Sustainability
Enabling customers
Production and manufacturing processes inherently require the use of significant energy and natural resources. As a global processing solutions provider across many industries, GEA plays an important role in helping customers produce efficiently and more sustainably.
We enable customers to achieve their climate targets and meet ever-increasing regulations around emissions, water consumption and waste disposal by taking a more circular approach to processes. By integrating automation, machine learning and other GEA digital solutions, our customers can further increase their efficiency and output, improve workplace safety and job satisfaction among their workforce.
And as consumers look for more sustainable and healthier foods and beverages, in particular high-quality proteins, our customers are under pressure to deliver. GEA partners food processors, start-ups and research institutes to find solutions that ensure a growing population benefits from nutritious and ethically-produced products that utilize fewer natural resources.
Reducing CO2e emissions
GEA is a leading supplier of emission control technologies, ensuring a cleaner environment. Our refrigeration and heating solutions support the recycling of waste heat and rely on natural refrigerants.
Safeguarding water
GEA supports industry, marine and municipal customers with centrifuge solutions for sustainable water and effluent management. Our filtration portfolio supports zero-water applications through water recovery and recycling.
Rethinking waste
GEA centrifuges turn biomass, sludge, manure and other residue into usable energy and fertilizer. Our separators extract valuable components from side streams for valorization.
New Food
With expertise from testing to packaging, GEA is well-placed to help customers develop plant-based alternatives for dairy & meat, as well as insect proteins, precision fermented proteins & cell-based meats. GEA offers, for example, complete lines as well as individual solutions.
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Empowering customers with resource-efficient solutions
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Minimizing freshwater withdrawals in production processes
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Less plastic, same performance
