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Fruit storage at Betko: Control from peak harvest to global delivery
From the orchards of the Cape to store shelves across 40 countries, the South African packhouse Betko has built a business on freshness, timing and reliability. With GEA’s controlled atmosphere refrigeration technology, the company can now store apples and pears for up to 14 months and cut energy consumption by 20%, with a partnership of more than 30 years at the heart of it all.
How SmartParc is rewriting the rules of food production
Thanks to a new SmartParc manufacturing site, food processors in the U.K. are cutting their running costs and emissions. With GEA heating and cooling technology at its core, this collaborative production model demonstrates how innovation is accelerating the industry’s net-zero ambitions.
Heating Tallinn efficiently with innovative GEA heat pumps
As Tallinn moves toward climate neutrality, the Estonian energy provider Utilitas and GEA are setting new standards in district heating. Four state-of-the-art GEA heat pumps at its biomass combined heat and power plant are reducing emissions, improving efficiency and operating from various heat sources for cleaner urban heating worldwide.
GEA provides integrated cooling and heating solution for 2 Sisters Storteboom in Komorniki
GEA has supplied integrated cooling and heating systems for the factory of the poultry processing company 2 Sisters Storteboom B.V. in Komorniki, Poland. The aim is to significantly reduce energy consumption and CO₂ emissions, thus protecting the environment and saving costs.
Keeping cool at Godden Food in Australia
The Godden Food Group is a family owned and operated wholesale food distribution business located at Ormeau just north of Queensland’s beautiful Gold Coast. The company supplies a complete range of frozen, chilled, fresh and dry goods to restaurants, caterers and private homes throughout South East Queensland & Northern New South Wales.
GEA delivers sustainable cooling & heating solution for Wipasz
GEA Refrigeration Technologies has delivered on a multi-million Euro project installing an integrated cooling and heat pump system in Wipasz’s new greenfield facility at Międzyrzec Podlaski in Poland, one of the most automated and sustainable poultry processing plants in Europe.
GEA heat pump upgrades waste heat from the London Underground to warm homes, two leisure centres and a school in Islington
The revolutionary Bunhill 2 Energy Centre – the first of its kind in the world – provides a blueprint for decarbonising heat in potential future schemes in London and around the world, reducing heating bills and carbon emissions while improving air quality and making cities more self-sufficient in energy.
The Schwarz IT data center DC 10 combines natural and mechanical cooling
Completed in 2018, the new facility with a minimum availability of 99.98 % (TSI level 3 extended) is the first data center to be awarded a Gold Certificate for sustainability by the Austrian Sustainable Building Council (ÖGNI). While natural cooling with river water plays a key role in the system's eco-sustainability, the required non-stop cooling capacity is ensured by mechanical means – with four GEA BluAstrum ammonia chillers.
