Over the years, Hosokawa Alpine has
designed and built numerous systems for processing a great variety
of different tea sorts and tea blends, whereby the focus of
concentration has always been to deliver optimum systems tailored
to suit the problem specification, for example:
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Production of low-dust fine-cut tea in closely-defined
fractions for tea bags
Production of coarse-cut loose tea for infusions
Fine grinding of natural root, leaf and bark drugs for
use as active substances in tablets and ointments
Production of homoeopathic medicines
Production of initial products for downstream processes,
e.g. extraction processes
Separation and cleaning of leaves and stalks from pips
and kernels, e.g. cassia leaves fine cut/kernels, etc.
Typical Alpine systems for standard or special processes:
- Omniplex®
hammer mills
- Multi-Plex®
zigzag classifiers
- Rotoplex®
granulators
- Fine
impact mills UPZ
- Sieving machines |
The system schematic shows a standard Alpine process for tea
and drugs:
1 = Rotoplex granulator with coarse screen for the coarse-crushing
of stems, stalks, leaves and roots.
2 = Multi-Plex zigzag classifier to clean the natural drugs
from stones, stalks, metal and coarse material, etc.
2.1 = Stones, stems, sand, metal, coarse material, etc.
2.2 = Light fraction (dependent on product as end product or
for downstream processing).
3 = Multi-Plex zigzag classifier for the final cleaning and
separation of paper, film, fibres and hair, etc.
3.1 = Paper, film, fibres and hair, etc.
4 = Rotoplex granulator for the uniform and low-dust processing
of the heavy fraction or the light fraction from the first classifying
stage and the sieve residues. Fineness dependent on product
and application.
5 = Classification of the cut product with single- or multi-deck
sieving machines.
5.1 = End product in the desired fraction.
6 = Central dedusting unit
7 = Control cabinet
These processing steps are components of extremely flexible
multi-processing systems, whereby more simple processes are
applied for certain mono-production processes.
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For the manufacture of ultrafine products,
we add a fine-grinding
step to the described system. Alpine's UPZ fine impact
mill
equipped with plate or swing beaters and a special sieve
has
proved itself ideal for the task. |
We have delivered systems for the following products:
Apples, oranges
Monkey tree leaves
Valerian
Cinchona bark
Black aldertree bark
Fennel
Rose hips
Hibiscus
Mallow blossoms
Peppermint
Cassia leaves etc.
Tea blends:
Sage, blackberries, linden flowers
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