Juices & concentrates
Exotic juices
Increased consumer demand for alternatives to traditional fruit drink flavors such as apple and orange have created an opportunity to exploit fruits such as mango, pomegranate, papaya, lychee and guava, to produce a range of more exotic flavored smoothies and juices.
Demand for beverages based on coconut water, aloe vera and other juices made from antioxidant-rich ‘superfruits’ and from traditional plants such as nettles and dandelions, is on the rise alongside a decline in the consumption of orange juice. The changing market has driven R&D into new products and production processes. GEA’s expertise, experience and portfolio of technologies in the juice beverage sector means that we are perfectly placed to help producers increase their yields of valuable ingredients, improve quality, and optimize processes through technological innovation.
As an expert in the continuous processing of fruits and vegetables, we offer a high degree of automation, accelerated production (fast juicing), increased yields at reduced production costs and, above all, a top product quality. Talk to GEA about how we might be able to decrease the overall number of process stages to make your application more time- and cost-effective.
Key to the processing of any fruit or vegetable juice is the application of centrifugal technology to separate the juice, flesh and solids of the fruit, whether pineapples and guavas, or nettles and dandelions. After the fruit has been washed and crushed, and depending on how the process is managed, GEA’s centrifugal decanters and separators are used to adjust how much pulp remains in the juice, according to customer specifications.
Traditional medicinal and culinary plants including dandelion and nettle are experiencing something of a renaissance in modern-day cooking and nutrition, and they are now available as health-promoting drinks or nutraceuticals. Separators and decanters from GEA are ideally suited to the gentle processing of juices, such as these, that are high in active ingredients.
Products & Technologies
Showing 4 of 33
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.
Centrifugal Separator
GEA separators are designed for liquid-based applications. Using centrifugal force, they are used for separating suspensions consisting of two or more phases of different densities, i.e. they can be used for liquid-liquid separation, for liquid-liquid-solid separation or for liquid-solid separation. They are equally as effective at separating liq...
Cold Block Processing
GEA offers a complete portfolio of technologies for the cold process area in your brewery.
Container Handling Equipment
The heart of all fillings systems is the filling machine itself. To make a system requires a lot more. GEA offers complete filling lines which means that we also take care of the complicated task of line integration and control. In order to provide an efficient production line, it is important to consider all parts of the system together. Our exp...
Other applications
Downloads
GEA Insights
Smart, stylish, circular: polycotton recycling with Circ
Resource-efficient fashion has been a long-sought ambition amid the fashion industry’s considerable contributions to global carbon emissions. The need to close the loop by recycling textile fibers into virgin-like materials is higher than ever but seemed like a distant dream until now: Circ, GEA’s American customer and pioneer in the field of textile recycling, might be rewriting the future of the fashion industry.
New food tipping point
Alternative proteins are promising – yet still expensive to produce. The usual response is that scaling up will solve this issue. But what if the solution was really about getting better, not just bigger? From more efficient, high-yield processes to upcycling waste heat, engineers are reshaping how we grow food.
A safer way to produce cancer treatments
As anti-cancer drugs become more powerful and complex, GEA is redefining how to safely freeze-dry these life-saving treatments.
