Based on three decades of industry experience, Specialist Mechanical Engineers and IMECH Consulting Engineers developed enclosed cool-drying systems on request specifically for drying macadamias in 2017, which evolved into Drycore today. Besides environmental conditions, which play a significant role in the time to dry nuts, macadamia farmers face the bottleneck of drying their Macadamias from 25% to 8% moisture content before they may be delivered to the processing plants. Solving this problem led to the idea of putting containers with drying modules on the farm to accelerate the drying process and use cool drying to eliminate quality issues, enabling the farmer to achieve a higher yield per kilogram.

The significant advantage of our enclosed, cool drying systems was validated when keen interest was shown to use the same concept for limiting food wastage and preserving the product’s nutritional value, considering the shortage of food and famine worldwide. We based our technology on the results of scientific tests done on the preservation of proteins in mushrooms when dried in cool temperatures versus hot temperatures. Our engineering team’s experience in heating, ventilation and air-conditioning contributed to the development of various custom solutions specific to the characteristics of the product.