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FT4 Powder Rheometer®

Comprehensive powder flow characterisation 

The FT4, the flagship product from Freeman Technology, is a universal powder flow tester. The range of measurement capabilities the FT4 provides makes it the world's most versatile powder testing instrument for measuring and understanding powder flow and powder behaviour. If you work with powders, either in a research or production capacity, the FT4 can provide valuable information about powder flow properties and other behavioural characteristics of your materials that other technologies simply don’t deliver

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FT4 Powder Rheometer - Universal Powder Flow Tester 

Powder Rheology

Understanding powder flow and powder behaviour

There is no single measurable parameter that defines how a powder will flow, mix, feed, granulate, fill, convey, compress or behave in any other process operation. Our powder testing instrumentation is designed to help users in the field solve their powder handling challenges

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Working with Powders

Powders are blends of solids, liquids and gases, usually air, and their flow properties may be affected by perhaps 30 or more factors. These include particle characteristics such as size, shape and surface properties, environmental factors such as air content, temperature and vibration, and chemical interactions leading to adhesion and caking

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FT4 Powder Rheometer®

Comprehensive Powder Characterisation - a universal powder flow tester for the characterisation of the flow properties of powders and bulk powder behaviour.

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Powder Rheology

Despite their ubiquity powders continue to present challenges during product development, manufacturing, and in quality assurance.

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Working with Powders

Learn how powder characterisation enables the detailed analysis of powder flow properties.

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We have extensive experience in industries as varied as pharmaceutical, toner, cosmetics, food, chemical, metals, ceramics and additive manufacture.

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Applications

Freeman Technology specialises in powder flow technology and actively has customers in the following applications:

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Freeman releases new FT4 Demonstration Video

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Freeman launches new Pharma eBook

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I've never ever had any experience with any other instrument that was so positive as with the FT4 Powder Tester.

Dr Arij Tinke - Principal Scientist Powder Characterization

Janssen Research & Development (a division of Janssen Pharmaceutica NV), Belgium

I use the FT4 to answer most all of my powder characterization questions and wouldn’t have it any other way. Thank you to Freeman Technology for enriching the capabilities of my laboratory and helping us solve our applied powder application questions.

Bellamarie Ludwig - Associate Research Professor

The Pennsylvania State University, USA

If we’re considering a new supplier or a customer brings us a new powder to print with, then we can determine with a high degree of confidence whether it will work and if so how to process it, simply from test data. Without the FT4 this just wasn’t possible.

Andrew Klein - Director of R&D

ExOne Company, USA

When powder testing unlocks throughput gains like this it can easily deliver savings of up to 50 – 100 times the cost of the instrument.

Todd Mollner - Global Product Owner

GlaxoSmithKline, USA