In 2011, NETZSCH-Feinmahltechnik GmbH began technical development and engineering of the OMEGA® Economic Dispersionizer for de-agglomeration, disaggregation and delamination of primary particles, as well as emulsification. In April 2013, NETZSCH Premier Technologies, LLC introduced the OMEGA to the North American market. The unit was designed for a dispersion process between typical high-speed dissolvers, in-line mixers and media mills. This niche requires the ability to provide a higher fineness than is possible with dissolvers or in-line mixers, but without the high energy intensity of media mills. What OMEGA is not – is a mill. Real comminution is not the goal of this unit.
The OMEGA is equally suited for both low- and high-viscosity products that are aqueous- or solvent-based, including the de-agglomeration of micro and nanoparticles. This technology has been successfully applied to the production of lacquers and varnishes; pigment dispersions, slurries, color pastes, metal oxides and carbides; resins, polymers, waxes; and carbon nanotubes – for the chemical, cosmetic, food and pharmaceutical industries.