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Jet Milling

CPS provides jet milling or micronizing services on a contract manufacturing basis for a variety of materials, from minerals and waxes to food grade and pharmaceutical excipients. Custom Processing Services’ micronizing stations can deliver tightly controlled particle size distributions in the ultra-fine and sub-micron ranges. Each process is customized to fit the individual client’s needs. Allied services include blending, surface treating, and custom packaging. CPS’s management system is registered to the ISO 9001 Standard by SAI Global.

Coarse Grinding

Coarse sizing services offered by Custom Processing Services produce material in 24-inch to .0017 inch particle sizes. Methods used include impact crushing, grinding, and pulverizing. Screening, drying, blending and packaging services are also available. The CPS coarse grinding facility can receive rail-side bulk shipments and can also offer bulk material handling and warehousing in both indoor and outdoor areas.

Wet Processing

CPS’s wet processing services include media milling and dispersions. Media milling can produce uniform particle size distributions from micron to 100 nanometer range. In addition to producing nano-particles, media milling is ideally suited for materials that have the tendency to agglomerate when added to liquid. The finished product can be delivered as a slurry or a dry solid. CPS has a variety of sizes and types of media mills to provide the optimum process conditions for many different substances.

GMP

Custom Processing Services’ newest facility is dedicated to food grade and active pharmaceutical processing. The 42,000 square foot structure contains several clean rooms designed specifically to accommodate the rigorous demands of cGMP production and to enable the company to work with high-potency compounds. GMP equipment includes several sanitary spiral jet mills, a Fitzmill, a slant cone blender, and LMZ media mill, and a blending suite. CPS follows ICH Q7A and FDA part 210/211 of CFR 21 and is registered to the FSSC 22000 standard by SAI Global.

Toll Processing

Also known as contract manufacturing, toll manufacturing, and contract processing, toll processing, or tolling, can be defined as performing a service on a customer’s product for a fee.

The advantages of using a toll processor such as Custom Processing Services are:

No capital investment required
The power to tap into the expertise of seasoned processing professionals
The variety of equipment that is available
The ability to change production quantities to meet market requirements
Right-sizing minerals to meet client formula specifications
Re-working previously ground materials to achieve desired particle size
An excellent opportunity for one-time events or special projects
Supplemental manufacturing capacity
Secondary source of materials and/or processing
Application of surface treatments of various types of fillers
Product development assistance
- Serve as an extension of client R&D facilities
- Provide opportunities for test grinding
- Handling lab scale to full production quantities
- Experimenting on novel surface treatments and mineral or additive combinations