Tubular heat exchangers (THE) are at the heart of all process plants for heating, cooling and pasteurizing.

Tubular heat exchangers are essential components in various industrial processes, enabling efficient heat transfer between two fluids or gases. They are critical for maintaining optimal temperatures, improving energy efficiency, and ensuring smooth system operations.
As a manufacturer, staying competitive means relying on equipment, recipes, and processes that ensure hygienic, efficient, and reproducible production while delivering products with the desired properties and functionality.
Our heat exchangers are designed to meet these demands. Tailored to your specific application, it offers a customized solution to ensure top performance and reliability.
We offer a diverse portfolio of tubular heat exchanger modules for a wide range of products, that require to be heated, cooled or pasteurized.
The most appropriate design can be selected depending on the required production capacity and the physical properties of the product. Custom designs can also be developed and installed to suit highly specialized applications. The GEA VARITUBE® heat exchangers meet aseptic standards and are available for liquid food, liquid dairy products, beverages and new food.
Our standardized utility heat exchangers are available in different construction shapes and predefined sizes, with the focus to meet a high variety of water or CIP heating applications.
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Multitube with indirect heat exchange, suitable mainly for hot water generation and heating of CIP media with steam or hot water.

Our GEA VARITUBE® range is used for many products that need to be heated, cooled or pasteurized.

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From the orchards of the Cape to store shelves across 40 countries, the South African packhouse Betko has built a business on freshness, timing and reliability. With GEA’s controlled atmosphere refrigeration technology, the company can now store apples and pears for up to 14 months and cut energy consumption by 20%, with a partnership of more than 30 years at the heart of it all.