The non-food applications include the manufacture
of ceramic objects formed by granular materials from
kaolin, feldspar, silica and silicon carbide, fish and mammal
feeds, household products (detergents for fabrics, dish, and hard
surface cleaning),microbiological products (enzyme, yeast, and
bacterial granules), and a number of pharmaceutical products
like feed stock for tabletting, pellets, and encapsulates. The agglomeration
of food powders is of recent interest in which the
control of porosity and density of material is the main interest.