The home and personal care industry serves fast-growing, brand-driven markets for products as diverse as shampoo, body lotion, shower gel and toothpaste to laundry detergents and all-purpose cleaners. Consumer demand for better value, high performing products that keep us healthy and our clothes, homes and cars clean and fresh. Driving industry innovation in this competitive, but potentially highly profitable marketplace.
Manufacturing must be adaptable to incorporate improvements and new ingredients or develop preservative free and other market-led formulations. And we are here to support you!
It's all in the mix
Mixing is an integral part in the production of home & personal care products. Based on our extensive experience and technological know-how, GEA offers a variety of batch, continuous and in-house custom designed mixing solutions equipped with flow components that meet specific customer needs. Effective mixing ensures that products are both of the highest and most consistent quality, and that they are produced cost-efficiently.
In the following process plant animation you can discover how hygienic butterfly valves, VARIVENT® seat valves, GEA Hilge HYGIA centrifugal pumps, VARICOVER® Product recovery system and orbital cleaners have been implemented in a GEA mixing plant.
Improving the sustainability of plants and plant operations
One of the important steps by developing and executing projects for Home and Personal Care is dealing with a wide range of equipment with a high focus on sustainability, low water consumption and minimum product loss. Already a proven technology across several applications, product recovery or pigging systems have become an important tool in helping companies conserve water by ensuring that raw materials are processed with minimal waste and by optimizing water consumption in demanding pipe cleaning processes. This also reduces resource-usage for wastewater treatment.
LEFF® function for unprecedented cleaning efficiency, saving up to 90% cleaning media
LEFF® stands for Low Emission Flip Flop. The LEFF® function is integrated in the T.VIS® A-15 valve control top and can be easily activated. Path-controlled electronics pulse-control the moment and degree of opening the valve disk with absolute precision and thus, optimize the cleaning effect by minimizing detergent consumption and cleaning time.
GEA Flow Components offers you a comprehensive portfolio of modular process components and solutions that you can select, configure and customize - to keep your production flowing.
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GEA equips cosmetics plant in Thailand with efficient process technology
GEA delivers the process technology for the plant expansion of a leading cosmetics company in Thailand. The Home and Personal Care experts will commission the entire process – from raw material to filling, including the required cleaning systems for pipelines and intermediate bulk containers (IBCs) in Bangkok by April 2019. GEA is also responsible for the automation – where the control requirements of the processes are implemented. GEA technology will significantly reduce overall product losses during production. The order value is in the high single-digit million Euro range.
“Better is only possible with the best”
“Thanks to the GEA Typhoons, we’ve cut cleaning time by 90 percent while also consuming 90 percent less water and detergent. Instead of 25 minutes, we now only need two minutes for cleaning,” says Atila Kalemci, Automation & Project Manager (Sapro)
FLOW4YOU - Together we achieve more.
Flow components
Hygienic valves & components
Hygienic valves from GEA form the core component of matrix-piped process plants. Thanks to a pioneering valve concept that sets standards for its flexibility, as well as the latest control and automation functions, our valves offer manufacturers maximum product safety and process reliability. All GEA hygienic valves are designed to be efficient and cost-effective for their particular applications, leading to sustainable operation and considerable savings potential.
Aseptic valves & components
Aseptic valves face exceptionally high demands within UltraClean and Aseptic processes. You can be assured that they all provide highest quality in terms of hygienic design and sustainability.
Cleaning technologies
The portfolio comprises different types of cleaning devices, such as orbital, rotating and static cleaners, to achieve the optimum cleaning result for different applications. Cleaning technology products can be found working successfully all over the world in numerous industries – from water treatment, chemical and brewing to food and pharmaceutical. Our sophisticated process components and services offer a comprehensive portfolio to support innovative engineering processes – wherever professional cleanliness is of the essence.
Hygienic pumps
GEA Hilge offers a versatile range of centrifugal and positive displacement pumps for a wide variety of sensitive applications in the beverage, food and pharmaceutical industries.
