TEMA Process

What TEMA Process does

TEMA Process is a Netherlands-based industrial engineering and manufacturing firm that designs and produces fluid bed systems used to dry minerals, chemicals, food, feed, biomass, and related materials. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Wapenveld, the company operates as a private, for-profit business with a headcount of 51–100 employees. Its product offering centers on fluid bed drying technology — a thermal process in which particulate material is suspended and dried in a stream of heated gas — applied across at least five vertical end-markets: pharmaceutical (its primary segment, with applications tied to crystallization and solid-state studies for drug formulation), agrochemical, chemical, food and beverage, and wastewater treatment.

The company sells engineered capital equipment to industrial buyers in these verticals. No pricing models, distribution channels, marketing channels, app or digital products, API offerings, or recurring-revenue arrangements were disclosed in the available data, which is consistent with a project-based capital-equipment business model rather than a software or SaaS approach. The company's own website (temaprocess.com) returned only a loading/verification page at the time of source capture, so first-party product literature, certifications, and customer references could not be verified.

TEMA Process operates within the broader industrial crystallizers market, which is projected to reach $5.81 billion by 2030 at a 6.3% CAGR. Strategic signals are sparse: no funding rounds, mergers or acquisitions, product launches, leadership changes, regulatory actions, patents, or trademark filings were disclosed. The only adjacent event in the dataset is the September 2024 acquisition of French crystallization services firm HOLODIAG by ICROM srl — a competitor-side transaction in TEMA's pharmaceutical-adjacent niche rather than a TEMA-originated move. Overall, the evidence supports the profile of a stable, specialized industrial-equipment SME with diversified vertical exposure but limited public strategic disclosure.

Name

TEMA Process

Website

https://temaprocess.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

TEMA Process designs and manufactures fluid bed drying systems for industrial clients across the pharmaceutical, agrochemical, chemical, food and feed, and wastewater treatment sectors, operating from Wapenveld, Netherlands since 2010.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Drying Equipment

NAICS

Other General Purpose Machinery Manufacturing (3339), Food Product Machinery Manufacturing (333241), Agriculture, Construction, and Mining Machinery Manufacturing (3331)

SIC

Industrial Process Furnaces & Ovens (3567), Industrial & Commercial Fans & Blowers & Air Purifing Equip (3564)

akta.pro primary industry

Industrial Drying & Evaporation Equipment (Dryers, Evaporators, Crystallizers) (IMAHAEAD)

Keywords

• Fluid bed systems
• Industrial drying equipment
• Mineral processing equipment
• Thermal processing systems
• Bulk solids drying

Headquarters

HQ city

Wapenveld

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Operations, Supply Chain, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Core offering

TEMA Process designs and manufactures fluid bed systems used to dry bulk solids such as minerals, chemicals, food, feed, and biomass. The company produces engineered industrial drying equipment for use across multiple process-industry verticals including pharmaceutical, agrochemical, chemical, food and beverage, and wastewater treatment applications.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Fluid Bed Drying Systems

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• HOLODIAGminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 September 2024HOLODIAG, a French company specializing in crystallization services for the pharmaceutical sector, was acquired by ICROM srl. This represents a competitive acquisition in the crystallization services space rather than a partnership with TEMA Process. The acquisition enhances solid-state study capabilities and crystallization expertise in the pharmaceutical sector.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Glatt Ingenieurtechnik: German specialist in fluid bed technology for drying, granulation, agglomeration, and coating, serving pharma, food, and chemicals. Closest direct competitor to TEMA Process given its focus on fluid bed drying systems across similar end markets.
• Hosokawa Micron: Manufacturer of powder and particle processing equipment including fluid bed dryers, agglomerators, and classifiers serving chemical, food, mineral, and pharmaceutical markets. Direct competitor on fluid bed drying technology.

Broad incumbents

• GEA Group: Global industrial processing-equipment OEM with major product lines in industrial drying, evaporation, and crystallization for food, dairy, chemical, and pharma. Competes with TEMA Process across most of its served verticals at much larger scale.
• ANDRITZ Group: Austrian industrial group with significant separation and drying technology serving feed, biomass, chemical, and environmental end markets. Comparable fluid bed and belt dryers overlap with TEMA Process's biomass, feed, and chemical portfolio.
• Bühler Group: Swiss food and feed processing-equipment OEM with drying, cooling, and thermal-processing product lines serving grain, feed, and food industries. Direct overlap with TEMA Process's food/feed/biomass drying business.
• Sulzer: Swiss industrial engineering group with separation, crystallization, and thermal processing technologies serving chemical, pharma, and water-treatment customers. Strongly comparable to TEMA Process in industrial crystallization and chemical drying.
• Coperion: Bulk material handling and processing equipment manufacturer including drying and thermal processing systems for chemical, food, plastics, and mineral markets. Adjacent competitor with overlapping drying/process-equipment scope.
• Tetra Pak: Global food and beverage processing-equipment OEM with drying, evaporation, and powder-handling lines for dairy, food, and beverage customers. Comparable to TEMA Process's food and beverage drying vertical.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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