Commercial-Scale Aqueous Spray Drying

Engineered Powders at Scale

Codis provides development and commercial spray drying services, leveraging expertise, technology, and capacity to scale products from kilograms to metric tons. When your program requires aqueous-based spray drying, our team applies decades of commercial-scale experience and mature cGMP quality systems to reliably deliver products on time and with the quality expected from a trusted CDMO partner.

Our facilities enable supply throughout the product life cycle, from early-phase development through clinical routine and launch stages, to commercial manufacture and product extension possibilities, when coupled with our particle engineering expertise.

Aqueous Spray Drying Core Capabilities

Haverhill, UK Facility

Aqueous spray dryers at Codis’ Haverhill, UK facility are ideally suited for the development and production of large-volume products, including drug substance isolation, specialty excipients, and co-processed drug product intermediates to improve flow, compressibility, taste masking, and/or enhance mouthfeel. Our aqueous production-scale units can each process solutions, suspensions, and emulsion feed stocks, and all are fitted with Fike explosion suppression systems to enable the manufacturing of organic materials of St-1 or lower. Additionally, each of our production-scale aqueous units is integrated with upstream reactors, including LIST KneaderReactors for high-viscosity feedstocks.

Featured Haverhill Spray Dryers

  • GEA Niro® TFD25
spray dryer

    Codis’ GEA Niro TFD25 spray dryer is capable of three modes of operation: single-pass nitrogen, closed-cycle nitrogen, and conditioned air.  Feed vessels support batches of up to 4,000L, with annual capacities in the tens of tons, making them suitable for batches in the hundreds of kilograms.

  • GEA Niro® TFD250
spray dryer

    The TFD25 also serves as a 1/10th pilot-scale unit for process development and technical transfer onto our GEA Niro® TFD250 spray dryer.  The TFD250 operates with single-pass conditioned air with indirect heating, high-pressure nozzle atomization. This dryer is also uniquely modified with dry heat sanitization to produce low bioburden products, such as cyclodextrins.

  • GEA Niro® TFD400
spray dryer

    Our GEA Niro® TFD400 spray dryer operates with single-pass conditioned air with indirect heating. This system has both high-pressure and twin-fluid nozzle atomization systems, and can be optionally integrated with continuous flow reactors upstream of the dryer.  Both the TFD250 and TFD400 platforms are capable of batch sizes in excess of 1000 kg, with annual plant capacities exceeding 1000 tons.

Approach to Tech Transfer

From gram-scale feasibility batches to sustained, multi-ton production runs on one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical spray dryers, Codis UK delivers capacity without compromise. Our commercial-scale infrastructure, harmonized process controls, and expert tech transfer teams ensure every process performs predictably as it moves from R&D to clinical supply to high-throughput commercial campaigns—whether you need a single engineering lot or ongoing global supply.

Analytical Expertise & Quality Control

Codis integrates comprehensive analytical testing with in-process monitoring to verify critical quality attributes at every step. Our Process Analytical Technology (PAT) tools enable real-time monitoring, supporting our spray drying facilities in Haverhill, UK, and Seymour, IN, USA, which operate under GMP-compliant systems to meet global quality standards.

Discover Codis

Explore how Codis applies its expertise in spray drying, microencapsulation, continuous granulation, final dosage forms, and functional products to meet your formulation and manufacturing needs.

  • Commercial Spray Drying
    Commercial Spray Drying

    Full lifecycle, development, and production expertise for high-volume commercial aqueous spray drying.

  • Codis Amorphous Solid Dispersion (ASD)
    Codis Amorphous Solid Dispersion (ASD)

    Industry-leading know-how to design, scale, and manufacture amorphous solid dispersions for improved bioavailability of poorly soluble compounds.

  • Microencapsulation
    Microencapsulation

    Proprietary microencapsulation processes to improve taste, odor masking, stability, or release profile.

  • Continuous Granulation
    Continuous Granulation

    Continuous high-shear granulation to improve flow, compressibility and disintegration.

  • Organic & Polymer Chemistry
    Organic & Polymer Chemistry

    Advanced organic synthesis and polymer engineering, enabling robust, scalable manufacturing.

  • Analytical Services
    Analytical Services

    State-of-the-art instrumentation combined with data-science–driven PAT to provide method development, validation, release, and stability testing services.

  • Final Dosage Forms
    Final Dosage Forms

    Leading global experts in direct compression and two-piece encapsulation products for vitamin, mineral and supplement markets.

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