Add Better Consulting
Customized strategies and blueprints to accelerate your green transition.
Demands of tomorrow - a dual challenge
On one side, you need to optimize continuously to ensure a resilient business. On the other, the sustainability demands are multiplying fast and becoming more stringent – both externally and internally. Yet with Add Better Consulting, it's not a question of one or the other, but rather a harmonious approach of both.
GEA’s end-to-end support for your sustainability journey
At GEA, sustainability is at the heart of everything we do. We understand the challenges you face in the process industry, from rising energy costs, tightening regulations, to creating and meeting your own sustainability targets.
That’s why we offer specialized consulting and engineering services that support you — no matter where you are on your sustainability journey — whether you’re defining your strategy, optimizing operations, or scaling your impact.
With all core competencies in-house, our cross-functional teams bring deep industry expertise across every phase, helping you achieve tangible results in decarbonization, resource efficiency, and long-term performance:
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GEA’s end-to-end offering supports every step of your sustainability journey
Add Better Consulting – Accelerating your green transition
As the essential starting point, Add Better Consulting focuses on the first two critical phases: Sustainability Strategy and Plant Transition.
Add Better Consulting turns ambition into actionable plans — helping you design your sustainability roadmap and prepare your company and sites for sustainable transition.
By combining GEA's leading expertise in the food and beverage industry, our own journey towards sustainability with deep technical knowledge about heating and cooling technology into a holistic sustainability strategy consulting approach, we deliver more than just consultancy, analysis and a decarbonization roadmap. We provide you with tailored decarbonization strategies & blueprints and concrete budget considerations.
Sustainability Strategy
Our Sustainability Strategy consultants help you to set and meet your sustainability goals and targets, considering the challenges of meeting climate targets while optimizing production lines. With our deep industry expertise, we uncover the most effective Net Zero pathways and plan every milestone to get you to that greener finish line. In short: We empower you to strengthen your business AND define achievable ambitious sustainability goals.
Plant Transition
The holistic optimization and decarbonization approach of Plant Transition includes technical feasibility studies to develop concepts and flexible technical solutions that are in line with customers climate targets and legal requirements.
We design action plans aimed at modernizing production lines to minimize total ownership costs, increase efficiency, cut energy consumption, reuse waste heat streams and integrate renewable energy sources.
From vision to blueprint: Explore GEA’s Add Better Consulting offerings
No one knows your factory and production lines better than you do. Real, measurable success comes from joining forces. At GEA, we bring all the necessary expertise together under one roof. Our dedicated teams combine deep knowledge across every aspect of plant optimization. Together, we identify the small details that make a real difference — both in the short term and the long run.
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The power of the bigger picture
Our expertise spans the entire process chain, enabling us to collaborate closely with you to identify and implement comprehensive enhancements — ranging from single optimizable process, and machinery upgrades, to switching from fossil fuels to sustainable energy sources.
Add Better Consulting will empower you with the what and the how regarding improvements – both short-term and long-term. Every step of that journey will transcend into the long-term strategy to reach your sustainability goals.
How do we help you reach zero emissions?
Reducing energy consumption
Fine-tuning process parameters can lead to energy savings of 2-4%. A broader focus on cooling and heating optimizations can achieve up to a 30% reduction.
Enhancing efficiency
Through the adoption of energy-efficient refrigeration and heat pump technologies, leveraging natural refrigerants like ammonia, we can enhance your heating and cooling energy efficiency by up to 40%.
Lowering Total cost of ownership
Our solutions, designed to optimize your cooling and heating processes and integrate utility functions seamlessly into production, can reduce operational costs by up to 30%.
Achieving a Net-Zero Strategy
Our data-driven approach will substantially lower your emissions through the use of renewable energies, production line upgrades, and flexible solutions that cater to your sustainability targets and regulatory requirements.
Living up to standards with TÜV Rheinland validation
Our customer’s success stories:
Britvic and Innocent have already embraced our strategy, witnessing tangible results.
Action speaks louder than words. Results speak louder than action. GEA has offered consulting and implementation of holistic engineering solutions for years. Read how we helped Britvic cut the factory’s carbon emissions by an estimated 1,200 tons annually, and about innocent who runs a carbon neutral manufacturing site, The Blender, in the Netherlands.
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GEA heat recovery system helps Britvic reduce its carbon footprint
Meet our Add Better Consulting Leaders
Dr.-Ing. Isabel Osterroth
Plant Transition Team Lead
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Dr.-Ing. Tim Femmer
Sustainability Strategy Team Lead
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