The Combined Fluidisation Technology dryer (CFT) offers an economic process for sticky products and combines the advantages of convective fluidised bed drying with contact drying. The CFT works with a hot mechanically fluidised bed. The feed material is distributed into this bed and fluidised by a rotating paddle system. Inside this bed the wet product is evenly distributed throughout the dry product. The volatiles evaporate instantly in contact with the hot particles, new solids are created.