Gericke
Customised solutions
Advanced equipment for powder handling
Gericke is a Swiss, family-owned company with more than 130 years of experience in the handling and processing of powders and bulk materials. Founded in 1894, the company currently develops process equipment, components, automation, and turnkey system solutions for a wide range of industries.
Gericke's solutions cover a substantial part of powder and granulate processing – from intake and internal transfer to dosing, mixing, screening, and particle size control. This enables the integration of multiple process steps into a unified solution where components, controls, and process design are harmonised.
Pneumatic conveying of powders and granulates
One of Gericke's core competencies is pneumatic conveying. The company designs systems for conveying materials such as powders, flakes, granulates, and pellets using vacuum or pressure.
Gericke operates with both dense-phase and dilute-phase conveying, allowing the conveying method to be tailored to the product's specific characteristics and process requirements. For fragile or challenging products, parameters such as conveying velocity and air consumption can significantly impact product quality, system wear, and energy efficiency.
The product portfolio also includes components such as diverter valves, rotary valves, and pipe elbows, which can be fully integrated into the conveying system.
Precise dosing and weighing
Dosing is another key area within Gericke's product programme. The company offers both volumetric and gravimetric dosing systems, as well as loss-in-weight solutions for the controlled feeding of powders, granulates, pellets, flakes, and fibres.
Precise feeding is critical in processes where recipe accuracy and blend consistency must be reliably reproduced from batch to batch.
The selection of the feeding principle must therefore be aligned with both the flow properties of the material and the required capacity and accuracy.
Mixing and particle size control
Gericke also engineers equipment for both batch and continuous mixing. These solutions are developed to achieve homogeneous blending and can be seamlessly integrated with the company's dosing and conveying systems.
For quality assurance and conditioning of the product, Gericke additionally provides solutions for screening, deagglomeration, and particle size reduction.
These processes can be used, for example, to remove foreign contaminants, delump caked materials, or ensure the targeted particle size distribution prior to downstream processing.
From individual components to complete process plants
A significant part of Gericke's expertise lies in the integration of individual technologies. The company designs and manufactures key components in-house and delivers complete turnkey systems encompassing planning, engineering, manufacturing, installation, automation, and commissioning.
This means a solution can encompass the entire material flow – for instance, from raw material intake and pneumatic conveying to dosing, mixing, screening, and further transfer to the next process stage.
Solutions across diverse industries
Gericke's technology is utilised in sectors such as food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, minerals and heavy industry, pet food, and the environmental and energy sectors. These different industries present distinct demands regarding hygiene, cleanability, product safety, wear resistance, and automation.
