From carbohydrates and proteins to extracts or flavors, the diverse food ingredients sector spans a wide range of products that are used to maintain or improve the safety, freshness and nutritional value of our foods, as well as their taste, texture or appearance.
Single process units and complete solutions
A specialist in food product processing, GEA’s portfolio includes a broad array of technologies for ingredient production — from liquid handling and feed preparation through to the drying and packing of final products. We can provide solutions ranging from single pieces of equipment to fully integrated lines. Based on our comprehensive food technology know-how and years of experience, GEA’s design and process engineering philosophy is
Plant-based proteins
Make plant proteins your business
To produce high quality plant-based protein powders from soy, potatoes, peas, fava beans or mung beans, you need high quality, sustainable solutions designed for long-term productivity and reliability.
Food ingredients processing in action
Explore real-world success stories from food ingredient producers around the world. See how the industry is partnering with GEA to overcome challenges, optimize production, and drive innovation with cutting-edge solutions.
Seagarden: fresh from the sea
Seagarden, with its head office in Haugesund, Norway, is a major producer of fish-based ingredients for food, beverage and cosmetic manufacturers worldwide.
The essence of a flavor factory
Mother Murphy’s is a food flavoring and extract business in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Ambitious project develops spray drying process for high value milk protein
Valfoo is one of the leading family-owned suppliers of niche milk and whey products in Europe.
A new direction for Thrive Life
Thrive Life markets a wide range of freeze-dried foods, including fruit, vegetables, meat, fish and ready meals predominantly sold in the United States and Canada from their headquarters near Salt Lake City, Utah.
Pol’s and GEA exemplify partnership supporting local, sustainable agriculture
Pol’s works with local growers and smallholders from field to factory, to support and help promote controlled agriculture for cultivating and preserving seasonal fruits and vegetables.
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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.
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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