Leisure & sport

Making leisure & sport cool

Refrigeration & heating - Leisure & sports
The leisure & sport industries offer a wonderland of activities for people to enjoy their free time. GEA Heating & Refrigeration Technologies’ expertise in large-scale cooling extends to ice stadiums, indoor & outdoor skiing facilities and bobsled tracks.

Pioneering Technology

We pioneered the use of the natural refrigerant ammonia for ice rinks and have since extended this to bobsled tracks. GEA’s freezing technology provides snow for indoor ski slopes, including the world’s biggest indoor ski resort in Dubai.

Our all-weather snow cannons enable ski centers to extend their seasons, supplying realistic and long-lasting snowfalls regardless of temperature or relative humidity. The snow they make lasts a long time and provides a

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GEA delivers energy-saving chiller system for ice stadium

GEA's sustainable refrigeration solution reduces energy use and carbon footprint at Netherland's world-class Thialf ice arena. More at gea.com/leisuresport
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SnowWorld offers sustainable indoor skiing with GEA solutions

Thanks to cutting-edge GEA refrigeration and heat pump technology, SnowWorld can offer sustainable winter sports fun at five indoor ski centers in the Netherlands.

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Josep Masramón and his daughter stand in front of their GEA batch milking installation.

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Access to safe water and sanitation is still a challenge in a lot of countries. Illness from dirty drinking water and daily treks to fetch it, mean many children cannot attend school. Thanks to a collaboration with Hamburg-based...

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In pursuit of its core mission – Engineering for a better world – GEA is building an employer of choice culture that offers employees the opportunity to reimagine solutions, collaborate across disciplines and contribute to a...

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