Drying plants
Well engineered systems, custom-designed installations

Leading technology and more than 50 years experience form the basis of LIPPERT's unique success in the drying field in the ceramic industry. The reference list spans more than 1000 drying installations in more than 40 countries.
LIPPERT creates individualized installations. All relevant factors such as products, performance, production processes, space availability etc. are considered. Working together with the customer, LIPPERT conceives in this manner the individually optimized dryer layout.

Steady research and development

LIPPERT has been working successfully on improving drying technology for decades. A variety of modern mobile test dryers are always in use at market-leading firms in the ceramic industry.
LIPPERT has set the standards in controlling technology through application-specific software with graphics and operational data systems.
The results are extremely short drying times, an excellent energy balance and the high flexibility of LIPPERT dryers.

Custom designed systems

LIPPERT creates individual drying systems. Every drying task is analysed. All relevant factors such as products, performance, production processes, space availability etc. are considered. LIPPERT conceives in this manner the individually optimized dryer.

Integration in material flow

LIPPERT sees the dryer not as an "isolated island", but rather as an integrated element in an optimized production process. For this reason, material flow plays an important role in the conception of each dryer. This is true for the transport of items within the dryer, automatic loading and unloading, integration with pre- and post-warehousing as well as for intermediate storage.

The advantages of LIPPERT drying technology at a glance

  • Short drying times even for sensitive products
  • Uniform and therefore gentle drying
  • Optimal effectiveness = low energy consumption
  • Greatest efficiency through variable degress of automation and optimal integration in material flow
  • Greatest user comfort
  • High flexibility through wide areas of application and rapid adaptation

Dryers in a class of their own: energy-conserving despite high per-formance

Efficient air conduction: Air routing by ventilation ducts ensures adequate amounts of appropriately composed air acting uniformly on the entire product surface.
Uniform reversal of the air flow in continuously adjustable time intervals and continuously adjustable air quantities are a matter of course.
A word about the airing principle:
Drying air is continuously circulated and reheated by the air-heater. Vents ensure that no more than the required amount (determined by the accrued water quantity) of air and thereby energy is removed from the system.


Optimal drying programmes: Thanks to product-individualized drying programmes (curves), the air temperature, humidity and air velocity are predetermined and precisely adhered to through the entire drying process. This technology guarantees gentle drying in minimal time with low energy expenditure.

Energy-wise systems: Optimal thermal insulation and case-appropriate direct or indirect heat recovery systems minimize energy consumption.
Direct heat recirculation through controlled feed of kiln waste heat or the use of waste heat from hot drying zones for the next cooler drying zone (for dryers with several drying zones).
Or indirect heat recirculation through heat exchangers (air-air or air-water heat exchangers).

Microwave predrying systems: Continuous-flow or chamber dryer for heat-soaking, predrying, residual drying or primary drying. Fast, effective and nonetheless gentle-drying. High-quality, robust microwave components.



Maximum Ease of Operation

Thanks to its integrated PC with user prompting and application-specific software, the control system offers the user the utmost in ease of operation. Entry, storage and retrieval of the desired temperature, ambient moisture, and air speed parameters is straightforward, easy to follow, and swift. No programming skills are required.

Well-structured and easy-to-follow representation of the measuring values on the colour monitor. It is possible to control several dryers with a single PC.

An integrated process data acquisition system allows the retrieval of all rated and actual values at any time.

An equally integrated fault diagnostics system reports faults and deviations from the rated values. Even deviations from desired values are reported. Restart after a power failure is possible right from the drying program's precise instant of failure. This minimizes down times and maximizes plant efficiency.



Various technologies for individual standards

Drying chambers:
Cyclical drying chambers are useful for intermittent production, major product diversity and low levels of automation. The inside of LIPPERT drying chambers is fully unobstructed.

Continuous-flow dryers:
Continuous-flow dryers are preferable for continuous production, high throughputs and high degrees of automation.
High-performance superspeed dryers with up to three levels and up to four tunnels at each level, fully automatic loading and unloading, automatic chaining with shaping and glazing stations, including interim storage and pallet handling system.

Camera-base article-recognition and position-sensing system
Digital camera systems in combination with handling robots enable safe and reliable handling of mixed-series articles.
Fast recognition of the type of article, together with precise identification of its position, permits millimetric grasping and pinpoint placement of the articles for further automated production, e.g., robotized spraying, loading and unloading of pallets, etc.

Drying pallets

Handling box for automated materials flow and drying systems in the ceramics industry



Drying pallets for large-format plumbing fixtures:
V2A palett with perforated top and bottom, well ventable, good rigidity



Drying pallets for plumbing fixtures:
Aluminium pallet with padded land, well ventable, suitable for fork loading and unloading