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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ItemCutting Mill SM 300Mortar Grinder RM 200Vibratory Disc Mill RS 200XRD-Mill McCrone Laboratory Mill
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Catalog NumberSM 300RM 200RS 200MCCrone
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DescriptionCutting mills are suitable for the grinding of soft, medium-hard, tough, elastic, fibrous, and heterogeneous mixes of products. The new Cutting Mill SM 300 excels especially in the tough jobs where other cutting mills fail.

The high torque of the new 3 kW drive with RES technology (additional
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The Mortar Grinder RM 200 can mix and homogenize powders, suspension and pastes even with high viscosity. The RM 200 is suitable for the proper and reproducible sample preparation to analytical fineness.

It substitutes cumbersome hand mortars by a high performance drive with electronic control. The
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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
PrincipleShearing and CuttingPressure and FrictionPressure and FrictionFriction
Sample SizeUp to 60 x 80 mm< 8 mm<15 mm<0.5 mm
Sample TypeSoft, Medium-Hard, Tough, Elastic or FibrousSoft, Hard, Brittle or PastyMedium-Hard, Hard, Brittle or FibrousMedium-hard, Hard, Brittle, Fibrous
ApplicationsSize Reduction by Cutting: Agriculture, Biology, Chemistry / Plastics, Engineering / Electronics, Environment / Recycling, Food, Medicine / PharmaceuticalsGrinding, Mixing and Triturating - Dry and Wet: Agriculture, Biology, Chemistry / Plastics, Construction Materials, Food, Geology / Metallurgy, Glass / Ceramics, Medicine / PharmaceuticalsSize Reduction, Mixing and Triturating: Construction Materials, Environment / Recycling, Geology / Metallurgy, Glass / CeramicsGrinding, Mixing and Triturating, Dry and Wet
Speed700 to 3000 min-1100 min-1700 to 1500 min-11000 to 1500 min-1
Rotor TypeParallel Section Rotor and 6-Disc Rotormortar and pestlegrinding dish with disc (and ring)<0.5 mm
Final Fineness0.25 to 20 mm< 10 um< 40 um<1 µm
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