Poultry Manure Dryer Manufacturer in Austria
See how we dry Poultry ManureLooking for poultry manure dryer manufacturers in Austria? STRONGA builds FlowDrya lines to order at its Hertfordshire works and supplies them to Austria — see the regulatory and economic context below.
FlowDrya poultry-manure dryers are engineered to order at STRONGA's Hertfordshire works and supplied to poultry and fertiliser producers here, though no manure line is yet documented on home soil. Raw litter is wet, odorous and awkward to store or spread within the permitted windows. Drying it to a low, even moisture stabilises the material, cuts odour and concentrates the nitrogen, phosphate and potash into a documented, transportable fertiliser. Where the product is processed toward a marketable compost, the Kompostverordnung sets the quality classes it must meet, and a dried, stabilised feedstock holds those bands far more reliably than a raw, actively degrading one.
Supplying Austria
We supply Austria from our Hertfordshire works — we have no documented Poultry Manure installation in Austria yet.
Regulatory context
The Abfallwirtschaftsgesetz 2002 (AWG 2002) is Austria's framework waste statute and transposes the EU Waste Framework Directive into national law. It fixes a five-step waste hierarchy — prevention, preparation for re-use, recycling, other recovery including energy recovery, and disposal only as a last resort — so an operation that dries a wet residue into a fuel or a soil product counts as recovery and ranks above burial in the legal order.
Source: https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/GeltendeFassung.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=20002086 · checked 2026-08
Austria was an early mover against landfill. Under the Deponieverordnung, waste exceeding a strict five per cent total-organic-carbon limit — untreated municipal waste and the combustible residual fraction within it — may not be landfilled; the ban was phased in from 2004 and consolidated in the Deponieverordnung 2008. Cheap burial of wet, biodegradable residue is therefore closed off, which pushes such material toward pre-treatment, drying and recovery rather than a hole in the ground.
Source: https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/GeltendeFassung.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=20005653 · checked 2026-08
Compost and solid digestion products made from waste can shed their waste status and be marketed as quality compost once they satisfy the Kompostverordnung (BGBl. II No. 292/2001), which fixes the permitted raw materials, quality classes, labelling and contaminant limits a product must hold. A dried, stabilised feedstock holds those quality bands far more easily than a wet, actively degrading one, and is far cheaper to store and transport.
Source: https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/GeltendeFassung.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=20001486 · checked 2026-08
Applicable standards: EN ISO 21640, EN ISO 17225-4, EN ISO 18134, Kompostverordnung (BGBl. II No. 292/2001) quality classes.
Economic context
Austria prices carbon on heating, transport and small-industry fuels through its national emissions trading scheme (Nationaler Emissionszertifikatehandel, NEHG), introduced in 2022. The fixed price reached 55 euros per tonne of CO2 in 2025 and remains at 55 euros in 2026, holding until the EU ETS 2 for buildings and road transport starts in January 2028; heavy industry sits under the EU Emissions Trading System. Displacing coal or petcoke with a dried waste- or biomass-derived fuel avoids a real per-tonne charge.
Source: https://icapcarbonaction.com/en/ets/austrian-national-emissions-certificate-trading-system · checked 2026-08
Bought-in energy is a real cost. Statistics Austria reports a gross electricity price of 0.293 euros per kWh and a gross natural gas price of 0.126 euros per kWh. High delivered energy prices favour drying systems built around recovered kiln, boiler or flue heat rather than grid electricity or bought-in gas.
Source: https://www.statistik.at/en/statistics/energy-and-environment/energy/energy-prices-taxes · checked 2026-08
Electricity from solid biomass and biogas is supported under the Erneuerbaren-Ausbau-Gesetz (EAG, Renewable Energy Expansion Act) of 2021 through market premiums and technology tenders, part of Austria's statutory targets of 100 per cent renewable electricity by 2030 and climate neutrality by 2040. Austria runs one of Europe's most biomass-intensive energy systems, so a dried biomass or biogas fuel feeds an established, incentivised renewable market rather than a marginal one.
Source: https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/GeltendeFassung.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=20011619 · checked 2026-08
Worked illustration (assumptions stated):
The case rests on nutrient value and haulage. Drying strips water weight, so each load carries more plant-available nutrient and fewer tankers cross the countryside; a stabilised product also stores safely through prohibited spreading periods. The manure can instead feed a biogas digester, and biomass and biogas generation are supported under the EAG toward the 100 per cent renewable-electricity target for 2030. Firing the dryer on recovered heat rather than bought-in energy matters where gross electricity runs at 0.293 euros per kWh and gas at 0.126 euros per kWh. A wet litter is a liability; a dried, quality-assured fertiliser earns a price. Assumptions: nutrient content, haulage distance and offtake are site-specific.
Figures are indicative and were last reviewed August 2026; energy and disposal prices move — contact us for a current assessment.
Poultry Manure Dryer Manufacturer in Austria — FAQ
Do you have a poultry-manure dryer here?
Not yet, and we will not suggest one. Every FlowDrya is built to order in Hertfordshire and commissioned on site; our documented references run the same platform a manure producer here would receive.
Why dry poultry manure?
Raw litter is wet, smelly and hard to store or spread compliantly. Drying stabilises it, cuts odour and concentrates the nutrients into a transportable, documented fertiliser that can be stored through closed periods and sold.
How does the Kompostverordnung apply?
Where litter is processed toward a marketable compost, the ordinance fixes the quality classes, inputs and contaminant limits it must meet. A dried, stabilised feedstock holds those bands more reliably than a raw, degrading one.
What moisture can FlowDrya reach on litter?
We configure each machine to the target the end use requires, taking wet litter down to a low, even moisture that supports storage, blending or granulation into a finished fertiliser product.
Can the manure be used for energy instead?
Yes. It can feed a biogas digester, and drying the fibrous digestion residue afterwards concentrates its nutrients – both routes supported by the incentives around biomass and biogas under the EAG.
How is a manure dryer delivered, and how is the fertiliser handled afterwards?
Each dryer is fully assembled and factory-tested, then dismantled for freight and rebuilt on arrival, connected to the available heat supply and brought online through a structured start-up, shutdown and supervised trial before handover. Throughput is matched to flock size and cleanout schedule; the finished granular product resists caking, contains ammonia and dust, and can be bagged, blended with other nutrients or dispatched in bulk to arable growers.