Sprayer

Probably the biggest monster in a porcelain factory - if there is one at all - is called the sprayer. Not quite as high as the chimney, but much wider and fatter, it spreads out in the raw materials processing hall and majestically outshines everything else. You don't build a sprayer in a hall, you build a hall around the sprayer.

The sprayer granulates and compacts the slagger and produces the granulate for the isostatic production of flat parts. With its size and the necessary capacities for feeding and discharging, the sprayer is a factory within a factory. A Dorst type D 8000 sprayer towers 20 metres high and requires around 270 square metres of floor space alone.

To produce 12 tonnes of granulate, large sprayers work with an evaporation capacity of around 8 tonnes of water and extract around 133 million litres of water vapour.