Hosokawa Micron claims its Picoline range, featuring a series of eight individual machines designed for the production of very small batches of between <1g and several grams, maintains in miniature the high class engineering standards and leading edge technology for which the company is renowned.
Initially featuring the Picojet fluidised bed opposed jet mill; Picoliq agitated ball mill; Picomix batch mixer; Piconizer spiral jet mill and Picoplex impact mill, the series will be extended through the year with a further three machines.
Because the principle of operation of the Picoline machines is the same as that of large production-scale machines, r&d departments can be confident that the transfer of a manufacturing process developed using a Picoline machine to a production-scale machine will be smooth and problem free, the company says.
All Picoline machines are said to be easy to operate, maintain and clean and offer early stage development opportunities at low capital investment costs.