Food Drying – Quality, Shelf Life & Value Creation
More than just shelf life: Food Drying as a Value Driver
Food drying is far more than a process for extending shelf life. It determines product quality, aroma preservation, color intensity, and nutrient content – from fruits, vegetables, and herbs to snacks, cereals, and by-products.
Unbeatable Advantages at a Glance:
Preservation
Gentle drying preserves vitamins, aroma, and color – quality is maintained for a long time.
Additional Revenue Stream
Production residues are processed into feed, fertilizer products, or precursors.
Utilization of Waste Products
Pomace, spent grains, and peels are specifically dried and put to meaningful use.
Complies with Legal Standards
Drying processes meet food law and hygiene requirements.
Fruit Drying
Shelf Life & Enjoyment Combined
Fruit drying is one of the most demanding areas: apples, berries, grapes, or exotic fruits must be dried uniformly to preserve aroma, structure, and vitamins. Hans Binder belt dryers enable uniform airflow and precise temperature control, resulting in dried fruits, fruit chips, or fruit powders of the highest quality.
Vegetable Drying
From Carrots to Spinach
Fresh vegetables such as carrots, spinach, or tomatoes must be gently dehydrated for further processing. Vegetable drying with Hans Binder systems enables continuous processing of large quantities, reduces losses, and ensures storability for seasonal or export-oriented markets.
Herb Drying
Aroma-preserving and color-stable
Herbs such as parsley, chives, chamomile, or peppermint require particularly gentle drying to preserve their aromas, essential oils, and colors. Hans Binder belt dryers guarantee precise moisture reduction – ideal for teas, spice blends, and high-quality food refinement.
Snacks, Cereals & Superfoods
Nutrient-preserving Processing
Whether muesli ingredients, protein snacks, or superfoods like plant-based protein and insect meal – these products require homogeneous drying at precisely controlled temperatures. This prevents clumping, ensures texture and taste, and makes the products storable.
Special Products
Extrudates, Granulates & Special Products
For products such as pet food extrudates, insect meal, maggots, or worms, food-grade systems are not required. Hans Binder supplies special container belt dryers that are economical, compact, and adaptable.
Efficiently Utilize By-products
Valuable Raw Materials from Production
In food and beverage production, large quantities of by-products accumulate daily – from pomace and spent grains to peels, residues, and production scraps. These raw materials are too valuable to be disposed of. Through professional belt drying, they are preserved and further processed into new, marketable products – from feed and fertilizers to industrial precursors.
Food Residues
Eggshells, fruit and vegetable peels, or bread scraps spoil quickly but hold enormous potential. With rapid belt drying for food residues, they are transformed into high-quality animal feed, energy-rich input materials for biogas plants, or precursors for the food industry.
Beverage Production
Pomace from juice, wine, and beer production (e.g., apple pomace, grape pomace, spent wash) must be dried promptly to prevent spoilage. Hans Binder’s container belt dryers are ideal for this: compact, weather-resistant, and suitable even for smaller producers such as winemakers, breweries, or juice presses. Drying creates storable and versatile products that generate additional revenue.
Some Like It Hot – Roasting to Perfection
In addition to food drying, Hans Binder also offers belt roasters developed for products with specific roasting requirements.
Whether hazelnuts, walnuts, or sunflower seeds – each product has its own characteristics. Thanks to their intelligent design with individual, separated, and independently heatable process zones, Hans Binder belt roasters deliver uniform roasting results with maximum aroma development.
Technology & Processes
Innovative drying,
modularly adaptable
Hans Binder offers customized belt dryers for food products, from stainless steel belt dryers for large-scale industrial applications to mobile container solutions. The systems are characterized by:
- Precise Temperature Control
- Optimized Airflow for Uniform Drying
- Modular Design and Expandability
- Energy Efficiency through Heat Recovery
Other Application Areas:
Sludges
Wood
Food products
Recycling & waste management
Agriculture
Industry
Petfood
Energy
FAQ – Food Drying
Fruits, vegetables, herbs, cereals, snacks, superfoods, by-products from production and the beverage industry.
Stainless steel belt dryers are specifically designed for high hygienic requirements in food drying. They enable large production volumes, precise temperature control, and uniform drying. The robust stainless steel construction meets food law standards and ensures a long service life even with intensive use.
Prevents spoilage, reduces disposal costs, and enables new revenue streams through sales as feed or fertilizer products.
