Special Subject III: For the 100 anniversary of Hosokawa Micron Corporation
Innovation at Hosokawa Alpine AG
2016 Volume 59 Pages 69-78
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2016 Volume 59 Pages 69-78
Hosokawa Alpine, founded in 1898 and based in Augsburg, Germany is one of the leading companies in the fields of “Powder and Particle Processing” and “Film Extrusion Technologies”. The article highlights some of the many innovative products of Hosokawa Alpine. It is also shown, that once a product is introduced into the market, it is continuously further developed to meet the requirements of customers with a huge variety of applications.
The introduction of the air classifier ATP, for instance, was a milestone in powder processing enabling precise powder classifying with very fine cut points. However, it was developed further through the years in order to reach even finer top cuts, higher production rates and decreased pressure drop resulting in lower operating costs. Closely connected to the development of these air classifiers is the development of the fluidized bed opposed jet mill AFG and its related mills. Making use of the fact, that the feed material is comminuted autogenously by particle-particle collisions, this machine has become a working horse in fine grinding of all kind of materials.
The development of the internal recirculation classifier Ventoplex C was focused on the processing of mineral powders produced at very high production rates with reduced operating costs. In contrast to that, the picoline® is well suited for the processing of powders in very small quantities targeting the R&D labs of customers dealing with high value materials.
In film extrusion Hosokawa Alpine launched a new blown film line with up to 11 layers, extending the possibilities in blown film applications with a number of sophisticated solutions. The application of the new mono-axial film orientation lines MDO helps to further improve the cost efficiency in blown film production.
