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Toll Spray Drying

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Specialist toll spray drying services for chemical manufacturing, offering pilot-scale to full commercial production.

What is Toll Spray Drying?

Toll spray drying is a process where liquid chemical formulations are atomised into fine droplets and rapidly dried to form powders or granules. This method enables efficient production of consistent, free-flowing chemical products without compromising quality or stability.

Key Benefits 

  • High-quality, free-flowing chemical powders or granules
  • Flexible pilot-scale and commercial production options
  • Customisable particle size and moisture content
  • Reduces downstream processing, saving time and cost
  • Supports microencapsulation and complex chemical formulations

Our Toll Spray Drying Capabilities

Plater Group provides end-to-end toll spray drying services as part of our chemical manufacturing offerings, including:

  • Pilot-scale testing and formulation development
  • Scale-up to full commercial production
  • Integration with blending, packaging, and quality control
  • Full compliance with ISO quality systems and traceability standards

Applications

Our toll spray drying is ideal for chemical products such as catalysts, salts, speciality powders, agrochemicals, and additives. It enables the production of consistent, high-quality powders ready for downstream processing or direct supply.

Plater Group have been providing solutions to customers’ spray drying requirements for over 30 years.   

We are proud of our technical expertise, flexibility and service. We provide processing facilities for a diverse range of products for our UK and International customers. 

Plater Group aim to be beneficial business partners to our customers, finding new and exceptional drying solutions to assist our customers maximise their business potential. 

Today Plater offers its customers a range of drying services that is second to none in quality and efficiency, providing a comprehensive range of drying techniques. We have several smaller pilot plant facilities to enable us to work with you from your product development from the initial laboratory test through the pilot plant phase and on to small scale commercial production and into full scale production.

Our Spray Dryer features are detailed below


Toll Spray Drying

Scale

Identifier

Chamber

Diameter

(metres)

Direct Gas Fired

Electric Heated

Stainless Steel

Exhaust Vapour Scrubbers

Nozzle/ Rotary Atomisation

Bag Filter Units

Spray Cooling

Option

Production

SD1

5m

✔

✔

✔

✔

✘

✔

✘

Production

SD3

5m

✔

✔

✔

✔

✘

✔

✔

Production

SD9

4m

✔

✔

✔

✔

✘

✔

✘

Production

SD4

3m

✔

✔

✔

✔

✘

✔

✔

Production

SD5

3m

✔

✔

✔

✔

✘

✔

✔

Production

SD8

3.5m

✔

✔

✔

✔

✘

✔

✘

Production

SD7

2.5m

✔

✔

✔

✔

✘

✔

✘

Production

SD11

2.5m

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✘

Production

SD6

2.4m

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✘

Production

SD10

2m

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✔

✘

Pilot*

Pilot SD1

1m

✔

✔

✔

✘

✘

✘

✘

Pilot*

Pilot SD2

1m

✔

✔

✔

✘

✘

✘

✘

 

*  Using quantities of 20kg or greater on the pilot plant scale dryer, it is usually possible to determine suitable drying conditions for a given solution or slurry