NativeWay supplies, sizes, installs and services Italian-made FRAL refrigerant and desiccant dehumidifiers in Sri Lanka for industrial, pool and specialist humidity-control applications.
For most factories, warehouses and storage facilities operating in the Western Province zones and along the coast, that's the unspoken constraint that quietly eats yield, quality and equipment life — every day, all year.
Excess moisture can damage textiles, tablets, packaging, food, electronics and steel, and cause icing in cold stores.
The economic answer isn't air conditioning — it's industrial dehumidification, sized to the room.
Cotton picks up moisture above 65% RH — fabric weight drifts, GSM tests fail, downstream printing distorts. Target: 55% RH.
Hygroscopic powders, effervescent tablets and gel-capsule lines need tightly controlled atmospheres. Target: 15–35% RH.
Below 0°C, conventional dehumidifiers freeze up. FRAL desiccant absorption units work down to −20°C. Target: 40–50% RH.
Pool halls condense moisture on glass, ceiling and steel. Untreated, fabric of building fails in 5 years. Target: 55–65% RH.
Founded in Padova in 1969, FRAL manufactures dehumidifiers, ventilation systems and portable air conditioners.
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 is the exclusive agent for FRAL in Sri Lanka — we are the factory’s only appointed channel here, not a reseller buying through a third country. 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.
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.
Wheeled, civil-grade dehumidifiers for construction drying, water-damage restoration, archive and document recovery, server-room emergency drying. Plug in, pump out.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Six application zones we install most often across Sri Lanka — each with its own RH target and unit family.
Cutting rooms, warehouses, finished-goods stores, sample rooms. Stops fabric weight drift, mould on cotton bales, distortion in sublimation print lines.
Granulation rooms, tablet press halls, packaging lines, capsule and effervescent production. Desiccant units for <15% RH dry rooms.
Sugar & confectionery hardening rooms, dried-fish processing, biscuit cooling, chocolate enrobing, salt & spice packaging.
Anteroom dehumidification, frozen-food bagging, ice-cream production, pharma cold chain. Desiccant units below 0°C eliminate evaporator icing.
Paper feed tables, ink-drying lines, corrugator output, finished cartons. Stops moisture warp, doctor-blade smearing, registration drift.
Hotel pool halls, water-park indoor zones, spa wet rooms, health-club pools. Protects building fabric and visitor comfort year-round.
The reasons our specifying engineers reach for FRAL when the room matters.
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.
Self-defrosting evaporator coil keeps the unit running in low-ambient and overnight-cool conditions where lesser machines simply ice up and stop.
Stainless steel housings and epoxy-coated coils designed for tropical, salt-air and chemically-aggressive atmospheres. Minimal maintenance schedule.
Full European Union safety, EMC and environmental compliance. Refrigerants meet F-gas regulations. Ready for international audit and tender.
Automatic RH sensing and on-board hygrostat — set the target, walk away. Dry-contact remote control input for BMS integration.
Optimised refrigeration circuits and EC fans push more litres of water removed per kWh consumed than commodity-tier dehumidifiers.
Acoustically-treated housings and EC fan motors keep operating noise low — essential for pool halls, archive rooms, occupied spaces.
Factory-trained engineers in Colombo. Genuine OEM parts inventory. Annual maintenance contracts. Direct OEM technical escalation.
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.
The same FRAL range, sized and serviced by our Dhaka team — with the RMG cutting-floor, finishing-bay and warehouse applications written for that market.
Industrial dehumidification in Bangladesh →NativeWay (Pvt) Ltd is the exclusive agent for FRAL in Sri Lanka. FRAL is manufactured in Padova, Italy. We import direct, hold parts, and carry out sizing, installation, commissioning and annual maintenance with our own engineers in Colombo.
It depends on the extraction rate you actually need, not the room size. Price is driven by litres-per-day capacity, whether the room needs refrigerant or desiccant technology, whether the unit is portable or ducted into the building, and the control and humidistat package. Send us the room volume, the target RH and the ambient temperature range and we will size it and quote it properly rather than guess.
Temperature decides it. Above roughly 15 °C a refrigerant condensing unit is cheaper to buy and to run. Below that, and for very low dew points such as pharmaceutical dry rooms or cold storage, a rotor desiccant machine is the only option that keeps working — FRAL desiccant units operate down to −20 °C and reach dew points to −60 °C.
Sizing is a moisture-load calculation, not a floor-area rule of thumb. It takes room volume, target RH, ambient conditions, air changes, the number of people and doors, and any wet process in the room. We do that calculation free before quoting. Getting it wrong in either direction is expensive: undersized never reaches target, oversized short-cycles and wastes power.
Yes. We hold genuine FRAL parts, our Colombo engineers are factory-trained, and we offer annual maintenance contracts with direct technical escalation to the factory in Italy. That is the point of buying from the agent rather than a one-off importer.
For drying-out work, flood recovery and short shutdowns, hire is often the right answer. Talk to us about the duration and the space and we will tell you honestly whether hire or purchase is cheaper for your case.
