At Pilamec, we offer a comprehensive range of specialised services and equipment designed to meet diverse processing needs. Our capabilities include:

  • A distinctive, varied and extensive range of crushing, milling, and sieving equipment and services.

  • Dedicated blending and repacking services tailored to your needs.

  • Supply of metal powders, including custom-manufactured options in low to medium volumes.

  • Recycling and repurposing of waste, scrap materials, and production by-products.

  • In-house laboratory and small-volume test facilities including Ball Milling, Crushing, Particle Size Measurement and Analysis.

  • Drying, briquetting, and pelletising services

  • Processing and supplying small test and development quantities, scaling up to bulk quantities.

Services

Toll Processing and Services

Pilamec offers a comprehensive range of toll processing services for a wide variety of materials, including specialist and difficult substances. Our state-of-the-art facilities, equipped with advanced laboratory and testing equipment, ensure the highest quality and consistency in every process.

Our Services:

  • Milling, Crushing, and Sieving

  • Blending

  • Briquetting and Pelleting

  • Drying

  • Repackaging

  • Pallet Storage

Milling, Crushing, Sieving

Pilamec’s milling, crushing, and sieving capabilities enable us to reduce particle size to precise specifications. Our advanced equipment includes:

  • Ball Mills Test, R&D and Production Volume Mills with Steel or Ceramic Liners. Ability to mill a diverse range of materials across all industries.

  • Jaw Crushers for primary reduction of large-sized materials

  • Roller Crushers

  • Locker and Open Vibrating Sieves and Screens

  • Ultrasonic Sieving for fine materials down to 20 microns.

  • Jet Milling Micronises powders using high-velocity air and particle collision.

Blending

Our blending services ensure homogeneous mixing of powders and other materials. Our blending equipment includes:

  • Vertical Ribbon Blenders: Efficiently blend powders and granules in a vertical vessel.

  • Horizontal Ribbon Blenders: Thoroughly mix powders and granules in a horizontal trough.

  • Sample Blending: Small-scale blending for product development and testing.

  • Milling and Blending: Size reduction combined with homogenous material mixing.

Briquetting and Pelleting

Lab scale development work to Full Volume production, utilising a huge range of binders to supply agglomerated products across all industries. 

  • Roll Compactors

  • Extrusion Pelletisers

  • Hydraulic Briquetters

  • Industrial Tablet Presses

  • Granulating equipment

  • Fully equipped test and development laboratory

Drying

Drying facilities for R&D quantities through to larger production volumes. All products considered for many industry types. Our drying equipment includes:

  • Fluid bed dryers for efficient drying of heat-sensitive materials

  • Spray dryers for rapid drying of liquid and slurry materials

  • Rotary dryers for continuous drying of large volumes of materials

Repackaging and Storage

Pilamec provides flexible repackaging solutions to meet your specific requirements. Packaging includes:

  • Big bags

  • Steel or plastic drums

  • Paper or woven sacks

  • Bespoke packaging

  • Short and Long term storage facilities available in a clean, dry environment.

 

Metal Powders

Metal Powder Products Supplied

Pilamec specialises in the manufacture and supply of small, medium and large batches of metal powders.

Powders include:

  • Silicon Metal Powder

  • Customised Alloy Metal Powders

  • Iron Powder

  • Aluminium Powder

  • Titanium Powder

  • Steel Powder

  • Stellite

  • Stainless Steel Powder

  • Graphite Powder

  • Zinc Powder

  • Magnesium Powder

Mesh Size Converter

Silicon Metal Powders

Supplied in lump, grain or powder

  • Full Range of Grades Available

  • Lumps 5 – 60mm

  • Grains 0.2 – 10mm

  • Powder – d50 typically 10-60μm

  • Classified Powder – d50 down to 3μm

  • Various packing and stocking/supply options are available

Our Silicon is typically used in the process of making Metal alloys, Refractory bricks and Pyrotechnics.

Iron and Aluminium Powders

Supplied in lump, grain or powder

  • Range of Standard Grades Available

  • Customised Grades Available

  • Small to Large quantities supplied

  • Various packing and stocking/supply options are available

Our iron and aluminium powders are used across various industries, including, but not exclusively, the aerospace, automotive, cold casting, and coating industries. Their applications are wide and varied. 

Steel Powders

Supplied in lump, grain or powder

  • Small to Medium quantities

  • Customised Grades Available

  • Accurate chemical and property control

  • Short lead times.

Our Steel Powders are supplied in a range of volumes and grades to businesses throughout the UK, Mainland Europe and the Rest of the World.

 

Vibration Pot Mill

A new approach to powder milling, dispersing, blending and homogenizing.

Processing times are typically reduced by a factor of 10 or more. A major contribution to improved laboratory efficiency

  • High Energy Vibration Milling

  • High Energy Milling means High-Speed Milling

  • High-Speed Milling brings results sooner

  • Avoids delays that are inevitable with rotary pot mills

  • A more rapid evaluation of variables facilitates process optimisations – twenty containers can be loaded on the mill at the same time

  • Process Control can be more accurate – multiple samples can be processed many times more rapidly than the conventional equipment

  • High Mill Energy permits the grinding of intractable materials too hard or too soft to be handled on rotary pot mills, whether the product is powder dispersion or gel

  • High Product Capacity – one Lab Test Pot Mill mill can accept up to four 2000 ml containers or up to twenty 100 ml containers or a mixture of these and intermediate sizes

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Laboratory Testing Facilities

We provide advanced particle size measurement and analysis services to support your processing needs, including:

  • Particle size measurement and size distribution analysis using our in-house Sypmatec laser diffraction analyser.

  • Ceramic lined ball mill (approximately 1kg to 5kg capacity).

  • Vibrating pot mill (approximately 10ml to 2000ml capacity).

  • Jaw crusher for effective size reduction.

  • Secure long-term storage of test results

Technical Support

From the beginning of any project, small or large, through to final processing and supply, Pilamec’s experienced technical team provides support and advice.

This consultation ensures that the finished product meets the customer’s specifications including size reduction; drying; pelletising; briquetting; blending; packaging; and traded powders.

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