White paper

While the basic concept of freeze drying may seem relatively simple, you might be surprised by some of the science! In this white paper, GEA experts explain just what happens during the freeze drying process, and look at how selecting the right technologies and process parameters is critical to creating and optimizing a reproducible, reliable process for top quality results.

We’ve applied test data from freeze drying different fruit, vegetables, and meat, to generate recommendations for optimizing capacity, maintaining quality, and creating a productive and profitable freeze drying process for a range of food types.

If you are looking for advice on how to tackle obstacles in your freeze drying process, the white paper also suggests how different actions, such as changing heat distribution uniformity, can help to overcome some common challenges. Read on to learn how additional adaptations to the overall process, such as altering tray shape or even changing product geometry, can also have a big impact on the freeze drying process.

We hope that you’ll learn something new and useful. And if there’s anything more you need to know, just contact your local GEA representative and we can go from there. 

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Pol's freeze drying facility in Ermenek, Turkey

Customer story

In partnership with community farmers, Pol’s processes a wide range of freeze dried fruits and vegetables, producing bulk freeze dried products for industrial and commercial applications, and a Freeze Fresh range for the consumer snack and healthy eating market.
Thrive Life customer story

Customer story

Thrive Life markets a wide range of freeze-dried foods, including fruit, vegetables, meat, fish and ready meals predominantly sold in the United States and Canada from their headquarters near Salt Lake City, Utah.
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