Profile: GEA Niro specializes in the development, design and engineering of liquid & powder processing equipment for the manufacture of products in powder, granular/agglomerate form. Our products include spray dryers & coolers, fluid bed systems, freeze drying systems, solid/liquid extractors, evaporators, membrane filtration systems, agglomerators, and granulators. We supply both batch and continuous fluid bed drying systems in a wide range of sizes. Our fluid bed dryers process particulate matter between 20 and 5000 microns, with source feeds that include dry/damp powders, & filter/centrifuge cake. We supply various types of fluid bed drying that include open & closed cycle fluid bed drying systems, fluid bed spray granulation, and re-wet agglomeration. Spray drying is the most widely used industrial process for particle formation and drying. It is well suitable for the continuous production of dry solids in powder, granulate/agglomerate particle form, from liquid feedstock. The feedstock includes solutions, emulsions & pumpable suspensions. We supply Atlas freeze dryer systems and equipment utilized by the coffee & food industry. We design and deliver complete drying plants for the coffee industry. Our experience ranges over a wide variety of areas including food, dairy, chemical, ceramic, polymers & pharmaceutical products. Our chemical processing equipment such as spray and fluid bed plants have the ability to handle any plant capacity requirement. These are widely applied in ceramics, dyestuff & pigments, organic chemicals, polymers, detergent and air pollution control. We also supply dry plants used to produce powders and particulates in the pharmaceutical industry. The pharmaceutical processing equipment includes low capacity dryers designed for special potent powders, as well as industrial size plants for continuous operations performed under strict hygienic standards. Product applications include analgesics, antibiotics, enzymes, proteins, vaccines and vitamins.