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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ItemMortar Grinder RM 200Cutting Mill SM 300Cyclone Mill TWISTERKnife Mill GRINDOMIX GM 300Ultra Centrifugal Mill ZM 300
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Catalog NumberRM 200SM 300TwisterGM 300ZM 300
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DescriptionThe 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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Cutting 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 cyclone mill TWISTER is specially designed for the processing of foods and feeds for subsequent NIR analysis. The optimized form of rotor and grinding chamber generates an air jet which carries the ground sample through the integrated cyclone into the sample bottle. The air jet prevents the ... Read MoreThe new knife mill GRINDOMIX GM 300 is the ideal instrument for the grinding and homogenization of foodstuffs. It allows to process sample volumes up to 4.5 liters quickly and reproducibly.

With four sharp, robust blades and a powerful motor which can reach temporary peaks of 3 kW, it is ideal for
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The Ultra Centrifugal Mill ZM 300 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 300 ensures the gentle preparation of analytical samples in a very
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PrinciplePressure and FrictionShearing and CuttingImpact and FrictionCuttingImpact and Shearing
Sample Size< 8 mmUp to 60 x 80 mm<10 mm~ 130 mm< 10 mm
Sample TypeSoft, Hard, Brittle or PastySoft, Medium-Hard, Tough, Elastic or FibrousFibrous or SoftSoft, Medium-Hard, Elastic, Containing Water/Fat/Oil, Dry or FibrousSoft, Medium-Hard, Brittle or Fibrous
ApplicationsGrinding, Mixing and Triturating - Dry and Wet: Agriculture, Biology, Chemistry / Plastics, Construction Materials, Food, Geology / Metallurgy, Glass / Ceramics, Medicine / PharmaceuticalsSize Reduction by Cutting: Agriculture, Biology, Chemistry / Plastics, Engineering / Electronics, Environment / Recycling, Food, Medicine / PharmaceuticalsGrinding Prior to NIR Analysis: Agriculture, Foods / Feeds, Medicine / PharmaceuticalsSize Reduction, Homogenization and Mixing: Agriculture, Biology, Food, Medicine / PharmaceuticalsInquire
Speed100 min-1700 to 3000 min-110,000 to 14,000 min-1500 to 4000 min-16,000 to 23,000 min-1
Rotor Typemortar and pestleParallel Section Rotor and 6-Disc RotorTWISTER rotorStainless steel knife, knife with titanium-niob coating6, 12 or 24 tooth rotor, titanium for heavy-metal free grinding or tungsten carbide coated for abrasive materials available
Final Fineness< 10 um0.25 to 20 mm< 500 um< 300 um< 40 µm
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