Manufacturing scale

​AFX-7 crossflow unit

The AXF-7 is a high capacity device, offering a further scale up of Micropore’s membrane emulsification technology, to enable the continuous manufacturing of up to 1500kg/hr of high-quality emulsions a year, whilst retaining the same tightly controlled particle size precision that is a feature of all Micropore's devices.
Specifically designed for applications where high levels of hygiene are important

• 316 electropolished stainless steel body, with ergonomic triclamp (rather than pushfit or screwed) connections, allows for easy sterilisation.
• With no moving parts, it is an elegant and robust device for continuously manufacturing high quality emulsions
• The internal tubular membranes are precision engineered with laser drilled pores along their lengths, allows for the manufacture of near mono-dispersed particles/droplets (CV in the range 12-15%)
• Phase concentration of up to 40% and more
• Production volume capacity of up to 1500kg/hr
• Low energy use

​The crossflow approach involves the dispersed phase being injected into the middle ports, where it is distributed along the length of the internal membranes and through the pores.

Typical monodispersity achieveable

Laser engineered membranes
All Micropore equipment uses precision engineered stainless steel membranes. These membranes provide:

• Tightly controlled pore size
• No tortuous paths
• Easy to clean
• Robust
• Pore sizes ranging from 3 - 350µm

Fully scalable results
The Micropore XF systems can be specified and set-up using data generated on the Micropore LDC and LTS. This allows production can be readily scaled up to a manufacturing process offering:

• Continuous production process
• Kilo tonne/ year capability
• Small footprint
• cGMP / FDA ready.

Micropore Technologies AXF-7 key facts

• Aseptic high volume manufacturing scale crossflow unit 
• Suitable for producing mono-sized droplet sizes between 10 and 1000 microns
• Capable of continuous production up from1500kg/hr 
• Utilises stainless steel tubular membranes suitable for either oil-in-water or water-in oil dispersions.
• Easy to set up and maintain with no moving parts
• Low energy - with resulting preservation of sensitive materials
• Tight control and operational flexibility
• Operational stability under different flow rates​
• Training available​

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​​Working with Micropore was a very positive experience for us.
​The speed with which we progressed reflects how user-friendly we found the Micropore equipment.

​Customer, food sector

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​We have achieved significantly improved production economics. We were initially sceptical as we had had problems when we’d tried membrane emulsification in the past.  Micropore has developed a truly elegant solution

Customer, ​household products

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​​We set aside a day for trials on the Micropore AXF-1.  We were finished in less than an hour with all trials completed satisfactorily.  We were surprised at how simple Micropore’s equipment is to set up and operate

​​Customer, fragrance sector

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​​Micropore’s precision engineered products mean we don’t have problems with creaming or phase inversion any more.  We are working to convert manufacture of all our products to Micropore’s approach because of the ease of operation/cleaning and improved yields

​​Customer, personal care sector

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We approached Micropore after failing with others because we needed to replicate an in-flight problem.  Micropore delivered everything we hoped for and more.  The result was we were able to engineer a solution for major safety improvements and rapid implementation

​​Customer, aerospace sector

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