LIS by Lesaffre

About LIS by Lesaffre

LIS by Lesaffre is an industrial service provider specializing in custom ingredient drying and related powder-processing services. It works with ingredient manufacturers across food, feed, nutraceutical, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical markets, helping them transform liquid or semi-liquid inputs into powders with the required stability, functionality, and quality.

The company positions itself as a European reference in spray drying, with production sites in France and Poland and decades of experience handling a very wide range of products. Its model is built around service, co-development, and scale-up support, from laboratory feasibility work through pilot trials and industrial production.

Core Values

• Flexibility: LIS emphasizes adapting to many product types, technologies, and batch sizes, with equipment and processes designed to support both development work and industrial production.
• Quality and safety: The company highlights strong quality systems, certifications, laboratory controls, and a safety-first culture across its sites and operations.
• Innovation: LIS invests in new drying technologies and co-development capabilities to solve formulation, dryability, and powder-performance challenges.
• Responsibility: Environmental performance, energy efficiency, and reduced carbon impact are presented as part of the company’s operating approach and customer value proposition.

Unique Aspects

• Broad European drying platform: LIS operates production sites in France and Poland and presents itself as a major European player in ingredient drying, with a large installed base of drying lines and technologies.
• Strong co-development capability: The Powder Studio™ in Rennes supports customers from feasibility studies to pilot scale and industrialization, making R&D and process development a core differentiator.
• Advanced drying technologies: Beyond standard spray drying, LIS offers vacuum drying and electrostatic spray drying under nitrogen, including PolarDry® for sensitive and high-value compounds.
• Decarbonized drying operations: The Cérences site was decarbonized through a biomass steam plant, and LIS states that its French drying activity is now 85% decarbonized.
• Expanded regulated-market reach: The Legnica site in Poland has GMP+ certification for animal feed ingredients and additives, strengthening LIS’s ability to serve regulated feed applications.
• Partnership-based industrialization: LIS has worked with partners such as Particles for Humanity to move products from R&D to commercial-scale manufacturing, showing its role as a scale-up partner as well as a processor.