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Processing Service
The Particle Research Facility (PRF) offers a wide range of powder processing services for more than 20 years. We have a group of engineers and professors from University of Western Ontario Engineering to support the services. The knowledge accumulated from all these years of research gives PRF the superior expertise required for the most challenging needs of our customers. It also makes us the best suited facility for selecting the most appropriate and cost-efficient technology for your specific applications.
PRF is also equipped with a complete list of equipments to support our powder processing services, and ensure that we exceed our quality assurance commitments to our clients. Some of our powder processing services include: powder mixing, particle size reduction, powder classification, sifting, extruding, powder coating, powder coating formulation, drug coatings, spray drying, freeze drying, and particle formation.
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Powder Mixing
We offer the mixing services to produce the high quality reliale and scaleble powders. Homogeneous mixing is achieved in a very short time, the precision of processing time and temprature can be controlled.
Features:
- Maximum mixing precision and versatility
- PLC/PC control for reproducible processes
- Gentle product handling
- Reliable scale-up
The details of our mixing equipments
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Milling
PRF has over fifteen years of experience in size reduction of a variety of materials from polymers such as nylon and PMMA to a wide variety of powder coatings, pharmaceuticals, and inorganic powders. Our engineering expertise can determine the most suitable, cost-effective technology for your application.
We provide different milling services including:
- Air Classifying Mill - For the principle of impact grinding with high speed rotating pins and fixed liner.
- Spiral Jet Mill - For processing small batches of material using high velocity air nozzles.
- Opposed Jet Mill - capable of producing powders with particle size averages as low as 1 - 2 microns.
The details of our milling equipments
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Classifying and Sifting
The Classifying and Sifting Service can apply to the food, pharmaceutical, plastics, and powder coatings industries. Our engineering expertise can determine the most suitable, cost-effective methods for classifing the solid materials in a very large range of paticles.
We provide classifying and sifting services including:
- Air Classifying - For electrostatic materials and particles that tend to agglomerate easily.
- Rotary Sieving - For the food, pharmaceutical, plastics, and powder coatings industries..
- Ultrasonic Vibrating Sieving - For powders require highly accurate separation with maximum powder recovery.
The details of our Sieves equipments
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Extruding
The extruding services are for mixing, compounding, or reacting of polymeric materials with high reliability, good comprehension and compact structure. We can process powder, pellets, chips, glass fiber, pastes and liquids by high-speed co-rotating twin-screw extruder.
The details of our extruding equipments
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Powder Paint & Coating
PRF has been involved in powder coatings research and formulation for more than seven years. Our research has led to a number of novel powder coatings inventions and a patent on a novel ultrafine powder coatings technology. The ultrafine powder coatings result in thinner films, smoother surface and leads to considerable cost savings to the powder coating industry. Dr. Jesse Zhu is involved with a number of industrial collaborations for developing and transferring this technology. Furthermore, we are fully equipped to develop novel powder coating formulations for specific application requirements.
The details of our Powder Paint & Coating equipments
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Spray & Freeze Dryers
The Spray and Freeze Dryers services can produce the uniform powders from 50 ml or less of organic or aqueous solutions, in just minutes. Homogeneous mixing is achieved in a very short time, the precision of processing time and temprature can be controlled.
The details of our Spray and Freeze Dryers equipments
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De-agglomeration
We offer the De-agglomeration services to produce the high quality reliale and scaleble powders.
