Industry Expertise Overview

What once began as a company that supplied machinery for the feed industry has evolved into an industrial products manufacturer catering to a plethora of global industries. A commerce which has benefited greatly from the indispensible products from Prater-Sterling is the pharma industry. With Prater-Sterling's ability to provide the necessary pharma equipment to drug companies, Prater-Sterling's client base has grown to include some chief names in the business: Abbott Laboratories, Pfizer and Proctor and Gamble. These prominent companies realize the true effectiveness of Prater-Sterling pharma machinery.

For more than 80 years, Prater-Sterling has recognized its customers' demands for reliable, efficient and adaptable pharma equipment. The pharma equipment can ground and separate materials or can compact and blend them. Prater-Sterling pharma machinery is beyond versatile; it has almost endless possibilities for use. The pharma equipment from Prater-Sterling can reduce particle sizes down to minute measurements, providing the optimum Particle Management Solutions. When it comes to the imperativeness of sterile operation, Prater-Sterling's sanitary pharma equipment is designed for this need. The stainless construction of Prater-Sterling pharma machinery meets the industry's requirement for products to remain uncontaminated. It is this understanding of specific industry needs that makes Prater-Sterling the premier supplier of pharma equipment to companies such as Pfizer, Proctor and Gamble and Abbott Laboratories.

Applications Per Industry

Particle Size Reduction

Have applications that need reduction from between 6" to sub-micron size? Choose one of our fine grinders, classifier mills, hammermills or lump breakers.

Mixing & Blending

Prater twin-spiral and continuous mixers provide a smooth, homogenous blend at their output. This needs one more line.

Compaction / Agglomeration

Need compacting, granulating, briquetting, densifying, sheeting or flaking? Prater compactors & tableting presses are designed to meet your application needs.

Feeding / Metering / Rotary Airlocks

Prater rotary airlock vavles can be purchased with standard features or individually customized to your specifications to ensure reliable operation.

System Design & Integration

Prater-Sterling offers a complete system approach firmly focused on your specific requirements. We apply superior technology and innovative spirit in order to deliver the optimal solution.

Automation

We offer solutions for batching systems, receiving systems, grinding systems, pelleting systems and loadout systems.

Classification & Separation

Have applications that require sifting/scalping, screening or classifying? Our rotary sifters, vibratory screeners and air classifiers are customized to your specifications.

Toll Processing

Prater-Sterling's decades of particle size reduction expertise allows us leverage our knowledge to ensure that our equipment perfectly matches your processes needs.

 
Products Per Industry
Air Classifiers

Prater-Sterling adjustable air classifiers are made in a variety of sizes and materials to service your dust-free material separation needs.

Hammer Mills

Providing a uniform particle grind, Prater-Sterling's durable hammer mills can operate 24 hours a day and require very little maintenance.

Airlocks

Our airlocks can handle a range of high temperatures and pressure differentials to ensure the appropriate metering of your materials.

Sifters

Our versatile sifters eliminate dust problems, self-clean and require no maintenance. Prater-Sterling sifters are ideal for sifting, scalping and classifying.

Classifier Mills

Prater-Sterling classifier mills provide the best of both worlds of grinding and classifying particles with uniform distribution and simple maintenance.

Automation

We offer many diverse solutions for batching systems, weighing systems and process controls for dry and liquid materials (mechanical, pneumatic, grinding).

Compactors

In need of transforming scrap into reusable product? Our compactors reduce waste and compact particles to reduce density and volume.

Vibrating Screens

With one, two or three decks, our durable vibrating screens provide exact particles sizing and distribution smoothly, quietly and cost-effectively.

Flake / Cake Breakers

Prater-Sterling lump breakers reduce larger materials into smaller granules economically and simply. Ideal for cookies, detergents, sugar, minerals, fertilizer, etc.

Material/Ingredient Weighing Systems

Prater-Sterling weighing systems provide efficient, accurate batching and weighing controls for hundreds of inventoried materials and thousands of stored formulas.

Fine Grinders

Our fine grinders have the high capacity to reduce heat sensitive particles to 200 mesh and provide better dust control.

Control Panels Fabrication

Our Human-Machine-Interface Control (HMI), Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) and Motor Control Centers (MCC) provide customized system integrations for various applications.

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