Lab Services

Buflovak's 10,500 square foot Pilot Plant and Lab in Buffalo, NY, is divided into the following areas:

Offices and glassware laboratories

1,200 square feet


Pilot Plant and Main Laboratory

9,200 square feet including:

  • 1,000 square feet of floor space with 26-foot headroom (32 foot at peak of roof)
  • 8,200 square feet of floor space with 18-foot headroom

Single Drum Dryers

With applicator rolls, useful for drying high viscosity liquids or pasty materials. Appropriate for potatoes, starches, gelatin, adhesives, and synthetic resins. Rolls create dry product sheets uniform in thickness and density that require minimal dusting. View more.

Double Drum Dryers

Most versatile and widely applied drum dryers. Effective for food, chemical, and pharmaceutical products of varying densities and viscosities. Exposure to temperature above boiling point restricted to only a few seconds. View more.

Vacuum Drum Dryers

Best for products to be dried without exposure to high temperatures or reactive atmospheres. Can be designed for sterile operations. Permit continuous drying without breaking vacuum by utilizing various airlock configurations. View more.

Vacuum Shelf Dryers

Best for materials that require uniform low temperature drying but do not permit agitation. Well-suited for pharmaceutical, food, pepsin, fine chemical, and other industrial products. Can be configured in standard or customized sizes. View more.

Cooling Drum Flakers

Efficiently solidify, flake, and recover 100% of product. Appropriate for edible oils, detergents, molten sulfur, polymers, and caustics. Built for continuous operation to ensure required quality and consistency of product. View more.

Vacuum Rotary Dryers

Good for low temperature drying of materials requiring agitation and recovery of solvents. Jacketed cylinder has internal revolving agitator. Agitator mixes products with minimum of tumbling and dusting. View more.

Vacuum Pan Dryers

Operate at any desired vacuum. Provide batch drying of materials, distilling under reflux, solvent recovery, and batch cooling. Maximum effective heating surface of bottom plate minimizes operating maintenance. View more.