20 Year Collaboration Process Line Development

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Dinnissen B.V.

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Planta Fertilizers and Dinnissen have collaborated for process line development for the past 20 years. Recently, Dinnissen has also helped Planta Fertilizers with two major projects.

Planta Fertilizers is a producer of special fertilizers for the production of fully water-soluble nutrient salts. In 2002, the first contact between Dinnissen and Planta Fertilizers was established. Dinnissen has helped the firm with two major projects. In 2004, Planta Fertilizers invested in a completely new process line from Dinnissen. In 2019/2020, Dinnissen even modernized the entire plant. For the first process line, Planta Fertilizers had come up with a basic concept, which Dinnissen implemented based on the company’s wishes and specifications. The heart of the process line is a mixing unit produced by Dinnissen. In addition, the process line includes a pneumatic transport system, silos, and a Big Bag unloading system.

In the years of cooperation, Dinnissen has optimized the process line time and again. The main result has been an enormous increase in the output of the line and, thanks to the automation, an increase in the productivity of its employees. The company has never had such good mixing results: completely homogeneous and both the main substances and trace elements in exactly the right proportions, opines the firm.

Dinnissen came up with the idea of modernizing Planta Fertilizers’ factory. This has resulted in a plant with much higher efficiency. This is especially evident in the fact that its electricity consumption per batch produced has dropped by 30 percent, adds the company.

This innovation helps the firm with permanent pressure on results in the industry. Increasing production is necessary to secure employment. Saving electricity with a blowing system also ultimately brings the company great benefits. The system works in a similar way to a Dyson vacuum cleaner. The raw material is not sucked up all at once, but in parallel in several processes. This results in a constant product flow in the factory, shares the firm.

The most important result is a huge increase in the output of the line and, thanks to automation, an increase in the productivity and efficiency of our employees, mentions the company.

With these innovations from Dinnissen, the firm has a considerable advantage in its sector. Take, for example, the use of the Pegasus mixer in the process line. Previously, it had standard mixing times of 14 - 15 minutes. With the Pegasus mixer the company achieves a mixing time of 60 seconds per batch and with the system, this was even faster. Despite this short mixing time, the firm has a completely homogeneous mixture in production. So homogenous, in fact, that after mixing it can achieve the right ratio very precisely, not only of main substances such as nitrogen and potassium, but also of trace elements. The company never had such good mixing results.

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