Gypsum

Supporting wallboard producers for 100 years

Efficient building material production

Whether it’s called wallboard or drywall, the simple paper-faced gypsum board that first appeared in the early 20th century revolutionized construction. And ever since it was invented, Coperion has been helping manufacturers produce it.

Worldwide support in the areas of:

  • Solution engineering 
  • Grinding and weighing
  • Calcining
  • Pneumatic conveying 
  • Feeding and mixing 

The Coperion Difference

The basic process has remained much the same, although changes have been made to improve efficiency, reduce weight and cost, and enhance the properties of the finished product. Today’s wallboard products frequently incorporate a variety of materials to change the characteristics of the board, or to produce a more efficient and potentially lower-cost product.

Evolutions such as these require flexible process solutions that can produce the desired results consistently and efficiently, exactly according to specification. From grinding and weighing to calcining, conveying, feeding and mixing, that’s what we deliver.

By leveraging our industry experience and process expertise, we look beyond individual systems and take the entire, integrated process into account. This enables us to create automated process solutions engineered to meet the specific requirements of the product, with an eye towards delivering high product quality while controlling production costs.

Design for precision and efficiency
Our technology produces optimal results, with accurate weighing and feeding, and efficient operation to keep energy and maintenance costs under control.

Robust support
Service agreements are tailored to your requirements, and you have direct access to knowledgeable experts who are familiar with your solution.

100 years of success
Long industry experience has given us deep insight into what works—knowledge that we carry forward into each new project.

Typical gypsum appliation

Process Technologies

Weighing Equipment for Minerals

Weighing and Feeding

Our measurement and feeding technology delivers a high degree of repeatable accuracy for a wide range of process requirements and material types. Systems are available for high precision small-volume applications as well as large-scale industrial processes, all fully integrated with your overall solution. Equipment includes gravimetric and volumetric feeders, mass flow meters, and static & dynamic scales 

Weighing
Conveying equipment for minerals

Conveying

From flow control solutions to mechanical and pneumatic conveying, our conveying technologies span every aspect of material handling throughout your total process: material intake to bagging, storage, dilute or dense phase pneumatic conveying, rotary valves, and vertical, horizontal, open or closed mechanical conveying. 

Other conveying technologies include: airlocks, valves & chutes, bulk material handling/intake & transfer, and pneumatic injection conveying 

Conveying
Filtration Equipment for Minerals

Filtration

Our air flow and dust control systems are designed for effectiveness and ease of cleaning, to keep productivity and worker safety high and maintenance costs low. A broad range of solutions from air separators to pulse jet dust collectors, we provide the right fit, whether the need is for hygienic food production or the extreme environments encountered in performance material manufacturing.  

Filtration
Pulverizing Mills for Minerals

Milling and Grinding

Our largest and strongest products include dry and wet milling machines that grind hard, abrasive materials for applications like mineral processing, cement plants, and power generation. They are are characterized by their excellent wear life, high availability and easy maintenance. At the other end of the scale we have ultra fine mills that will grind powders down to 2 microns (0.002 mm). 

Pulverizing Mills
Thermal Processing Equipment for Minerals

Thermal Processing

We offer a full line of robust purpose-built rotary kilns, calciners, coolers and dryers to support performance material process applications, designed to deliver tightly controlled conditions when working under challenging environmental conditions. 

Thermal Processing

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