Hockmeyer Equipment Corp

Hockmeyer Equipment Corporation has been providing process solutions for over 70 years. It is a leader in the wet grinding and dispersion industry and offers custom designed process equipment for mixing, blending, dispersing and particle size reduction as fine as 25 nano-meters. The Hockmeyer Team is dedicated to building and designing processing equipment that is the highest quality available. Our goal is to increase the profitability of our customers through continuous innovations in process technology. We are committed to learning our customer’s process so that we can provide the best possible equipment for the application. We will build equipment that is as efficient as possible to reduce the energy requirements, and therefore, the environmental impact of the industries we serve. Hockmeyer offers a state of the art customer service laboratory for product testing and process development. 

Hockmeyer was established in the mid 1930's in the Bronx, New York as a welding and repair shop. Shortly afterward, the first mixing machines, referred to as lead mixers, were manufactured for the paint industry. Paint was made from lead pigment back then, hence the name 'lead mixer'. As the business grew, new lines of machinery were developed and sold into the paint and ink industries. The high speed DiscPerser, an original Hockmeyer innovation, was introduced in the early 1950's along with the unique ring style 'D' blade that revolutionized the way paint and ink were manufactured. Water basedcoatings began to replace solvent and the time to produce many of the products went from days to hours. However, ultra fine dispersions of many hard to grind pigments and fillers were still hostage to slow ball and bead milling, adding days back to production. During the 1960’s and 1970’s new machines were added to the line including horizontal paste mixers, multi-shaft mixers, pony mixers, paddle blade agitators, paper balers and attritors. The factory was moved to larger facilities in Harrison, NJ and then moved again in 1984 to still larger facilities in Elizabeth City, North Carolina where it continues to expand and innovate. Hockmeyer maintains a fully staffed Customer Testing R&D facility at this location. In the 1990's Hockmeyer made another quantum leap in dispersion technology with the introduction of the Hockmeyer Immersion Mill, eliminating the arduous bottleneck of ultra fine milling and substantially surpassing the performance of existing basket mills. Days of milling were now reduced to hours or minutes. Today, Hockmeyer continues to lead the industry with the unmatched performance of this latest and continuously evolving technology.