Contact and paddle dryers

Our mission is to enable our customers to achieve their target figures in overall equipment efficiency, minimum production costs, transparency, and short training periods – all of which are required to give our customers peace of mind. This is especially important in the highly competitive markets our customers are dealing with – be it the food, mining and minerals, environment, or chemicals industry. And the industries are facing a new challenge – the fourth industrial revolution, based on the use of cyber-physical systems. That is what drives us in our continuous R&D efforts aimed at developing state-of-the-art technologies.

Where continuous drying of free-flowing bulk materials is required, the Krauss-Maffei plate dryer is the right choice. It has been proven in over 400 applications and is available in atmospheric, gas-tight or vacuum configurations.

The ANDRITZ Gouda drum dryer with its continuous indirect drying method, allows short heat retention times while evaporating all the liquid within a single rotation of the drum. It not only virtually eliminates the risk of damaging the product but also enables the product to keep its unique properties like taste, smell, texture, etc.

The HD series uses a central, top-driven helical mixer in a conical vessel, enabling smooth and efficient mixing of the dry material. Even sticky products can be processed due to the special design of the mixing screw.

ANDRITZ Gouda’s paddle dryer is a continuous indirect dryer, offering a once-through drying technology that avoids back-mixing. Any residual moisture level can be chosen for the end product. This makes the machine suitable for (partial) sludge drying.