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'Technological Solution for Designing Customised Products from Liquid and Powdered Raw Materials': Dr. Buchheim, Glatt Ingenieurtechnik, 11/04/2024 - 1:15 p.m. As a macronutrient, sulphur is involved in the formation of important amino acids and vitamins, and it is an indispensable element in photosynthesis. Fertilizing with elemental, easily spreadable sulphur forms the basis for an adequate supply of cash crops and thus increases crop yields. Additional benefits include sustainable and disease-fighting effects, as well as a positive impact on soil microorganisms, leading to better nitrogen utilization.

Phosphorus recycling from sewage sludge: more fertilizer, fewer heavy metals: Phosphorus is essential as an agricultural fertilizer. Globally, this indispensable element is becoming increasingly scarce, putting an increasing focus on recovery where natural phosphate deposits are rare. Glatt Ingenieurtechnik GmbH has further developed its patented PHOS4green fertilizer production process so that sewage sludge ash from conurbations with high heavy metal contents can be used. Their removal means that fewer pollutants are released into the environment. Glatt has expanded its PHOS4green process to facilitate the legally compliant recovery of valuable materials from sewage sludge ash contaminated with heavy metals

Glatt will be presenting cutting-edge safety concepts that go far beyond current legal requirements. As a plant manufacturer and operator, Glatt combines professional engineering with extensive technological know-how from its own practical experience. Visitors to the stand can discover which comprehensive concepts and innovations Glatt has developed and how they pay off in terms of product quality, fire/explosion protection, operational safety, heat recovery and environmental compatibility.

As a leader in fluid bed technology and powder synthesis with its own Technology Center in Weimar, Germany, Glatt will highlight integrated concepts in the areas of particle design, process know-how and plant engineering. Glatt experts will be happy to discuss a wide range of topics — from product idea to the industrial manufacture of products and ingredients — in the bulk solids processing industries. Meet our experts at booth H04-5.

On January 13, 2023, the Prime Minister of Thuringia, Bodo Ramelow, visited us in Weimar's Nordstraße. During the tour of the site, the Minister President was given an impressive insight into our plant technology and the range of services we offer. During a tour of the company buildings, he personally informed himself with some employees about their work tasks in projects. He then paid tribute to our technological expertise and our broad positioning in many industrial sectors, which is certainly unparalleled in Thuringia.

Particle sizes from nano to macro: Homogeneous powders and flowable, abrasion-resistant granules and pellets from solid and/or liquid raw materials. Learn more about the process engineering options with processes for drying, granulation, coating, encapsulation and/or calcination. Meet our Glatt particle design and plant engineering experts at Solids from June 22-23, 2022 in Dortmund, Germany at booth 6/R22.

Free-flowing granules and pellets from liquids and powders using innovative fluid bed and spouted bed technology at Booth G12 in Hall 1. With state-of-the-art fluid bed and spouted bed technologies, Glatt offers intelligent particle design to dry, shape and functionalize powders and granules with the desired properties in just one process step, improving their application and handling.

Dr.-Ing. Viktor Drescher, Business Development and Product Manager Thermal Powder Synthesis, Glatt Ingenieurtechnik GmbH: "Plant concepts must be oriented to the customer, not the other way around." Glatt, the plant manufacturer and process expert, accompanies users along the entire value chain - from the initial idea through feasibility studies and process development right through to the to the construction of the production facility. Novel plant concepts are are increasingly in demand. (Article in German language)

Check out the unique supply chain from the first product idea to an efficient production from one single source: Technology transfer, plant design and factory engineering for the development, enhancement and production of functional powders, granules and pellets. Meet the Glatt experts for particle design and plant engineering at the PCH Meetings from 24-25 November 2021 in Lyon, France.

Glatt has expanded its range of services and capacities at the company’s Technology Centre in Weimar for trials and sample development. A new fluid bed granulator and coater for innovative solvent-based processes has recently become available. In addition to the capacity expansion, the existing plant can also now accommodate continuous spray granulation processes.

The discussion pro and contra continuous versus batch production is conducted as if there were only these two alternatives. However, with the Glatt series, plant solutions have long been available that enable both types of process control. A look at the requirements of two customers shows which issues are really decisive. (German article)

Production starts at first German PHOS4green plant for recycled fertilizers. Residue-free production of ready-to-use fertilizer from phosphate-containing sewage sludge ash is now possible, thanks to plant manufacturer and process expert Glatt Ingenieurtechnik, and fertilizer specialist Seraplant. The official commissioning on May 31, 2021, was attended by Prof Dr Armin Willingmann, Saxony-Anhalt's Minister for Economics, Science and Digitalization.

Save the date - Join the Glatt Webinar: March 24, 2021 - 5.10 pm Jan Kirchhof, Senior Sales Manager Process & Plant Engineering, Glatt Ingenieurtechnik GmbH, will inform about a PHOS4green plant for the production of fertilizer from sewage sludge ash. At the Haldensleben site in Germany a project for an industrial-scale production plant is already being implemented. The location, the products to be manufactured and their recipes as well as the envisaged production capacities determine the economic efficiency.

Sensitive raw materials, especially those that are volatile or of natural origin, require particularly gentle process conditions. Spray granulation, spray coating and (micro)encapsulation procedures have proven to be methods of choice, as they enable high yields, low temperatures and bespoke properties.

Trade fairs are postponed, conferences cancelled, travel restricted. Experience networking and the typical trade fair feeling digitally. So we are going on a new path. Visit us from 8 to 11 September 2020 at the Virtual Process Show – the new online trade fair for process and production technology in chemistry, biotech, pharmaceuticals, food and beverages. Register for free and meet the Glatt Experts in the live chat!

Innovative Process Technologies for Customized Functional Ingredients and Beverage Powder Mixes: At the 27th International Exhibition for Food, Beverages, Food Raw Materials in Moscow, Glatt will present innovative fluidized bed and spouted bed technologies to dry, agglomerate, granulate and particle coat various ingredients for sophisticated applications. These ingredients may require specific particle sizes or shapes, optimum solubility, compressibility or the functional protection provided by active ingredients or improved stability via protective coatings.

On 25.10.2019, another phosphorus dialogue was held by the Hessian Ministry of the Environment, the THM and the DPP in Giessen to inform decision-makers as well as those involved in the process of phosphorus recovery on the topic. Jan Kirchhof, Glatt, presented PHOS4green as a solution for phosphorus recovery from sewage sludge ash and its residue-free conversion into commercially available standard fertilizers.

The Ministry of the Environment Baden-Württemberg and the DWA Regional Association Baden-Württemberg organize the 5th Congress PHOSPHOR - A CRITICAL RAW MATERIAL WITH A FUTURE Follow the presentation of Jan Kirchhof, Senior Sales Manager Process & Plant Engineering, Glatt Ingenieurtechnik GmbH, and learn more about the innovativation of PHOS4green technology for the fertilizer production with phosphorus recyclates out of sewage sludge ashes!

Dr. Michael Jacob, Head of the Process Engineering Department at Glatt Ingenieurtechnik GmbH, will give a lecture on "Vacuum drying in fluidized beds". This will be part of the 4-day program around fundamentals and applications in drying, granulation and agglomeration.

In some regions, the departure from agricultural sewage sludge use is coming faster than the sewage sludge ordinance requires. This was demonstrated at the sewage sludge specialist forum held by the Huber company in Berching, where a good 300 participants discussed concepts for sewage sludge utilization, phosphorus recovery and inter-municipal cooperation. Jan Kirchhof, Glatt, presented PHOS4green as a solution for phosphorus recovery from sewage sludge ash and its residue-free conversion into commercially available standard fertilizers.

With "PHOS4green" Glatt presents a new two-stage method that extracts phosphorus from sewage sludge ashes and converts it into ready-to-use fertilizer granulates

Glatt Ingenieurtechnik will be presenting a market-ready process at POWTECH that fulfils the legal obligation of German waste disposal companies to recover phosphorus. In the first step of the two-stage "PHOS4green" process, a suspension is produced from the phosphate-containing ash, a mineral acid and, depending on the objective, other components. The suspension is then spray granulated in the fluidised bed. This results in fertiliser granulates that are available to plants and soil, which can be discharged, filled and delivered directly after the desired grain size has been reached.

Phosphorus recovery on the agenda at the Landesverband der Recyclingwirtschaft Sachsen e. V. (State Association of the Recycling Industry Saxony) on November 13, 2018 in Leipzig. "High-performance fertilizer from sewage sludge ash": this was the title of a presentation by Jan Kirchhof, Senior Sales Manager Process & Plant Engineering, Glatt Ingenieurtechnik GmbH, Weimar, as part of the program on "Phosphorus Recycling - Opportunities and Challenges in Saxony".