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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ItemVibratory Disc Mill RS 200Mixer Mill MM 500 NanoPlanetary Ball Mill PM 100Rotor Beater Mill SR 300
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Catalog NumberRS 200MM 500 nanoPM 100SR 300
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DescriptionThe 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 mixer mill MM 500 nano is a compact, versatile bench-top unit which has been developed specially for dry, wet and cryogenic grinding of up to 2 x 45 ml sample material within seconds. With a maximum frequency of 35 Hz, it generates enough energy to produce particles in the nanometer range. The ... Read MorePlanetary Ball Mills are used wherever the highest degree of fineness is required. Apart from the classical mixing and size reduction processes, the mills also meet all the technical requirements for colloidal grinding and have the energy input necessary for mechanical alloying processes. The ... Read MoreThe 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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PrinciplePressure and FrictionImpact and FrictionImpact and FrictionImpact and Shearing
Sample Size<15 mm≤10 mm< 10 mm< 15 mm
Sample TypeMedium-Hard, Hard, Brittle or FibrousHard, Medium-Hard, Soft, Brittle, Elastic or FibrousSoft, Hard, Brittle or Fibrous - Dry or WetSoft or Medium-Hard
ApplicationsSize Reduction, Mixing and Triturating: Construction Materials, Environment / Recycling, Geology / Metallurgy, Glass / Ceramicsmechanochemistry, mechanical alloying, size reduction, mixing, homogenization, cryogenic grinding; agriculture, biology, chemistry / plastics, construction materials, engineering / electronics, environment / recycling, food, geology / metallurgy, glass / ceramics, medicine / pharmaceuticalsPulverizing, Mixing, Homogenizing and Colloidal Milling: Agriculture, Biology, Chemistry / Plastics, Construction Materials, Engineering / Electronics, Environment / Recycling, Geology / Metallurgy, Glass / Ceramics, Medicine / PharmaceuticalsSize Reduction and Deagglomeration: Agriculture, Chemistry / Plastics, Construction Materials, Environment / Recycling, Food, Medicine / Pharmaceuticals
Speed700 to 1500 min-13 to 35 Hz100 to 650 min-18100 or 9700 min-1
Rotor Typegrinding dish with disc (and ring)grinding jar and ballsgrinding jar and ballsRotor Beater, Standard and Distance
Final Fineness< 40 um~0.1 µm< 1 um or < 0.1 um for Colloidal Grinding< 50 um
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