Freeze Dried dog Food - Many Benefits for the Industry
The market for Freeze Dried dog food is on the rise. It offers the benefits of raw food with added convenience, and it has a long shelf life. This makes it as convenient to store and serve as kibble, while still providing the nutritional benefits of raw food. The lightweight nature of freeze-dried dog food also makes it ideal for travel and outdoor activities with pets.
Manufacturers are continuously improving freeze-dried dog food products to meet consumer expectations. This includes expanding recipe varieties, incorporating functional ingredients, and introducing convenient formats. The market offers a range of options, including different protein sources like chicken, fish, duck, and beef.
Developing dog food requires the right equipment, and knowledge. Weber Drying is one of the leading suppliers of Freeze Drying solutions, and stands out in the field as a true development partner for you. Offering a full scale of support solutions, from testing at one of our laboratories, or at your facilities, with one of our laboratory or pre-production systems. We add our knowledge on recipe optimization.
Our modular production concept allows you to easily expand your capacity. With our plug-and-play compact freeze dryers, you can produce anywhere from 15 ton final freeze dried pet food (with a single 10 m2 freeze dryer), up to 90 tons for two 30 m2 freeze dryers. Numbers are based on an effective yield of around 30%.
For larger capacities we have designed our industrial range. A single 50 m2 freeze dryer can produce up to 80 tons of freeze dried pet food per year, our largest 200 m2 solution well over 300 tons / year, in a single room configuration. We have designed factory solutions up to 12 rooms.
With all our solutions, either in our innovative square room or in the conventional round room design, our signature heating solution (offering highest energy efficiency and perfect heat distribution) combined with our leading edge vacuum configuration and WeDry software will guarantee you the most perfect freeze dried dog food, at lowest operating costs.