The Centricoater optimizes the consumption of chemical agents and the impact on the environment is subsequently a reduction in raw material use. The results are homogeneous coated seeds which all have improved growth ability and meet the international standards for certified seeds.
The system provides improved seed coverage and a most uniform distribution of treatment materials on the seed as compared to traditional continuous operating drum (screw) type treaters.
Main attention is also paid to economical use of the expensive coating slurries, thus simply saving money for our valued customers. This results in a very short pay-off period for Cimbria Centricoaters.
Cimbria Centricoaters are continuous operated batch treaters. A precise electronic scale prepares the needed amount of seed (batch) for the next cycle.
After the scale has fed the prepared batch to the mixing drum, the rotating bottom of the drum accelerates the seed to force it to climb up the drum wall, and to be folded back to the drum middle by means of the built-in deflectors.
The heart of the Centricoater is the mixing chamber, consisting of a stainless cylindrical housing with rotating bottom (rotor). The seed is gently dropped from the continuous batch electronic scale into the chamber onto the rotor.
According to a preset recipe, including amounts and timing, all selected slurries and powders are now added to the mixing drum. Slurries are added onto a spinning disc in the middle, atomizing the slurries and spraying uniformly onto the moving seed. Powder is added directly on top of the moving seed.
This provides an intensive and highly uniform application of seed treatment materials on each kernel of seed. All kinds of treating material, liquids and powders, can be applied effectively in this system.
Permanent process monitoring and data-logging by the Centricoaters PLC supports internal quality control as well as inventory management.