Case Studies

Our drying systems demonstrate their capabilities across a wide range of industries and applications. Whether in agriculture, the wood industry, or specialized industrial processes, the case studies impressively showcase how our solutions are tailored to meet the specific needs of our customers. Each case study highlights the high performance, efficiency, and flexibility that define Stela drying systems, providing insights into innovative and sustainable applications.

Our case studies

Feed drying with stela AgroDry® on a laying hen farm

Our customer Lukas Gotthartsleitner decided to purchase a drying system from stela Laxhuber in order to meet the required capacity of maize as feed for the laying hens. As part of the goods receiving…

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drying system with with two-stage heating for eucalyptus sawdust

The realization of the drying system for our customer “Navigator” presented the stela team with special challenges, which were mainly due to the detailed specifications and specific customer…

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Sunken agricultural dryer as an individual drying solution

The new drying system of our customer Murr Dienstleistungs GbR was to be seamlessly integrated into the existing infrastructure of a hall and replace an existing system from the 1980s.

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Efficient increase in production through expansion of an OSB double-deck dryers

SWISS KRONO, a leader in wood-based materials, faced a challenge at their Zary facility in Poland. The bottleneck in their OSB production line was the existing dryer, which struggled to meet the…

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Dynamic stela BTU system for fluctuating heat supply

At TECHNIP’s Gävle, Sweden facility, the main challenge in their biomass gasification process was efficiently managing the removal of moisture under varying conditions.

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stela belt dryer HS Timber Group Acon, Argentinia

Efficient greenfield sawmill with integrated drying system

The challenge of this project was the construction of a complete sawmill in an “open field” in Argentina under challenging climatic conditions.

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belt dryer with a throughput of 100 tonnes per hour for the Brazilian timber industry

BERNECK® faced a complex task in their Lages, Santa Catarina (Brazil) facility: efficiently reducing the moisture in large volumes of bark and wood chips from 60% to 45% for fuel pre-drying. 

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Gentle drying process for plastic pellet dryers

A leading global manufacturer of polymer additives from Austria was presented with the challenge of drying plastic granulate efficiently and gently in a water bath after extrusion. The granulate must…

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Energy saving RecuDry® belt dryer for the production of wood pellets

This project is a greenfield initiative focusing on the construction of an environmentally sustainable and economically viable wood pellet production plant for the Ziegler Group. The plant aimed to…

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Bandtrockner BTL stela in der Schweiz

drying system with constant water evaporation in the Alps

Our customer from the timber industry wished to reduce the amount of wet-milled wood chips with a high moisture content from 40% to 10%. The dryer was installed in the Swiss Alps, near the Italian…

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JUMBO mobile circulation dryer with dust extraction for a clean working environment

Our customer and the project team further developed the original JUMBO with dust extraction for this project. This type of dryer was designed and successfully sold many years ago. The mobile…

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