Every industry has hard-to-handle process or byproduct materials which present problems as irritants or health hazards and may represent considerable financial drain. Due to their nature, minute particles comprised of dust, fume, filter cake and mineral of chemical fines are extremely difficult to handle. The only practical way to work with these particles is to increase their size by combining them. This process, the conversion of solid fines to larger, more manageable shapes, is called agglomeration.

Other similar particulate matter may require size enlargement to make it more sellable or to improve its physical properties. The same processes are employed, and this, too, is agglomeration.

Large Disc Pelletizer- Simplified Scraper Frame.	Roll Briquetter- Special design for Fertilizer spikes.

There are three general categories of agglomeration which are in common use. One or more can provide a practical answer to any material processing or handling problem know to industry.

1. Agitation or Pelletizing
   Balling devices, disc pelletizers, drums and cones and some types of mixers.
2. Compaction or Compression
   Briquetting, compacting, tableting and extrusion.
3. Heat Treatment
   Sintering (as with powdered metals), nodulizing and the production of granules from the molten material.

Ferro-Tech

Your best source for Agglomeration expertise.

Ferro-Tech, as the foremost company in the world involved solely in the agglomerative sciences, is aware that in order to develop a fully workable solution to a materials problem much more is required that simple selection of equipment. With a complete knowledge of all forms of agglomeration, and a background of experience working with hundreds of materials from the everyday to the exotic, Ferro-Tech emphasizes a total systems approach.

Ferro-Tech offers a variety of services and products, whatever you need to dispose of your individual agglomeration problem. As you will see, we can provide laboratory testing, pilot plant studies, contract production, machinery fro sale or rent, complete plants or consultation -whatever suits your requirements. We know that every material is different, and each must be approached individually. It is our goal to provide you with the complete answer to your agglomeration problems in whatever form you desire, and in the most economical and practical manner.