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Mixing & Grinding Machine Manufacturer — Sand Mills, Dispersers, Mixers & Turnkey Production Lines
IDA Equipment manufactures and supplies a wide variety of wet grinding machines, industrial mixers, high speed dispersers, and turnkey production lines. Including unit and production scale sand mills as well as fully automated paint, ink, battery, and chemical manufacturing facilities, we supply equipment and integrated solutions to European and global manufacturers.
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Horizontal Sand Mill Series — Wet Grinding Machines
four rotor arrangements, covering all grinding targets, from general dispersion reduction to nano-scale powder size. Our German grinding technology, with batch manufacturing in our Jiangyin factory.
Turbo Nano Sand Mill
High energy density turbo rotor designed for sub-micron and nano grinding. Can produce micro-beads down to 0.05 mm. Designed for advanced ceramics, electronic inks and nano materials.
- Fineness: down to <100 nm
- Media: 0.05–0.5 mm
- Chamber: 0.3–60 L
Disc Horizontal Sand Mill
Polymeric, production workhorse – the dependable, hard-wearing discs for Paint, Ink, Pigment, and Coating production lines and systems…water & solvent borne compatible.
- Fineness: 5–25 μm typical
- Media: 0.3–2.0 mm
- Chamber: 5–200 L
Pin-Type Sand Mill
Highest transfer rate of energy for abrasive, high viscosity slurry and when very rapid size reduction is required. Suitable for use in battery electrode material or pigment concentrates.
- Fineness: 0.5–10 μm
- Media: 0.1–1.5 mm
- Chamber: 1–100 L
Lab Nano Sand Mill
Bench-top R&D mill with direct scale-up path to the IDA production equipment. Same rotor geometry guarantees that the results obtained in laboratory mills are directly applicable to the larger size.
- Fineness: down to <100 nm
- Media: 0.05–0.5 mm
- Chamber: 0.5–2 L
Equipment Parameter Comparison
| Parameter | Turbo Nano | Disc Type | Pin Type | Lab Nano |
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| Rotor Design | Turbo | Disc | Pin | Turbo |
| Min. Media Size | 0.05 mm | 0.3 mm | 0.1 mm | 0.05 mm |
| Target Fineness | <100 nm | 5–25 μm | 0.5–10 μm | <100 nm |
| Chamber Volume | 0.3–60 L | 5–200 L | 1–100 L | 0.5–2 L |
| Best For | Nano materials | General production | Hard materials | R&D / Lab |
Three Roll Mill — Precision Grinding for Paste & High-Viscosity Materials
From laboratory size ceramic roller mills to completely automated hydraulic production units – the IDA three roll mills are able to process viscosities up to 2,000,000 mPas with gap precision in the sub-micron range.
Lab & Pilot Three Roll Mill
Small benchtop style units with 50-120 mm ceramic or zirconia rollers. VFD control with uniform & minimal 1 μm gap adjustability. Suitable for RDE formulations, small batch production of electronic paste, cosmetic and pharmaceutical products.
Roller ∅
50–120 mm
Fineness
1–20 μm
Viscosity
up to 2,000,000 mPa·s
Roller Material
Ceramic / Zirconia / Alloy
Hydraulic Three Roll Mill
PLC controlled production mill with servo-driven gap adjustment. Three times the throughput of the conventional system. Aimed at photovoltaic silver paste, solder paste, advanced coatings, high volume pigment dispersion and more.
Control
PLC + servo gap adjustment
Output
3x conventional throughput
Features
Digital recipe storage
Speed Ratio
1:3:9
High Speed Dispersers & Dissolvers
Pre-mixing, wetting & de-agglomeration machinery for the manufacture of paints, inks, adhesives & coatings. Hydraulic, pneumatic and fixed mounted types
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High Speed Disperser
Single-shaft disperser, Variable Frequency drive (VFD) speed control. Saw-tooth blades for wetting, de-agglomeration and pre-mixing of low-to-medium viscosity materials. Lab, manual lift, hydraulic lift and vacuum defoaming options.
Power
2.2–75 kW
Batch
10–5,000 L
Blade
saw-tooth, butterfly
Lift
hydraulic / pneumatic / fixed
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Butterfly Disperser Mixer
Wing shaped blade opens or directs light vertical circulation, does not produce the shearing force. Good to the color paste, printing ink concentrate and heat sensitive material, the product if the require.
Viscosity
10,000–500,000 cP
Batch
10–3,000 L
Features
Low shear, high turnover
Industrial Mixers — Planetary, Multi-Shaft & IBC Systems
Complete blending solutions available for high viscosity materials, thick pastes, multi component systems, and bulk container blending.
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Double Planetary Mixer
Twin orbital blades for ultra high viscosity compounds ie. battery electrodes paste, silicone sealant, epoxy adhesive and pharmaceutical gel. To be capable of being put under a vacuum to do away with all bubbles within the mix.
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Triple Shaft Mixer
Three independently driven shafts – high-speed disperser, low-speed anchor scraper and rotor-stator emulsifier help achieve the total homogeneity without dead corners. PLC intelligent control plus HMI touch screen.
Viscosity
10,000–4,000,000 cP
Batch
50–5,000 L
Temperature & Features
±1°C jacketed control
Vacuum & CIP capable
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Vacuum & CIP capable
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Double Shaft Mixing Machine
Concentric low speed anchor +high speed disperser for batches going from thin to thick in formulation. Separate control of speed for each shaft..
Viscosity
500–800,000 cP
Batch
20–5,000 L
Features
Independent speed control
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IBC Tank Mixer
Innovative agitator, designed for use in Intermediate Bulk Containers (275-330 gallon). Foldable impeller, patented, passes through a standard 6″ opening. No need to transfer product. Mix directly in shipping containers.
Viscosity
up to 40,000 mPa·s
Container
1,000–1,250 L
Motor
electric / pneumatic
ATEX options available
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ATEX options available
Basket Mill — Grinding & Dispersing in One Vessel
Single-vessel batch processing with quick color switching for small-to-medium production run sizes.
How It Works
A grinding basket makes its way into the batch tank, perforated and open. Rotor operates within the basket conveyorizing material through the grinding zone without the use of pumps, pipes or valves. Minutes to clean – lift and rinse.
When to Choose a Basket Mill
Ideal for operations that require shorter changeover times than a horizontal sand mill where d50 is greater than 5 μm. Suitable for low d50 short production runs, color changes, and multi-product lines.
Auxiliary Equipment — Reactors, Discharge & Filling Machines
Supporting equipment to complete your production line – from chemical reaction and material discharge to packing finished product.
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Chemical Reactor
QLF Series multi-shaft reactor vessels combining high-speed dispersion with low-speed mixing in jacketed, temperature-controlled tanks. Two agitation shafts and VFD control for polymerization, synthesis and formulation reactions.
- Capacity: 50–2,000 L
- Dispersion power: 2.2–75 kW
- Speed: up to 2,880 rpm
- Features: Jacketed & SS304 construction
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Hydraulic Discharge Machine
Hydraulic ram press developed to evacuate ultra-high viscosity materials from mixing vessels. Regulated hydraulic pressure to force dense pastes through discharge outlets with an over 98% material recovery rate.
- Capacity: 5–2,000 L
- Viscosity: up to 2,000,000 cP
- Recovery rate: >98%
- Control: PLC control with touchscreen
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Filling Machine
Industrial grade filling equipment for liquid, paste and powder products. Semi-automatic and fully automatic fed designs for bottles, pails, drums and IBC containers. 15-minute minimum changeover time between products.
- Accuracy: ±0.2–0.5%
- Capacity: 5–30 kg per container
- Speed: 150–300 containers/hr
- Certifications: CE & FDA certified
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Turnkey Production Lines — Complete Manufacturing Systems
IDA designs and manufactures fully integrated production lines – raw material feeding through grinding, blending, filtration and filling – control systems utilizing PLC programming at capacities ranging from 500 t/yr to 100,000 t/yr.
Paint Production Line
Complete dispersed grinding and filling systems for automotive, industrial and architectural coatings. Suitable for both water-borne and solvent-based formulations down to 1 μm.
Learn More →Ink Production Line
Comprehensive manufacturing systems for gravure, flexographic, offset, UV-curable and digital inkjet printing inks. PLC controlled with production capacity from 500t/yr to 100,000 t/yr.
Learn More →Adhesive Production Line
End-to-end systems for hot melt adhesives, silicone adhesives, polyurethane adhesives, epoxy resins and MS polymer/ polyurethane sealant systems. Installing planetary mixers, hydraulic discharges and high-capacity filling equipment.
Learn More →Battery Production Line
Electrode slurry production systems for LFP, NMC, NCA and sodium-ion batteries. From dual planetary vacuum mixing equipment to three-stage iron removal.
Learn More →Pesticide SC Line
Suspension concentrate processing equipment for agrochemicals from active ingredient batching to auto packaging. 90m.
Learn More →Applications by Industry
Industrial grinding and mixing equipment produced by IDA is used in a broad section of the manufacturing economy.
Wet grinding machines, dispersers, and industrial mixers find applications wherever solid particles must be reduced to smaller sizes, merged uniformly into a liquid medium, or dispersed evenly in a viscous batch. Most equipment used in these processes show significant variation by industry – a paint grinding machine (for example) optimized for titanium dioxide pigment looks dissimilar to a bead mill configured for lithium iron phosphate battery slurry.
Paint & Coatings
Paint manufacturing equipment including bead mills for paint, high speed dispersers, and mixers for architectural, automotive, and industrial coatings.
Ink & Pigment
Ink grinding machines for offset, flexo, digital, and packaging inks. Pigment grinding machines for organic and inorganic color concentrates and masterbatches.
Battery & Energy
Processing electrodes for lithium-ion batteries. Handling cathode and anode material preparation in a variety of size fractions with bead mills and planetary mixers.
Adhesives & Sealants
High viscosity mixing and filler dispersion for high-pressure structural adhesives (including two-component systems), silicone and epoxy adhesives. Planetary and dual shaft mixers available.
Cosmetics & Personal Care
Emulsion process and pigment dispersion for color cosmetic, homogenizer process for cream, lotion and sunscreen.
Agrochemicals
Wet grinding of herbicide, pesticide, and fungicide suspension concentrates. Bead mills provide the necessary very fine particle sizes for stable formulations.
Nano Materials
Sub-100 nanometers grinding of advanced ceramics, electronic material. And research applications at this level a turbo nano bead mills with micro-bead requirement.
Pharmaceuticals
Drug nanoparticle preparation, API milling and excipient processing in a controlled environment. Use of pharmaceutical quality equipment with order design and documentation.
An observation shared by many:
It is not uncommon to find customers who come in initially asking for a piece of equipment tailored to just one product find that it can run several formulations in their range. Disc type bead mill, initially purchased for the grinding of paint pigment, for example, is used to grind ceramic slurry, resin dispersion and powder coating premix all on the same line, with just a change of line ratio. The ability to change is key.
Laboratory Testing Center — Sample Processing & Validation
Test your materials on IDA equipment before you buy.
The single most frequently-mistaken and costly purchase in the grinding equipment industry is buying based on spec catalog numbers alone. Materials with widely ranging properties – hardness, abrasiveness, particle shape, particles/mL in a formulation, viscosity, solid loading – all have a huge impact on the final system design and operation. A quick test at your lab using the actual materials will save money and aggravation later.
IDA maintains a laboratory testing facility in Jiangyin equipped with lab bead mills, disperser, and particle size analyzers. Our service:
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Step 01
Book
Schedule an appointment with our applications team
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Ship
Send your raw materials and target specifications
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Grind
We run tests on multiple equipment configurations
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Analyze
Particle size distribution measured and documented
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Report
Detailed test report with recommended equipment specs
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Return
Processed samples shipped back for your evaluation
IDA’s consistent laboratory test reports often includes particle size analyzers (ID chip, laser diffraction), photographs of the sample at various process stages, a recommended size of model, media specification, operating parameters, and suggested media loading. Companies in USA, South Korea, India, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, and Australia – we send materials anywhere in the world!
More practical results: laboratory testing uncovers details beyond system specifications. Out of dozens of early samples, we have had samples that did not work out right due to imprecise specifications – extreme cost in high-precision abrasiveness or 15% peak viscosity. Found this in a small batch in the lab than finding it months later after the tube is worn out.
Why Choose IDA
A manufacturer of wet milling, dispersing and blending equipment – not a middleman or trader. German designed equipment optimised for Chinese factories.
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In-House R&D & Manufacturing
We construct the grinding chambers, rotors, separation systems and PLC controls in our factory. Several utility model patents. Our engineers produce your process—ink, paint, battery, adhesive, agrochemical—daily on our own laboratory equipment.
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Lab-to-Production Scale-Up
Same rotor geometries and chamber proportions from lab bench to production floor. Laboratory test results on our test mill transfer directly to production scale equipment, requiring no trial-and-error re-optimization.
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Full Product Line Coverage
Sand mills, three roll mills, dispersers, planetary mixers, triple shaft mixers, chemical reactors, filling machines, turnkey production lines. All produced at our Jiangyin, Jiangsu facility—your single, reliable supplier.
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Global Installations & Service
Equipment used in over 15 countries including USA, Korea, South Africa, India, Australia, Japan, Thailand, Netherlands. Flat-rate on-site installation, operator training, spare parts and remote troubleshooting with every order.
IDA produces a full line of wet grinding and mixing equipment. Our grinding machines include horizontal sand mills (turbo nano, disc, pin-type, and laboratory models), three roll mills (laboratory, production, and hydraulic powered), and basket mills. Our mixing equipment include high speed dispersers, double planetary mixers, triple shaft mixers, double shaft mixers, butterfly disperser mixers, and IBC tank mixers. We also produce chemical reactors, hydraulic discharge machines, and filling machines. We also design a turnkey production lines for paint, ink, adhesive, battery, and pesticide production.
Yes. IDA designs and builds composite fully automated production lines. They cover paint production lines, ink production lines of 500-100,000 tons per year, adhesive and sealant production lines with hydraulic discharge and planetary mixing, battery electrode slurry production lines for NMC, LFP and sodium-ion systems, and pesticide suspension concentrate (SC) lines with D90 below 5 microns and PLC automation. All combine feeding, mixing, grinding, filtering and filling as one process.
Sand mills (horizontal bead mills) are ideal for continuous, wet grinding of low-to-mid viscosity fluids where you need below 25-micron fineness—specifically in paint, ink, and nano applications. Three roll mills work better at high-viscosity pastes of over 100,000 cP, for small production batch sizes, and where zero-media contamination is needed—such as electronic pastes, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals. This equipment can often be used together, using the sand mill for high-volume throughput and the three roll mill for fine paste-like production.
Yes. Send samples to our Jiangyin location and we will test multiple configurations of our equipment, analyze the particle size distribution by laser diffraction, and produce a research report including our recommended equipment specifications and operating conditions. Our on-site laboratory contains sand mills, three roll mills, dispersers, and high viscosity emulsification vessels. Samples processed on our equipment can then be shipped back for evaluation.
Our equipment has been employed in several applications including paints and coatings, printing inks, pigment manufacturing, lithium ion cell electrode coatings, adhesives and sealant, cosmetic, agrochemical, pharmaceutical, nano-material, electronic components, ceramic, and mineral processing. We also have our equipment working in of the fields of photovoltaic paste manufacturing and electrically conductive printing inks. Any application requiring solid particle reduction, high viscosity mixing, or solid-liquid dispersion can use IDA equipment.
Yes, IDA operates in markets including the USA, Korea, South Africa, Vietnam, Malaysia, India, Sri Lanka, Russia, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Thailand, the Netherlands, and Bangladesh. We provide on-line installation, machine operation, spare part supply, and remote troubleshooting on all systems and lines shipped. Our ongoing research work with some of the world’s top universities including Wuhan University of Science and Technology and Nanjing University of Science and Technology keeps us at the top of the game.
All IDA equipment is made at approved facilities, and all systems are CE marked. Three roll mills are approved to ANSI and IEC 60204-1 standards. Food and pharmaceutical grade and explosion-proof (ATEX, IECEx) versions of many models are available. Send us your requirements and we will produce the appropriate certification.
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