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Ensuring Your Peace of Mind

Development of new dairy products can be a costly and labor-intensive investment for many customers. Add to that complex formulation, detailed process design and plant validation, this can become a daunting process for some customers to undertake alone.

GEA understands this very well and this is why we built dedicated test centers designed to help you to confidently trial your products before scaling up production.

Critical process technologies including separation, formulation, mixing, evaporation, and drying are available in our many small-scale test plants enabling you to conveniently prove your product or process before making a large-scale investment.

Working alongside our team of dedicated process experts, you will be able to formulate your products, refine recipes and then produce them at a small scale. We will then help you to evaluate the final product properties and to refine the process design before you scale up.

With decades of process experience gained from food processing plants all over the world, our test centers give you the confidence that the process units we deliver are optimized to suit the local process and environmental conditions. In addition, the ongoing refinements that we make through offline testing will ultimately benefit the final solution for your production facility.

Process design is only part of our offering. With GEA, you have access to the latest technologies, equipment and engineering expertise, which we will combine to deliver your complete end-to-end solution.

Our test centers are:

• Liquid Mixing – Copenhagen (Denmark), Ahaus (Germany) 
• Heat treatment – Ahaus (Germany)
• Aseptic Processing – Ahaus (Germany)
• Homogenization – Parma (Italy)
• Separation - Oelde (Germany)
• Powder mixing – Hamilton (New Zealand)
• Spray Drying – Copenhagen (Denmark); Maryland (USA)
• Freeze Drying – Copenhagen (Denmark)
• Evaporation/distillation/membrane filtration – Karlsruhe (Germany)
• Filtration – Hudson (USA) 
• Freezing – Vancouver (Canada); Bakel (Netherlands)
• Thermoforming packaging – Wallau (Germany)
• Slicing and loading – Kempten (Germany)
• Vertical packaging – Weert (Netherlands) 
• Food processing and packaging – Frisco (TX, USA)

Contact us to find out more about how GEA can ensure your peace of mind.

Versatile equipment and end-to-end lines for your dairy applications

Here at GEA, we’ve spent 130 years pioneering the development of equipment for processing just about every type of dairy product. We’ve dedicated our expertise to developing components, equipment, services and digital tools that can help you as a dairy manufacturer innovate to develop nutritious, high quality dairy products and ingredients, while staying productive, and reducing environmental footprint. By coupling our expertise in process design with the latest equipment and expertise in automation engineering we can help you to select the best components, digital tools, and integrated equipment for end-to-end lines.

Technology for energy and resource-efficient dairy processing

We really understand the challenges faced by the milk and dairy products sector in today’s fast-moving markets. Dairy manufacturers big and small strive to maximize output, while every area of dairy farming and processing is tasked with improving sustainability. Using GEA systems for processing your dairy products you could significantly reduce energy and resource use for processes such as heat treatment and spray drying. We’ve developed technologies that could let you recycle heat and water, help to cut your reliance on fossil fuels, and reduce waste and emissions. Improving process resource efficiency, could help to reduce your environmental footprint.

Hygienic, reliable systems and support

We offer dairy processing equipment that is designed and engineered to meet strict hygiene, food safety and quality standards, and to give you efficient, reliable operation, for the lifespan of your plants and process lines. Our expertise as a single source supplier covers project management, plant installation, commissioning and after sales service and support. No matter how complex the dairy process, and however big or small your production scale, we will be at your side right from the start. Why not take the time to read about some of our real-world partnerships with dairy companies around the globe?

Test centers for new and existing dairy processes

It’s often a long, and expensive process to convert an idea for a dairy product or process into a high quality, marketed product that your consumers will love. At our dedicated test centers we can offer the equipment and expertise to support testing and optimizing both new and existing recipes and processes at the laboratory and pilot scale, and then demonstrate scale up to commercial production. Our small-scale test plants for critical technologies – including separation, heat treatment, mixing, evaporation, and drying are designed for small batches and are available for you to run tests using a minimum of energy and raw material consumption. We can partner with you to evaluate every stage of your process on individual GEA technologies and optimize entire dairy process lines to maximize quality and resource efficiency.