Poultry Manure Dryer Manufacturer in Italy
See how we dry Poultry ManureLooking for poultry manure dryer manufacturers in Italy? STRONGA builds FlowDrya lines to order at its Hertfordshire works and supplies them to Italy — see the regulatory and economic context below.
FlowDrya poultry manure dryers are engineered to order at STRONGA's Hertfordshire works and shipped to poultry and fertiliser businesses here, with no commissioned line on home soil yet. Raw poultry litter is wet, biologically active and hard to store, spread or sell; drying it stabilises the material, cuts odour and pathogens and concentrates the nutrients into a transportable product. That opens two routes: a marketable organic fertiliser or amendment, and a biomass fuel. To be sold as a soil product it must meet the national fertiliser law, Decreto Legislativo 75/2010, with its amendment categories, pathogen limits and registration; a dried, stabilised material holds those limits far more readily than a wet one, and where the litter is digested first the Decreto 25 February 2016 governs the digestate.
Supplying Italy
We supply Italy from our Hertfordshire works — we have no documented Poultry Manure installation in Italy yet.
Regulatory context
Italian waste law is codified in the Testo Unico Ambientale, Decreto Legislativo 152/2006. Article 179 fixes the waste hierarchy that every operator and authority must follow: prevention first, then preparation for re-use, recycling, other recovery including energy recovery, and disposal only as a last resort. Turning a wet residue into a fuel or a stabilised soil product is a recovery route the code ranks above burial, so drying supports the legal duty to move waste up that hierarchy.
Decreto Legislativo 36/2003 on landfills, overhauled by Decreto Legislativo 121/2020 to transpose EU Directive 2018/850, drives waste away from burial. It requires that by 2035 no more than 10 per cent of municipal waste is sent to landfill, and from 2030 it bans landfilling waste suitable for recycling or other recovery. Because burial is being closed off, the combustible and organic fractions must instead be recovered as fuel or soil products, which is a direct driver for drying wet residues in this market.
Source: https://www.insic.it/tutela-ambientale/inquinamento/discariche-dlgs1212020-cosi-ladeguamento-alla-direttiva-2018850/ · checked 2026-08
Digestate from biogas and anaerobic-digestion plants can be used on farmland under the interministerial Decreto 25 February 2016, which sets the technical criteria for the agronomic use of digestato and the conditions under which it qualifies as a by-product rather than a waste. Drying the fibre fraction concentrates the nutrients into a stable, transportable product that meets those handling and application rules far more readily than a wet, actively degrading slurry.
Source: https://www.masaf.gov.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/9780 · checked 2026-08
Compost and other soil improvers sold to Italian farmers must comply with the national fertiliser law, Decreto Legislativo 75/2010, which defines the permitted amendment categories such as ammendante compostato verde and ammendante compostato misto, sets their chemical, physical and hygiene requirements, and requires registration before a product is placed on the market. A dried, stabilised material holds those pathogen and contaminant limits far more readily than a wet feedstock.
Source: https://www.asso-substrati.it/normativa/normativanazionale/ · checked 2026-08
Applicable standards: EN ISO 21640, EN ISO 17225-4, EN ISO 18134, UNI EN 15359 / D.M. 22/2013 CSS-Combustibile classes, D.Lgs 75/2010 ammendante compostato classes.
Economic context
Burying waste carries a regional tax. The tributo speciale per il deposito in discarica, the ecotassa established by Legge 549/1995, is levied on every tonne sent to landfill, up to a statutory maximum of 25.82 euros per tonne for municipal solid waste, set by each region within the national limits. Every tonne of wet residue dried into a recoverable fuel or a saleable soil product avoids that charge while creating a product with a market.
Source: https://www.regione.puglia.it/en/web/tributi/ecotassa · checked 2026-08
Heavy industry also pays for carbon under the EU Emissions Trading System. Allowances traded around 83 euros per tonne of CO2 in mid-2026, touching about 85 euros, well below the 105.73-euro record of February 2023 but a real and rising charge. Every tonne of coal or petroleum coke that a dried waste- or biomass-derived fuel displaces in a kiln avoids that per-tonne carbon cost on top of the fuel saving.
Source: https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/carbon · checked 2026-08
Italian industry pays some of the highest energy prices in Europe. Eurostat data reported for 2025 put the final electricity price for non-household consumers in Italy 24.1 per cent above the euro-area average, a competitiveness penalty on the national production system. Boiling water off with bought-in electricity is therefore uneconomic; a dryer that runs on recovered process, exhaust or kiln heat and very little electrical power is what keeps drying viable.
Source: https://www.trend-online.com/2026/07/03/prezzo-elettricita-italia/ · checked 2026-08
Across the European Union, business electricity averaged about 0.1837 euros per kilowatt-hour and gas about 0.0605 euros per kilowatt-hour in 2025, and Italian users sit above those averages. Those prices make electric drying the wrong choice and reward a dryer designed to use spare kiln, exhaust or biomass heat rather than grid power.
Source: https://www.rinnovabili.it/mercato/politiche-e-normativa/prezzi-energia-ue-2025-eurostat/ · checked 2026-08
National energy policy pulls toward recovering wet organics. The Decreto Biometano of 15 September 2022 supports biomethane injected into the gas grid with a 15-year feed-in tariff and a capital grant of 40 per cent of eligible costs, funded with 1.7 billion euros from the PNRR through the GSE. That underpins demand for biogas and anaerobic digestion, whose digestate and screened fibre a FlowDrya can dry into a stable, marketable product.
Source: https://biblus.acca.it/tariffa-incentivante-e-contributo-in-conto-capitale-per-la-produzione-di-biometano-ecco-le-regole/ · checked 2026-08
Worked illustration (assumptions stated):
Drying converts a disposal liability into a revenue stream. Untreated manure is costly to haul and spread and, where it is discarded, sits at the bottom of a hierarchy that Decreto Legislativo 152/2006 ranks below recovery. A dried fertiliser concentrates nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium into a lighter, stable product that meets the marketing rules and travels economically to arable regions. Alternatively, dried litter is a biomass fuel that, when it displaces fossil energy in an ETS-covered plant, avoids an EU carbon allowance near 83 euros per tonne of CO2. Because Italian industrial power runs 24.1 per cent above the euro-area average, FlowDrya is designed to dry on recovered heat – from a biogas CHP, for instance, whose build the Decreto Biometano supports with 1.7 billion euros of PNRR funding – rather than costly electricity. Assumptions: nutrient market, heat source and haulage govern the payback.
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 Italy — FAQ
Do you supply poultry manure dryers here?
Yes, from our Hertfordshire factory. We hold no commissioned poultry-manure line on home soil yet and will not imply one; the platform is the same continuous-flow FlowDrya proven on our British reference sites.
Why dry poultry manure?
Raw litter is wet, odorous and biologically active, so it is hard to store, spread or sell. Drying stabilises it, cuts pathogens and odour and concentrates the nutrients into a transportable product. It also curbs ammonia release and the fly-breeding and nutrient-leaching risks that untreated slurry brings on-farm.
Can dried manure be sold as fertiliser here?
Yes, if it meets the national fertiliser law, Decreto Legislativo 75/2010, with its permitted raw materials, pathogen limits and amendment categories, or where digested it is used under the Decreto 25 February 2016. A dried, stabilised material holds those limits far more easily than a wet one.
Can it be used as a fuel instead?
Yes. Dried poultry litter is a biomass fuel; where it displaces fossil energy in an ETS-covered plant it also avoids an EU carbon allowance near 83 euros per tonne of CO2. Even after combustion the ash retains phosphorus and potash worth recovering as a mineral input.
What heat source suits a manure dryer?
Recovered heat is the economic choice – commonly the waste heat from a biogas CHP engine on the same site, whose build the Decreto Biometano supports – because industrial electricity 24.1 per cent above the euro-area average makes resistance heating uneconomic.
How is a poultry manure plant shipped and commissioned from the UK?
Each dryer is fully assembled and factory-tested at our works, then dismantled for freight. On arrival it is reassembled, connected to the site's heat supply and brought online through a structured start-up, shutdown and supervised trial before handover.