About Us
European Freeze Dry Ltd. has been freeze drying since 1964, and has grown to become a leading multi product freeze dryer and provider of bulk freeze drying services to industry. We are jointly owned by Oregon Freeze Dry in the USA and Agrova Food, Denmark.
Our parent company, Oregon Freeze Dry are the largest custom freeze drying company in the world, with a significant proportion of the total capacity in the USA. If a product can be freeze dried, the chances are that Oregon Freeze Dry are either freeze drying it now, or know how to freeze dry it.
Our second parent, Agrova Food are part of DLG, a Danish Co-Operative organisation with interests in all aspects of food production from "farm to fork."
We believe that this network of companies offers a unique, flexible team. We are able to source products and know-how globally, and share our expertise in meeting the requirements of our customers.
European Freeze Dry serves a wide variety of customers including numerous European food distributors, many major international food manufacturers, a diverse section of specialty chemical and biological processors and even world renowned pharmaceutical businesses. We also export to more than 20 countries worldwide.
Our UK plant in Preston, Lancashire has 4 industrial scale freeze dryers of differing sizes. The UK site has particular expertise in the freeze drying of meat, meals, fruits and contract freeze drying for industrial customers.
In Denmark we operate two separate plants, both located less than an hour’s drive west of Copenhagen, with a total of eight batch dryers. The Danish manufacturing base are specialists in the production of freeze dried culinary herbs, seafood, vegetables and contract drying. The facilities in Denmark are particularly well suited to large scale manufacturing runs.
We have the benefit of being able to offer production both on a very small scale (200kg chamber loads) for new research and development projects requiring scale-up, through to a much larger scale (6 tonnes per day) for customers requiring bulk volume production.