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Home & Personal care

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The home and personal care (HPC) industry serves fast-growing, brand-driven markets for products as diverse as shampoo, body lotion, shower gel and toothpaste to laundry detergents and all-purpose cleaners. Consumer demand for better value, high performing products that keep us healthy and our clothes, homes and cars clean and fresh. Driving industry innovation in this competitive, but potentially highly profitable marketplace.

GEA understands the pressures facing HPC manufacturers. Product launch deadlines and the need to meet targets for reducing water and energy consumption put extra pressure on process development. Manufacturing must be adaptable to incorporate improvements and new ingredients or develop preservative free and other market-led formulations.

GEA combines more than 70 years of industry know-how with global expertise, local insight and presence to provide efficient, sustainable solutions that HPC manufacturers

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Josep Masramón and his daughter stand in front of their GEA batch milking installation.

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