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GFIC Spray Drying

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Drive Your Innovation With Our Flexible Spray Dryer Technology

Spray drying can feel complex: selecting the right carrier, optimizing feed formulations, achieving desired moisture content, or ensuring functional properties like solubility and flowability. These challenges often slow down innovation for food and ingredient developers. At GFIC, we make the process seamless.

GFIC offers both lab- and pilot-scale spray drying, supporting product-specific process evaluations or dried prototypes for further evaluation. In most cases, the results from spray drying trials are scalable for commercial process development. Whether you’re refining an existing formula or creating a breakthrough innovation, our team works alongside you to transform your vision into a consistent, high-performing dried product.

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Applications

Our equipment enables the production of a broad range of products, including:

  • Dairy blends
  • Complex carbohydrate solutions
  • Plant protein suspensions
  • Nutraceuticals
  • Other food-grade samples
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Complimentary Services

We offer liquid sample preparation (mixing, pre-concentration, heat treatment/pasteurization, etc.) services and moisture testing of samples before and after drying.

We provide technical consultation on product design to support more efficient drying. Our service partners at Techni Process can advise on process design and scale-up.

Our Spray Dryers

Techni Process SD3.5 Pilot Plant Spray Dryer

  • Can process 2L to 40L of liquid feed
  • Recovery based on product characteristics
  • Features a detachable collection vessel that permits in-process collection of samples dried
    at different conditions

Buchi B-290 Mini Spray Dryer

  • Can process 250mL to 2L of liquid feed
  • Powder recovery yield ~70%
  • Ideal for small-scale drying and R&D projects


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Drive Your Innovation Forward

Turn your formulations into reality with GFIC’s spray drying technology. Our scalable systems and technical expertise support every stage of product development — from prototype to process optimization. Discover how we can help advance your spray dried product today.

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Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 1Y2

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