Wood Chip Dryer Manufacturer in the United Kingdom
See how we dry Wood ChipLooking for wood chip dryer 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.
Wales is home to one of our documented British woodchip lines. The Equidomus installation in Wales dries wood chip on a FlowDrya platform manufactured to order in Hertfordshire, and it is one of the three UK references shown above. Dry, uniform chip burns cleaner and hotter in biomass boilers and district-heating plants, and a low, consistent moisture is what lets a producer meet the woodchip classes of EN ISO 17225-4. Whether the chip is virgin forestry residue or arboricultural arisings, FlowDrya's moving-floor bed and PulseWave agitation tumble the material so it dries evenly rather than sitting in a wet static heap.
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
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
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
Worked illustration (assumptions stated):
For wood chip the sum is heat displaced against heat spent. Dry chip meeting EN ISO 17225-4 lets a boiler run at rated output and substitutes bought-in gas, which cost British users 3.71 pence per kWh in Quarter 2 2025; poor, wet chip instead forces the boiler to boil off water rather than deliver useful heat. FlowDrya is built to take that drying energy from a boiler's own flue or a biomass heat source, not from the grid, which matters when industrial electricity averages 17.08 pence per kWh. With disposal of off-spec chip costing £130.75 per tonne in Landfill Tax alone, upgrading the whole batch to a saleable class is plainly the better route. Assumptions: national average prices; your fuel contract governs the real return.
Figures are indicative and were last reviewed August 2026; energy and disposal prices move — contact us for a current assessment.
Wood Chip Dryer Manufacturer in the United Kingdom — FAQ
Do you have a UK wood chip drying installation?
Yes. Our Equidomus project in Wales is a working FlowDrya woodchip line and is listed among the UK installations on this page. We would be glad to discuss a reference visit subject to the customer's agreement.
What moisture standard should dried wood chip meet?
Woodchip for biomass combustion is classified under EN ISO 17225-4. A stable low moisture keeps a batch within its declared class, which is what boiler operators and fuel buyers require for predictable output.
Where are your UK wood chip dryers built?
Every FlowDrya is engineered and assembled at STRONGA's Hertfordshire factory in England, factory-tested, then delivered and commissioned on the customer's site across Britain.
Which sectors buy dried wood chip in Britain?
District-heating schemes, commercial biomass boilers, poultry and glasshouse heating, and premium kindling packers all favour a high-energy chip that ignites readily and stores without composting or fungal spoilage.
Can FlowDrya handle arboricultural arisings as well as forestry chip?
Yes. The moving-floor bed copes with the variable particle sizes and contamination typical of tree-surgery arisings, screening fines beneath the deck while the coarser chip continues drying above.
Does dry chip improve boiler efficiency?
Markedly. Less water to evaporate means more of the fuel's energy reaches the heat load, reducing consumption, ash and emissions while steadying combustion for automated feed systems.