Ready-to-drink coffee & tea
Crafting unique flavors for ready-to-drink beverages
Consumers are turning to ready-to-drink (RTD) teas and coffees as a tasty, convenient option for on-the-go refreshment with our favorite brews. Traditionally dominated by juices, sodas and water, the refrigerator shelves in supermarkets and other retail outlets now boast a global diversity of RTD teas and coffees that offer authentic and innovative tastes for any time of day. Natural ingredients, new flavors and a healthy spin appeal to every age group. One recent report estimates that the global RTD tea and coffee market will continue to grow steadily and reach US$ 116.13 billion by 2024.
Backed by extensive industry knowhow our safe, hygienic components and equipment combine environmentally sustainable, energy-efficient processing with the flexibility to let our customers grow and expand their product ranges. Working hand-in-hand with RTD tea and coffee producers around the world, GEA takes care of every plant detail, whatever the process, product line or capacity. GEA technologies are designed to be versatile so that our customers can easily switch between recipes, expand production and process new ingredients and formulations. Investing in GEA technologies gives our customers confidence to expect the highest process performance, for the lifespan of the plant.
GEA portfolio of technologies spans:
- raw materials reception and handling
- brewing/extraction, fermenting, sifting, clarification and concentration
- mixing, blending and thermal treatment
- aseptic filling and packaging
- CIP and process control
We focus on developing solutions that save energy, resources and materials, and maximize the value that our customers can derive from their investments. Choose GEA automation and analytics solutions and we can tailor a user-friendly combination of hardware and software that will ensure the most efficient, reproducible processing, take the guesswork and errors out of manual operation and make recipe switching hassle free. Our clean-in-place (CIP) systems reduce water and detergent use while meeting the most stringent hygiene requirements. Faster, more effective cleaning means shorter down time and delays switching between products and frees up operators to focus on other key activities. Installing intelligent plant automation to track and adjust key working parameters along the complete process can ensure maximum yield and product quality from valuable ingredients and ultimately reduce total cost of ownership, thereby maximizing return on investment.
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Aseptic valves & components
Aseptic valves face exceptionally high demands within UltraClean and Aseptic processes. You can be assured that they all provide highest quality in terms of hygienic design and sustainability.
Automatic Powder Fillers
Our Inline Automatic Filler range has been designed to provide a flexible powder filling solution to suit plants which may need to increase production capacity to meet future demand.
The Inline Filler range comprises a single head model (IBF-450) that can be upgraded to include a single top-up system (IBF-600) or dual top-up system (IBF-800) to ...
Bag Closers
GEA offers a range of bag closing systems to suit most powder packing applications. Flexible bags come in a variety of sizes, types and construction, all of which have different requirements for handling and closing. Our range of hygienic closing and sealing systems has been designed to meet the needs of the world's powdered food, dairy and nutra...
Bag/Sack Powder Fillers
Our range of multi-wall bag/sack fillers is designed to pack powdered products at rates of less than 1 tonne/h up to more than 12 tonnes/h with an accuracy better than 10 g (0.35 oz). Our extensive experience with a wide range of powdered products and packaging types means that we can provide a solution to meet the most demanding powder filling r...
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