According to the research report "Global Spray Drying Equipment Market Outlook, 2030," published by Bonafide Research, the Global Spray Drying Equipment market was valued at more than USD 6.72 Billion in 2024, and expected to reach a market size of more than USD 9.65 Billion by 2030 with the CAGR of 6.35% from 2025-2030.

Top Six Companies Global Spray Drying Equipment Market

GEA Group AG:  GEA Group AG (GEA) is an engineering group that develops and manufactures process technologies and components. The company's main activities involve the production and distribution of machinery and plants, as well as the provision of advanced process technology, components, and comprehensive services. GEA's product portfolio includes process engineering components and machines such as separators, decanters, homogenizers, valves, and pumps, as well as systems for brewing, liquid processing, filling & packaging, concentration, fermentation, crystallization, purification, drying, and powder handling. GEA Group AG is a strong player in the spray drying equipment market, offering industrial spray dryers, pilot/R&D spray dryers, atomization systems, fluid beds, powder handling, plant upgrades, and complete turnkey drying plants under its well-known GEA NIRO® spray drying technology. The company’s spray drying solutions are widely used in dairy powders, food ingredients, instant coffee, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, battery materials, flavors, and specialty powders, where liquid feed is converted into dry powder with controlled particle size, moisture, solubility, density, and flow properties. GEA provides both standard and customized spray dryers, ranging from basic single-stage dryers to highly advanced multi-stage systems such as MSD® spray dryers for milk powders and aseptic spray dryers for sensitive pharmaceutical and food applications. Its equipment focuses on hygiene, product consistency, energy efficiency, automation, safety, and regulatory compliance, making it suitable for large-scale industrial powder production.

• Established: 1881

• Headquarters: Düsseldorf, Germany

• Employees: 18,000

• Revenue: USD 6,381 Million

SPX Flow, Inc: SPX Flow Inc (SPX Flow) is a provider of engineered solutions. The company carries out the engineering, designing, manufacturing and marketing of various products and solutions related to turnkey projects across various industries. Its portfolio of products consists of pumps, valves, mixers, filters, air dryers, homogenizers, hydraulic tools, separators, and heat exchangers. The company sells its products through a network of distributors in the US and other countries. SPX FLOW, Inc. is an important company in the spray drying equipment market through its Anhydro® brand, which provides spray dryers, spray bed dryers, small-scale spray dryers, evaporators, fluid beds, powder handling systems, and upgrade/rebuild solutions for industrial powder processing. The company’s spray drying equipment is used to convert liquid feed into dry powder with controlled moisture, particle size, solubility, density, and flow properties, making it suitable for dairy, food & beverage, pharmaceutical, chemical, and specialty powder applications. SPX FLOW offers different spray drying configurations, including single-stage, multi-stage, and closed-circuit spray drying systems, along with atomization, air heating, powder collection, automation, and hygienic design features. Its Anhydro Spray Bed Dryers are designed to produce dust-free, agglomerated, dispersible, and free-flowing powders, especially for food ingredients, dairy products, plant extracts, flavors, chemicals, fertilizers, and detergent ingredients.

• Established: 2015

• Headquarters: North Carolina, United States

• Employees: 4,000+

• Revenue: Estimated USD 1,100 Million

Büchi Labortechnik AG: BUCHI is a leading solution provider in laboratory technology for R&D, quality control and production worldwide. BUCHI serves a wide range of industries such as pharmaceuticals, chemicals, food & beverage, feed, environmental analysis and academia. Büchi Labortechnik AG is a well-known company in the laboratory spray drying equipment market, especially through its Mini Spray Dryer and Nano Spray Dryer product lines. The company focuses mainly on lab-scale particle formation, formulation development, R&D, small-batch powder production, and scale-up support rather than large industrial spray drying plants. BUCHI spray drying equipment is used to convert liquid samples, emulsions, suspensions, or solutions into dry powder, and it is widely applied in pharmaceuticals, food ingredients, chemicals, nutraceuticals, cosmetics, materials science, and academic research. Its systems are suitable for applications such as encapsulation, microencapsulation, taste masking, drug formulation, protein drying, polymer particles, and powder development. BUCHI’s Nano Spray Dryer B-90 technology is recognized for producing very small particles from minimal sample quantities, which helps researchers reduce sample loss and R&D cost, while its lab-scale spray dryers support faster testing before commercial scale-up.

• Established: 1939

• Headquarters: Flawil, Switzerland

• Employees: 500+

• Revenue: Estimated USD 203.7 Million

Andritz AG: Andritz AG is an international technology group, offering plants, equipment, systems and services for various industries. The group's headquarters are in Graz, Austria. The group gets its name from the district of Andritz in which it is located and is listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange. Andritz AG is a recognized supplier in the spray drying equipment, through its ANDRITZ Dedert spray drying technology, offering industrial and pilot-scale spray dryers for food, chemical, and specialty powder applications. The company provides single-stage and multi-stage spray dryers, integrated fluid bed systems, rotary or nozzle atomization, powder cooling, agglomeration, conditioning, clean-in-place systems, and explosion protection features for safe powder production. ANDRITZ Dedert spray dryers are used to convert liquid feed into dry powder with controlled moisture, particle size, dispersibility, bulk density, and flow characteristics, making them suitable for food ingredients, spices, sweeteners, flavors, botanicals, nutraceuticals, vitamins, minerals, proteins, yeast, starches, specialty chemicals, pigments, minerals, ceramics, and other industrial powders. The company also offers an advanced Air Bearing Atomizer, which is oil-free, contact-free, low-maintenance, and designed to improve reliability and hygiene in spray drying operations.

• Established: 1852

• Headquarters: Graz, Austria

• Employees: 30,000

• Revenue: USD 9,172 Million

Tetra Pak:Tetra Pak is a Swedish multinational food packaging and processing company headquartered in Switzerland. The company offers packaging, filling machines and processing for dairy, beverages, cheese, ice cream and prepared food, including distribution tools like accumulators, cap applicators, conveyors, crate packers, film wrappers, line controllers and straw applicators. Tetra Pak is a major supplier in the spray drying equipment market, mainly serving dairy, whey, nutritional powder, infant formula, and plant-based powder manufacturers. The company provides fully automatic and continuous spray drying systems such as Tetra Pak® Spray Dryer Wide Body, Tetra Pak® Spray Dryer Tall Wide Body, Tetra Pak® Spray Dryer Prolac, and Tetra Pak® Spray Dryer Tall Form Bustle. Its spray dryers are designed to convert liquid concentrates into stable dry powders with controlled moisture, particle structure, solubility, flowability, and shelf life. Tetra Pak’s equipment is commonly integrated with upstream and downstream systems such as evaporation, crystallization, powder handling, and complete processing lines, which makes it suitable for large-scale powder production. The Wide Body dryer supports dairy, whey, and plant-based powders, while the Prolac system is used for milk and whey permeate powders, with powder output capacity of around 3 to 8 tonnes per hour depending on product and feed flow. The Tall Form Bustle dryer is suitable for heat-sensitive powders such as WPC80, WPI, skim milk, minerals, and hydrolyzed proteins, with capacity from 0.5 to 10 tonnes per hour.

• Established: 1951

• Headquarters: Pully, Switzerland

• Employees: 25,000

• Revenue: USD 14,334 Million

SiccaDania Group: SiccaDania Group is a specialized supplier in the spray drying equipment market, mainly serving dairy, food ingredients, proteins, starches, plant-based products, chemicals, and specialty powder applications. The company offers single-stage, two-stage, and three-stage spray dryers with both wide-body and tower-form drying chamber designs, allowing customers to select the system according to required powder properties such as moisture level, particle size, bulk density, solubility, dispersibility, and flowability. SiccaDania’s spray dryers can be supplied for small-scale R&D, pilot production, and high-tonnage industrial powder production, making the company suitable for both process development and commercial manufacturing. Its systems can be integrated with evaporation, crystallization, filtration, feed systems, fluid beds, powder handling, and packaging lines, which is useful for complete dairy and food processing plants. The company also provides small-scale spray dryers for universities, laboratories, and product development centers, where customers need flexible, modular, and scalable equipment before moving toward larger industrial spray drying plants.

• Established: 2014

• Headquarters: Birkerød, Denmark

• Employees: 150

• Revenue: Estimated USD 22.9 Million