Ingredientes alimentarios

Saborizantes

La industria alimentaria utiliza saborizantes de alta calidad para que nuestros alimentos preferidos destaquen sobre los demás, tanto si se trata de helados y dulces, como salsas o alimentos infantiles.

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Your flavors, engineered for success

Your success is our focus. Whether you require a single piece of equipment or a complete line, our experts have an in-depth understanding of what really matters to you as a creator of flavors. From consistency, repeatability and fast changeover times to the ability to operate at the highest level with safety and efficiency front of mind, our process knowledge and in-house capabilities deliver wherever your operations are located.

GEA comprende que los fabricantes de saborizantes necesitan ofrecer una amplia gama de sabores para que la industria alimentaria y de bebidas pueda desarrollar nuevos productos de gran interés en mercados globales muy competitivos. Nuestra experiencia en equipos industriales es el soporte para que los clientes puedan crear sabores nuevos de manera flexible, reduciendo sus costes de explotación y minimizando el uso de recursos. 

Durante más de 50 años, GEA ha suministrado al sector global de ingredientes alimentarios unos componentes, equipos y soluciones de procesos completas, eficientes y fiables, para los saborizantes en polvo. Tenemos la capacidad de suministrar equipos independientes y también de configurar e instalar plantas integradas de proceso de saborizantes para producción a pequeña y gran escala. 

Your reliable partner - aseptic spray drying

Process expertise

Take advantage of GEA’s deep process expertise and leading technological advances. Coupled with the most comprehensive testing facility for spray drying, together we will engineer the future of flavor.

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Repeatability in flavor processing

Our advanced process control solutions and precise engineering enable the components of your line to work in perfect harmony, ensuring the repeatability you need.

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Safety at the forefront

Our dedication to keeping your people safe is unconditional. We can integrate at the highest safety levels – from fire safety systems to digital visual spray nozzle monitoring.

Getting the design right

The design of flavor lines prioritizes eliminating sharp edges and dead zones in machinery, pipework, and valve systems where even the smallest traces of product could collect. Careful attention is given to the type, number, and positioning of cleaning devices, ensuring maximum efficiency. Cleaning fluid tanks are precisely sized to hold just the right volume needed to clean the entire system thoroughly, minimizing changeover time. Even the choice of gasket materials is deliberate, ensuring they do not retain traces of product.

These design elements collectively optimize the Cleaning-In-Place (CIP) system, delivering fast product changeovers, reduced downtime, minimal waste, and lower water and detergent usage.

Sustainability in flavor spray drying defined

At GEA, sustainability is more than a watch word. By definition, it can relate to both financial stability and the pursuit of environmental and ecological balance, and with our solutions we endeavor to incorporate both. Our optimized solutions not only deliver the highest levels of production efficiency, leading to efficient ingredient usage in terms of yield, for example, but also feature energy saving innovations. GEA OptiPartner Advanced Process Control, for instance, make sure your production always runs at optimal efficiency, thereby saving energy, increasing efficiency and optimizing product moisture.

Ensuring repeatability in flavor processing

When producing flavors there is much opportunity for something to go wrong. An ingredient added too quickly into a mixing vessel, inconsistent temperature, insufficient mixing or incomplete homogenization can all have an effect further downstream that affects the outcome. Similarly, variations in mixing, homogenization or drying parameters can all have an effect that in some subtle way alters the product. All these parameters are critical to producing a consistent product. Precise engineering, recipe control and GEA OptiPartner can help rule out those deviations by controlling all the individual unit operations precisely.

Safety first for flavor production plants

Our experts focus on designing and configuring equipment and processing lines that match the required safety standards of the plant. A range of safety features is offered, tailored to the product characteristics, local regulations, and customer policies. These include the GEA Fire Safety System (compliant with SIL 2), surface cooling technology when necessary, visual and infrared cameras on spray nozzles, explosion vents, explosion suppression systems, and decoupling systems. Together, these features ensure the highest levels of plant safety for customers.

The essence of a flavor factory

The essence of a flavor factory

At the heart of every flavor factory lies the spray dryer, but like all hearts in the world, even the strongest cannot go on forever. At Mother Murphy’s in Greensboro, North Carolina, it was time for an upgrade.

Key technologies in flavor processing 

We assist in defining emulsification and spray-drying solutions tailored to optimize process capacity and yield, with a particular focus on the quality and stability of the final powdered flavor. Our experts work to reduce oil droplet size in flavor emulsions and fine-tune drying parameters to achieve efficient particle formation within the spray tower. Additionally, our mixers incorporate advanced features such as temperature control, variable shearing, and controlled atmospheres, enabling operations under reduced pressure or oxygen levels. We also support the development of alternative encapsulation techniques, including spray congealing (spray cooling) and fluidized bed coating. By leveraging our technologies, customers can consistently achieve uniform processing and packaging of flavor products across all recipes and production scales.

GEA BATCH FORMULA® PRO High Shear Mixer

BATCH FORMULA® PRO high shear mixer

Mixing is crucial for consistent, high-quality flavor ingredients. Our integrated process control monitors key parameters to ensure product integrity and meet specifications.

GEA Ariete Homogenizer 3075

High Pressure Homogenizer

GEA offers versatile, high pressure homogenizers for either batch or continuous processes. A range of configurations are available, including hygienic and aseptic, design options to ensure safe, consistent processing.

SD and FSD® spray dryers

The GEA FSD® multi-stage dryer is especially well suited to heat-sensitive products like flavors. Simple in design, the GEA conventional NIRO® spray dryer allows for a relatively fast change-over between products.

GEA SmartFil M1 Powder Packing System

SmartFil M1 powder packer

The GEA SmartFil M1 has been developed to provide a wide range of filling configurations to meet the diverse needs of the flavor industry.

In the complex, ever-changing world of flavor development, your ability to engineer the finest quality end product is one element that remains a constant. At GEA, we understand your need for consistency, repeatability and flexibility, and have applied these attributes to our innovation process.

We consistently innovate to provide our customers with cutting edge production solutions.

We are investing repeatedly in optimizing solutions for flavor manufacturing to ensure high efficiency and high availability.

We have the flexibility as a complete solutions provider to deliver everything you need to succeed.    

GEA – your flavors, engineered for success.

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