GEA Niro has developed the RAYCON™ freeze drying concept for drying of large amounts of products from the pharmaceutical industry such as granulates and pellets to meet the requirements of a fully automatic process. The plant is primarily suitable for oral pharmaceutical products. The capacities of RAYCON™ applications vary from 25 up to 1,000 kg of bulk supplement, which correspond 5-10 traditional freeze drying plants.

All parts of the drying process are running fully automatic without human interventions except adjustment and verifying of operation parameters from the control system. The automated process minimizes the risk of contamination of the product and reduces the production costs. The RAYCON™ is a highly sanitary version of the typical capacity industrial freeze dryers being used for food and coffee products, lactic bacteria etc. based on GEA Niro Atlas RAY™ and CONRAD™ freeze drying principles.



RAYCON™ is the best solution for production of large amounts of raw materials for bulk that do not require the highest level of validation. With RAYCON™ you can follow the batch and track the production site of each single pill. The dryer but comes with a full set of documentation and certificated for components and materials used in the equipment and with component declarations according to the relevant CE directives. It is also possible to adjust RAYCON™ to the production needs of each customer.

Advantages of RAYCON™
• Fully automatic operation
• Highly sanitary design
• Cabinet can be emptied automatically for CIP and/or SIP
• Can run as batch or continuous
• Washing machine can be integrated in cycle
• Tray filling can be done in cold room or outside

Read more about RAYCON ™ here.