Laboratory Mill

Laboratory mills, used primarily for sample prep prior to analysis, use particle size reduction (comminution) to grind or homogenize wet, dry, hard, soft, elastic, brittle, and fibrous materials. Mills and grinders are used in labs in widely varying scientific areas, including chemistry, pharmaceuticals, food analysis, materials testing, and life science. Disk, hammer, mortar, planetary ball, rotor, and cutting mills are available to achieve coarse, mid-range, and fine results, all the way down to the nano range, <0.1 µm. Cryogenic mills, or freezer mills, are a type of unit that freezes a material prior to reducing its particle size.

What to consider when choosing a laboratory mill?

When purchasing a mill, power, speed, and cleanability are useful parameters; however, it is also important to keep in mind the instrument’s throughput, reproducibility, and yield, as well as the option of a cooling system, if necessary.

Compare and request a quote for laboratory mills from various manufacturers:

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ItemRotor Beater Mill SR 300Ultra Centrifugal Mill ZM 200Vibratory Disc Mill RS 200XRD-Mill McCrone Laboratory Mill
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Catalog NumberSR 300ZM 200RS 200MCCrone
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DescriptionThe Rotor Beater Mill SR 300 is suitable for coarse and fine size reduction, either in batches or continuously. It can process dry, soft, medium-hard, organic and inorganic substances.

Its high speed in comparison to the SR 200 allows a significantly higher throughput and fineness.

The SR 300 is
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The Ultra Centrifugal Mill ZM 200 is a high speed rotor mill with unmatched performance. It is used for the rapid size reduction of soft to medium-hard and fibrous materials.

Because of the efficient size reduction technique the ZM 200 ensures the gentle preparation of analytical samples in a very
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The Vibratory Disc Mill RS 200 is suitable for the extremely quick, loss-free and reproducible grinding of medium-hard, brittle and fibrous materials to analytical fineness. The instrument runs steadily and smoothly, even with heavy grinding sets, at maximum speed thanks to the new Stabilized-Plane-... Read MoreThe XRD-Mill McCrone was specially developed for the preparation of samples for subsequent X-ray diffraction (XRD). The mill is used for applications in geology, chemistry, mineralogy and materials science, quality control as well as R&D. Because of its unique grinding motion, the XRD-Mill McCrone ... Read More
PrincipleImpact and ShearingImpact and ShearingPressure and FrictionFriction
Sample Size< 15 mm< 10 mm<15 mm<0.5 mm
Sample TypeSoft or Medium-HardSoft, Medium-Hard, Brittle or FibrousMedium-Hard, Hard, Brittle or FibrousMedium-hard, Hard, Brittle, Fibrous
ApplicationsSize Reduction and Deagglomeration: Agriculture, Chemistry / Plastics, Construction Materials, Environment / Recycling, Food, Medicine / PharmaceuticalsFine Grinding: Agriculture, Biology, Chemistry / Plastics, Construction Materials, Engineering / Electronics, Environment / Recycling, Food, Geology / Metallurgy, Medicine / PharmaceuticalsSize Reduction, Mixing and Triturating: Construction Materials, Environment / Recycling, Geology / Metallurgy, Glass / CeramicsGrinding, Mixing and Triturating, Dry and Wet
Speed8100 or 9700 min-16,000 to 18,000 min-1700 to 1500 min-11000 to 1500 min-1
Rotor TypeRotor Beater, Standard and Distance6, 12 or 24 tooth rotor, 8 tooth mini-rotorgrinding dish with disc (and ring)<0.5 mm
Final Fineness< 50 um< 80 nm< 40 um<1 µm
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