Bentonite Granules Production Process Plans | Machines

Bentonite granules production process is becoming one of the most profitable investment directions. Whether you want to process bentonite ore into high‑value products, start a cat litter pellets making plant or dispose of mineral waste, this is an excellent operation. Here, YUSHUNXIN can offer you turnkey solutions and comprehensive machine from bentonite rocks crushing to granules packaging, $100,000 to $500,000 cost, 10,000 tons to 100,000 tons annually output (1-20TPH), etc. So, you can start your bentonite granules making, bentonite cat litter pellet production and mineral-bentonite granulation project successfully as soon as possible.

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Are you looking for a solution for bentonite processing plant setup, bentonite cat litter production or mixing bentonite with mineral waste to make pellets? It is an ideal choice to buy a bentonite granules manufacturing system.

Process bentonite rocks for profits

If you have access to bentonite ore or bentonite powder, and want to upgrade into value-added products simply. It is advisable to process bentonite into pellets. This can be widely used as materials for soil conditioner, drilling mud, landfills, impermeable layers, etc. Which will bring you higher profits.

Cat litter pellet making

In addition, the bentonite granulation line also can help you start a cat litter pellet making plant. It will mixing bentonite powder with wood chips, spices, silica gel or activated charcoal and process into granules of 1-10mm freely. In this way, you can make bentonite cat litter, which featured lightweight, strong clumping ability, no dust, and easy to handle.

Mineral waste disposal

Moreover, it also can offer good mineral waste disposal solution for your mining company. Similar to the cat litter making, blend mineral wastes, fly ash, smelting slag, etc with bentonite and making stable pellets. Then you can then reuse them as construction materials, backfilling aggregates, or even as raw materials for cement and metallurgy, which reduces environmental risk and disposal cost, while sometimes creating an extra revenue stream.

What is the bentonite granules production process?

In a stable and efficient bentonite granule production process, it needs equipment from raw material feeding to final bagging. The typical system includes mineral rocks preparation, moisture adjustment, granulation, screening, drying, cooling, coating and packaging. And each step is greatly beneficial for commercial bentonite pellet making.

Bentonite powder manufacturing

To start bentonite processing, and make pellets easier, it is advisable to reduces the bentonite rocks and lump to a small particles and manageable powder first. For this, you need to feed raw bentonite into a mineral rock crusher and process bentonite into finer powder. Here, it is an ideal choice to buy the jaw crusher and Raymond mill system.

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Moisture adjustment & mixing with binders/additives

Then, the crushed bentonite powder goes into a batching and mixing system. Here, when you mix bentonite with additives to make cat litter or mineral fertilizer, the batching machine is necessary to ensure precise ratio. As for mixing, it is important for make bentonite materials with balance nutrients and at a required moisture. These are helpful to produce excellent bentonite granules.

Bentonite granulation (disc/pan, drum, or extrusion granulator)

Next, the prepared bentonite mixture enters the granule making process. For large scale continuous bentonite granules production, many factories choose a rotary drum granulator. If you want hard pellets with less investment, you can use a double roller pellet compactor. For round ball cat litter or spherical bentonite fertilizer granules making with 1-8mm and over 93% granulation rate, a disc pelletizer offer you a better experience.

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Granulated bentonite Drying & cooling

Finished wet bentonite granules (20% moisture) move into a rotary dryer, where a hot air flow reduces the moisture (lower than 10%) to a safe level for storage and transport. After drying, a rotary cooler lowers the temperature, which improves pelletized bentonite fertilizer strength, reduces caking, and prepares the product for screening and packing.

Screening & size grading of bentonite pellets

Rotary drum screens classify the granular bentonite fertilizer into oversize, on‑size and fines. On‑size granules become final commercial mineral fertilizer pellets, while oversize granules go back to the crusher, and fines return to the bentonite granulator. This closed loop helps you produce bentonite pellets with uniform size and increase the qualified granule making rate.

Coating pelletized bentonite with PVA, paraffin wax

For higher added value and sticking resistance, you can send granulated bentonite into a coating machine. In mineral fertilizer making projects, you coat bentonite granules with PVA, acrylic polymers to reduce moisture absorption and caking. In bentonite cat litter granulation lines, you spray anti‑dust agents, fragrances or color coatings to meet market requirements.

Packaging & storage

Finally, coated or uncoated bentonite pellets pass to automatic packing scales. You can pack them in 10–50 kg bags for industrial customers, or smaller retail bags for cat litter markets. Palletizing systems, conveyors and storage silos help your bagging process in bentonite granulation system , so you respond quickly to customer orders.

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How to choose right bentonite granules making solutions?

When you start a bentonite granules production project, YUSHUNXIN will design customized solutions for cat litter granules manufacturing or bentonite fertilizer prepatation. This usually is based on the capacity, budget, pellets shape and application.

Industrial bentonite granulation plant

If you plan to invest in an industrial project for bentonite pellets processing, the rotary drum granulation line fits best.

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With continuously drum rotation, you can granulate bentonite rock powder quickly. Maximum 30TPH capacity, namely, it can fully meet your requirements to set up a industrial bentonite granulation factory up to 200,000 tons annually output.

In addition, because of wet granulation technology employment, you can freely choose to produce 3-6 mm bentonite pellets. By only moisture control properly. For this, there is customized drum granulation systems with precise liquid spray device in YUSHUNXIN for you.

Economical bentonite pellets prodcution solution

But, when you looking for a solution to process bentonite pellets at a low cost or high hardness, it is advisable to buy a roller press granulation line. Which adopts the dry extrusion granulation technology.

For one thing, there is no liquid involved. Therefore, no drying in this bentonite granules production process. In this way, you can reduce the costs on drying system equipment purchasing and drying energy comsumption.

For another, the system prepare bentonite ito pellets mainly by pressing the material between rollers. This physical pressing make bentonite form into fertilizer granules with high hardness – 15-20N.

Bentonite round granules manufacturing plan

Moreover, for those who requires round ball bentonite granules production, like cat litter making, YUSHUNXIN also design suitable system for you. Including rotary drum granulation line and disc pelletizing system. Here, the latter will offer you wider range of particle size (1-8mm) and higher granulation rate (over 93%).

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Why disk bentonite granulation line produce round ball cat litter? Because the system regulate bentonite cat litter granules mainly by natual rolling with disc rotation instead of physical extrusion.

Additionally, in the process of bentonite cat litter manufacturing, the disc granulating line work well with unique designs. The cat litter granulation process is closely related to not only moisture adjustment, but also disc slope setting. The slower the slope, the larger the size.

What is the cost of an granular bentonite making system?

What’s more, according to your detailed budget for bentonite granules production, there are also tailored fertilizer making equipment configuration for you. With $100,000-$500,000, you can establish a bentonite pellets manufacturing plant of 5-20 TPH (20,000-100,000 tons per year) smoothly.

$500,000 bentonite granulation plan of 20TPH

When you prepare a $500,000 budget for industrial bentonite granulation line setup, a rotary drum granulating system recommended.

With the $500,000 investment, you can equip it with complete sets of bentonite processing machines. Including bentonite pulverizer, automatic batching machine, double sahft mixer*2, SXZGZ-3210 rotary drum granulator, 2080 screening system, 2424 rotary dryer, 2424 cooler, coating machine and automatic packaging scale.
They can fully meet your requirement of large scale granular bentonite fertilizer manufacturing, cat litter making and mineral waste processing. And the capacity up to 20TPH, namely, 100,000-150,000 tons per year.

$300,000 bentonite pellets manufacturing solutions with 10-20TPH

When it comes to $300,000 investment in a round bentonite granules production process or cat litter manufacturing project, there is a disc pellet making line for you.

For a 10TPH output bentonite cat litter granules processing, you also can buy a complete pan granulation line from crushing to packaging.
But for a large scale granular bentonite pellets making, like 20TPH, the $300,000 support a simpler configuration only. For example, you can buy a system of bentonite powder making + material feeding + disc granulators*2 + drying and cooling+ packaging only. In the future, you can plan to upgrade it step by step.

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$100,000 granular bentonite processing plans of 5-10TPH

How about $100,000 cost bentonite granules production process? Can we set up a 10TPH project?

In general, a $100,000 cost can easily support you buy a 5TPH bentonite pellets manufacturing system with equipment from rock grinding to granulated bentonite fertilizer bagging. Especially when you plan to adopts a roller extrusion granulation system.
However, provided you requires a 10TPH output or spherical granules making for bentonite processing, the simper configuration one is better.

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Can you offer established bentonite granules production projects for reference?

YUSHUNXIN has already delivered several successful bentonite granulation projects worldwide, whether it is mineral fertilizer makin or cat litter manufacturing.

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10,000 tons annually bentonite granules manufacturing in Colombia

For example, we helped a Colombian client build a 10,000 tons per year bentonite granules manufacturing plant. The project adopts a disc granulation line, which covers the complete process from raw ore crushing, moisture adjustment and granulation to drying, screening and packaging. With a reasonble layout and automated control, this line achieves stable output, low labor demand and high‑value bentonite pellets for local agricultural and industrial markets.

300,000 costs bentonite cat litter production solution for Vietnam

In addition, we supplied a $300,000 bentonite cat litter production solution for a vietnam company that wanted to diversify into pet products. Based on their limited initial budget, we designed a cost‑effective system including batching, mixing with additives, disc granulation and automatic packing. The line produces 3–4 mm clumping bentonite cat litter with low dust and good strength, helping the customer quickly enter the retail market and recover investment in a short time.

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These completed projects demonstrate that, whether you aim for bentonite fertilizer pellet making or a cat litter production business, YUSHUNXIN can provide turnkey solutions tailored to your capacity, budget and local market conditions.

In addition, there are also many other mineral waste disposal solutions for you. Including phosphate rock fertilizer processing plan, limestone granulation system, zeolite pellets making lines, etc. Whether you plan to process them into mineral fertilizer or granules only, there are customized solutions for you. Come to see them now!