GEA Bakery Experience Center
Innovate. Test. Scale.
Design, test and optimize a wide range of bakery products with GEA specialists at your side, gaining the insights you need to innovate confidently and scale smartly.
Innovating and scaling efficiently is essential for bakery producers to stay ahead in a competitive market.
At the GEA Bakery Experience Center in Verona, Italy, our food technologists work side by side with customers to develop and refine recipes and processes — enabling faster, low-risk market entry.
Test Before Invest.
Discover the GEA Bakery Experience Center, your hub for innovation, testing, and recipe perfection.
With two fully equipped pilot lines and an advanced R&D laboratory, you can develop, test, and optimize new recipes without interrupting daily operations.
Our team of experts supports you through raw material analysis, process refinement, and final product validation, ensuring accurate, reliable, and repeatable results.
Customer Insights
“Testing at the BEC gave us the confidence that the new equipment could perfectly match our existing process, ensuring product consistency across our lines while allowing us to familiarize ourselves with the machine.”
Franco Ronconi
Head of Industrial Engineering at Galbusera
Cutting-edge technology for every bakery need.
From soft dough cookies to hard dough products, our deposition, lamination, and baking technologies ensure top quality and high productivity. By leveraging our pilot lines and advanced analytical tools, customers can simulate real production conditions, gain valuable insights, and validate performance before committing to full-scale investment.
At our technology center, you can analyze different raw materials using advanced laboratory equipment to identify the ideal recipe for your baked products. The processing lines, featuring our key technologies, provide a critical testing environment where customers can evaluate new products and fine-tune every detail of the recipe and process before moving to full production.
R&D Laboratory with end to end pilot lines.
The Bakery Experience Center is designed to deliver an exceptional user experience, offering access to two cutting-edge processing lines and a dedicated team of GEA experts who support you through every stage of the product development process.
Collaborate and co-create with GEA Experts.
This unique concept offers customers a co-creation opportunity alongside GEA’s experienced team.
Through hands-on testing and close collaboration, you can:
- Identify potential challenges early
- Optimize recipes and processes
- Validate specifications and product performance
- Make informed investment decisions with confidence
Soft dough cookies line.
With three independent drives for weight accuracy control, the rotary moulder allows a capacity ranging between 70-700 kg/h, while the extruder enjoys an easy-to-clean model fillerblock, with a clear focus on productivity, with wirecut applications benefiting from up to 300 cuts per minute, and up to 100 cuts per minute for extruded and co-extruded applications.
The powerful and compact lobe depositor integrated in the soft cookies line renders depositing cookies smoother and much more efficient, while not compromising on hygiene standards. And finally, for an effective baking procedure the GEA E-Bake convective oven with a plug & play design allows for independent top and bottom control, ensuring precise temperature and moisture control of the convection air.
Hard dough line.
Stretching over 47 meters, the hard dough processing line consists of a four-roll extrusion system, cut and sheet laminator, three-gauge rolls, a single roller rotary unit and the GEA E/G-Bake radiant and convective oven.
The extruder integrated in this processing line ensures high consistency of dough processing, while the cut & sheet lamination system features a bypass for hard sweet and snack cracker production. As for baking, users can benefit from the flexible configuration of several heating technologies in every module, with convection and radiance electric heating for sustainable and efficient baking, and gas fuel for a powerful baking procedure.
Where Innovation, Expertise, and Precision come together.
At GEA, we combine expertise, tradition, and innovation to help our customers bring authentic bakery products to life, efficiently and sustainably.
Our customers trust GEA because we replicate their processes precisely, ensuring the same quality and integrity they achieve in full-scale production.
"The GEA Bakery Experience Center allowed us to test and validate every specification before installation, giving us confidence in our choices and ensuring reliable, repeatable performance.”
Franco Ronconi
Head of Industrial Engineering at Galbusera
Test today. Invest smartly tomorrow.
Explore how efficiency and authenticity can go hand in hand.
Book your personalized innovation session at the GEA Bakery Experience Center and discover how to bring your next bakery product to market faster and with confidence.
