Welcome to Express Contract Drying
As the largest independent toll spray dryer in the UK, Express Contract Drying Ltd is the first choice for food and food supplement manufacturers in the UK.
Whether you’re looking to alleviate overcapacity in your own production facilities, or wish to outsource the expensive and intensive process of spray drying to a company dedicated to the operation, Express Contract Drying is able to help, from laboratory scale to commercial production, from 50 grams to 50 metric tonnes.
With over 40 years’ experience, 6 commercial tall form spray dryers, 3 ribbon powder blenders, NPD lab & pilot dryers, homogenisation, encapsulation and extensive onsite storage, we offer a comprehensive and confidential service for customers in the food and food supplements industries.
Our company ECD Ingredients is a leading manufacturer and supplier of spray dried vinegar powders, juice powders, micro encapsulated fat powders, microencapsulated vitamin and powders of named provenance.
Learn more about the services we offer, then call us to discuss your specific requirements or email commercial@ecdingredients.com
Office Ebbw Vale: +44 (0)1495 303363
Commercial enquiries: +44 (0)7584 088463
Sales quotes and order placement: sales@ecdingredients.com
about us
Express Contract Drying Ltd is the largest provider of toll spray dryer and contract powder blending services for food and food supplements in the United Kingdom
Established in 1991, ECD is an authority on spray drying process, offering unrivalled technical expertise.
Express Contract Drying operates 6 spray dryers and 3 blenders:
- Micro encapsulated flavours
- Micro encapsulated colours
- Plated flavours
- Vinegar powders
- Fruit Juice Powders
- Micro Encapsulated Vitamins, Minerals
- Active Ingredients and Speciality Powders
We serve Domestic and International:
- Flavour houses
- Colour manufacturers
- Snack seasoning
- Active and Sports Nutrition manufacturers
- Nutrition Brands
Our technical experts work closely with our customers to choose the correct mix of equipment, staff and encapsulating ingredients to ensure best possibly of transforming our customer liquid ingredients into free-flowing powders. ECD offers support from ideation to commercialisation, starting with our laboratory spray dryer through to commercialisation on a production scale spray dryer.
- 6 commercial tall form spray dryers: Capacities from 50 to 400 litres per hour
- 3 commercial ribbon powder blenders
- Pilot dryer: Capacity from 500 to 1kg per hour
- NPD lab dryer: Capacity from 50 to 100grams per hour
- Micro Encapsulation and homogenisation
- Dedicated Halal, Kosher, allergen free site s
- Custom packing
- BRCGS – AA Rated
Due to the breath of evaporation capacities and number of spray dryers. ECD are flexible to meet our customer wide and varied requirements.
Express Contract Drying has invested heavily in the plant and facilities, installing the very latest spray dryers
This ensures that Express Contract Drying remains at the forefront of the industry, with what we believe is the most modern facility of its type
Spray Drying
How do you get a lump of cheese onto a crisp? Channel 4’s Food Unwrapped sees how Express Contract Drying help their customers produce natural flavours.
Our Services
Spray Drying
As the largest toll spray dryer in the UK, we’re the first choice for food companies looking for a fast, quality certified independent service
Toll Blending
We have a range of blenders capable of dry blends for the food flavours and colours industries
Toll Mixing
With high capacity jacketed heated tanks dedicated to food grade materials, we’re available for all your mixing needs
Research & Development
Whether you’re a start-up or an international company, we can help you develop your flavour and colour products to meet the requirements of the food industry with small batch production capability
Services
ECD provides tailor-made spray drying solutions for its customers including:
New Product Development:
- Recipe development assistance
- Pilot testing and commercialisation through our NPD Team Scott@ecdingredients.com
- Validation of customer formulations, processing, and sampling
Industrial Production:
- Liquid slurry preparation before spray drying which involves:
Mixing, hydrolysing, shearing, reacting, homogenisation, emulsion preparation, filtration, pasteurisation - Custom spray drying
- Custom packing to suit customer needs from 10kg to 1,000 Kg into bags, boxes or bulk sacks
- Post spray drying powder blending
- Large scale powder blending
- Quality control
Equipment
ECD has a wide range of equipment to support customer needs, from pilot to industrial scale:
- 6 Commercial tall form spray dryers
- 2 Large scale ribbon powder blenders
- 1 Small scale ribbon powder blender
- Homogenisation, micro encapsulation & liquid emulsion preparation facility
Products
We service the demands of our customers within the following markets:
- Spray dried food flavours
- Spray dried food colours
- Spray dried vinegars powders
- Spray dried juice powders
- Spray dried nutraceuticals
- Microencapsulated vitamin and mineral powder
- Microencapsulated oil powders
- Micronized plant proteins
- Multiple dried ingredients:
Flavourings
Natural colours
Fruit and vegetable powders
Vegetable proteins
Vitamins and minerals
Adaptogens
Plant extracts
Mission
ECD are BRCGS Accredited which guarantees to customers that ECD operate the standard of quality, safety and operational criteria which ensures we fulfil our legal obligations and provide protection for the end consumer
ECD is a member of SEDEX which is one of the world’s leading ethical trade service providers, working to improve working conditions in global supply chains
ECD is Ecovardis Rated
ECD is FDA Registered
ECD is Kosher an Halal Registered