How Prater Ensures Reliability and Durability in Industrial Equipment

Consistent and long-lasting machinery is essential for businesses dealing with large quantities of materials, no matter the industry. Manufacturers must heavily invest in industrial equipment to remain competitive. The reliability of a system is closely linked to its efficiency, product quality, return on investment (ROI), and throughput capacity. Nowadays, reliability extends beyond just the equipment itself—it also includes the associated software and operator training.

Daily operations handling tons of material require robust industrial equipment. Manufacturers seek durable designs using high-quality materials, precise components, and regular maintenance to ensure consistent performance. More resilient equipment minimizes downtime, enhancing profitability. Prater Industries provides bulk material handling equipment that is both reliable and durable, helping manufacturers globally produce top-quality products.

Prater Industries: Solutions for Bulk Material Processing

Prater's engineers are always looking for ways to modernize or refine our industrial equipment. Manufacturers want machinery that boosts productivity, enhances safety, reduces environmental impact, and helps them comply with regulatory standards. Reliability and durability are core principles in everything we create, which is why Prater is renowned for producing superior industrial equipment. Manufacturers across diverse fields, including agriculture, chemical processing, feed manufacturing, food and beverage, mining, and pharmaceuticals, rely on Prater's solutions.

Providing effective solutions for complex challenges is central to designing and engineering our various types of industrial equipment. Manufacturers understand that partnering with Prater Industries means more than just acquiring machines—they gain a trusted ally with nearly a century of experience solving material processing and handling issues. Prater excels in delivering 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, dependable, and durable. With a range of rotary airlocks and feeders, this machinery can be integrated into systems handling crystals, granules, pellets, and powders across various industrial applications. Using 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 or potentially explosive materials.

Prater’s feeding and metering solutions include:

• Prater’s Abrasion-resistant Rotary Airlocks: Used when working with highly abrasive products, these are Prater's most durable rotary valves.
• Prater’s Blow-Thru Rotary Airlock Valves: Designed for pneumatic conveying systems, these airlocks work well with free-flowing materials that might 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 handles free-flowing, dry powders and works well in environments with moderate pressure differentials.
• Prater’s Quick-Take-Apart series on rails: A uniquely designed industrial equipment piece, compared to competing models of easy-to-clean rotary valves, manufacturers get about three times the load capacity.
• Prater’s Quick-Take-Apart series: Designed for in-place cleaning, this rotary valve allows easy access to interior components and is ideal for applications requiring frequent cleaning and maintenance of the valve.

Prater’s rotary airlock valves can be customized and integrated into systems to suit specific applications. 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. Depending 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 finding the solution that best fits their requirements.

Prater’s particle size reduction solutions include:

• Prater’s Air Classifying Mills: Combining two-stage, closed circuit grinding with internal air classification, Prater’s Air Classifying Mill outperforms competing single-stage mills for products requiring very narrow particle distributions or difficult to grind materials.
• Prater’s G-Series Full-screen Hammer Mills: A reliable and proven design, Prater’s G-Series Hammer Mills maximize screen use to improve 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: Capable of providing uniform grinding with minimal 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 experienced engineers have worked with smaller and larger companies in multiple industries to tailor our industrial equipment. For manufacturers, Prater’s products are known for their reliability and durability, and our ability to customize our equipment to meet each customer’s needs.

 

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Industrial Equipment: Manufacturers of Particle Sizing & Separation Solutions

Prater offers a variety of sizing and separation solutions to ensure the correct 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 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 deck screeners, our vibratory screener is designed so there are no 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 effectively.

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 offer manufacturers 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 integrate Prater's industrial equipment into 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.