Aero-Instant Spray Drying Services maintains twelve NIRO spray dryers, ranging in size from 3' diameter to 18' diameter. These dryers are available for laboratory scale investigative work, pilot lot runs, and commercial production runs ranging to over 1,000,000 pounds.

Dr. Joe Iannicelli, formerly technical director of a major kaolin company and the founder of Aquafine, is a graduate chemist who has been involved with spray drying for over 40 years. For over 25 years, Aquafine, the parent company of Aero-Instant, represented NIRO in Georgia and collaborated on international projects. Georgia has the highest concentration of large spray dryers in the world, operating in the kaolin industry, and NIRO has supplied all of the dryers, except two, acquired by kaolin firms during the past 25 years.

Dr. Iannicelli's involvement with spray dryers includes the use of spray dryers to carry out chemical reactions, such as silane grafting on pigments, and use of spray dryers in difficult scrubbing applications, such as mercaptan removal from gases.