Dairy ingredients process lines, engineered for success
Our business here at GEA is to support your drive to create high quality, nutritious and functional dairy ingredients, efficiently and sustainably. Whether your applications are high volume whey powder or lactose, lactoferrin, or specialty functional milk constituents, we can offer top performing hygienic components, equipment and end to end lines backed by more than 100 years of GEA dairy process and engineering expertise. Tell us about your applications – and challenges - and together we can design, test and scale up systems that will give you great results, right from day one.
Process expertise
We offer expertise and flexible technologies for skimming, filtration, heat treatment, separation and concentration, drying and packaging, so you can process just about any dairy ingredient and milk derivative with a focus on resource efficiency.
Product quality
Our technologies and tools are designed to let you process safe, top quality dairy-derived liquid ingredients, and free-flowing, easily dispersed powders that retain key nutritional and functional properties and precisely defined particle characteristics.
Test facilities
Experts at our test center can work with you to evaluate process feasibility and configure key equipment and end to end lines for new products, or for scaling up, optimizing and upgrading existing plants, and reducing environmental impact.
Spray dried whey and whey proteins
The market for whey and whey proteins is diverse, and producers must establish finely controlled processes to create each product. Our dairy processing systems are designed to give you energy efficient, faultless protein separation and drying with minimal loss, so you can offer your customers high quality, non-caking, easily dissolved powders with the right nutritional properties.Lactose processing
Precisely defined crystallization, effective purification and resource-efficient drying are key considerations for manufacturers of lactose and lactose-containing dairy ingredients. Focused on addressing your challenges we’ve developed energy-saving, highly configurable technologies for processing great quality lactose products, at every scale.Cheese powder manufacturing
We combine key know how with a wide range of flexible technologies for raw material reception, fermentation, blending and drying, so you can create different types of cheese powder using different raw materials, cheese, whey, lactose and hydrolyzed proteins.Coffee whitener lines
GEA equipment is highly configurable so we can tailor systems that will let you reproducibly manufacture a range of easily dissolved, foaming and non-foaming coffee whiteners with predefined powder characteristics, including particle size and fat content.Casein and caseinates powder production
Our portfolio spans just about all the equipment and expertise you’ll need to establish efficient lines for processing a wide range of high purity casein- and caseinate- ingredients for competitive markets. From precipitation and decanters to spray dryers, GEA systems can be tailored to meet your product, process and business needs.Lines for milk fat globule membrane (MFGM) production
GEA has global expertise in configuring centrifugation, and membrane filtration-based systems for isolating milk fat globule membrane from dairy byproducts such a buttermilk, cream serum or cheese whey, without disrupting the integrity of constituent fats, proteins and other membrane components.Functional proteins
Our experts can work with you to test, optimize and upscale processes and equipment for manufacturing new product types and existing dairy-based functional proteins such as lactoferrin, lactoperoxidase, hydrolyzed and fractionated proteins.
Membrane Filtration
The global dairy industry relies on our custom-designed cross flow membrane filtration systems, including nanofiltration, microfiltration, ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis systems. Why not ask how our software-based Smart Filtration CIP technology could nearly halve related energy consumption and cut water use.
Precipitation
There’s seldom a one size fits all option when it comes to producing dairy-derived ingredients and functional components. We offer tank systems with dosing options for acid, rennet or enzymes, so you can more easily adapt and fine tune your processes for manufacturing casein, caseinates and hydrolyzed dairy proteins.
Heat treatment
We’ve designed a diverse range of hygienic, flexible, and user-friendly pasteurization and UHT systems for dairy processing, incorporating innovative technology that recovers and reuses heat energy to lower costs, minimize waste, and reduce dependence on fossil fuels.
Separation
GEA offers robust, reliable and flexible centrifugal separators and decanter centrifuges that are central to processing a diverse range of dairy ingredients. Our experts can help you select, configure and test the optimum technology for your products and applications.
Evaporation
We offer a complete range of evaporators for dairy processing, in parallel with heat pump and product recovery tech that could feasibly let you halve your plant’s energy consumption, cut CO2 emissions, reduce waste, and even improve product quality.
Drying
GEA dairy spray dryers are recognized globally, and experts at our dedicated test center can give you advice, help you evaluate and fine tune our different models, and showcase how the latest GEA innovations could make your drying plant more planet friendly.
Powder handling
From storage silos and powder feeding systems, to powder conveying, tipping stations, valves, magnets and other components, GEA has developed powder handling systems that won’t compromise the quality of your powdered ingredients and final dairy products.
Powder packing
We provide automated packing lines for diverse food powder applications, enhancing cleanliness and product yield by reducing dust emissions. Our systems offer comprehensive control with PLC operation and optional remote connectivity. Solutions include bag filling, conditioning, and quality checking functionality.
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Analytical, in-line control & measurement devices
Combining process monitoring using online analyzers, together with solid process engineering principles and advanced process modelling techniques will enable processes to be actively controlled in order to compensate for input variations.
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...
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