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January 2005, the Microcomp Q4 series was added to the existing range of Micromcomp dosing systems. The Q4 is very compact and consists in a standard 200 litre, round buffer hopper made from stainless steel and fitted with a dustproof bag dump cover cap. This buffer hopper can be connected to a centralized de-dusting unit. It is fitted with a swivelling flange. It also has a truly unique rotary extractor and a fixed dosing spiral. The combination of the rotary motion of the extractor and the spiral ensure that even the most difficult to dose small ingredients, such as (bread) improvers or pre-mixtures with no adhesion problems can, very quickly and precisely, be weighed out in a mobile hopper scale car, positioned directly underneath. The Q4 consists in modular sets of 4 buffer hoppers plus a dosing spiral and an extractor. These bunkers can be built contiguously. The ingredients are dosed via a precisely controlled, linear, rail shoe drive which shunts the weighing hopper right up against one of the outer ends of the installation. The main advantages of the Q4 lie primarily in the compact stainless steel design and the great precision of the weighing. Bakers investing in new equipment prefer a quick and, above all, low cost solution which can be smoothly integrated into their existing flour- and water-based formulations. The Q4 affords an automated dosing of small ingredients on just a few m² and was conceived for reliable operation within a production environment.