From dairy and whey to brewing, wine, grain, wood and biomass, pulp, pharmaceuticals, specialty chemicals, sludge, recycling, minerals and battery materials, GEM Drytech designs dryer systems around the material, evaporation load, product quality and Austrian plant conditions.
Austria combines high-value dairy and food processing, brewing and distilling, wine and fruit, a large forestry, timber and pulp sector, pharmaceuticals and specialty chemicals, and significant mineral, refractory and metallurgical industries. Moisture affects product quality, storage, transport cost, energy consumption and plant throughput.
Each system is sized around feed moisture, target moisture, evaporation load, product sensitivity, available heat, hygiene, dust control and emissions — together with the CE conformity route, ASchG and AM-VO duties and the site’s Betriebsanlagengenehmigung under the Gewerbeordnung 1994.
GEM Drytech Systems LLP engineers continuous industrial dryers — belt, apron, paddle, rotary, fluid-bed and related technologies — for Austrian process plants across 18 focus industries. Every project starts from the material: a Dried & Tested pilot trial establishes real drying behaviour before equipment is specified, and the design is built around Austrian utilities, EU conformity requirements and the plant’s permit position.
230 V / 400 V at 50 Hz, typically TN-S or TN-C-S, with TAEV technical connection conditions for the grid connection. Motor efficiency classes follow Regulation (EU) 2019/1781.
Natural gas, biomass, thermal oil, steam, electricity, heat pumps, recovered process heat and, on many Austrian sites, a district heating connection that changes the operating cost case.
CE marking, EU Declaration of Conformity, technical file and German-language instructions; harmonised standards EN ISO 12100, EN ISO 13849-1 and EN 60204-1 are commonly applied.
GewO 1994 plant permit, IG-L air quality duties, EG-K limits for boiler plant, AWG 2002 for waste-derived streams, and IED 2010/75/EU with BAT conclusions for larger installations.
Explore the Austria-specific products and by-products across all 18 focus industries. Final selection depends on moisture, capacity, heat source, hygiene requirements, combustible dust, emissions and downstream use.
Product: Food Powders, Vegetable Ingredients, Fruit Ingredients, Starch Products, Protein Ingredients, Functional Food Ingredients
Product: Whey Ingredients, Dairy Proteins, Milk-Based Ingredients, Cheese Ingredients, Lactose Products, Nutrition Powders
Product: Wheat, Barley, Corn, Oats, Rye, Flour Ingredients, Cereal Products, Grain-Based Food Ingredients
Product: Malt Ingredients, Brewing Ingredients, Yeast Products, Distillery Ingredients, Fermentation-Derived Ingredients
Product: Wine Ingredients, Grape Ingredients, Fruit Powders, Fruit Extract Ingredients, Dried Fruit Components
Product: Feed Pellets, Protein Meal, Grain-Based Feed, Pet Food, Functional Feed Ingredients, Specialty Nutrition Products
Product: APIs, Pharmaceutical Intermediates, Excipients, Granules, Biotech Ingredients, Fermentation-Derived Ingredients
Product: Nutraceutical Powders, Botanical Extracts, Herbal Ingredients, Functional Powders, Plant Extract Ingredients
Product: Specialty Chemicals, Fine Chemicals, Salts, Crystals, Intermediates, Specialty Powders, Inorganic Chemicals
Product: Wood Chips, Wood Pellets, Biomass Fuel, Briquette Feedstock, Dried Wood Fibre, Bioenergy Feedstock
Product: Cellulose Fibre, Pulp Fibre, Specialty Cellulose, Paper Fibre Products, Biomass Fibre
Product: Dried Sludge Granules, Dried Biosolids, Recovered Solids, Alternative Fuel Feedstock
Product: RDF, SRF, Recovered Fibre, Recycled Fuel Feedstock, Recovered Organic Solids, Recovered Mineral Feedstock
Product: Mineral Fertilizer, Organic Fertilizer, Soil Amendments, Recovered Nutrient Products, Specialty Salts, Biofertilizer
Product: Limestone, Lime Products, Gypsum, Mineral Powders, Construction Mineral Ingredients, Specialty Minerals
Product: Ceramic Feedstock, Clay Materials, Refractory Powders, Silica, Mineral Fillers, Glass-Industry Mineral Ingredients
Product: Metal-Bearing Materials, Alloy Powders, Mineral Additives, Process Powders, Recovered Metal Feedstock
Product: Graphite, Carbon Materials, Cathode Materials, Anode Materials, Battery Precursors, Specialty Mineral Powders
For Austrian processors, final moisture can influence stability, flowability, purity, texture, storage, packaging, energy use and downstream processing. The dryer is selected around the product requirement rather than a fixed machine type.
Drying can stabilize wet co-products and process solids, reduce handling and transport burden and support recovery routes where the material, temperature limits and final-use requirements make thermal drying appropriate.
Focused on industries where moisture directly affects product quality, process stability, throughput, storage, purity, energy use, emissions, transport or the value of a wet process stream.
Product: Food Powders, Vegetable Ingredients, Fruit Ingredients, Starch Products, Protein Ingredients, Functional Food Ingredients
By-Product: Food Solids, Vegetable Pulp, Fruit Pomace, Peel, Press Cake, Off-Spec Product
Product: Whey Ingredients, Dairy Proteins, Milk-Based Ingredients, Cheese Ingredients, Lactose Products, Nutrition Powders
By-Product: Whey Solids, Cheese Fines, Milk Solids, Dairy Filter Cake, Protein Residues, Lactose-Rich Solids
Product: Wheat, Barley, Corn, Oats, Rye, Flour Ingredients, Cereal Products, Grain-Based Food Ingredients
By-Product: Wheat Bran, Grain Fines, Milling Residues, Broken Grain, Husk, Cereal Dust
Product: Malt Ingredients, Brewing Ingredients, Yeast Products, Distillery Ingredients, Fermentation-Derived Ingredients
By-Product: Brewer's Spent Grain, Yeast Solids, Fermentation Solids, Stillage Solids, Wet Grain Residues
Product: Wine Ingredients, Grape Ingredients, Fruit Powders, Fruit Extract Ingredients, Dried Fruit Components
By-Product: Grape Pomace, Fruit Pomace, Peel, Seeds, Press Cake, Juice-Processing Residues
Product: Feed Pellets, Protein Meal, Grain-Based Feed, Pet Food, Functional Feed Ingredients, Specialty Nutrition Products
By-Product: Feed Fines, Wet Feed Mash, Protein Residues, Pellet Rejects, Off-Spec Pet Food, Fibre-Rich Feed Residues
Product: APIs, Pharmaceutical Intermediates, Excipients, Granules, Biotech Ingredients, Fermentation-Derived Ingredients
By-Product: API Filter Cake, Fermentation Biomass, Wet Granules, Biological Residues, Process Cake
Product: Nutraceutical Powders, Botanical Extracts, Herbal Ingredients, Functional Powders, Plant Extract Ingredients
By-Product: Botanical Press Cake, Extraction Residues, Herbal Fibre, Plant Residues, Wet Granules
Product: Specialty Chemicals, Fine Chemicals, Salts, Crystals, Intermediates, Specialty Powders, Inorganic Chemicals
By-Product: Chemical Filter Cake, Salt Cake, Wet Crystals, Reaction Residue, Process Sludge, Wet Chemical Solids
Product: Wood Chips, Wood Pellets, Biomass Fuel, Briquette Feedstock, Dried Wood Fibre, Bioenergy Feedstock
By-Product: Sawdust, Bark, Wood Shavings, Forest Residues, Biomass Fines, Agricultural Residues
Product: Cellulose Fibre, Pulp Fibre, Specialty Cellulose, Paper Fibre Products, Biomass Fibre
By-Product: Paper Mill Sludge, Pulp Fibre Residue, Deinking Residues, Reject Fibre, Cellulose Fines
Product: Dried Sludge Granules, Dried Biosolids, Recovered Solids, Alternative Fuel Feedstock
By-Product: Industrial Sludge, Sewage Sludge, ETP Sludge, Dewatered Sludge Cake, Biosolids
Product: RDF, SRF, Recovered Fibre, Recycled Fuel Feedstock, Recovered Organic Solids, Recovered Mineral Feedstock
By-Product: Wet Recovered Fibre, Organic Fraction, Sorting Residues, Wash Sludge, RDF/SRF Fractions
Product: Mineral Fertilizer, Organic Fertilizer, Soil Amendments, Recovered Nutrient Products, Specialty Salts, Biofertilizer
By-Product: Fertilizer Fines, Organic Filter Cake, Digestate Solids, Wet Salts, Nutrient-Rich Residues
Product: Limestone, Lime Products, Gypsum, Mineral Powders, Construction Mineral Ingredients, Specialty Minerals
By-Product: Mineral Filter Cake, Wash Sludge, Stone Fines, Gypsum Residues, Mineral Fines
Product: Ceramic Feedstock, Clay Materials, Refractory Powders, Silica, Mineral Fillers, Glass-Industry Mineral Ingredients
By-Product: Ceramic Slurry Solids, Clay Sludge, Silica Sludge, Filter Cake, Mineral Fines
Product: Graphite, Carbon Materials, Cathode Materials, Anode Materials, Battery Precursors, Specialty Mineral Powders
By-Product: Graphite Filter Cake, Carbon Fines, Precursor Cake, Process Residues, Specialty Powder Fines
Long-term project relationships, successful commissioning, performance validation and customer support across international markets. These references are from existing GEM Drytech projects outside Austria and are shown as evidence of delivery capability.
Drying equipment for Austrian plants must balance process results, CE machinery conformity, ASchG workplace safety duties, explosion protection, environmental permits, available utilities and industrial integration.
Representative Austrian material can be tested to define drying behaviour and scale-up parameters before capital is committed.
Select continuous belt, apron, paddle, rotary, fluid-bed or other dryer technologies based on the process requirement rather than a fixed machine type.
Engineer heating, airflow and residence time around the evaporation duty, available utilities, heat recovery options and Austrian energy costs.
Support consistent output for production lines handling dairy, brewing, wood, pulp, chemical, mineral and sludge streams.
Coordinate feeding, conveying, drying, cooling, exhaust treatment, controls and downstream interfaces with the existing plant.
Identify applicable CE conformity routes, ASchG and AM-VO duties, ATEX zoning and GewO 1994 Betriebsanlagengenehmigung requirements during engineering.
Define the engineering basis and the applicable Austrian and EU machinery, workplace, food, pharmaceutical and environmental requirements early in the project.
Material, feed rate, incoming and required final moisture, operating hours, product use, available heat, 400 V / 50 Hz electrical supply and plant location.
Test a representative wet material to establish actual drying behaviour and a realistic scale-up basis.
Define evaporation load, airflow, controls, hygienic design, dust and ignition risk, CE conformity route and the inspection duties arising under ASchG and AM-VO.
Coordinate the EU Declaration of Conformity and technical file, German-language documentation, site installation, commissioning, operator training and the plant's Betriebsanlagengenehmigung evidence.
Process, engineering, safety, conformity, environmental, operational and procurement points typically established before selecting an industrial dryer for Austria.
We design around food and ingredients, dairy and whey, grain and milling, brewing, malting and distilling, wine and fruit, animal feed and pet food, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, nutraceuticals and botanicals, specialty and fine chemicals, wood and biomass, pulp and paper, industrial and municipal sludge, recycling and circular materials, fertilizer, minerals and lime, ceramics and refractories, metals, and battery and advanced materials.
Yes. Dried & Tested trials use representative material to assess the moisture target, residence time, product behaviour and scale-up requirements before equipment is specified.
Machinery placed on the EU market currently falls under Directive 2006/42/EC, transposed in Austria by the Maschinen-Sicherheitsverordnung (MSV 2010). Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 applies from 20 January 2027 and will replace it. Harmonised standards commonly used include EN ISO 12100 for risk assessment, EN ISO 13849-1 for safety-related control functions and EN 60204-1 for the electrical equipment of machines. The actual scope must be confirmed for each machine.
Yes, where applicable EU harmonisation legislation covers the equipment. Depending on scope this can include the Machinery Directive, the Low Voltage Directive 2014/35/EU, the EMC Directive 2014/30/EU, ATEX 2014/34/EU and the Pressure Equipment Directive 2014/68/EU. The supply should include an EU Declaration of Conformity, a technical file and instructions in German.
The ArbeitnehmerInnenschutzgesetz (ASchG) sets the occupational safety framework, with the Arbeitsmittelverordnung (AM-VO) covering work equipment, including inspection and testing duties, and the Arbeitsstättenverordnung (AStV) covering the workplace. The employer carries out the Evaluierung (hazard assessment), and the Arbeitsinspektorat is the competent authority. Guarding, emergency-stop function, access control and operator instruction in German should be established for the actual installation.
Pressure equipment falls under Directive 2014/68/EU, transposed in Austria by the Druckgeräteverordnung. Steam boilers and associated combustion plant may also fall under Austrian boiler and emission rules such as the Emissionsschutzgesetz für Kesselanlagen (EG-K). Classification, conformity assessment, recurring inspection and operator qualification must be reviewed per scope — a dryer is not automatically a pressure vessel.
Industrial installations in Austria generally require a Betriebsanlagengenehmigung under the Gewerbeordnung 1994 (§ 74 ff.). Depending on the activity, air quality duties under the Immissionsschutzgesetz-Luft (IG-L), boiler plant emission limits under the EG-K, waste duties under the Abfallwirtschaftsgesetz 2002 (AWG), wastewater emission ordinances and the Industrial Emissions Directive 2010/75/EU with its BAT conclusions may apply. Larger projects may trigger an environmental impact assessment under the UVP-G 2000.
Food business operators are subject to Regulation (EC) 852/2004 on the hygiene of foodstuffs and, nationally, the Lebensmittelsicherheits- und Verbraucherschutzgesetz (LMSVG), with AGES supporting official control. Dryers should offer cleanable product-contact surfaces, drainable construction and contamination control. Hygienic design principles in EN 1672-2 and EHEDG guidance are commonly applied, and food-contact materials should comply with Regulation (EC) 1935/2004.
Pharmaceutical manufacturing in Austria follows EU GMP as set out in EudraLex Volume 4, with the Austrian Medicines and Medical Devices Agency (BASG/AGES Medizinmarktaufsicht) as competent authority. Drying equipment is typically specified around cleanability, material certification and traceability, contained handling where needed, and a qualification approach covering design, installation, operation and performance.
Yes. Dairy and whey streams are evaluated on solids content, heat sensitivity, stickiness and hygroscopic behaviour, target residual moisture, hygienic design and the cleaning regime required by the plant.
Yes, subject to material characteristics, particle size, actual evaporation duty, ignition and dust risk, final fuel use and the available heat source. Solid biofuel quality classes are defined in the EN ISO 17225 series, and pellet certification schemes reference those classes.
Yes. Sludge drying is evaluated on wet feed rate, dry solids content, dewatered cake behaviour, target dryness, odour, exhaust treatment and the permitted disposal or recovery pathway. In Austria, sewage sludge is largely routed to incineration or co-incineration, and the federal waste management plan sets out phosphorus recovery obligations for larger treatment plants, which influences the dryness target and the product form.
Austrian industrial supply is 230 V single-phase and 400 V three-phase at 50 Hz, typically TN-S or TN-C-S. Low-voltage installations follow ÖVE/ÖNORM E 8101, grid connection follows the TAEV technical connection conditions, and the electrical equipment of the machine follows EN 60204-1. Motors, panels, VFDs, PLC/HMI, protective devices, earthing and instrumentation are specified against project requirements and customer plant standards; motor efficiency classes follow Regulation (EU) 2019/1781.
Grain dust, wood dust, food powders, graphite and some chemical powders require a process-specific dust and ignition risk review. Equipment for explosive atmospheres falls under Directive 2014/34/EU (ATEX), and workplace duties follow Directive 1999/92/EC, implemented in Austria by the Verordnung explosionsfähige Atmosphären (VEXAT), which requires zone classification and an explosion protection document. EN 1127-1 covers basic concepts for explosion prevention. No single universal certification should be assumed to apply.
Yes. The best heating source depends on evaporation load, required process temperature, hygiene constraints, energy price, utility availability, emission limits and any site heat recovery or district heating connection. Low-temperature belt drying in particular can often use recovered or waste heat, which changes the operating cost case significantly.
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