Functional, dust-free granules with homogeneous component distribution and adjustable particle sizes. Greater functionality, stability and protection for your products during processing, handling and storage. Improved flowability and dissolution properties, no separation of components, compact form for coatings. Safer for operators and the environment: Prevents contact allergies and burns.

Formulating temperature-sensitive probiotics successfully by layering + coating in the fluidized bed. Drying fermentation products to dust-free granules in one step. Enteric coatings for lactobacilli to improve protection and increase bioavailability and delivery. Stable storage of immobilized microorganisms over long periods of time with minimal loss in activity.

Particles with precisely definable chemical composition in narrow particle size distributions. Long-term stability for battery materials through precise, even coating of anode/cathode materials. Unique new optical effects and maximum protection for your paint and coating pigments. Applying even, homogenous catalytic coatings to cores using the minimum amount of active material.

Technology transfer, plant deisgn and factory engineering for functional powders, granules and pellets: Your access to innovative technologies with interdisciplinary know-how and many years of expertise. Your access to innovative technologies with interdisciplinary know-how and many years of expertise. Solutions due to your needs: Customized production processes. Minimal risk. Maximum flexibility.

Particles are coated in order to change their surface properties and by this means the behavior of the particles. Glatt offers different processes for the coating of different particles. This equipment choice allows the customer to choose specific levels of coating quality. The coating liquid can be a solution, suspension or melt. In all processes the coating liquid is sprayed onto the particles. Low viscosity and small droplets are required to ensure even spreading of the coating liquid on the surface of the particles.

Mixing different liquid raw materials before spray granulation they will be very evenly distributed in the granules. By this means liquids can be encapsulated into a matrix of solid material. This encapsulation process is mainly applied in the food industry. If necessary the particles can be finally encapsulated with a secondary coating.

Encapsulation is applied for the protection against oxidation, to influence and improve particle properties like stability in storage, hygroscopicity, free flowing properties, surface structure, solubility, appearance, taste, odor etc.

Whether spray granulating, agglomerating, coating, pelletizing, drying, cooling and combinations of them.
Processes can be combined in one system.
Very gentle handling of temperature-sensitive materials.
High throughputs from 20 kg/h to 10 t/h.
 
The GF can accomplish all these processes. Since the inlet air plenum is divided into multiple chambers it is possible to introduce air with different velocities and different temperatures into the processing chamber.

Spray granulation is the drying of liquid while simultaneously building particle size. Seeds for the granulation can be charged (external seeds). Alternatively the seeds are formed within the processing chamber by abrasion (internal seeds). Compared to agglomerates these granules are harder and denser. The spray granulation process was developed in the early 1980s at what is now Glatt Ingenieurtechnik. Since that time Glatt is one of the leading vendors within this technology.