Larox Corporation - Industry Applications for Larox Solid / Liquid Separation Solutions

Larox Corporation is a world-leading supplier of value added solid/liquid separation process solutions. Larox offers the following solutions:

• Larox automatic pressure filters
• Larox vacuum drum filters
• Scheibler polishing filters
• Pannevis horizontal vacuum belt filters
• Ceramec rotary disc filters
• Scanmec rotary disc filters
• Hoesch membrane filter presses

With these products, Larox offers a full range of filter options for every aspect of the CPI. Larox is dedicated to serving these industries by developing high-performance, reliable separation solutions, which expand production capacities, simplify processes, reduce energy and manpower requirements and improve product quality and recovery.

Larox divides the CPI market into three business groupings, namely

• Industrial minerals
• Food, pharmaceutical and biotechnology
• General chemical process industry

INDUSTRIAL MINERALS

The major areas in which Larox supplies equipment in the industrial minerals market are:

• Alumina from Bauxite
• Borates
• Cement
• Ground Calcium Carbonate (GCC)
• Precipitated Calcium Carbonate
• Kaolin
• Precipitated silicates / silica
• Talc
• Titanium Dioxide
• Zeolites

The primary equipment used in the industrial minerals market is the Larox C series automatic pressure filter, specifically for its ability to handle large tonnages whilst producing a very poor product with low moisture content cakes.

• Saccharin
• Sorbitol
• Starches (all types, natural and modified)
• Sterols (wood and vegetable based)
• Sugar (beet sugar, carbonation mud, cane sugar, juice clarification and sludge dewatering)
• Tartaric acid
• Vitamins>
• Yeast

In this diverse range of processes every product in the Larox range finds application in this grouping.

GENERAL CPI

The major areas where Larox supplies equipment in the general CPI market are:

• ABS and MBS
• Agrochemicals
• Alumina (other than primary bauxite processing)
• Bisphenol A
• Catalysts
• Gypsum
• Fertilizers
• Fungicides
• Lignin
• Metal salts
• Penta-Erythritol
• Phosphoric Acid and phosphate salts
• Pigments and dyestuffs
• Polymers and resins
• Rubber chemicals
• Sulphur
• Terephthalic acid, Phthalic acid and Iso-Phthalic acid
• Toner
• Waste processing (aluminium salt residue, fly ash, flue gas desulphurization, green liquor dregs, PVC waste, soda ash waste and waste mud)

Once again, this is such a diverse range of processes that every product in the Larox range finds application. We are always happy to advise on the best product for specific applications.

The Schebeiler polishing filter also finds application in the industry for Boric Acid, Silicas and TiO2 applications for the polishing of liquid streams, either prior to downstream processing, or for recovery of product from waste streams.

The Pannevis vacuum belt filter finds application inseveral areas, including Boric Acid, Silicas, TiO2 and especially Zeolites.

Finally, the Hoesch membrane filter press is used extensively in GCC and TiO2 .

FOOD, PHARMACEUTICAL AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

The major areas in which Larox supplies equipment in the food, pharmaceutical and biotechnology markets are:

• Alginates
• Amino acids
• Antibiotics
• Antacids
• Artificial sweeteners
• Beera and wine
• Carboxy Methyl Cellulose
• Citric acid
• Cocoa butter
• Corn syrup
• Enzymes
• Fermentation broth
• Hydrolyzed protein
• Lactic acid
• Microcrystalline cellulose
• Palm oil
• Pectin (lemon)
• Plant extracts
• Pharmaceuticals
• Olein / stearin separations
• Oxalic acid