Snacks & breakfast cereals
A new breakfast experience starts now, thanks to a new production frontier. It’s GEA breakfast cereals end-to-end processing line. Tell us your needs.
The GEA xTru Twin series of extruders adapts perfectly to any requirement or need: barrel and screw configuration are made-to-order and designed based on process requirements. As a result, every need in terms of production capacity, product type and footprint is catered for with a GEA xTru Twin extruder.
The new high-capacity twin-screw extruders are able to increase productivity by up to 40%. GEA engineers have used their experience and know-how to increase the cross-sectional area, rotation speed and pitch of the screws on the new machines, while maintaining the extruder footprint and screw length. This also allows customers to upgrade existing machines without buying a new machine or changing their plant layout.
GEA xTru Twin extruders can be used to create lines that enable quick switchover between production of flaked cereals and shaped cereals, guaranteeing high hourly production capacities.
Start every day with a new product: thanks to the different machines you can include in your breakfast cereals full processing line, you can rapidly switch from flaked cereals to shaped cereals production, including co-extruded articles.
GEA has the knowhow and technology to equip customers with tools that will kickstart any product line and any success story.
Customer story
Taking advantage of the extreme versatility of GEA xTru Twin extruders, GEA has developed a product that combines breakfast cereal processing with the countless benefits of snack pellet technology.
Chocolate multilayers are a brand new breakfast experience that combines the crunchiness of a snack with the sweetness and energy of breakfast: three layers for a pleasant mouthfeel, improved absorption of milk (or vegetable beverage), and an optimal nutritional profile given by the total absence of fat.
A revolutionary product technologically rooted in GEA strong processing knowledge for snack pellets, the starting point for a new way of thinking about the production of breakfast cereals.
Chocolate multilayers
A new breakfast cereals experience starts today. Discover all our technologies to boost your breakfast cereals production inside our brochure.
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The new die washing units have been designed using state of the art technology in order to match modern pasta manufacturers requirements: they combine sturdiness with the efficiency of an innovative system capable to decrease washing cycle time up to 50% when compared to traditional equipment.
GEA's Dies and Moulds Department studies and develops systems that cover all the shaping process phases in pasta and snack processing lines, including shaping, cutting, cleaning and maintenance of the dies. GEA provides equipment such as extrusion moulds, cutting systems and die washing machines.
GEA offers complete turnkey systems for the storage and handling of finished products like pasta, pet food, candies and many more.
The single-screw cooking-extruder that can transform any raw materials into high added value products.
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Customer story: Pastificio Felicetti
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