Industrial Drying Plant Manufacturer in Brazil
Explore the technologyLooking for drying plants manufacturers in Brazil? STRONGA builds FlowDrya lines to order at its Hertfordshire works and supplies them to Brazil — see the regulatory and economic context below.
The FlowDrya continuous-flow drying plant is manufactured to order at STRONGA's Hertfordshire works and supplied to processors, foresters and energy users here, though we hold no commissioned plant in the country to point to. An industrial dryer earns its place by turning wet, low-value organic and waste streams into a storable, saleable dry product – a biomass fuel to feed the country's large bioenergy economy, a treated organic residue that meets the national rules, or a feedstock for further processing. The same rugged moving-floor platform handles many materials, and each plant is built for the recovery-first direction the solid-waste law now enforces as open dumps close.
Supplying Brazil
We supply Brazil from our Hertfordshire works — we have no documented FlowDrya installation in Brazil yet.
Regulatory context
The National Solid Waste Policy (Política Nacional de Resíduos Sólidos, Lei 12.305/2010) is the framework statute for waste in Brazil. It fixes a binding order of priority — non-generation, reduction, reuse, recycling, treatment and only then the environmentally adequate final disposal of the residual rejects — and expressly recognises energy recovery from waste, so a drying-and-recovery operation that turns wet residue into a fuel or a soil product sits high in that hierarchy rather than heading for burial.
Source: https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2007-2010/2010/lei/l12305.htm · checked 2026-08
The 2020 sanitation framework law (Lei 14.026/2020) amended the solid-waste policy to set firm, staggered deadlines for every municipality to close its open dumps (lixões) and adopt environmentally adequate final disposal, with the final tranche — the smallest municipalities, those under 50,000 inhabitants — due by August 2024. Burial of untreated waste is being closed off nationwide, so an operator that keeps generating wet residue needs a treatment and recovery route such as drying.
Source: https://www12.senado.leg.br/noticias/materias/2024/08/02/na-data-limite-para-fim-de-lixoes-destino-dos-residuos-ainda-desafia-municipios · checked 2026-08
Co-processing waste and biomass as alternative fuel and raw material in cement (clinker) kilns is a licensed recovery route in Brazil: it was established by CONAMA Resolution 264/1999 and updated by CONAMA Resolution 499/2020, which set the licensing criteria and atmospheric-emission limits for burning treated waste-derived and biomass fuels in place of fossil fuel. A dried, specification-consistent fuel is exactly what these kilns can accept.
Source: https://ambiensys.com.br/post/resolucao-conama-264-1999-coprocessamento-residuos · checked 2026-08
Treated organic residues placed on land are governed by CONAMA Resolution 498/2020, which sets the criteria for producing and applying biossólido (treated sewage sludge and comparable biosolids) to soils. It grades the material by pathogen reduction into Class A and Class B and lists thermal drying among the processes that achieve the stricter Class A standard, so drying is not only a handling step but a recognised route to the higher-value, less-restricted grade.
Source: https://salusengenharia.com/2020/09/02/resolucao-no-498-de-19-de-agosto-de-2020/ · checked 2026-08
With no separate Brazilian solid-recovered-fuel specification, producers and cement kilns characterise waste-derived and biomass fuels against the European ISO standards that local laboratories run — EN ISO 21640 for solid recovered fuel classification, the EN ISO 17225 series for solid biofuels, and EN ISO 18134 for moisture determination — so a dried fuel is traded on a documented calorific value and moisture grade.
Source: https://www.iso.org/standard/71309.html · checked 2026-08
Applicable standards: EN ISO 21640, EN ISO 17225-4, EN ISO 18134, CONAMA 498/2020 biosolids (Classes A/B).
Economic context
There is a large domestic market for a dried, specification-consistent alternative fuel. Brazil runs one of the world's biggest cement co-processing sectors: in 2024 alternative fuels — biomass, tyres and treated waste — reached about 30 per cent of the cement industry's thermal energy matrix, consuming roughly 3 million tonnes of waste and biomass and avoiding some 2,8 million tonnes of CO2 (ABCP/SNIC). That demand rewards a low, even moisture and a documented calorific value.
Source: https://abcp.org.br/vendas-de-cimento-2025/ · checked 2026-08
Bought-in power is a real cost: recent data put Brazil's weighted-average industrial electricity price at R$ 442,05/MWh, which favours drying systems built around recovered kiln, boiler or flue heat rather than grid electricity.
Source: https://custobrasil.org.br/projetos/acesso-a-energia-eletrica-competitiva/ · checked 2026-08
Renewable fuels earn a genuine incentive. Under RenovaBio (Lei 13.576/2017), the national biofuels policy administered by the ANP, certified producers — including biomethane producers upgrading biogas — issue tradable decarbonisation credits (CBIOs), a real revenue stream that helps fund the digestion and drying equipment a site still needs.
Source: https://www.gov.br/anp/pt-br/assuntos/renovabio · checked 2026-08
Brazil is a bioenergy heavyweight, which underpins domestic demand for dried solid biofuels: its energy matrix reached 50 per cent renewability in 2024 and its electricity matrix 88,2 per cent, with sugarcane bagasse and wood among the largest biomass sources (EPE, Balanço Energético Nacional). Dried wood chip, bark and biomass feed straight into that established fuel economy.
Source: https://www.epe.gov.br/pt/imprensa/noticias/epe-publica-o-relatorio-sintese-do-balanco-energetico-nacional-2025 · checked 2026-08
Worked illustration (assumptions stated):
The case rests on three local realities. First, demand: the country is a bioenergy heavyweight, its energy matrix 50 per cent renewable in 2024, so a dried biomass fuel has a deep market. Second, energy: industrial power averages R$ 442,05/MWh, so a plant built around recovered process heat rather than bought-in electricity runs far cheaper. Third, disposal is closing off – the sanitation framework required municipalities to end open-dump disposal on deadlines running to 2024, so a dry, stable product has an outlet where a wet one bound for a lixão does not. Assumptions: energy prices, heat source and material values are site-specific.
Figures are indicative and were last reviewed August 2026; energy and disposal prices move — contact us for a current assessment.
Industrial Drying Plant Manufacturer in Brazil — FAQ
Do you have an industrial drying plant installed here?
Not yet. We will not imply a reference we do not hold; the identical FlowDrya platform is proven in Britain drying biomass, bark, woodchip and digestate, and that is what a project here would receive.
What materials can one FlowDrya plant dry?
The moving-floor design handles woodchip, bark, digestate fibre, poultry litter, refuse-derived fuel and other organic and waste streams, so a single rugged platform suits a processor with more than one material.
How does the plant lower running costs?
It is designed to run on recovered heat from a kiln, boiler or flue rather than grid electricity, which matters where industrial power is dear, and its stop-start floor keeps live running hours low.
Does drying support the country's energy goals?
Yes. A dried biomass or waste-derived fuel feeds an energy system already 50 per cent renewable, displacing fossil fuel while turning a residue into a resource.
Is the plant suited to local conditions?
It is built for continuous industrial duty and can be specified for corrosive or abrasive feeds, and it integrates with an existing heat source, so it fits a wide range of processing sites.
What throughput does a FlowDrya plant offer?
Capacity is matched to the feedstock and the target moisture; the modular deck scales to industrial duty, and its long expected service life spreads the capital cost across decades.
How long does a FlowDrya plant last?
Its simple moving-floor mechanism has few wearing parts, giving an expected service life measured in decades and a low lifetime cost of ownership across that span.
Can the plant handle seasonal feedstock swings?
Yes. Continuous-flow drying decouples output quality from weather, so a processor keeps producing a uniform dry product through wet months when open stockpiles would simply reabsorb water.