Turnkey freeze-drying plants for food
Guelta Partners designs, builds and commissions complete freeze-drying plants — from fresh fruit reception to the packed product — and backs every figure with data from our own production in Istanbul.
The buyer’s view
They hesitate because of everything around it. The same four questions come up before price is ever discussed — our work is built to answer them.
Q1
A real cycle with your own raw material at our plant answers it properly. You leave with a finished sample and a written report.
Q2
Yield, cycle time, energy and labour, modelled on operating data from a working plant — not on brochure figures.
Q3
Layout, utilities, local contractors and permits: the part of a project that usually loses months. We coordinate it for you.
Q4
A line stopped at 6 a.m. is not a shipping question. First response comes from people who run the same equipment every shift.
Our plant
Guelta runs an industrial freeze-drying plant in Istanbul and sells freeze-dried fruit and cheese under its own brand. Everything on this page is something we do in our own production — not a capability we would have to build after your order.
3
industrial freeze dryers in daily production
2,200 kg
installed capacity per cycle — 2 × 1,000 kg and 1 × 200 kg
Dozens
freeze-dried products in our range
Certified
our plant, to international food-safety standards
Visits and product trials at our plant can be arranged at short notice.
Manufacturing partner
Our own plant runs on KEMOLO freeze dryers. On a project, KEMOLO builds and supplies the dryers; we design and supply everything around them and take responsibility for the line as a whole — one integrated plant, one point of contact.
Film
A film from our own plant — fresh fruit in, packed freeze-dried product out — and short explainers from KEMOLO, who build our freeze dryers.
Our plant: from farm to package — Filmed in our Istanbul plant. Yemelix is our own freeze-dried food brand.
KEMOLO FD-1500R industrial freeze dryer, ready for shipment
KEMOLO · YouTube
What drives a freeze dryer’s energy use — and how to cut it
KEMOLO · YouTube
Air-cooled or water-cooled freeze dryer?
KEMOLO · YouTube
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How we work
Your product, target capacity and market — and an honest read on whether the investment makes sense at all.
A full cycle with your raw material at our plant, observed end to end, with a written result.
Layout, mass balance and payback, built on our measured yields, cycle times and energy per kilo.
Equipment, integration, installation and commissioning — one responsible party for the whole line.
Operator training in your language, recipe development and support in your working hours.
01
Concept
Block layout, process flow and a budget price.
Free of charge · 2–3 weeks
02
Basic engineering
Scaled layout, room data sheets and a firm price.
Paid · credited against the order
03
Execution
Supply, installation, commissioning and performance test.
Typically 6–12 months
What we deliver
A freeze dryer (lyophilizer) is only as good as the process around it. We take responsibility for every step between the delivery truck and the finished pallet.
Process flow, mass and line balance, room conditions, heat and moisture loads, and a building brief your architect can work from.
Freeze dryers and every machine around them, selected for your product and integrated into one controlled line.
Unloading and packaging below 30 % RH, chilled water, compressed air and nitrogen — sized from our own operating experience.
PLC and SCADA, batch traceability, energy per kilogram, and remote monitoring of every drying cycle.
Site coordination with local contractors, commissioning, performance testing and CE conformity of the complete line.
Cycle recipes per product from our own production, operator training and written procedures.
Reach
We work in food across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, with producers, ingredient suppliers and distributors who are watching freeze-dried products grow in their markets. Our plant is in Istanbul.
Projects under EU rules — CE, F-gas, pressure equipment and state-aid timelines are part of our daily work.
Existing commercial relationships we can approach directly, rather than starting from a cold list.
Familiar routes and a working understanding of how procurement actually happens there.
Questions
Everything from raw-material reception to the packed product: washing and sorting, cutting, IQF freezing, tray loading, the freeze dryers, dry-room unloading and packaging — plus process engineering, utilities, automation, installation, commissioning and operator training. One party is responsible for the whole line.
Fruit, vegetables, cheese and other dairy, herbs and ready-meal components. In our own plant we freeze-dry fruit and cheese every day, and we can run a trial cycle with your raw material before you invest.
Plants are built from KEMOLO freeze dryers of 50 kg to 1,500 kg per batch, combined to reach your daily output. We size the line from your products, target volume and harvest season — not from a catalogue.
Every plant is sized for its own products, capacity and site, so we do not publish price lists. The concept stage gives you a block layout, process flow and a budget price for your project within 2–3 weeks, free of charge.
After the concept and basic-engineering stages, execution — supply, installation, commissioning and performance test — typically takes 6 to 12 months.
Yes. Our lines are designed for EU rules: CE conformity of the complete line, F-gas compliant refrigeration, pressure-equipment requirements, and schedules that fit grant and state-aid timelines.
Yes — our own freeze-drying plant in Istanbul, less than five hours’ flight from most of Europe. Visits and product trials can be arranged at short notice.
Contact
A first conversation is always without obligation. We usually reply within one working day.
Phone / WhatsApp
+90 533 662 51 01Address
Guelta Gıda A.Ş.Ömerli Mah. Nusret Cad. No: 19-21Arnavutköy / İstanbul, Türkiye
