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.

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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.

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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.

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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,...

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Add Better

Empowering customers with resource-efficient solutions

Our Add Better label calls attention to GEA solutions that are significantly better than their predecessor product when it comes to efficiency and environmental impact. These belong to our most resource-efficient solutions – this is sustainability value.

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Minimizing freshwater withdrawals in production processes

Growing water scarcity and increasing costs and regulation require manufacturers to reduce their freshwater withdrawals and wastewater discharge. GEA helps customers tackle these challenges with solutions that minimize water usage within individual process steps and enable its reuse in plants and plant processes.

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Less plastic, same performance

The demands on food packaging are many. Ensuring food is physically protected, lasts longer, is attractive and communicates the necessary information has led to more complex packaging which can be difficult for consumers to separate and recycle. GEA has teamed up with materials and packaging specialists to develop simpler, more sustainable solutions for food manufacturers that are easier for consumers to recycle.

Passado e futuro se fundem no projeto de aquecimento urbano de Lemgo

A cidade de Lemgo, no noroeste da Alemanha, tem um centro urbano com casas em estilo enxaimel e atraentes edifícios de pedra. No entanto, as autoridades planejam gerar até 80% do aquecimento urbano necessário para a cidade a partir de fontes renováveis - um plano ousado que se tornou ainda mais difícil devido às limitações do mercado de edifícios históricos de Lemgo.