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KADY AND TOLL PROCESSING
Toll processing, also known as toll manufacturing, tolling, toll conversion or custom manufacturing, can be defined as performing a service on a customer's product, for a fee (toll). Toll processing companies provide a processing/manufacturing service for other companies and receive a volume-based fee.
Toll manufacturers are becoming more important every day. With increasing transportation costs, every penny saved really is at least a penny earned. Toll manufacturers often will do soup to nuts processing, mixing one client's paint one day and another client's asphalt the next. To do this they have to have a variety of mills and mixers to fit many products. Kady has that whole range of dispersion equipment needed in the toll process. From tiny Kady lab mills to giant, high speed dispersion units, there is a Kady mill to fit every size and toll manufacturing need. Kadys are tough, they are the bigger hammer, they get the job done and get it done right.
Many companies in industries such as: chemical, minerals, metals, photographic, paper coatings, ink and paint, and cosmetics take advantage of toll processing for a variety of reasons. It can save them capital investment as the toll manufacturer buys the equipment. It uses none of their own floor space, as all the equipment is at the toll manufacturer's site. Quick turnaround and predictable costs are often sited as reasons to go this way too.
HOW CAN KADY HELP?
These are just a few of the cases where Kady mills come on strong. Kady has toll processor clients who utilize the full range of dispersion equipment in the Kady portfolio, from the tabletop lab unit, for pilot-testing right on up through the towering T100. They have top entry, bottom entry and continuous flow units in place. When any of their clients call, these toll manufacturers can stand ready to mix and deliver at very short notice.
There is no universal mixing or milling system that can do it all in the tolling process. There are so many variables. What kind of material is it? How small do you want the particle size to be, what is its heat sensitivity, how much time and therefore energy can you devote to one batch? There is almost always a Kady that can be customized and tuned just to your needs no matter what they are. Give us a call at Kady and tell us your product's parameters. Our representative will be happy to recommend a system and work with you to tailor a system to you and your clients' needs.
Lab testing units and new business - in the toll processing world.
Toll processors often incorporate pilot-testing equipment in their facilities. It is almost part of their new business policy. These scaled down versions of commercial equipment allow their potential clients to run economical quantities of their product for evaluation prior to full production. They can then evaluate their product in that environment and extrapolate how it will work at full-scale production in a full size piece of equipment. This can help the toll manufacturer to make an estimate of how much to charge for the tolling of a product - since it is a volume-based business.
In these days of soaring energy prices, it is good to note that this process often vastly reduces long haul truck traffic and cuts transportation costs. It helps the environment, not to mention your bottom line.