GEA test facilities for plant-based beverages
Dedicated to working with customers to overcome their processing challenges, GEA offers customers the opportunity to confidently trial plant-based beverage products before scaling up production.
GEA Test Center for Aseptic Processing & Filling - Ahaus, Germany
We can help you to build quality into your processes, adjust key parameters to drive your critical quality attributes to the required target levels and bring new products to market in a quick and efficient way. Our skillset includes collaborating with customers to design, tailor and optimize solutions to meet specific processing requirements and/or test new concepts.
From new product and feasibility trials to scale-up studies, training programs and process support, we believe that our services greatly benefit anyone involved in industrial R&D, equipment selection, process optimization and product development.
Contact us today about your product development plans.
Enabling you to conveniently prove your product or process, or to optimize the production of existing ones, before making a large-scale investment, our process technologies such as separation, pasteurization, mixing, homogenization and aseptic filling are available in our test facility located in Ahaus, Germany.
GEA Test Center - Oelde, Germany
Fascinating options for reliable, scalable testing of your next process ideas: Decanters and separators are not off-the-shelf products. For optimum use, they must be selected and adjusted specifically for the process of the user. This is supported by the Process Test Center at GEA Separators in Oelde.
Our teams carry out product analyses, analytical measurements, machine trials and process developments to meet the requirements of manufacturers and their respective process engineering tasks. The knowledge accumulated over the decades is collected and held in a database so that customers can draw on a broad spectrum of expertise covering all GEA process technology applications. This level of support is also critical in helping customers calculate their investment costs and ROI.
- Product investigations
- Trials in the Process Test Center
- Trials at the customer site
- Process developments
Extraction
It takes sophisticated extraction technology to obtain beverages from cereals, with the full range of quality properties that consumers demand. Much fine-tuning is required to get the flavor and feel in the mouth just right.
State-of-the-art GEA CF Decanter Centrifuges present the most efficient solution to extract liquids in large quantities and at optimum product quality.
- High yield and throughput – more product in less time, from less resources
- Superior product safety and quality – reproducible and traceable
- Single- or double-step extraction process with decanter(s), hygienic design
GEA Test Center - Parma, Italy
Manufacturers can test, develop and optimize products to ensure high-quality results before scaling up production or making equipment investments.
Our testing equipment, accommodating trials for both batch and continuous manufacturing, includes pre-mixer and turbo-emulsifier tanks; table-top homogenizers; pilot plant homogenizers and laboratory fume hood. The lab is equipped for microscope analysis; particle size characterization (micro & nano) as well as viscosity-rheology and stability analysis.
