Chemistry
Safe and robust process solutions
Bulk material handling for demanding chemical processes, critical material properties and high demands on system availability.
HECHT Chemistry applications
Basic / Commodity Chemicals
This sector is characterised by high-volume material flows, robust processes and stringent requirements in terms of availability and cost-effectiveness. What is required are reliable plant solutions to ensure a continuous supply of raw materials, safe discharge and stable conveying processes.
Fine and Speciality Chemicals
In the specialty chemicals sector, the focus is on more precise product requirements, more sensitive material properties and frequently changing applications. It is important to ensure that the design is suited to the material, that dosing is controlled and that materials are handled safely.
Pharmaceutical Intermediate
When it comes to chemical intermediates for pharmaceutical applications, quality, validatable raw material processes and safe handlingare key . The challenge lies in controlled material handling and consistent dosing, even with challenging powders.
Agrochemical Intermediate
Typical examples include functional solids, aggregates and intermediate products that require safe conveyance, reliable discharge and robust plant engineering. The main focus here is on process stability in day-to-day industrial operations.
Pigments & Dyes
Pigments and dyes are often fine-grained, dusty and difficult to handle in terms of dosing and cleaning. The focus is on low-dust material handling, thorough emptying of residual material and safe product changes.
Additives
Additives often need to be metered with a high degree of precision and introduced homogeneously into the process. Solutions are required that can reliably handle even small quantities, sensitive powders or high-value components.
Catalysts / Reagents
Catalysts and reagents require controlled dosing, safe handling and a design tailored to high-value or reactive substances. Safe process control at critical interfaces is crucial.
Fluorochemicals
This is where the requirements for material compatibility, leak-tightness and technical design become more stringent. Process solutions must be tailored to demanding chemical media and operating conditions that remain stable over the long term.
Water Treatment Chemicals
When it comes to water treatment chemicals, a reliable supply of raw materials, cost-effective dosing processes and robust technology are essential for industrial applications.
Battery Materials
Cathode and anode materials place high demands on powder handling, precision, process stability and safe material conveyance. Fine powders in particular, where quality is critical, require a very clean design.
Recycling & Second Life
In the recycling sector, variable material properties are combined with high demands on robust discharge, conveying and dosing processes. Flexibility in the design is particularly important here.
HECHT Systems and plant designs for demanding applications in the chemical industry
From basic and standard chemicals with high-volume material flows, through fine and speciality chemicals and chemical intermediates for pharmaceutical applications – where quality, precise raw material processes and safe handling are crucial – right through to pigments, additives and catalysts – the spectrum of chemical applications is extremely broad. This spectrum is complemented by battery materials for cathode and anode processes, as well as recycling and second-life applications involving varying material flows and heterogeneous material properties. The requirements for discharge, dosing, filling, cleaning and process automation are correspondingly diverse.
Our process solutions for the chemicals sector
Filling
Filling heads and big bag and small container filling stations.
Emptying
Emptying stations for big bags, drums and sacks.
Dosing
Precise dosing and weighing components: Dosing sluices, dosing screw and more.
Disposable technology
Disposable insulators for simple quality assurance: EWI and EPS insulators.
Convey
For conveying powders and granules: pneumatic vacuum conveyors and suction shoes.
Sampling
Samplers for every requirement: screw, slide, vacuum samplers and more.
Safe and robust process solutions for challenging chemical bulk materials
Chemical bulk materials demand uncompromising occupational safety, effective explosion protection, minimal dust emissions, a suitable choice of materials and stable processes. We develop bespoke solutions for bulk material handling, raw material supply and mechanical process engineering that economically balance material properties, safety requirements and high plant availability. The result is plant designs for process-reliable handling that operate reliably even with abrasive, corrosive or dusty products.
Your advantages at a glance
- Maximum health and safety when handling bulk chemicals
- Explosion protection and dust emissions safely under control
- Reliable handling even with challenging products
- High plant availability thanks to robust plant designs
- Appropriate selection of materials and seals for every application
- Engineering from testing through to design and the production plant
Your requirement - Our expertise
Containment
Find out everything there is to know about containment.
Cleaning
Verifiable cleaning and product safety for the chemical industry.
Automation
Automation solutions for the most demanding requirements in the chemical industry.
Engineering
Find out more about our engineering services here
From modular solutions to turnkey solutions, we are your reliable partner.
Case studies from the chemical industry
Pfizer is expanding its production to a resource-efficient and sustainable solution with the new HighCon system. HECHT Technologie supplied the complete feeding station with big bag, sack and drum emptying devices for highly reliable powder handling. Another example of HECHT's expertise in pharmaceutical powder technology.
Precious metal extraction and recycling as an ecological necessityAn industrial customer from the chemical production sector processes very different raw materials in small and medium-sized batches. The challenge lies in sensitive and sometimes reactive media.
Closed solid and liquid discharge with inertisation and vacuum conveying in the chemical industryAs the world is increasingly focussing on renewable energy, batteries have become an indispensable part of energy storage. The handling of powders plays a crucial role here.
Bulk material handling in battery production
