Hosokawa Micron Group

Hosokawa Micron Corporation was established in 1916 as Hosokawa Iron Works in Osaka, Japan. Today, Hosokawa Micron Group is a world leader in providing process solutions in the fields of powder and particle processing technology, blown film technology, and confectionery technology. Hosokawa Micron Group maintains facilities for research, engineering, manufacturing and service throughout Asia/Oceania, the Americas and Europe. Hosokawa Micron is advancing 100 years of powder and particle technology experience and market leadership in the future with the application, development and commercialization of ultra fine composite particles in the rapidly expanding field of Nano Particle Technology.

Overview of Core Business

Hosokawa Micron Group is a global leading supplier of a comprehensive range of Powder & Particle Processing Technology and Blown Film Technology. We offer value-added material solutions responding to global needs through emphasis on material science and engineering for the future.
Please contact your nearest Hosokawa through Internet whenever you seek for economical and technical solutions. Our applications include:

Powder & Particle Processing Technology	Grinding and Classifying Mixing and Drying Particle Modification and Composition Agglomeration and Compaction Containment and Clean Air Technology Measuring and Analysis
Nano Particle Technology & Particle Design	Working on developing, producing and commercializing new materials through the advancement of Nanotechnology
Clean Air and Containment & Environmental Protection Technology	The Hosokawa Micron Corporation is engaged in the development, manufacture and sales of environmental protection equipment, dust & product recovery control equipment and precise air control equipment and systems.
Toll Processing & Contract Manufacturing	Our special know-how, our modern production facilities and a wide range of services offer the best prerequisites for ensuring the success of your product.
Blown Film Technology	Blown Film Extrusion Film Orientation Process Control Systems
Material Business	Cosmetics Skulp care PLGA application

Powder & Particle Processing Technology

Hosokawa is the world's largest provider of processing systems for the field of powder and particle processing. Renowned names such as Alpine, Stott, Vitalair, Mikro, Micron, and Vrieco-Nauta are all included in the Group's range. Regardless of the size, i.e. production-scale systems, pilot systems or laboratory equipment, Hosokawa's products and technologies are used in numerous process stages, for example during comminution, mixing, drying, agglomeration, classification, weighing and metering.

Nano Particle Technology & Particle Design

As a leading supplier of the latest powder and particle technologies, Hosokawa Micron Group places a strong emphasis on Research and Development. We have been working on developing, producing and commercializing new materials through the advancement of Nanotechnology.
With this rapidly advancing technology coupled with our expertise in the traditional powder sciences, Hosokawa will have an unmatched position in the marketplace. We have established aggressive R&D programs and participate in joint projects with public organizations and are also involved in technical collaborations and joint agreements with other companies.

Clean Air and Containment & Environmental Protection Techlogy

Toll Processing & Contract Manufacturing

Blown Film Technology

Hosokawa Alpine is one of the world's foremost suppliers of film blowing systems. As a onestop shopping partner, Alpine supplies complete systems for the manufacture of blown film, from granule feeding systems to film winders, from single-layer die heads to 11-layer lines, and from simple speed regulators to state-of-the-art process control systems. And with Alpine's own film orientation lines, complete systems are now available which facilitate film upgrading and enhancement processes. Blown film producers rely on Hosokawa Alpine for complete systems integration. Hosokawa offers the most advanced extrusion control systems for process optimisation. We not only design and manufacture the major extrusion components of a blown film system such as extruders, dies, winders and haul-offs, we also supply treaters, blenders, gravimetric systems, air chillers and steel towers. To meet the ever-increasing demands for multi-layer films, Hosokawa Alpine offers coextrusion systems to produce up to eleven film layers including nylon, EVA, EVOH and mLLDPE. Our systems offer tremendous flexibility and can be designed for swing line capabilities. Optimally equipped test laboratories in Augsburg / Germany, Natick / USA are available to customers from the film industry for practice oriented testing. These laboratories are also used intensively for the internal testing and ongoing development of Alpine's equipment.

Material Business

One example is the HOSOKAWA MICRON COSMETICS, Japan that develops and sells the new cosmetic lines "NanoCrysphere" and skulp care lines "NanoImpact".

Research & Development

In the fields of R&D and testing, the parent companies make great efforts to consolidate their leading market position in the relevant business segments. Thanks to the investments made in R&D, the producing companies of the Hosokawa Micron Group generate a high share of turnover with new products. And as a result of new developments, improvements to existing product lines and customer-specific refinements, the technologies of the Hosokawa Micron Group are able to hold their own on the market against the increasing global competition. For our customers, major technical centers are located in US, Europe and Japan. They are equipped and operated for the dual purpose of conducting original research & development work and demonstrating various processing systems. The technical centers are utilized to develop and test formulations to meet your specific needs for Powder & Particle processing and Blown film processing.

Test Centers for Powder & Particle Processing Technology

Japan	Hirakata, Kashiwa, and, Tsukuba
Germany	Augsburg
Netherlands	Doetinchem
U.K.	Runcorn
U.S.A	Summit

Test Centers for Blown Film Processing Technology

Germany	Augsburg