Commercial laboratories move towards and automated pulverizing

Commercial laboratories around the world are moving from manual labour intensive pulverisers to fully automated HPM 1500 pulverizers. Intertek Darwin laboratory in Australia has taken delivery of their third fully automated mill and magazines, while Activation laboratories in Canada have taken delivery of four machines with magazines.

These laboratories have joined a growing list of customers that have seen the significant benefits of using the automated HPM 1500 pulverizers. These pulverizers are generally supplied with a 30 position cup magazine allowing the operator to load 30 samples and walk away. The machine pulverizes the samples, cleans the grinding vessel between samples and presents the pulverized samples back to the operator in the original cups in the magazine. This level of automation dramatically increases productivity. The operator is freed up to carry out more meaningful tasks.

As an option, the system weighs the sample prior to milling and adjusts the sample milling time to suite the sample mass. This further increases productivity and reduces wear costs, increasing efficiencies.

The grinding vessels are automatically cleaned between each sample (unlike manual systems that rely on the operator to clean the vessel between samples). This coupled with the efficient PLC controlled grinding ensure a significant improvement in quality when compared to manual sample milling.

Improvements in terms of occupational health and safety are achieved as the operator is not exposed to dust, noise, lifting or risk of dropping a large bowl or puck. Operators are not required to wear hearing protection, glasses, face masks,or steel cap shoes as is required for manual mills currently on the market.

We have automated pulverizers for samples from 5g to 10kg. For more information please contact an IMP sales representative.

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Robot configuration

HPM 1500 with magazine

Feeding samples manually