Quadro Engineering News & Articles
Quadro Engineering Receives Food Processing Magazine's 2011 Readers’ Choice Award
Quadro Engineering was recently selected as one of the top three Suppliers of size reduction equipment to the Food Industry, according to Food Processing’s 2011 Readers’ Choice Awards survey. The Quadro® Comil® is the world’s leading technology for achieving uniform size reduction, sieving, deagglomeration, dispersion and mixing. It is used in a variety ...
Complete Particle Sizing and Processing Solutions from the Names You Trust at Interpack 2011
Quadro Engineering and the Fitzpatrick Company are teaming up at Interpack 2011 (May 12 - 18) in Dusseldorf, Germany in Hall 4.0, Stand 4B54 to exhibit cutting-edge solutions to your particle sizing and processing needs. For your particle sizing needs, Quadro will be showcasing ...
Come see what’s new from the Particle Engineering & Process Specialists at Interphex 2011
Quadro Engineering, The Fitzpatrick Company and Microfluidics are teaming up at Interphex 2011 (March 29-31) in New York, in booths 3427, 3433 and 2071 to exhibit cutting edge solutions to your particle engineering and processing needs. NEW from Quadro is the Ytron HV0-Emulsifier and Wet Mill ...
IDEX Corporation Acquires The Fitzpatrick Company
IDEX Corporation(NYSE: IEX) today announced the acquisition of The Fitzpatrick Company, a global leader in the design and manufacture of process technologies for the pharmaceutical, food and personal care markets. Fitzpatrick designs and manufactures customized size reduction, roll compaction and drying systems ...
Quadro FlexSift Receives Recognition as an Innovator in Sifter Technology
The Quadro® FlexSift received recognition as an Innovator in Sifter technology at the Process Innovation Prize 2010 Competition held during the Industrial Processing Exhibition in Utrecht, The Netherlands. In addition, Quadro’s Regional Partner, Jongerius B.V. won the Industrial Processing Marketing Award. The Quadro® FlexSift security screens...
Quadro Develops CIP Fine Grind F10 Mill
Quadro’s continuing efforts to innovate process technology in the field of fine grind size reduction are once again realized with the development of a Clean-In-Place F10 Fine Grind Mill. Quadro’s F10 Fine Grind Mill has been succesfully implemented in Pharmaceutical, Biotech, Fine Chemical and Food industries where PSD targets range from 5 - 150µm...
Meeting Tight OEL Limits in API Milling
According to leading containment isolator manufacturers, it has been estimated that up to 50% of new pharmaceutical products are now being set by the pharmaceutical industry with Operator Exposure Limits (OEL’s) at ≤10μg/m3. A leading European Pharmaceutical company ...
Continuous Screening & Delumping of API’S in an ATEX Environment
Quadro Engineering has developed an ATEX rated, highly contained dosing system utilizing the Quadro® WIP (Wash-In-Place) S20 FlexSift mounted on a pneumatically actuated height adjustable, portable base that allows added flexibility to move the system to other manufacturing suites. Nitrogen gas ...
FlexSift Outperforms Traditional Sifting Technologies in the Food Ingredients Industry
The Huijbregts Group BV, a European food processor who does work with powdered food ingredients such as additives, savoury, bouillons, dehydrated vegetables and herbs and spices needed to find ways to improve operational efficiencies and maximize flexibility in its production stream to handle its increasing business ...
Quadro Engineering Expands Popular Flexsift Product Range
To meet the demands of today’s Food/Pharmaceutical manufacturers, Quadro has expanded the FlexSift product range to include two (2) new models - the S10 and the S30. The S10 is designed for small batch operations, while the S30 is designed for larger batch/continuous flow operations ...
Milling Algae Extract for Bio-Pharmaceutical Ingredients
A biotechnology company working with algae (red algae and cell wall polysaccharides) approached Quadro to help them with the milling of these materials. Due to their hygroscopic nature, these materials needed to be exposed to as little air as possible ...
Fine Grinding Excipients with a Tight PSD
Sodium Chloride (NaCl) is a common excipient ingredient for many pharmaceutical and bio-pharmaceutical applications. Sodium Chloride has a fairly consistent molecular lattice structure which makes it an attractive formulation additive since ...
Fine Grinding Polymers in Cosmetic and Personal Care Applications
An large chemical manufacturer approached Quadro to help them fine grind a polymer (tocolpherol polypeptide). Polymers are often used in personal care products for rheology control, emulsion creation, pigment suspension, antioxidants and to create ...
