resp. capsule filling

• The Bextruder BX 150 for low-pressure extrusion of pharmaceuticals, food and pesticides

• The Kompaktor® MS 60, a high pressure Roller Crusher in state-of-the-art design for crushing titanium dioxide with a throughput capacity of 4 – 5 t/h

• The conical mill Bexmill BM 80 for desagglomerating agglutinated, lumped powders and for product development in galenic and chemical laboratories.

See you at the next POWTECH from September 30th to October 2nd, 2008!

"Consulting service, engineering and machines - everything from one single source"

Hosokawa Bepex GmbH showed the following exhibits:

• Kompaktor MS 60:
  A high-compression roller mill for titanium dioxide clinker with armoured roller surfaces reducing the grinding costs by a factor of 4.

• Bexmill BM 80:
  Laboratory design for de-agglomeration. Space-saving rotor support from below, gap purging, sterilisation and speed adjustment are just a few details.

• Pharmapaktor C 250:
  This new generation of Pharmapaktors meets the increased demands of the pharmaceutical industries especially regarding universal parameters and the associated instrumentation.

This Kompaktor is used for compressing fine disperse bulk materials into flakes by using smooth or profiled roll tires. This process can be applied to all kinds of materials, from high-quality pharmaceuticals to fertilizers, etc.