HERBAL PRODUCT PROCESSING PLANT
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A great variety of medicinal and aromatic plants grow in India which also has a historical tradition of using them in herbal medicines. But to the best of our knowledge the industry today has not yet exploited the vast economic potential of processing medicinal and aromatic plants using modern technology to produce high value products.
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Technolink Process Equipment for the past two decades has focused on designing, fabricating and installing efficient and cost effective process plants for natural products obtained from Medicinal and Aromatic plants.
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| Aromatic plants are the source of valuable essential oils which are used to impart fragrance to numerous soaps, cosmetics and perfumes. A large number of modern medicines including high value cardiac and anti cancer drugs are being prepared from medicinal plants collected from wild or cultivated in farmers fields.
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for Essential Oils : India used to import
most of the essential oils required for soap, cosmetics
and food flavour Industries. Duirng the past 20 years
large scale cultivation and distillation of aromatic
plants was taken up by farmers and today India is a
major producer and exporter of important essential oils
like Mentha arvensis,
Mentha piperita, citronella, palmarosa, ocimum and lemongrass.
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Technolink Inc
has played a leading role in this development as a reliable
supplier of manufacturing equipments for all these essential
oils. Some features of these equipments are :
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- Units designed and fabricated with raw material
capacities from 50 kg - 2000 kg per batch.
- Fabrication done with Stainless Steel 304 L or/and Mild Steel.
- Large scale Boiler operated units for big plantations as well as small
directly fired inexpensive units for small farmers.
- Units can be designed to operate without eletric power and suitable for
rural locations.
- Quality of essential oils produced matches internationl standards.
- Operation of Units made user friendly for simple rural farmers.
- Accessories for essential oil purification and quality up-gradation like
filtration unit, drying unit and rectification unit also fabricated.
- Installation at site and training of operators undertaken.
- Technolink Inc. can supply the plant along with the process for making good quality oil.
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| Solvent Extraction Units for Medicinal Plants |
All Stainless Steel plants for production of total extract
of herbs like Ashvegandha,
Sarpgandha, Nagarmotha and other medicinal
plants from wild or cultivated sources.
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Two designs are commonly fabricated : |
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Soxhlet Type : suitable for raw material capacity from 50 kg upto 500kg per batch. Solvent requirement is minimum as same solvent is recycled to complete the process. Plant comprises solvent storage and pump facility, drug holder, jacketed reboiler, water decnter and cold trap, Steam boiler can be locally procured.
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Percolation Type : For
larger capacity and also to extract heat sensitive
molecules from medicinal plants. Unit is supplied
with an extract conncentration system with vacuum
operation capability.
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