Particle Engineering

Particle Engineering

The Alpha/Omega Group, LLC serves the pharmaceutical, food & beverage, nutritional, biotechnology, and chemical processing industries. Founded in 1980, we provide a wide range expertise in manufacturing and process technologies including particle engineering, powder handling and processing, blending, particle size reduction & enlargement, agglomeration, granulation, encapsulation, coating, milling, classification, packaging systems, drying systems, and handling of highly hazardous materials.

Our Particle Engineering experience includes applications with hydrocolloids, enzymes, protein hydrolysates, sweeteners, pharmaceutical API’s and excipients, vitamins, flavor and fragrance ingredients, nutritional supplements, and many additional powders.

The Alpha/Omega Group delivers engineered solutions in powder functionality including:

- - Increasing Powder Flowability
  - Reducing Dust formation
  - Reproducible Dispersibility
  - Control of Hydration rate
  - Blend Homogeneity
  - Segregation control
  - Instantization
  - Specific Bulk Density
  - Shelf Life control
  - Control of Moisture uptake
  - Caking and Clumping of powders
  - Taste and Odor control

Application Areas

We want to help you be successful in whatever application you are considering, so please contact us if you need more assistance. Our experts are eager to tackle your challenges. E-mail us at: diacoe@alphaomegagroupllc.com

Food
Pharma
Nutrition
Biotechnology
Fine Chemicals

Science & Knowledge

We apply our knowledge of our customers and market-driven science and innovation to enable solutions for the food & beverage, dietary supplement and pharma excipient industries.

Application Examples Food & Beverage:

Soups, Sauces
Products of the chocolate beverage industry
Baby food
Flour products
Instant products
Readily soluble beverage powders (e.g. for vending machines)
Preparations for sweets and desserts
Proteins
Preparations for mixed beverages
Special products for infant and sports nutrition
Nutritional supplements
Organic recipes
Casein products
Micro encapsulation of flavours
Stevia

Application examples of the pharmaceutical industry:

Particle engineering, which involves obtaining the optimal particle size and size distribution as well as other aspects of the particle's morphology and surface characteristics, is used to improve bioavailability and homogeneity for oral solid-dosage drugs and to prepare inhaled therapies. Micronization is the most widely used size-reduction technique, but other technologies include spray drying, wet polishing, and supercritical fluid processing.

Antibiotics
Vaccines
Pain relievers
Vitamins, enzymes, yeasts
Effervescent granules
Base materials for direct tableting
Tableting additives such as fillers, binders, carrier substances, swelling and disintegrating agents
Nutraceuticals
Capsules containing active ingredients
Pharmaceutical powders, granules, pellets, vitamins
Pharmaceutical dry extracts

Application examples from Biotechnology:

Drying of micro-organisms on carrier substances
Granulation of biological active substances
Production of biological molecules
Production of diagnostic tests
Enzymes
Yeast granule
Micro encapsulation of enzymes / micro-organisms

Application examples of Feeds:

Spray granulation for turning liquid products into dust-free, solids
Production of premix-compounds
Encapsulation of active substances, such as probiotics or enzymes
Fat coating
Pelleting

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