BioMADE Webinar | Downstream Processing – A Focus on Spray Drying and Fluid Bed Processing

AVEKA Group was founded in 1994 as a spin off from 3M as a particle processing company. The company has focused on developing and manufacturing particulate materials with novel and value-added attributes for the personal care, food, automotive, and industrial chemical markets. An overview of AVEKA and its approach to collaborative contract development and manufacturing will be presented by AVEKA’s CEO, Willie Hendrickson. This close co-development of new processes and novel materials with customers will focus on the use of down stream drying processing for biological materials and be discussed with respect to the potential to fast-track economic pathways to production. This will include examples where scale-up development time (transition through the development valley of death) was dramatically shortened, and production costs were minimized. Fundamental explanation of both spray drying and fluid bed drying will also be presented. Examples will include spray drying of fermented materials, neutralized short chain fatty acids, and cellulose fibers; extraction and spray drying of biological value-added components; and fluid bed drying and agglomeration of enzymes, yeasts, and proteins.