EKATO SYSTEMS offers state of the art vacuum processing units for decades, with long term experience in the cosmetic industry to meet todays' and tomorrows' demands. As one of the technology leader in the cosmetic business, the EKATO product lines UNIMIX and SOLIDMIX are able to produce low to high viscous formulations as well as drying and mixing from pasty to powdery products.

The production of cosmetic products is demanding different component properties to a production unit. Besides mixing and dispersing, short heating and cooling phases, degassing and different dosing methods are very important to reach the requested product quality.

Decades of know-how in dispersing and mixing technology as well as depth knowledge in all disciplines of process engineering at EKATO Group form the basis for the successful use of EKATO technology.

In the pharmaceutical industry EKATO SYSTEMS can benefit from its many years of know-how and extensive experience in producing process plants for the personal and healthcare industry. In addition to the dryers and mixers offered in the product portfolio of SOLIDMIX, e.g. to dry active pharmaceutical substances, the product basket of UNIMIX covers the production of ointments, creams and gels that are used in the pharmaceutical industry.

With more than 12,000 agitators sold in the flue gas desulfurization industry, EKATO is the world market leader. For the particular requirements in the flue gas desulfurization process of fossil-fired power plants EKATO developed special robust and efficient agitators and the agitator gassing lance system which is used today in over 90% of all modern plants.

In the biofuels industry EKATO offers a wide scope of services, form laboratory-tests in EKATO’s state-of-the-art technology center to the scale-up  and design of the production plant.

Numerous bioethanol and biodiesel plants were already equipped with highly efficient agitators. New developments and optimizations of existing processes were pushed continuously together with our customers. 

The extraction of metals using hydrometallurgical processes is gaining more and more importance. In contrast to pyrometallurgy,  hydrometallurgical methods are still economically viable for extracting complex types of ore with low metal contents that are being mined increasingly frequently.

One of the tasks of fermentation is to synthesize chemical compounds by using enzymes, bacteria, fungi or yeasts. New applications have been made possible due to recent advances and new insights in many fields of biotechnology, for example the function of micro-organisms in the microbiology, improvements in sterilization and cultivation of cells, as well as targeted genetic manipulation to produce high-performance organisms. Needless to say, mixing technology has made a substantial contribution. Modern fermentation processes are used to obtain substances such as enzymes, active pharmaceutical ingredients, amino acids and vitamins as metabolites from micro-organisms. Many of these production processes are carried out most effectively in agitated fermenters.

Fats and margarine, fruit-desserts and juice concentrates, honey, cocoa and chocolate, ketchup, dairy products and sugar – everything needs to be mixed at one point in its production process. The different requirements concerning the mixing task(s), the mixing process and especially the hygienic standards (e.g. construction material, surface quality, CIP / SIP ability, sterile design) in the food industry have to be considered and put together to an economical agitator design.

The process characteristics of fermentation and hydrogenation are especially challenging within the food industry. During the Fermentation process the product viscosity can exceed 5,000 mPas, e.g. Xanthan as a thickener for foods.

Such high viscosity fermentation processes are usually combined with high gassing rates which significantly influence the selection of a suitable impeller type and arrangement of the impeller(s), in order to achieve the best possible product output and quality.