Custom-built processing solutions for liquid foods
GEA understands that no two liquid food products are the same, and that every component and process line should be considered in the context of your final products. That’s why we design fully integrated process solutions, and energy- and resource-saving equipment, that will meet your product requirements today, and support your expectations and ambitions for tomorrow.
From first concept to full-scale operation, we can help you design, develop, validate, and optimize your processes, ensuring performance, reliability, and long-term efficiency.
Designed around your product
We don’t offer standard solutions, GEA systems are custom configured so you can manage challenging product properties, from high viscosity, salt and particle content, to temperature sensitivity.
Proven before you invest
De-risk your project by testing and validation at our test centers. Trial and tweak your recipes on GEA equipment and gain confidence before investing and scaling up to production.
Optimized for resource efficiency
GEA aims to build energy and water efficiency, heat recovery and waste reduction into every solution. We’ll always try to give you options for reducing carbon footprint and cutting operating costs.
Liquid food applications
Integrated liquid food processing equipment and technologies – from individual units to complete plant solutions
Manufacturing different types of liquid foods can present producers with multiple challenges. Any combination of complex liquid and powdered ingredients, high viscosity, varied particle sizes and temperature sensitivity mean custom-designing processes and equipment for each product.
Our end-to-end portfolio spans high shear mixers, homogenizers and pasteurization units, together with clever tech that can dramatically reduce energy and water use, recycle resources, and cut waste. We’ve also developed efficient clean-in-place (CIP) and recovery solutions to maximize safety, reduce downtime, and improve yields. From installing single or standalone process units to designing entire plants, our experts will sit with you to learn about your processes, products and goals. We can then work together to design and configure optimized systems that meet your needs today, support future scalability, and make sustainability a priority. Through our bespoke approach we customize each line to provide the optimum combination and configuration of modules to give you confidence in consistent, stable processing, so that you can create great quality, homogeneous products with a long shelf-life.
Test centers for liquid food processing – validate before investing
Our test centers play an important role in process development for all manners of liquid foods. Customers can run their own recipes on GEA equipment under real-world conditions, optimize process parameters and validate scale up, prior to investment. This hands-on approach helps you reduce risk, gives you confidence in process reliability, efficiency and product quality, and builds confidence in the final solution.
Processing expertise and tailored solutions for just about any liquid food
GEA expertise is founded on decades of process and engineering knowhow and industry partnerships. We combine all this knowledge to design equipment and components that are purpose-built for your products and production setup. We’ll work to address your key challenges, whether that’s viscosity, particle handling, hygiene or temperature control, and look at creating a seamless overall. Our systems are designed to give you the assurance of consistent quality and efficient, future-proof production.
As your trusted partner, GEA is here to support you from initial concept through testing and implementation to long-term operational success.
Resource-efficient processing solutions for liquid food products
Liquid food production typically requires the use of significant amounts of energy and water, but these processes do offer up opportunities for reducing resource consumption. We develop technologies that can reduce fresh water use and reuse process water, cut reliance on fossil fuels, and capture and reuse residual heat. Our energy-efficient heating and cooling technologies include refrigeration systems that use natural refrigerants, advanced heat pumps, and heat recovery solutions. Work with us at GEA and we’ll identify just where it might be possible for you to significantly reduce overall energy and resource use, cut waste, and support more sustainable liquid food manufacturing.
Products & Technologies
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Aseptic Systems
Here at GEA, we’ve developed a range of aseptic systems for liquid processing that are designed to give you confidence in maintaining sterile conditions throughout the production process and during storage. Relied on by our global customers in food, beverage, dairy and pharmaceuticals manufacturing, GEA aseptic equipment is engineered so you can ...
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.
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GEA Insights
The breakthrough that changed spray drying
In 1976, NIRO engineers responded to a competitive challenge by rethinking what spray drying could do. Their idea became the multi-stage dryer MSD. Fifty years later, the same fundamental principle helps turn liquids into the powders used in essential nutrition products and important medicines around the world. Refined through decades of engineering expertise, customer insight and continuous development, MSD is a story of innovation with lasting impact.
Beyond the machine: unlocking better plant performance
An efficient machine does not automatically make an efficient factory. Real improvement often starts by looking beyond individual equipment and understanding how processes, energy systems and operating decisions affect one another. It’s a holistic approach designed to uncover opportunities that might otherwise be missed.
How a valve reshapes the way food and drinks are made
In food and beverage plants, valves are commonly operated using compressed air. GEA Hydract® Actuation Technology moves valves with water instead, in a closed, digitally controlled circuit. The result is a valve that can be held exactly in place and steered in fine-tuned steps. This results in lower energy use and greater control.
