Reliable and durable machinery is crucial for any business processing bulk materials, regardless of industry. Manufacturers must invest significantly in industrial equipment to stay competitive. System reliability is closely tied to efficiency, product quality, ROI, and throughput capacity. Today, reliability encompasses not only the equipment itself but also the software and operator training.
Processes that handle tons of material daily need durable industrial equipment. Manufacturers seek robust designs with high-quality materials, precision parts, and regular maintenance to ensure performance. More resilient equipment reduces downtime, boosting profitability. Prater Industries offers bulk material handling equipment that is reliable and durable, helping manufacturers worldwide produce top-quality products.
Prater Industries: Solutions for Bulk Material Processing
Prater engineers constantly look for ways to modernize or tweak our industrial equipment. Manufacturers want machinery that increases productivity, promotes safety, reduces environmental impact, and supports adherence to regulatory standards. Reliability and durability are built into everything we make, which is why Prater is known for building superior industrial equipment. Manufacturers rely on Prater’s solutions across various industries, including the agriculture, chemical processing, feed manufacturing, food and beverage, mining, and pharmaceutical sectors.
Providing solutions for complex problems is the key to designing and engineering our various types of industrial equipment. Manufacturers understand they will get more than machines when they team up with Prater Industries. Our customers know that they are purchasing reliable equipment and getting a partner with nearly a century of problem-solving experience with material processing and handling. Prater is known for its ability to provide innovative design solutions for feeding, metering, particle size reduction and separation, system design, and integration.
Industrial Equipment: Manufacturers of Feeding & Metering Solutions
Prater’s feeding and metering solutions are versatile, reliable, and durable. Featuring an array of rotary airlocks and feeders, this machinery can be integrated into systems that handle crystals, granules, pellets, and powders across various industrial applications. With Prater’s feeding and metering industrial equipment, manufacturers can process an almost limitless array of products, including cement, coffee, flour, plastics, wood chips, and abrasive and potentially explosive materials.
Prater’s feeding and metering solutions include:
- Prater’s Abrasion-resistant Rotary Airlocks: Prater's most durable rotary valve is used when working with highly abrasive products.
- Prater’s Blow-Thru Rotary Airlock Valves: Designed for use with pneumatic conveying systems, these airlocks work well for free-flowing material that would otherwise cling to the rotor vane pockets.
- Prater’s Dust Collector series: The economical and general-use rotary airlock feeder can be used under hoppers, dust collectors, and cyclones.
- Prater’s Heavy-Duty PAV series: This rotary valve is used to handle an array of free-flowing, dry powders and works well in environments with a moderate pressure differential.
- Prater’s Quick-Take-Apart series on rails is a particularly unique piece of industrial equipment. Compared to competing models of easy-to-clean rotary valves that provide optimal production uptime, manufacturers get about three times the load capacity.
- Prater’s Quick-Take-Apart series: Designed to be cleaned in place, this rotary valve allows easy access to interior components and is used for applications that require frequent cleaning and maintenance of the valve.
Prater’s rotary airlock valves can be integrated into systems and tailored directly to the application. Our rotary airlock feeders can be designed to work at lower speeds with larger pockets, ensuring a longer lifespan, minimal air leakage, and better ROI.
Industrial Equipment: Manufacturers of Particle Size Reduction Solutions
Prater offers various particle size reduction solutions, such as air classifying mills, fine grinders, hammer mills, and lump breakers, which can be integrated with other industrial equipment. Based on their application needs, manufacturers can reduce materials from larger chunks to submicron sizes. With Prater’s app for selecting particle size-reducing industrial equipment, manufacturers can get a head start on investigating the solution that best meets their needs.
Prater’s particle size reduction solutions include:
- Prater’s Air Classifying Mills: Combining two state, closed circuit grinding with an internal air classification for handling ultrafine powders, Prater’s Air Classifying Mill performs better than competing single-stage mills for products requiring very narrow particle distributions or difficult to grind.
- Prater’s G-Series Full-screen Hammer Mills: A reliable and proven design, Prater’s G-Series Hammer Mills maximize screen use to augment the quality of the end product and make production more efficient.
- Prater’s Lump Breaker: Compact and easy to maintain, our lump breakers are used for agglomerated or packed materials and often promote product flow for downstream processes.
- Prater’s Mega Mill Hammer Mills: Able to provide uniform grinding with minimum heat buildup, this hammer mill model’s bearing and shaft arrangements promote quieter and smoother operation.
- Prater’s M-Series Fine Grinders: A highly efficient piece of industrial equipment, manufacturers can achieve extraordinarily tight particle size distributions for a wide range of heat-sensitive products like powder coatings, resins, and sugars with our M-Series fine grinding machines.
Our seasoned engineers have experience innovating for smaller and larger companies in multiple industries so that we can tailor our industrial equipment. For manufacturers, Prater’s products are known for their reliability and durability and our ability to make our equipment match each customer’s needs.
Industrial Equipment: Manufacturers of Particle Sizing & Separation Solutions
Prater offers an array of different sizing and separation solutions to ensure the proper particle size distribution, including air classifiers, rotary sifters, and vibratory screeners. Manufacturers can classify and separate materials by particle size with this industrial equipment. As with our other products, Prater can tailor these machines to fit each customer's application.
Prater’s particle sizing and separation solutions include:
- Prater’s MAC air classifiers: Using a forced vortex to process dry materials, our MAC air classifiers can either be used independently or within a conventional milling system, offering reliable uniformity regardless of the feed and producing materials of unparalleled fineness.
- Prater’s Mini-Split air classifiers: Originally developed for smaller-scale production and laboratories, this compact air classifier is made for tight workspaces, produces very little noise, and can be easily repositioned.
- Prater’s rotary sifters: Also referred to as centrifugal sifters, Prater’s rotary sifter is designed to scalp and sift at much higher rates than conventional models. Additionally, our rotary sifters handle materials with high oil and fat content extremely well, while their robust construction ensures a lengthy lifespan.
- Prater’s vibratory screeners: Also known as a deck screener, our vibratory screener is made so that there aren’t any dead areas on the screen’s surface. It is also low-maintenance, energy efficient, and designed to operate smoothly.
With Prater’s classifying industrial equipment, manufacturers can size and separate materials.
Solutions for System Design & Integration
With our highly skilled engineering staff, Prater can provide our customers comprehensive information on how to best design a system, from feeding raw materials to the finished product. Prater’s capabilities provide manufacturers with a one-stop shop that includes controls, filter receivers, industrial fans, piping, and other industrial equipment. Manufacturers receive superior service from Prater’s representatives, from our initial consultation on design to the installation and commissioning of the final material processing system.
Prater is skilled in creating material handling systems beyond the mentioned sectors. Manufacturers can use Prater's industrial equipment as part of their current systems or build an entirely new material processing system. We also have an in-house project management team to ensure projects are completed on time and within budget without compromising quality.
Testing & Tolling
Our testing and tolling facilities are among the largest in the Western Hemisphere. With expertise in handling and processing anything from alfalfa to zinc, we can help our customers choose the right industrial equipment. Manufacturers often consult Prater engineers to develop the best application systems by testing their materials on our equipment. With our constant focus on technological developments in material handling and processing applications, we ensure that all pieces of machinery will work within the parameters provided. Prater additionally provides toll processing services where manufacturers can develop and test products and provide emergency or supplemental production when needed.
Servicing Industrial Equipment for Manufacturers
Prater takes great pride in our after-sales service for industrial equipment. Manufacturers participating in our preventive maintenance program experience increased uptime, lower component costs, and optimized production. We can even help our customers maintain an inventory of vital components to keep downtime to a minimum without interruptions to production.
Prater can also assist with the following:
- Current pricing on parts and machinery
- Field repairs and servicing
- Information on equipment and component warranties
- Information on parts shipments and transporting equipment
- Inquiries and orders on parts
- Order history for components
- Preventive maintenance agreements
- Product manuals
- Rebuilding and upgrading equipment.
- Replacement components
- Returns and refunds
- Technical documentation and support
Whether they need a single spare part or expand the inventory of components for our industrial equipment, manufacturers can depend on Prater. Industries depend on Prater’s reliable material-handling machinery for countless applications. To learn more about what we can do for your business, contact the material processing specialists at Prater today.
