Weimar, November 2025 – At Fi Europe in Paris from December 2-4, 2025, the Glatt team will reveal how manufacturers of food, feed, dietary supplements and nutraceuticals can adjust the functional and technological properties of their ingredients.
The optimal process for converting liquid products into powders, granules and other bulk materials is determined by the desired properties of the final particles, and the specific application. Through spray drying, spray granulation, microencapsulation, particle coating or agglomeration with individually adapted process parameters and application-specific process control, Glatt experts optimise product properties and create innovative ingredients for functional foods.
Creating added value
Collagen and proteins that do not easily dissolve, as well as instant foods, are given a compact but porous structure with improved solubility through combined spray granulation and spray agglomeration. Simple spray-dried products or liquids are turned into dust-free, free-flowing granules through spray agglomeration, which sink easily when dissolved and without clumping. Coating or microencapsulation can both protect and release volatile or sensitive ingredients such as flavours, vitamins, essential fatty acids and micronutrients in a controlled manner.
Enriching ingredients with functionality
Ingredients for premixes or food and feed compounds can be precisely conditioned in the fluidised and spouted bed for further processing, for example, for plant-based products and meat alternatives. Parameters such as bulk density, flowability and particle stability of ingredients are exactly adjusted in spray granulation to improve handling.
Glatt offers customers a range of services for particle design and plant engineering for the development and manufacture of functional powders, granules and pellets. The services offered include product development, process development, contract manufacturing and process equipment from concept to full-scale industrial production.
About Glatt Ingenieurtechnik:
For more than 30 years, Glatt Ingenieurtechnik GmbH has been planning and realising international projects from the enlargement or modernization of existing production facilities to the construction of whole new factories. Glatt is a leading plant engineering partner in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, chemicals, fine chemicals, food and pet food industries. The company’s headquarters are in Weimar, Germany, with affiliates located in Germany, Europe, India and the US. The plant engineering and process expert combines professional engineering with sound technical know-how derived from patented process technologies, such as Glatt powder synthesis and fluid bed and spouted bed methods for granulation and coating processes. As an integral part of the international Glatt Group, Glatt Ingenieurtechnik can draw on a global network of some 3000 employees. Numerous agencies exist worldwide as contacts for the full range of goods and services.
