
This year at Gulfood GEA showed visitors how they offer ‘Excellence At Every Stage’ to their customers, by promoting the latest solutions from food processing and packaging to beverage, butter making, bakery, pasta extrusion and milling. GEA looks happily back at a very successful edition.
‘Excellence At Every Stage’ is more than just a theme. It is the promise at the core of GEA’s food processing and packaging business, encompassing the technology, the service and the people, striving to deliver maximum performance at each stage of the journey, from an idea to a delicious food product.
GEA CookStar wins Gulfood Manufacturing Industry Excellence Award

With two nominations in two different categories, GEA was well-represented at the Gulfood Manufacturing awards ceremony. The GEA MultiJector 2mm needles was nominated in the category ’Most innovative processing solution’ and the GEA CookStar with SuperHeatSmoke was nominated in the category ’Top futuristic technology’. The GEA CookStar with SuperHeatSmoke won the prestigious industry excellence award, which was presented to the GEA team at the GALA dinner that took place in the Dubai World Trade Centre.
Watch the videos below to find out what happened at GEA booth.
Where there is smoke, there is flavor!
Who doesn’t enjoy the unique Smokey barbecue flavor? GEA is the first to introduce in-line smoking in a spiral oven with the introduction of GEA CookStar SuperHeatSmoke. The joint development with Red Arrow resulted in this innovative and patented in-line smoking process, which enables food processors to recreate BBQ magic on an industrial scale.
If you missed the chance to travel inside the GEA CookStar at GEA booth VR station, click the following link to get a glimpse of the unique Virtual Reality tour.
GEA CookStar with SuperHeatSmoke
Watch Luuc van Lankveld talking about the SuperHeatSmoke technology on the GEA CookStar, where it has won the prestigious Gulfood Manufacturing Industry Excellence Award 2019 in the category ’Top Futuristic Technology’.
Pavan joins GEA as PEM at Gulfood
Pavan Group has been present at Gulfood Manufacturing since 2011. Today, as the PEM division of GEA, they are pleased to be joining the corporate stand at this show. Michele Darderi introduces PEM, which stands for Pasta, Extrusion and Milling.
GEA Food Packaging solutions
Listen to Thomas Mitterfellner explaining GEA's complete thermoforming solutions and Pepijn Brouwers telling you more about easy and smart packaging with GEA SmartPacker, our vertical packaging machine.
GEA Food Processing innovations
Discover with Pepijn Brouwers the distinctive features that leaded GEA CookStar SuperHeatSmoke to won the ‘Gulfood Manufacturing Industry Excellence Award’ in the 'Top Futuristic Technology' category and made GEA MultiJector 2mm the runner-up for the 'Most Innovative Processing Solution' category.
Frank Liebscher about GEA CutMaster
Learn more about GEA CutMaster with Frank Liebscher. This cutting machine is the fastest and most universal in the market. Especially in the Middle-East region, the CutMaster is suitable for dates, date pastes, jams, fruit sticks, hummus and cheese products.
Welcome to GEA at Gulfood
Sunil Kumar presents the "Excellence at every stage" concept and the new way of in-depth expertise and experience sharing with the VIP Knowledge Sessions.