EXTRUSION/SPHERONIZATION MAIN STEPS

1. DRY MIXING of ingredients to achieve homogenous powder dispersion. 2. WET MASSING to produce a sufficiently plastic wet mass. 3. EXTRUSION (pushing the wet mass into a dye) to form rod-shaped particles to form uniform size and diameter; The extrude produced must have enough plasticity to deform but not so much that the extruded particles adhere to other particles when collected or rolled in the spheronizer 4 SPHERONIZATION (transition from cylindrical particles into cylindrical particles with rounded edges, into dumbell shape, into ellipsoids, and finally into sphere) 5 DRYING to achieve the desired moisture content 6 SCREENING; achieve the desired narrow size distrib.