EZD: New plant technology for dispersing pilot plant
The European Center for Dispersion Technologies (EZD) has comprehensively expanded its technical centre in Selb and equipped it with new, high-performance plant technology. By expanding its technical infrastructure, the EZD will be able to provide its customers and partners with even more targeted support in the development and optimization of disperse systems in future.
The EZD in Selb is responding to increasing demands and industrial requirements and has therefore significantly expanded its research and development capabilities and the transfer to industrial applications. The new dispersing pilot plant now has a dissolver, an agitator bead mill, a high-pressure homogenizer and a rotor-stator disperser (in-line mixer). These systems are designed for the production of material preparations on a pilot plant scale of around 50 liters. This makes it possible to produce larger customer samples in addition to traditional laboratory tests and significantly facilitates the transferability of test results to industrial production. Both water- and solvent-based suspensions can be processed, as well as various resin systems. The technical center therefore offers ideal conditions for the production and testing of a wide range of industrial products - including inks, coatings, adhesives and many other technical suspensions.
New dispersion pilot plant at the EZD
"We are excited about the new possibilities that these machines offer us and look forward to being able to offer our customers additional services. In addition, we can now provide sample quantities on a reasonable scale and further strengthen our support in industrial practice," says Dr. Felipe Wolff Fabris, Site Manager of the EZD. Another highlight of the new technical centre is the integration of modern in-process characterization methods. Inline rheometers, liquid color measurement systems and stability analyzers provide valuable information on material properties during production. The use of these methods not only helps to ensure product quality, but also supports the optimization of process control and the increase in energy efficiency during dispersion. With the expanded equipment, the EZD is opening up new opportunities for practical, application-specific research and development - in close cooperation with industry. As part of the SKZ Plastics Center, the EZD also benefits from a broad network and extensive expertise in the field of plastics and their processing.