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05.06.2025  |  258x
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Drying Technologies for Milk, Whey and Vegan Raw Materials
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  • Dr. Georg Fröhlich, Glatt Ingenieurtechnik

Optimized Product Properties for Plant-based Milk Alternatives

Drying Technologies for Milk, Whey and Vegan Raw Materials

Enhancing of products like animal proteins and peptides, plant-based instant beverages, lactose, enzymes, microorganisms, etc.
Energy saving process options.

Our expertise in particle design and plant engineering for functional powders, granules and pellets focuses on a wide range of products from almost all bulk solids processing industries.
This also applies to milk, whey and vegan raw materials.

There are numerous options for optimizing and functionalizing milk products, plant-based milk alternatives and ingredients:
  • dry liquids into free-flowing granulates, such as for plant-based instant drinks
  • produce instant products, food supplements, cosmetics with perfectly adjusted solubility like collagen and animal proteins
  • dry and stabilize microorganisms like probiotics and bacterials
  • granulate powder into tabletable agglomerates like lactose
  • control release of active ingredients, for example microorganisms like probiotics and bacterials
  • stabilize oxidation-sensitive or volatile substances through microencapsulation such as aromas, vitamins, fats and essential oils
  • stabilize microorganisms and make them dust-free and protect the environment from allergens like enzymes, probiotics and bacterials
  • improve storage stability through coating for enzymes, probiotics, bacterials
  • create functional granules and pellets with defined properties made from solid and liquid raw materials with fluidized bed and spouted bed technology

Animal proteins, peptides

  • Unique Selling Point by combining processes
  • Gentle processes for improving animal raw materials
  • Perfect solubility and high functionality
  • Small plant footprint at the same throughput

Plant-based instant beverages

  • Gentle processes for improvingplant-based raw materials
  • Optimally porous and loose agglomerates
  • Perfect wetting and dispersing properties
  • High microbiological stability

Lactose

  • Perfect tableting properties
  • Continuous drying and spray agglomeration
  • Ideal agglomerates for direct compression
  • Tailored bulk density, granule size, etc.

Enzymes, microorganisms, etc.

  • Particle design through gentle processing
  • Protection against allergens
  • Compact, dosable and abrasion-resistant granules
  • Preservation of functionality and activity

Energy saving

  • Reduced process temperatures
  • Combination of process steps
  • Drying by using superheated steam
  • Hot-melt process instead of dewatering

Unique in particle design by the complete supply chain from the product idea to production from one source: Technology transfer, plant design and factory engineering for functional powders, granules and pellets.

Benefits:

  • Access to innovative technologies with interdisciplinary know-how and many years of expertise.
  • Quickly competitive by extremely short development times for new particle designs and seamless scale-up.
  • Solutions due to specific needs: Customized production processes. Minimal risk. Maximum flexibility.

Secure our support to realize your product idea and access to innovative technologies. Benefit from extremely short development times for new particle and product forms without having to invest in your own resources for testing technology and personnel. The laboratory and pilot tests in our Technology Center are your fastest and most reliable route to obtain results for the fundamental feasibility of your product requirements and sample quantities for performance evaluation or marketing. Trust in the interdisciplinary knowledge of our experts with many years of experience for the modification and optimal combination of process parameters. Put your investment on a secure basis and minimize your risk with our comprehensive, interdisciplinary engineering from a single source right up to the commissioning of your plant. Use our contract manufacturing until the start of your own production. Time-to-market from the first trial to the handover of your plant, tailored to the requirements of your products, that is the challenge and also our daily demand. Our process innovation as well as research and development secure your future. You have only one interface to this unique value chain and expertise: Glatt.

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Glatt Ingenieurtechnik GmbH
Glatt Ingenieurtechnik GmbH
Glatt is specialized in intelligent particle design for the generation and functionalization of powders and granulates with defined, adjustable properties. The focus is on particles and powders for pigments, catalytic, ceramic or battery materials as well as for granules and pellets as additives for e.g. industrial salts, detergents and cleaning agents, fertilizers, pesticides, food, feed, dietary supplements and pharmaceuticals. Encapsulation of flavors, enzymes, vitamins, microorganisms, probiotics or fatty acids (PUFA) is just as possible as encapsulation of essential oils and other active, sensitive substances to be protected. With Glatt APPtec®, a unique technology for spray calcination, it is possible to generate, coat and then calcine particles in a pulsing hot gas stream in a single process step. As a pioneer in fluid bed and spouted bed technologies, Glatt masters these important processes for the formulation and optimization of particle properties through defined spray agglomeration, spray granulation, spray coating or (micro)encapsulation as well as through combinations of these processes. Also in the high temperature range. Glatt supports the product idea from the early phase of product formulation through process development to scale-up to production scale. Under the leadership of the Glatt Process & Plant Engineering teams, customized production plants for nutrition, fine chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and biotech applications are successfully planned and commissioned. Worldwide. Whether based on powder synthesis, fluid bed or spouted bed technology, Glatt also offers certified contract manufacturing for customers without their own production capacities.
Last update: 14.03.2025

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