drying and cooling
feed and food

towards
zero
emissions

Geelen Counterflow is the inventor and global market leader of counterflow coolers and dryers which provide the highest food safety standards, the best energy efficiency and the lowest total cost of ownership for the feed and food industry.

We strive to eliminate all negative environmental impacts from our operations and our products. We centralize all R&D and manufacturing in Haelen, the Netherlands and we have sales and service offices in Asia, North America and Latin America.

65

% energy saving electric dryer

world’s most sustainable office
which is biobased, circular,
& energy-plus

100

% energy self sufficiency

for workshop and office
by 4000 solar panels

99.94

% BREEAM score

world’s most sustainable office
biobased, circular, energy-plus

dryers

Counterflow dryers have come a long way since we first added a steam heater to a counterflow cooler in 1984. Since then, counterflow dryers have taken over much of the global market for drying of extruded petfood and aquafeed.

dryers

coolers

Since inventing the counterflow cooler in 1980, we have delivered well over 10000 coolers to customers worldwide. This technology has truly become the global standard in the feed and food industry.

Coolers

Counterflow drying and cooling technology is suitable for drying and cooling of granulated, pelleted, extruded, flaked or expanded food or feed products that require the highest standards of sanitation and quality control. You will be able to dry and cool these products with the lowest need for cleaning, the shortest cleaning times and best energy efficiency. The gravity flow principle leads to lower maintenance costs and highest up-time. We would be pleased to tell you about the details in a face to face meeting.

petfood

As preferred supplier of dryers and coolers to the world’s leading petfood producers, we contribute to improved food safety, product quality, energy efficiency and maintenance costs .

aquafeed

Moisture uniformity and energy efficiency is of vital importance for aquafeed. Our counterflow dryers satisfy the highest requirements while minimizing operational costs.

food

Our counterflow dryers and coolers are suitable for breakfast cereals, snack foods, coffee beans, cocoa, chocolate, bread crumbs, couscous, fruits, vegetables, nuts etc..

oilseeds

Drying and cooling of processed soya, rapeseed, sunflowerseed etc. in the shape of expanded collets, meal, pellets or cake, requires 24/7 uptime, often at very high cooling capacities.

feed

Our roots are in feedmills, for which we designed the first of over 10.000 counterflow coolers in 1980. We now have coolers for pellets, extrudate, expandate, crumbles, mash and flakes.

Our field service team is there for you. From our headquarters, we are connected to your dryer or cooler. We suggest improvements to the energy efficiency or connect remotely to the dryer control system for training and trouble shooting. If necessary our service engineers based in Europe, Asia, North America and Latin America will be there for you.

Geelen Counterflow has installed its first Electric Counterflow Dryer at the Cargill-Ewos aquafeed plant in Bergneset, just above the polar circle in Norway.

Continuous training of our Field Service team is essential to providing both on-site and remote services to our dryers and coolers. A typical multi-deck batch dryer and cooler control system these days includes hundreds of sensors and drives.

We have too many challenges to tackle them all alone.

For a dry petcare factory, drying is the single most energy consuming part, accounting for approximately 1/3 of Mars energy usage.

We are expanding our office.

Quality products are simply the result of motivated people doing their very best. Want to know how we work?

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drying and cooling
feed and food

towards
zero
emissions