Tailored equipment for top notch nutrition

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. 

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.