Spray Dryers

No one knows more about spray drying than GEA. Our expertise has been gained over close to a century, during which time we have designed and supplied more than 10,000 GEA NIRO® spray drying plants all over the world, and carried out tests for customers in different industries.

GEA NIRO MSD spray dryer

Industrial spray dryers

Our fully customizable and highly reliable spray dryers deliver quality powders that enable you to meet your customers’ needs today and tomorrow.

Small scale spray drying

Pilot plant spray dryers

GEA's range of pilot & small scale spray dryers are designed specifically for R&D, product development and for production in small volumes.

Spray drying test facilities

Spray drying test center

An unparalleled range of equipment, expertise and support for designing and testing drying processes for foods, beverages, chemicals and pharmaceuticals.

NIRO MSD spray drying chamber

Safety & 24/7 production

GEA spray drying plants feature a suite of integrated components and technologies designed to give you confidence in the safety of your processes, equipment, and people, while supporting your drive for 24/7 production.

Inspection of the spray drying process at Cremo. Photo: STEMUTZ PHOTO

Efficiency & quality in spray drying

Processing top quality spray dried powders shouldn’t mean having to compromise on efficiency. Our spray dryers are designed to minimize waste and product loss, boost yield and productivity, and deliver excellent results.

Image 3: The GEA AddCool pilot plant installed at the GEA test facilities in Denmark. Source: GEA / Phillippe Falkesgaard)

Resource-efficiency in spray drying

Spray drying is an energy-intensive process, so here at GEA we work hard to develop technologies that can help to improve resource-efficiency by reducing overall energy use, recycling waste heat and cutting carbon footprint.

Gasper Calandrino, director of engineering, MMPA

Michigan Milk Producers

GEA OptiPartner improves spray dryer performance at MMPA.

Yili production site

Yili

Yili-GEA partnership supports innovation for safe, future-focused manufacturing

Luigi Vallifuoco, ICAI CEO

ICAI

A spray dryer partnership focused on safety and the environment

Valfoo cofounder Oliver Krayl (left) and Cremo Plant Manager Edgar Fasel.

Valfoo / Cremo

Ambitious project develops spray drying process for lactoferrin

Strategic partnership between Mokate Group and GEA

Mokate

The largest FILTERMAT® unit in Poland used for hot drinks and nutritional supplements

Seagarden: fresh from the sea

Seagarden

FSD® spray dryer used for fish-based hydrolyzed collagen peptide products

Working with Arla Foods to produce better food for our children

Arla Foods

Producing the highest quality infant nutrition ingredients

Danone Nutricia plant at Cuijk, in the Netherlands

Danone

Delivering solutions for sustainable baby formula manufacturing

The essence of a flavor factory

Mother Murphy’s

The essence of a flavor factory

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DMK

GEA OptiPartner improves DMK-Zeven plant

AmulFed plant

Amul

Asia's largest skim milk powder plant

GEA OptiPartner process optimization

Spray drying, optimized

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