Synthetic Graphite

Bepex works with graphite suppliers to replace energy-intensive batch processes with continuous processing equipment that saves material-handling time, reduces floor space requirements, lowers energy and emissions, and cuts labor costs. That means higher capacity, lower operating costs and better cap ex returns.

Recycled Battery Materials

Bepex works with recyclers to reclaim lithium and other materials from spent batteries. With the industry’s widest range of drying, devolatilizing and other technologies and decades of lithium processing experience, Bepex is the ideal partner in development of new recycling processes.

Polylactic Acid

Bepex works with PLA producers to extend the uses for PLA polymers through post-processing thermal treatment. Bepex equipment crystallizes PLA pellets, making them easier to process, stronger, and less transparent. That makes PLA usable in more products, expanding markets for this sustainable solution.

Yeasts

Bepex is a leader in equipment to recover protein from spent yeasts. Bepex provides superior control over drying, lower operating costs, and high capacity in a compact footprint. The result: better product and better cap ex return than traditional drying technologies.

Starch Modification

The Bepex food-grade starch processing system offers independent mixing, drying, heating, and reaction processing. Adjustability in residence time, temperature and gas concentration allows for easy modification of color, RVA profile, or other functional requirements. That provides production flexibility while creating a premium product.

Silicones for Cosmetics

Silicone in cosmetics involves tough processing challenges including a highly volatile solvent, zero tolerance for impurities, and capacity limited by batch processing. Continuous processing with Bepex produces a higher quality, more consistent end product. Plus it’s safer and eliminates opportunities for product contamination.

Pomace

Bepex transforms “waste” pomace into high-value protein products. Bepex offers a total solution to ensure consistent feeds, wring water from the pomace, and dry the wet cakes into powder or small granules. That improves efficiency and product quality, while lowering costs and reducing emissions.

Corn Fermented Proteins

Corn-protein feeds are easily damaged in processing. Traditional drying equipment often damages proteins. Bepex’s proprietary drying technology dries non-pumpable, water-laden solids without excessive heat input. Plus it offers tighter control over product quality while utilizing far less utilities and floorspace.

Plant Based Proteins

Bepex offers the most energy efficient, cost effective and environmentally friendly systems for processing plant-based production. Bepex systems require less energy and create less emissions. Plus they provide more control over protein modification, resulting in a higher quality product.

Cottage Cheese Production

For more than 30 years, Rietz-Bepex has been the go-to solution for continuous cottage cheese production. Continuous processing lowers labor requirements, produces more product in less time, and requires a smaller footprint. The integrated, automated system ensures productivity, operating efficiency, and product quality.

Industrial Starch Manufacturing

Bepex brings scalable, continuous processing to starch production. The Bepex starch processing system provides independent control over mixing, drying, heating, and reaction. That provides operational flexibility while creating superior product with lower production costs — so you can create a wide range of products with consistent, repeatable results.

Meat and Bone Broth Cooking

Bepex helps convert broth production and pressure cooking from batch to continuous processing – improving product quality and profitability. Bepex also offers equipment to grind and reduce blocks of meat, tissue, and bone into a consistent feed stream ahead of cooking – further increasing production efficiency.

Lithium

Bepex has been supplying processing technology for lithium carbonate or lithium hydroxide production since the early 1990s. Now Bepex is pioneering drying and milling systems to streamline lithium production while reducing the energy needed and emissions resulting from production.

Reacting

Bepex helped pioneer the equipment and technology needed to support continuous reaction processes, so we can provide the best reaction process solution plus the up- and down- stream equipment needed to complement reaction processes.

Mixing/Blending

For nearly a century, Bepex has pioneered innovation and excellence in mixing and blending processes. Whether simply mixing multiple solids into a homogeneous blend, or agitating solids with binders to form agglomerates, Bepex has a broad range of proven equipment and proprietary technologies.

Pureeing

Puree coarse material to create a homogeneous paste, slurry, or liquid product. Designed for food processing, our sanitary hammer mill is easy to install, easy to maintain, and easy to change over to produce a wide variety of products with the same equipment.

Micronizing Fine Grinding

Bepex offers advanced small particle grinding and micronizing systems, solutions and engineering support for tough small particle challenges. Made and supported in the USA, we’re the expert’s choice for hitting exacting product specifications.

Mechanical Separation

Bepex liquid separation equipment is engineered to be part of a total drying process designed to produce a better product with lower utility usage and less impact on the environment. Plus Bepex equipment provides more precise control; maximum liquid recovery; and proven, pre-verified performance.

Instant Mixing

Instant mixing technology creates particles with highly controlled dissolution properties. Particles are formed through adding a binder to a solid then drying the wet particle. When rewetted, the solids dissolve quickly. Bepex paddle mixers produce highly dispersible products ranging from ultra-fine powders to small granules.

Heating/Cooling

Bepex provides more than 100 years of experience in designing full-process heating and cooling systems. We offer the industry’s broadest selection of thermal processing equipment, plus the up- and downstream equipment needed to create a total heating or cooling solution.

Granulating

Bepex offers options for both wet and dry granulation and a broad line of equipment for both up- and downstream additional processing. Transform powders, dust, or other fine feeds into granules of consistent size, shape, density, strength, and solubility.

Drying

Bepex offers the industry’s broadest range of drying technologies, so Bepex can create the exact drying solution you need. The result? Superior performance. Compact operations. Utility savings, lower overall cap ex requirements, and increased sustainability.

Extruding

Bepex extruders combine mixing, kneading, forming and extruding into one unit. Form pastes or dust-free free granules, noodles, pellets, or particles with tight control over particle integrity and dispersion characteristics.

Delumping

Bepex offers the equipment, experience, and product development support needed to engineer your exact delumping solution. Backed by a century of experience, based on time-tested Rietz Manufacturing designs, we’ve set the standard for reliability, innovation, and system cap ex value.

Crystallizing

Bepex transforms your crystallization process from bench or batch mode to a continuous system. We typically employ mechanical agitation in crystallization, which produces a more uniform, lump-free crystal size. This reduces crystallization time, while improving crystal quality.

Continuous Devolatilization

Bepex offers a wide range of solvent recovery and devolatilization equipment. Bepex’s proprietary designs, true plug flow operation, and system adjustability packs high performance into a small footprint – resulting in reduced operating and cap ex costs.

Coarse Grinding

Bepex produces the industry’s broadest array of size reduction equipment for a wide range of food, industrial, mineral, and chemical applications. Built and supported in the USA, Bepex coarse grinding systems are backed by a century of experience, innovation, and proven performance.

Coating

At Bepex, we offer multiple options to coat or encapsulate powders, particles and granules – either as part of the agglomeration process or as a spray-on process after forming. From animal feed to advanced pharmaceuticals, Bepex has the experience to develop your unique continuous coating solution.

Bale & Block Grinding

Reducing large, bulk materials like bales or blocks is the first step in many processes. Our block and bale grinder’s compact high-torque, low-speed design delivers maximum power with minimum heat generation. Plus our rugged construction and easy-to-maintain designs ensure continuous, dependable operation.

Briquetting

Produce briquettes and pellets using pressure without adding liquid binders, saving drying cost and time. Create new products with exact control over shape, size, density, strength, and solubility. Compact powders or waste dust to cut transportation cost, improve material handling, and solve bulk storage issues.