Profile: IKA Works, Inc. specializes in offering dispersing, stirring & kneading machines ranging from laboratory to production scale and complete plants for most different tasks in the pharmaceutical, chemical, cosmetics, colour, food & plastics industry. Our heavy-duty kneading machines type Planetron® are vertical kneading machines with 2 duplex-like kneading blades. The design of this allows a bearing of the kneading shafts and their sealing outside the product area. Thus absolutely clean masses can be produced. The kneading and dispersing effect is based on the principle of intermeshing kneading blades, where one kneading blade is planetarily rotating around the central kneading blade and both blades are stripping each other. Thus created increasing and decreasing pressure and shear forces result within shortest time in an intensive kneading & dispersing of the product to be kneaded.