Industrial Drying Plant Manufacturer in Sweden
Explore the technologyLooking for drying plants manufacturers in Sweden? STRONGA builds FlowDrya lines to order at its Hertfordshire works and supplies them to Sweden — see the regulatory and economic context below.
We can point to delivered work here. FlowDrya is a British-built industrial drying platform, engineered and assembled to order at STRONGA's Hertfordshire works, and our Swedish installation at Kisebo Lantbruk AB, listed above, runs a FlowDrya that dries FSC-certified pine woodchips on recovered pyrolysis heat for biochar production. Biomass is the largest single source of energy in this country and the mainstay of its district-heat network, but a wet feedstock – sawmill residues, forestry brash, screened fibre – can arrive as wet as 75 per cent moisture and burns poorly. FlowDrya conditions such material on a deep, agitated moving floor, drawing about 4X less electrical power than continuously running belt dryers, so a variable biomass stream is brought to a steady, low moisture ready for a boiler, a pellet press or a pyrolysis reactor, on a platform engineered for a service life in excess of 30 years.
Installations in Sweden
Regulatory context
Swedish waste law rests on the Environmental Code (miljobalken) and the Waste Ordinance (avfallsforordning 2020:614) issued under it. Chapter 15 of the Code sets the waste hierarchy, giving reuse, recycling and other recovery priority over disposal, and the ordinance operationalises it: separately collected material intended for recovery may not simply be incinerated, and municipalities must reach material-recovery rates of 55 per cent by 2025, 60 per cent by 2030 and 65 per cent by 2035. Turning a wet residue into a fuel or a stabilised soil product is a recovery route the law ranks above burial.
Source: https://www.riksdagen.se/sv/dokument-och-lagar/dokument/svensk-forfattningssamling/avfallsforordning-2020614_sfs-2020-614/ · checked 2026-08
Sweden bans the landfilling of waste that a dryer helps divert. Under the Ordinance on the Landfill of Waste (forordning 2001:512 om deponering av avfall), section 8 prohibits depositing sorted combustible waste, a ban in force since 2002, and organic waste, banned since 2005. Exemptions are narrow and granted case by case by the county board or the Environmental Protection Agency. Because burial is closed to these fractions, the residual and organic streams must instead be recovered as fuel or soil products, which is the single strongest legal driver for drying wet residues in this market.
Source: https://www.riksdagen.se/sv/dokument-och-lagar/dokument/svensk-forfattningssamling/forordning-2001512-om-deponering-av-avfall_sfs-2001-512/ · checked 2026-08
The incineration and co-incineration of waste is governed by the Ordinance on the Incineration of Waste (forordning 2013:253 om forbranning av avfall), which implements the EU Industrial Emissions Directive. It covers dedicated energy-from-waste plants and co-incineration installations alike, and sections 67 to 70 set specific emission limits and permit conditions for cement kilns burning waste-derived fuel. A cement kiln or power plant firing refuse- or solid-recovered fuel operates under this ordinance, and a dried, consistent, low-moisture fuel is what keeps such a plant reliably inside those limits.
Source: https://www.riksdagen.se/sv/dokument-och-lagar/dokument/svensk-forfattningssamling/forordning-2013253-om-forbranning-av-avfall_sfs-2013-253/ · checked 2026-08
Digestate and compost sold as soil products are quality-assured through the voluntary SPCR 120 (biogodsel) and SPCR 152 (compost) certification schemes run by RISE, the Research Institutes of Sweden, as an independent certifier. The rules require that the product is made from clean, source-sorted, biologically degradable substrates from the food or feed chain, that it is hygienised, and that it meets limits on heavy-metal content and visible contaminants, verified through a qualification year and external audits. A dried, stabilised material holds those limits far more readily than a wet, actively degrading feedstock.
Source: https://www.ri.se/en/agriculture/service/certification-of-biofertilizer-spcr-120 · checked 2026-08
Applicable standards: EN ISO 21640, EN ISO 17225-4, EN ISO 18134, SPCR 120 (biogodsel), SPCR 152 (compost).
Economic context
Sweden runs one of the world's highest carbon prices. The carbon tax (koldioxidskatt) was introduced in 1991 at SEK 250 per tonne of carbon dioxide and had risen to SEK 1,200 per tonne by 2021, applied to fossil fuels used outside the EU Emissions Trading System; installations already covered by the EU ETS are exempt from the domestic tax to avoid double charging. Every tonne of fossil fuel a dried waste- or biomass-derived fuel displaces therefore avoids a real and steep carbon cost.
Source: https://www.reccessary.com/en/reccpedia/carbon-tax-in-sweden · checked 2026-08
The Swedish carbon tax is among the highest in the world. In 2026 it stood at 133.17 euros per tonne of CO2, second only to Norway, giving Swedish industry one of the strongest financial incentives in Europe to substitute coal, coke or oil with a recovered fuel or to raise process heat from biomass rather than fossil sources.
Source: https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/eu/carbon-taxes-europe/ · checked 2026-08
Sweden's cement industry is a large and demanding outlet for waste-derived and biomass fuel. Heidelberg Materials' Cementa plant at Slite on Gotland, which supplies around 75 per cent of the cement used for concrete in Sweden, has replaced roughly 40 per cent of the coal it once burned with refuse-derived fuel and waste wood, and plans a carbon-capture facility to capture up to 1.8 million tonnes of CO2 a year, targeted for full-scale operation by 2030. A specification-consistent, low-moisture fuel with an even calorific value is exactly what such a kiln will accept.
Source: https://bioenergyinternational.com/heidelbergcement-to-build-worlds-first-carbon-neutral-cement-plant-in-sweden/ · checked 2026-08
Sweden diverts almost all of its waste from landfill and recovers the energy through district heating. Less than 1 per cent of municipal waste is landfilled, and 34 waste-to-energy plants supply heat to about 1,445,000 households and electricity to about 780,000 households through the country's extensive district-heating networks. That infrastructure creates a deep, established market for a dry, high-calorific, consistent fuel and a clear economic penalty for shipping wet, low-grade material.
Source: https://www.districtenergy.org/blogs/district-energy/2022/08/17/how-sweden-sends-just-1-of-its-trash-to-landfills · checked 2026-08
Worked illustration (assumptions stated):
The argument is avoided fossil fuel, cheap heat and a deep home market. A dried biomass fuel carries more energy per tonne and stores without rotting, so each tonne displaces more coal, oil or gas. That matters under one of the world's highest carbon prices: the carbon tax had climbed to SEK 1,200 per tonne of CO2 by 2021, with EU Emissions Trading System installations exempt. Demand is real and established: less than 1 per cent of waste is landfilled and 34 waste-to-energy plants already feed the district-heat networks, while the Slite cement kiln burns waste wood and refuse-derived fuel in place of coal. Because a FlowDrya sips power and runs on recovered heat – as the Kisebo line does – conversion stays cheap. Assumptions stated: feedstock, heat source and offtake govern payback.
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 Sweden — FAQ
Do you have a Swedish installation?
Yes. Our Kisebo Lantbruk project is a working FlowDrya line drying woodchips for biochar, and it is listed among the installations on this page alongside our British reference sites.
What feedstocks can you dry?
Sawmill residues, forestry brash, screened wood fibre, digestate and other biomass streams, some arriving as wet as 75 per cent moisture. The deep, agitated bed handles a variable, non-homogenous feed and brings it to a steady, low moisture.
How much electrical power does the plant use?
Its intermittent, stop-start moving floor draws about 4X less electrical power than belt dryers that run continuously, and it is designed to run on recovered heat rather than bought-in energy.
How does carbon policy strengthen the case?
Every tonne of fossil fuel a dried biomass displaces avoids a carbon tax that reached SEK 1,200 per tonne of CO2, one of the highest carbon prices in the world, on top of the fuel saving.
Is there a real market for the dried fuel?
Yes. Biomass is the country's largest energy source and drives its district heating, less than 1 per cent of waste is landfilled, and 34 waste-to-energy plants and cement kilns such as Slite provide established demand for a consistent, dried fuel.
How long does the platform last?
With few moving parts and a robust hydraulic moving floor, a FlowDrya is engineered for a service life in excess of 30 years, needing modest maintenance and protecting the operator's capital across decades of dependable, continuous duty, whether feeding a briquetting press, a pelletiser or a furnace.