Industrial Drying Plant Manufacturer in the United Kingdom
Explore the technologyLooking for drying plants manufacturers in the United Kingdom? STRONGA builds FlowDrya lines to order at its Hertfordshire works and supplies them to the United Kingdom — see the regulatory and economic context below.
FlowDrya is a British-built industrial drying platform, engineered and assembled to order at STRONGA's Hertfordshire works, and we supply it the length of the country. Unlike a single-feedstock machine, the FlowDrya continuous flow dryer is configured per project – bark, digestate fibre, woodchip, RDF, SRF, poultry litter or mixed waste – around one hydraulic moving-floor bed with PulseWave agitation. Our credibility here rests on delivered work: three documented British installations, drying bark, digestate fibre and woodchips in England and Wales, are listed above, and each demonstrates the same core plant a new project would receive. Every unit is fully factory-tested before it leaves the works.
Installations in the United Kingdom
Regulatory context
Operating a plant that stores, treats or dries a waste-derived or organic material normally requires an environmental permit from the Environment Agency (or the devolved regulator in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland); the operator must demonstrate technical competence and comply with the permit conditions.
Source: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/waste-environmental-permits · checked 2026-08
Exporting waste-derived fuel such as RDF or SRF abroad is controlled under the assimilated Waste Shipments Regulation: most movements to recovery in the EU require prior written notification and consent from all competent authorities (amber-list controls), and the export of domestically derived RDF to non-OECD countries is prohibited.
Source: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/importing-and-exporting-waste · checked 2026-08
Digestate from anaerobic digestion of source-segregated biodegradable waste that meets the BSI PAS 110 specification and the Anaerobic Digestate Quality Protocol can cease to be classified as waste and be marketed as a quality biofertiliser.
Source: https://www.wrap.ngo/resources/guide/bsi-pas-110-producing-quality-anaerobic-digestate · checked 2026-08
Solid recovered fuel produced from non-hazardous waste is specified and classified under EN ISO 21640, which assigns classes on net calorific value, chlorine content and mercury content so the fuel can be traded and burned consistently in cement and lime kilns.
Source: https://www.iso.org/standard/71309.html · checked 2026-08
Applicable standards: EN ISO 21640, EN ISO 17225-4, PAS 110, PAS 100.
Economic context
Landfill Tax on the disposal of most active waste in England and Northern Ireland is £130.75 per tonne from 1 April 2026 (the lower rate for inert waste is £8.65 per tonne); Scotland and Wales apply aligned devolved rates. The escalating tax is the primary economic driver for diverting material away from landfill.
Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/rates-and-allowances-landfill-tax/landfill-tax-rates-from-1-april-2013 · checked 2026-08
The median UK gate fee for non-hazardous landfill, excluding Landfill Tax, was £34 per tonne in WRAP's UK Gate Fees Report 2025-26, and median energy-from-waste gate fees rose again across all categories surveyed.
Source: https://www.wrap.ngo/resources/report/uk-gate-fees-report-2025-26 · checked 2026-08
UK manufacturers paid an average of 17.08 pence per kWh for electricity and 3.71 pence per kWh for gas in Quarter 2 2025 (DESNZ Quarterly Energy Prices, September 2025). High industrial electricity prices reward drying equipment that runs on recovered waste heat and minimal electrical power rather than direct electric heating.
Source: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/68da5e91dadf7616351e4b5e/quarterly-energy-prices-september-2025.pdf · checked 2026-08
Biomethane produced by anaerobic digestion and injected into the gas grid can receive 15 years of tariff support under the Green Gas Support Scheme, administered by Ofgem and open to new applications until 31 March 2028, improving the economics of AD sites that must also manage and dry their digestate.
Source: https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/guidance/green-gas-support-scheme-guidance · checked 2026-08
Worked illustration (assumptions stated):
The general economic argument for an industrial dryer in Britain is that heat is cheaper than electricity and disposal is dearest of all. Landfill Tax reaches £130.75 per tonne from April and landfill gate fees add around £34 per tonne, so removing water to shrink weight, avoid disposal and unlock an offtake almost always beats sending wet material away. Because British industry pays 17.08 pence per kWh for electricity but only 3.71 pence for gas, FlowDrya's design – recovered waste heat plus a stop-start floor that sips electrical power – targets the two costs that dominate a drying business case. Assumptions: the payback depends on feedstock, heat source and product value; these are national reference prices.
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 the United Kingdom — FAQ
Are FlowDrya drying plants made in the United Kingdom?
Yes. Every FlowDrya is engineered and assembled at STRONGA's Hertfordshire factory in England, then delivered and commissioned across the country.
What feedstocks can one FlowDrya plant dry?
A single configurable platform handles bark, woodchip, digestate fibre, RDF, SRF, poultry litter and mixed waste; the bed, heat interface and controls are specified to the material and throughput of each project.
What British installations can you show?
Three documented UK reference sites are listed on this page – bark in England, digestate fibre in England and woodchip in Wales – all running the same FlowDrya moving-floor technology.
What throughput can a FlowDrya achieve?
Capacity is matched to each application by sizing the bed area, airflow and heat input; a modular layout lets an operator scale up later or relocate the plant as production grows.
How is the drying air supplied?
FlowDrya accepts heat from many sources – boiler flue gas, biomass furnaces, combined-heat-and-power jackets or waste-process exhaust – transforming it into clean, controlled drying air through the machine's heat interface.
How durable is the platform?
With few moving parts and a hydraulically driven floor, it is engineered for a long service life and low maintenance, protecting the operator's capital over many years of continuous duty.
Is FlowDrya suited to year-round operation?
Yes. The robust build tolerates demanding industrial schedules, and its stop-start cycle limits wear so the dryer sustains reliable output through peak seasonal workloads.