Industrial milling for metal powders.
Hardened wear parts, oxygen-controlled mill houses and explosion-relief venting for the most demanding feed in the catalogue. THOR has shipped metal-powder lines for additive manufacturing, MIM and refractory-metal recovery.
Built for the abrasion, sealed for the dust.
Metal powders combine the worst-case abrasion profile with the worst-case explosion risk. THOR mills for metals ship with WC tip carriers, hardened steel screens, sealed dust enclosures, explosion-relief panels and either inert blanketing or wet-grinding configurations as the safety study requires.
Materials we run every week.
Aluminium flakes and granules, copper, iron and ferro-alloys, brass, tungsten, molybdenum, refractory-metal recovery streams, recycled solder and alloy chips. Specify the alloy when you ask for a quote — wear-part selection is alloy-dependent.
Aluminium dust and what we do about it.
Aluminium milling sits at the top of the dust-explosion-hazard pyramid. The standard THOR delivery for Al, Mg or Ti powders includes a Kₛₜ classification by an external lab, an explosion-relief vent or chemical suppression system sized to the chamber volume, and a written commissioning protocol agreed with your safety officer before first run.
Which mill for metals.
Hammer Mill for chip and recycled scrap reduction. Ball Mill for fine alloy powders and AM-grade cuts. Air Classifier downstream when you need to fractionate by particle size for an MIM or AM customer.
Recommended mills for this sector.
The platforms we most often deploy here. Each has documented pilot data on the materials above.