Discover the Importance of Micronization Across Industries
Innovations and Applications of Micronization in the Industrial Sector
Micronization in Various Sectors: A Key Process for Material Optimization
Micronization is a crucial procedure in several industrial sectors, such as cosmetics, mining, pharmaceutical and veterinary industries, and third-party food packaging. This process involves reducing the particle size of various raw materials to micrometric dimensions, thus optimizing their handling and applications.
What Is Micronization and How Is It Applied in Industry?
Micronization is a physical process that reduces the particles of a material to sizes no greater than 10 microns. To give you an idea: 10 microns equal 0.01 millimeters.
Thanks to the impact these particles undergo when circulating at high speed, they collide with other particles within a chamber, generating a powder of micrometric dimensions.
How Is Micronization Achieved in This Process?
The latest micronization systems are designed as high-speed mills. This type of system can mill even medium and low hardness products, as well as moist substances. The best example is found in the lump breaker mill, known for its robust and compact structure.
Other dry milling technologies, such as continuous ball mills, work by friction between the spheres, the inner surface of the mill, and the raw material.
Why Is Micronization So Useful for Industry?
As specialists in third-party food packaging and specific pre-crushing, grinding, and milling operations for solids, we are aware of how useful the micronization process is. The reduction to the micrometer of powders and materials less than 100 μm is an increasing trend in the industry.
Consider that this process entails countless advantages for many companies. In the pharmaceutical sector, for example, it facilitates bioavailability (i.e., the rate of absorption of a drug or active ingredient), but also adherence and the lasting, silky effect for other industries such as cosmetics.
Lastly, from PRO3S we remind you that our experience of more than 20 years offering personalized third-party food packaging services, as well as in processing solid products with excellent quality levels, backs us. Also, having a flexible infrastructure, we can carry out specific grinding, milling, and micronizing operations. In short, we adapt to all the processes necessary to obtain the formulation defined by each of our clients.