Granulation & Film Casting

The productivity center capabilities include:

Multiple stationary and rental steel belt coolers with customizable feeding devices.
State of the art feeding devices include RF4G, RFHP, Casting box, temperature-controlled roll feeders, and heated feeding tubes.
Rentable double belt press.
Various heating and cooling systems for feeding of product to a feeding device.
Super-cooling preconditioning skid.

1 Rotoform unit with a belt width of 1500 mm and cooling length of 5 m – for full scale prototype in-house testing as a last part of the product development process.

Dynamic testing is possible for materials from chocolate to urea or even road bitumen.

1 Film casting line with a Venturi Dryer module plus two conventional impingement dryer sections with winding and unwinding unit. Casting on a steel belt or on a foil is possible.
The unit is able to handle water or solvent based casting solutions.
Wet or dry film thickness is variable as to the customer need. Normally approx. between 6 and 500 µm dry film thickness.
Hot air temperatures up to 250 °C are possible in the dryer, even higher temperatures are possible for the belt heating.
Casting width between 150 mm and 500 mm

Feasibility testing (hand test) to give a first feedback about the possibility to solidify the product and to the expected capacity.
On-site support for rental units and demanding process applications.
Process optimization for customers who want to increase the productivity of their process.
Sales and engineering support in terms of process calculations.

Project management for product/process development projects.
Prototype development and testing of new products.
On-site support for prototype trials at selected customer production facilities.