Gulfood Manufacturing 2019

‘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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The TT92evo twin-screw extruder demonstrates that combining the impressive 1.2 tph capacity with the widest range of cereal based pellets snacks is a possible challenge. 

It's equipped with a high-speed premixer for a perfect hydration of flours, a large mixing vessel to allow the dough a proper water absorption, vertical forced feeding screw to control the feeding flow to the cooking screw.

The variable speed motor is equipped with safety clutch and double cascade gearbox with high torque. Its particular design, with long modular barrel and co-rotating fully intermeshing twin screws, assures a proper cooking of the cereal based dough: the best combination between time, temperature and mechanical work input.

Visitors had the opportunity ti discover the variety of bakery product that GEA equipment can create.

GEA offers industry-leading equipment and complete production lines for cakes, pies, cookies, soft and hard biscuits, layer cakes, pastries, pizza, crackers, snacks and selected bread applications. GEA blends its proprietary technologies with its full line integration capabilities to provide turnkey systems for a wide range of products, from a single source.

Our experts at our IPS agent booth A1-34, in hall no 1, explored the wide range of hard candy ball and flat lollipop that GEA Aquarius Coating Line can process. 

As a committed partner throughout the entire life cycle of your high performance machinery, we were happy to talk with to provide the best possible support.

The GEA CutMaster cuts, mixes and emulsifies all different kind of sausage products from coarse to very fine. It is also suitable for a wide range of poultry, fish, confectionary or vegetarian products, processed cheese and many basic products in the food processing industry.

• Excellent product quality with highest degree of fineness 
• Exceptionally fast cutting speed
• Wide variety of possibilities and applications

Discover the ease of versatile packaging with GEA SmartPacker SX400.

Based on an intermittent machine action, it has an excellent price/performance ratio. Reliable and user-friendly, the machine is easy to operate and clean, while its advanced technical design keeps maintenance costs to a minimum. The GEA vertical packaging machines offer a convenient and inexpensive means of packaging a wide variety of convenience goods, mainly protein, fresh, shredded cheese, frozen vegetables, French fries, confectionery and snacks.

• Creates a wide variety of bag shapes (pillow bags, quarto seal, block bottom, quatro box, envelope, doypack style and zipper bags)
• 400 mm maximum bag width for pillow bags
• Maximum bag length 550 mm
• Hygienic design with easily exchangeable parts
• Option to combine a ZipTrick or in-line zip system to the machine for re-closeable packs.

GEA thermoformers set the worldwide standard when it comes to packaging large quantities of foods according to the highest quality standards. The GEA DeltaPak now compactly and inexpensively does everything that was once only possible with large, custom-built packaging solutions!

• Hygienic machine design with process-optimized surfaces and removable side panels
• Precise upper and lower film unwind
• GEA membrane sealing system for tight, even seals
• Robust frame for reliable non-stop operation under the most difficult operating conditions
• GEA EasyChange pivotable upper die sets for simple, safe and fast die set changes at the forming and sealing station

GEA’s RAY Pilot Plant freeze dries a wide range of foods under vacuum, locking in freshness and taste while preserving their color, nutrition and consistency. It’s designed for new product development with faithful scale up to full industrial-sized systems or for small batch production.

• Freeze dries a range of general food products such as: instant coffee, fruit, vegetables, meat, seafood and pet food;
• Touchscreen control with fully automatic running, process monitoring and documentation to ensure repeatability;
• Able to automatically generate drying profiles and end point for uniform drying and long shelf life;
• Plug and play installation (requires only water and power).
• Easy to clean and maintain;
• Tolerates pressures down to 0.1mbar.

This small table-top unit, designed for continuous operation at high pressure, is the perfect equipment for laboratory scale high pressure processing of dairy products, fruit juices, liquid food, food additives and ingredients.

Our customers supply the world with every type of goods. Working with GEA Service means partnering with a dedicated team of service experts. We build, maintain and improve our customers’ equipment, process lines and production plants so that every changing requirement is met, and every aspect of their production processes is optimized. Our customers can feel confident that their processing and manufacturing infrastructure will work to help ensure their continued business success throughout the entire life cycle.

• Getting you started ‒ Beginning of Life Services with seamless support for instant productivity and performance
• Keeping it running ‒ Lifetime Services with the cost-efficient way of ensuring safety and reliability
• Constantly improving ‒ Extended Life Services by sharing our knowledge to safeguard our customers’ investment
• Together with you ‒ Consulting & Enhanced Operations by enduring commitment to our customers and their business

Our seamless service offerings will ensure that our customers can meet the ever-changing demands of their global consumers and markets, not just today, but tomorrow and in the future.