GEA Process Engineering is a main supplier of complete lines and unit operations for the world’s food industry. We have special expertise within the following markets:

We emphasize that GEA Process Engineering supplies the process plant, equipment and other solutions for manufacturing of powder and liquids, but we do not supply the products mentioned on these pages.

  • Bakery products
  • Convenience food
  • Dressing
  • Edible oils
  • Eggs
  • Fats and Oils
  • Fish and shellfish
  • Flavors
  • Fruits, jam
  • Fruit juice and pulp
  • Gelatine
  • Ginger
  • Ginseng
  • Gluten
  • Health food
  • Herbs
  • Honey
  • Ice-cream
  • Ketchup
  • Liquid yeast
  • Liquorices
  • Mayonnaise 
  • Margarine
  • Mustard
  • Natural medicine
  • Nutraceuticals
  • Onions
  • Proteins
  • Red sauces
  • Sauces
  • Soy
  • Soups
  • Spices
  • Starches
  • Sugars
  • Tomatoes

Vegetables, Shrimps & Fruits

ATLAS freeze drying technology supplied by GEA Niro offers substantial benefits to the processing of a variety of products including fish, fruits, herbs, and coffee. When frozen products are dried under vacuum, the inherent water is removed as vapor. The products retain their structure and size, and all their nutrients, flavors, and colors.

Food Ingredients

GEA Wiegand is one of the world leaders in the manufacture of evaporation plants for the concentration of liquid food.

Main features are:

  • Gentle evaporation of the product due to low temperature load and short residence times
  • Customized, state-of-the-art plant design
  • Low specific energy consumption

The FILTERMAT™ Spray Dryer

The patented FILTERMAT™ from GEA Niro successfully dries hygroscopic and sticky products, which are difficult to handle in other drying systems. The concept gives the customer complete control over crucial aspects of the drying process, including:

  • Final moisture content
  • Final product structure
  • It is ideal for the gentle and economical production of a free-flowing, agglomerated powder.

Corn gluten

For the processing of corn ingredients GEA Barr-Rosin provides the most versatile dryers on the market. The company provides customers with a wide range of dryers including flash dryers, ring dryers rotary dryers and fluid bed dryers. Product applications are starch, fibers, gluten, corn gluten feed and corn germ. The drying systems can be linked together in the Integrated Feed house to ensure maximum energy efficiency and pollution control.

New indirect UHT pilot heating plant

A newly designed indirect UHT pilot plant from GEA TDS can reliably support your product development. Depending on the viscosity of the product, the plant is suitable for the heat treatment of liquid foodstuff at flow rates between 500 and 1,000 l/h. The plant easily handles different media with a wide range of viscosities from low to high.

The following companies have special expertise in serving the food industry:

GEA Niro: extractors, fluid bed dryers, freeze dryers, spray dryers
GEA Barr-Rosin: ring dryers, flash dryers, rotary dryers
GEA Wiegand: evaporators, distillation plants, jet mixers and heaters, vacuum systems, cooling plants
GEA Filtration: membrane filtration systems
GEA TDS/GEA Diessel: liquid process engineering and process integration
GEA Levati Food Tech: sterilization retorts, food processing lines