FRAL Professional & Industrial Dehumidifiers

Industrial Dehumidifiers — Sri Lanka & Bangladesh. Italian-engineered. From 50 to 2,000 litres a day.

NativeWay is the authorised distributor of FRAL in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Manufactured in Padova, Italy — and engineered for the kind of monsoon humidity, RMG floor loads, swimming-pool atmospheres and pharmaceutical dry rooms that punish ordinary equipment — FRAL refrigerant and desiccant dehumidifiers are sized, supplied, installed and serviced by us locally.

Authorised distributor — SL · BD

CE-certified · EU compliance

Genuine OEM parts & AMC

The hidden cost of humidity

In Colombo and Dhaka, relative humidity rarely drops below 75%.

For most factories, warehouses and storage facilities operating across the Bay of Bengal, that's the unspoken constraint that quietly eats yield, quality and equipment life — every day, all year.

Mould blooms on textile rolls. Pharmaceutical tablets clump in foil-stripping machines. Cardboard packaging warps before it reaches the printer. Sugar cakes. Electronics solder lines fail intermittently. Steel rusts in three weeks instead of three years. Cold-store evaporator coils ice over and stop working.

The economic answer isn't air conditioning — it's industrial dehumidification, sized to the room.

RMG Factory

Cotton picks up moisture above 65% RH — fabric weight drifts, GSM tests fail, downstream printing distorts. Target: 55% RH.

Pharma Dry Room

Hygroscopic powders, effervescent tablets and gel-capsule lines need tightly controlled atmospheres. Target: 15–35% RH.

Cold Storage

Below 0°C, conventional dehumidifiers freeze up. FRAL desiccant absorption units work down to −20°C. Target: 40–50% RH.

Swimming Pool

Pool halls condense moisture on glass, ceiling and steel. Untreated, fabric of building fails in 5 years. Target: 55–65% RH.

Made in Italy

Padova · Italia Established 1969

FRAL professional portable dehumidifier — wheeled industrial unit — Portable · Wheeled

FRAL industrial dehumidifier — heavy-duty refrigerant unit — Industrial · Fixed

Our principal · FRAL Srl

Half a century specialising in one thing — moisture control.

Founded in 1969 in Padova, FRAL Srl has spent over five decades engineering and manufacturing dehumidifiers, ventilation systems and portable conditioners. While larger competitors diluted their focus, FRAL stayed narrow — and became the European specialist that demanding sectors call when they need a unit that simply works.

The catalogue is deep: domestic dehumidifiers for villas; professional portable units for restoration and construction drying; industrial machines from 50 to 2,000 L/24h; swimming-pool dehumidifiers with optional hot-water battery and electrical resistances; absorption (desiccant) machines that dry air down to −60°C dew point in pharma and cold-store applications.

NativeWay holds the FRAL distributorship for Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. We size the unit, calculate moisture loads, supply the equipment direct from Padova, install, commission and maintain — backed by genuine OEM parts and factory technical escalation.

1969

Founded · Italy

50+

Years specialised

−60°

Lowest dew point

The FRAL range

Six product families. One catalogue.

From a 24 L/day mobile unit on a restoration site to a 2,000 L/day fixed plant in a textile mill — same brand, same parts supply chain, same service team.

Professional · Portable

Mobile professional units.

Wheeled, civil-grade dehumidifiers for construction drying, water-damage restoration, archive and document recovery, server-room emergency drying. Plug in, pump out.

24–120 L/24h Wheeled Single-phase

Industrial · Fixed

Heavy-duty refrigerant units.

The core of the FRAL line. Stainless steel, epoxy-coated condensers, hot-gas defrost for low-ambient operation, smart hygrostat. Built for ten-plus years of factory-floor punishment.

50–2,000 L/24h Hot-gas defrost Three-phase Auto hygrostat

Absorption · Desiccant

Sub-zero, ultra-low dew point.

Rotor desiccant machines for environments where refrigerant dehumidifiers can't operate — below 0°C, or where dew points down to −60°C are required. Pharmaceutical, lithium battery, military.

Down to −60°C dpt Sub-zero ambient Silica rotor

Swimming Pool

Pool-hall dehumidifiers.

Hot-water battery and electrical-resistance options for pool atmospheres. Designed to be visible — finished in spaces where aesthetics matter, not buried in plant rooms.

FSW series Wall-mount Hot-water coil

Radiant cooling & VMC

Integrated room dehumidification.

For radiant ceiling/floor cooling systems and mechanical ventilation (VMC). Decouples humidity control from cooling — letting designers run higher chilled-water temps and save energy.

Wall & ducted VMC integration Quiet

Portable conditioning

Split portable air conditioners.

For server rooms, event halls and process spot-cooling. External condenser unit can sit up to 30m away from the indoor unit, with glycol-charged quick-connect refrigerant lines.

High capacity Split design 30m line

How to choose

Refrigerant or desiccant? It depends on temperature.

Most ambient-temperature applications need a refrigerant unit. The moment your air goes below ~5°C or you need single-digit RH, you need a desiccant absorption machine. Here's the engineering bottom line.

Method · Mechanical refrigeration

Refrigerant condensing dehumidifiers.

The dominant approach. Air is drawn over a cold evaporator coil; moisture condenses to water and drains away. Re-warmed dry air returns to the room. Same physics as your air conditioner.

"Cool the air below its dew point — the water falls out."

Best for ambient operation between +5°C and +35°C
Lowest cost per litre of water removed
Hot-gas defrost for low-ambient (down to +1°C)
Stainless & epoxy-coated build for tropical air
Capacities: 24 to 2,000 L / 24h across the FRAL range

Min ambient

+1°C

Min RH practical

~35%

Method · Desiccant absorption

Rotor desiccant dehumidifiers.

A slowly-rotating silica/zeolite wheel absorbs moisture from the process airstream, then releases it into a smaller, hotter regeneration airstream that exhausts outside. No phase change, no condensate.

"The desiccant grabs water vapour straight from the air."

Operates at sub-zero ambient — down to −20°C
Achieves dew points down to −60°C
Mandatory for pharma dry rooms, lithium battery cells, military
Higher operating cost (regeneration energy) — buys precision
Used where refrigerant simply cannot work

Min ambient

−20°C

Min dew point

−60°C

Applications

Where FRAL machines earn their keep.

Six application zones we install most often across Sri Lanka and Bangladesh — each with its own RH target and unit family.

RMG & Textile

Cutting rooms, warehouses, finished-goods stores, sample rooms. Stops fabric weight drift, mould on cotton bales, distortion in sublimation print lines.

Target RH · 50–60%

Pharmaceuticals

Granulation rooms, tablet press halls, packaging lines, capsule and effervescent production. Desiccant units for <15% RH dry rooms.

Target RH · 15–35%

Food & Beverage

Sugar & confectionery hardening rooms, dried-fish processing, biscuit cooling, chocolate enrobing, salt & spice packaging.

Target RH · 30–55%

Cold Storage

Anteroom dehumidification, frozen-food bagging, ice-cream production, pharma cold chain. Desiccant units below 0°C eliminate evaporator icing.

Target RH · 40–50%

Printing & Packaging

Paper feed tables, ink-drying lines, corrugator output, finished cartons. Stops moisture warp, doctor-blade smearing, registration drift.

Target RH · 50–55%

Pools & Hospitality

Hotel pool halls, water-park indoor zones, spa wet rooms, health-club pools. Protects building fabric and visitor comfort year-round.

Target RH · 55–65%

Why specify FRAL

Built in Italy. Built to outlast the building.

The reasons our specifying engineers reach for FRAL when the room matters.

01 · Speed

Rapid moisture knockdown

Pulls a 1,000 m³ space from 85% RH down toward 20% RH in under an hour with correctly-sized units — production back online faster.

02 · Reliability

Hot-gas defrost

Self-defrosting evaporator coil keeps the unit running in low-ambient and overnight-cool conditions where lesser machines simply ice up and stop.

03 · Lifespan

10+ years on the floor

Stainless steel housings and epoxy-coated coils designed for tropical, salt-air and chemically-aggressive atmospheres. Minimal maintenance schedule.

04 · Compliance

CE & EU standards

Full European Union safety, EMC and environmental compliance. Refrigerants meet F-gas regulations. Ready for international audit and tender.

05 · Control

Smart hygrostat

Automatic RH sensing and on-board hygrostat — set the target, walk away. Dry-contact remote control input for BMS integration.

06 · Energy

kWh per litre

Optimised refrigeration circuits and EC fans push more litres of water removed per kWh consumed than commodity-tier dehumidifiers.

07 · Acoustic

Low noise operation

Acoustically-treated housings and EC fan motors keep operating noise low — essential for pool halls, archive rooms, occupied spaces.

08 · Local support

NativeWay AMC

Factory-trained engineers in Colombo and Dhaka. Genuine OEM parts inventory. Annual maintenance contracts. Direct OEM technical escalation.

Talk to our humidity team

Tell us your room — we'll size the unit.

Send us the room volume, target RH, ambient temperature range and current process — our engineers will size the FRAL unit, calculate the moisture load, and quote supply, install and AMC.

Request a moisture-load survey See dehumidifier projects