Owing to their increasing usage across industries, industrial blenders and mixers have become an important part of the bulk materials processing industry. However, equipment providers must be agile and transparent with technology know-how and industry experience to ensure quality parameters are met to the fullest. Also, they should hand-hold customers as a partner so that the end-objective of the equipment is met.
This is where KRS DisperMahltechnik comes to the fore as a young and dynamic company, aspiring to be the leading technical partners for the production of chemicals like paint, ink and lacquer. The company provides a wide array of process plant equipment such as industrial mixers & blenders, and mills to accomplish the unit operations in the process industry. Its technically-adept team is dedicated to continuous improvement of its products with focused skills. The blend of people, process and technology has enabled the company to provide a wide array of process plant equipment.
Industry Outlook interacted with KR Shankaranarayanan, Head-Dispersion & Grinding at KRS DisperMahltechnik to know more.
How do you see the current market opportunities at hand for KRS DisperMahltechnik as a mixing and blending equipment manufacturer?
Our robust mixers with longer service intervals, timely delivery and prompt service after sales ensure reliability and retain the existing customers. We strive to increase our market share in the mixers & blenders industry by marketing to new customers. Continuous update of technologies, process, and overall infrastructure ensures evolution of our mixers and blenders. Horizontal bead mills, Nanomills and Hydraulic Three Roll Mills for size reduction application enriches our Product ecosystem.
What are the major expectations of clients from the players in the space? How has the company positioned itself to live up to them?
Offering better quality products at a reasonable price has been the success mantra for KRS DisperMahltechnik. The desire to render the best motivates us to meet our customer’s expectations.
Our in-depth application know-how helps us conceptualize, while the exceptional design insight empowers us to build mixers and mills with better quality. Sophisticated design and simulation software reduces the time from concept to product; thus eliminating the error in prototyping. Talking about the process, with inspection procedures and equipment of international standards, our team practices rigorous measures of inspection at various levels, namely design, prototyping, sourcing of raw materials and bought out items, production of components and assembly to accomplish stringent quality. The feedback from our service team helps us hone the practice even better. And to top it off, building the supportive vendor matrix has promised timely and quality sourcing at an affordable price.
Shed light on the company’s competency when it comes to offering quality-driven products and services.
One of the largest dispersers made in India, of batch capacity 3.25MT with 100HP motor was manufactured and exported by us to Dubai UAE. We have installed and commissioned a fully automatic drymix plant of capacity 500MT/Day on turnkey basis. Amidst the lockdown, due to Covid19 pandemic, a Nanomill was delivered to a pharmaceutical company and successfully commissioned by us for dispersion quality d90~200 nm. Our customer appreciates our Vacuum RotoJet mixer of batch volume 1000 litre material of specific gravity 1.5 with only 5.5kW motor and maintaining high degree of vacuum throughout the course of mixing. Our hydraulic three roll mill has been successfully dispersing Carbon nanotubes for the World’s largest single walled CNT manufacturer.
Our in-depth application know-how helps us conceptualize, while the exceptional design insight empowers us to build mixers and mills with better quality
Please elaborate on your various ranges of machines. What is their USP?
High speed disperser is available in batch volume from lab scale of 500 ml to large production scale of 5000 litre with homogeniser configuration, double suction disc, vacuum operation, rotary wall scraper, flameproof version, various drive mechanisms as options. Horizontal paddle blender is available in batch capacity of 5kg to 10MT in Single & Double shaft configuration with liquid addition through atomisation, graduated feeding hoppers, feed screw conveyors, packing machines and turnkey installation. RotoJet mixer is available in batch volume from lab scale 200ml to large production scale 20,000litre with vacuum operation and flameproof version. Hydraulic Three Roll Mill is available from Lab scale model to large scale production model with automatic roll cooling control, micro gap control mechanism, safety features, automatic dry run protection as standard and flameproof version as option. Horizontal Bead Mill is available in active chamber volume from 400 ml to 100 litre with flameproof version and Nanomill as option.
How has the company been lever-aging technology to bring innovation in the market today?
We have always kept ourselves abreast of the latest technological advancements to stay ahead of the curve. Utilization of IoT for customer proximity and Digitalization of operations helps us in leveraging technology to bring about innovation in the market.
Going forward, what is the future road map for the company?
We envision our global presence by 2025 for prompter service after sales. We intend to launch an Inline disperser to our product portfolio. Our manufacturing capability has also increased 10 times so as to cater to the ever-increasing global demand.
