Uni Mill: Conical Screen Mills

The Uni-Mill conical screen mill draws upon Hanningfield’s wealth of experience in size reduction for the process industries.

Conical screen or ‘cone-milling’ is ideal for achieving a fine, uniform particle size.  By combining high throughput and high efficiency, the low energy Uni-Mill is perfect for the pharmaceutical, food, chemical and consumer goods industries.

The Uni-Mill is designed and manufactured by Hanningfield Process Systems at our UK Headquarters.

Careers at Hanningfield

Hanningfield understand the importance of people; by providing the necessary tools, training and independence, we encourage our employees to develop.
Hanningfield are proud to boast a tight-knit team, which works closely together to ensure high levels of skill and service are upheld from manufacture to maintenance. We are looking always looking for talented and enthusiastic individuals to join us.
Although we do not currently have any specified vacancies, if you feel you have something special to offer then we would be pleased to hear from you.  We are always happy to consider your application, and will often keep outstanding candidates on file.
Please send all career enquiries with an attached C.V./Résumé to careers@hanningfield.com

Hanningfield’s Commitment to Quality

Hanningfield’s ‘commitment to quality’ lies at the heart of our success. From manufacturing to maintenance, both our engineers and support staff ensure that we provide the levels of quality customer’s appreciate and which we pride ourselves upon. Attention to detail and reliability are essential to the process industries and Hanningfield strives to focus on this accordingly.

The pharmaceutical and allied industries face rigorous quality guidelines. To ensure we can continually meet the needs of our customers, Hanningfield demonstrates a commitment to quality through certification to the internationally recognised Quality Management System (QMS) Standard ISO 9001.  Moreover, our products can help customers meet their productivity and quality initiatives, such as those of six sigma and lean manufacturing, which have been successfully adopted in the process industries.  Since our original adoption of QMS as a benchmark for maintaining quality in 1995, Hanningfield has been successfully audited on an annual basis by external commissioners.

Hanningfield recognises the importance of innovation, constantly striving to develop new technology to offer our customers. This allows us to constantly improve the capabilities of our existing product range, whilst simultaneously introducing groundbreaking new products; both of which offer significant added value to our customers, who benefit from the pioneering nature of our technology.

Hygienic Process Valves

The Sterivalves range of stainless steel modular hygienic valves offers the ideal solution for the control of powders and liquids in the pharmaceuticaland associated industries. Most valves can be manufactured to meet special applications and come with an extensive range of accessories including actuators, position sensors, mounting flanges and control systems.

Special lightweight PTFE bodied valves can also be supplied. One of the major advantages of the Sterivalve system is the compact design that offers a very slim profile to the main body. Modular construction and interchangeable parts helps keep the spares requirements to a minimum.

There are various valves you could be interested in:

Sterivalve - Hygienic Butterfly Valves

Sterisplit - Split Butterfly Valves

Flexivalve - Flexible Vane Valves

Rotovalve - Light Duty Rotary Valves

Heavy Duty Rotovalve - Heavy Duty Rotary Valves

Specialist Fabrication

This is an equally essential part of the service that we offer, hence our highly skilled engineers are also able to assist with any necessary repairs or maintenance.

With over 20 years experience in industry, Hanningfield can proudly guarantee the best possible levels of quality and workmanship.

IBC Lifting

The Hanningfield Uni-Hoist is perfect for the lifting of bulk containers.  TheUni-Hoist is capable of lifting, turning and inverting IBCs to enable positioning for IBC filling or IBC discharge.

For more information on the Hanningfield Uni-Hoist, click here.

Free trial of the equipment

If you would like to see how your product performs on our equipment we are able to arrange trials at our factory completely free of charge.

We have tried to make this as easy as possible for you; all you have to do is send us a sample of your product and we will run free trials.

Customers are welcome to attend or we are happy to video the trial and offer reports based on our findings. This will help decide whether vacuum conveying is right for your process, and what sort of results you can expect.

Simply fill out the form on this page and we can begin arranging a trial of your product on our equipment.

The Lump Breaker

The Hanningfield Lump Breaker, also known as a ‘pre-breaker’ or ‘kibbler’ is an excellent means of breaking large lumps of agglomerated material

The Hanningfield Lump Breaker is used for reducing large lumpy material prior to further processing such as size reduction milling and fine grinding. The compact design makes the unit easy to fit within existing production set-ups.

The Lump Breaker is capable of extremely high throughput, up to 10,000 kgs/hr.

Spares & Accessories

In addition to accessories and spares for our own equipment, we are able to supply a wide range of spares suitable for the pharmaceutical and allied industries.

Products Include

• Silicone Caps
• Silicone Sleeves
• Stainless Steel Band Clamps
• Stainless Steel 'V' Clamps
• 'O' Rings
• Filter Bags
• Filter Cartridges
• Inflatable Seals
• Hygienic Vacuum Convey Hose

Product Profile

If you are having difficulty obtaining any spare parts or major components we are often able to produce a replica from an original pattern part or drawing.

If you require any additional details or further information on any aspect of the above, please feel free to telephone us on 01702 549777, and we would be happy to discuss your specific requirements.

Installation and Comissioning

Hanningfield’s dedication to quality extends not only to our products, but also to the services we are able to offer.

Each of our engineers are highly skilled and vastly experienced; a consequence of regular training and many years of expertise. This ensures that we are able to consistently surpass customer's expectations both on time and on budget.

We are able to supply a comprehensive documentation and commissioning package including IQ/OQ documents, material certificates, CE conformity declaration and O&M manuals etc. IQ/OQ validation can be offered with one of our engineers to assist with validation procedures.

Quality control documentation highlights our ability to meet our customer's expectations. Our engineers fully understand the special requirements of working in industries that necessitate high levels of integrity and discipline to meet the expected standards.

Powder Handling Equipment

Powder handling equipment is a vital to the productivity and hygiene requirements of the process industries.

Powder handling through vacuum transfer can significantly increase productivity through the automation of manual tasks such as IBC loading or tablet press loading. Meanwhile, the fully contained transfer system helps maintain the integrity of the product, whilst eliminating waste and operator exposure to dust.

Powder handling equipment can significantly improve your process - for more details, please click here.

IBC Post Hoist

Post hoists are an excellent method of raising and lowering IBCs. The post hoist provides a reliable and repeatable function for the accurate positioning of containers in processing. IBCs can be lifted to an above room for processing or can be docked above a machine such as tablet press to allow gravity feed discharge from the outlet at the bottom of the IBC.

For more information on Hanningfield’s IBC Post Hoists, please click here.