Born and grew up in Germany, I’ve always got the passion for building and repairing things. Finished my Diploma for Process Engineering in 2001 and got a job in a workshop for customized food processing machines. With 10 years of experience in a Germany company that builds vertical roller mills facing a lot of problems with yielding water spray, blockages of the nozzles, difficulties in servicing, wrong spray pattern and having no control of what goes on inside the mill, it gives me the idea to improve the water injection system.

The basic idea came 6 years ago when I was sitting in my office at home and with a pencil on my hand, I started to sketch possible solutions. Having a workshop at home gives me the opportunity to test the basic idea that I sketched by building a prototype nozzle. After having the prototype built, I did some test run in a cement mill which really convinced me that my idea is the right thing to do.

I met my wife in Malaysia and we moved to the North of Malaysia to stay close with her family so from there, my wife and I founded the company. In my new workshop, I started to optimize the nozzle and design the perfect condition for the carrier which amazingly was built within 3 months.

Difficulties upon findings are: -

• Easy change of all parts.
• No wielding for maintenance.
• Accurate spot-wise spraying of the water to reduce contact with fine powder.
• Purging the nozzles with air so no cement dust can settle down on the wet parts.
• Shock absorber between the mill and the unit to prevent from breakdown and keep the parts inside the mill clean.
• Filtration of the water and using stainless steel parts downstream to prevent from rust or particles from going inside the nozzle.

After reviewing the workshop-made display prototype, we designed a Mark 2 version that can go to the market.