P-Division
The Process Engineering Division provides a complete range of services and process systems to the beverage, brewery, chemical, dairy, food, and pharmaceutical industries.
The Process Engineering Division (P-Division) of GEA is a world leader in liquid and solids processing technologies. At its heart areGEA Niro in Copenhagen, Denmark, GEA Process Engineering Inc. in Columbia, Maryland, USA, GEA TDS GmbH and GEA Brewery Systems GmbH in Büchen, Germany. In total the Division employs 3700 people in 50 countries.
SERVICES AND PROCESS SYSTEMS:
Liquid processing: concentration, cooling, evaporation, extraction, heating, membrane filtration.
Drying: flash drying, fluid bed drying, freeze drying, microwave drying, ring drying, rotary drying, spray drying, vortex disintegrator drying.
Particulates and solids processing: agglomeration, cooling, de-dusting, granulation, tablet coating and pressing.
Packing: automatic powder packing.
Advanced control systems optimize the efficiency of each process.
Process integration is a key area, where existing or customer-specified equipment is incorporated in the overall system as well as in the delivery of turnkey installations.
MAIN COMPANIES OF THE P-DIVISION:
GEA Niro - Copenhagen, Denmark: The market leader for the supply of spray dryers, fluid bed dryers, freeze dryers, extractors, heating and cooling plants for processing liquid, particulate and solid materials. www.niro.com - Worldwide leader in spray drying, fluid bed dryers and powder technology.
GEA Process Engineering Inc - Maryland, USA: A full service company serving the range of P-Division products to the USA; Canada and Mexico. www.niroinc.com
GEA TDS GmbH - Büchen, Germany: A company with the core competency required for the hygienic, aseptic and sterile production of dairy, food, and juice products. Whatever the application, Tuchenhagen Dairy Systems will find a matching solution. www.tuchenhagen.com
GEA Brewery Systems GmbH - Büchen, Germany: The company has supplied complete solutions, globally, for almost 30 years. The mission of Tuchenhagen is to seek enhanced technical process solutions under respect of the economic principles and local market aspects. Tuchenhagen influences technical developments rather than responding to them. http://www.geabrewery.com/
GEA Brewery Systems GmbH - Kitzingen, Germany: Manufacture turn-key brewery plants for beers of international reputation. http://www.geabrewery.com/
GEA Avapac- Hamilton, New Zealand: Design and manufacture of hygienic powder packing systems. www.avapac.co.nz
Procomac Spa - Sala Baganza, Italy: A leading company for aseptic filling technology, Procomac Spa specialises in development, manufacture and servicing of advanced bottling and packaging technology for a wide range of products, formats and containers. www.procomac.it
Barr-Rosin - Maidenhead, UK and Quebec, Canada: Column dryers and coolers, flash dryers, fluid bed dryers, coolers and crystallizers, ring dryers, rotary dryers, calciners and coolers. www.barr-rosin.com
Colby Powder Systems - Sydney, Australia: Colby is dedicated to the design and manufacture of powder handling and packing systems. www.colbypowder.com
GEA Diessel GmbH - Hildesheim, Germany: Diessel engineers, designs and manufactures process equipment and plants for the Brewery & Beverage and Pharma & Biotech industries. www.diessel.com
GEA Filtration - is world renowned for its design of the most advanced cross-flow membrane filtration systems available. To effectively focus on the membrane filtration market, we have established dedicated regional centers in the USA, Denmark, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, and China. GEA Filtration is uniquely positioned to provide both customized membrane filtration plants as well as complete process lines specifically tailored to each customer's specific needs and requirements. www.geafiltration.com
GEA Wiegand GmbH - Ettlingen, Germany: The company supplies steam jet vacuum pumps, jet pumps, vacuum steam jet cooling plants, condensation plants, vacuum degassing plants and jet scrubbers. www.gea-wiegand.com
GEA Liquid Processing - Skanderborg, Denmark: Supplies engineering service s and complete process plants and machinery to the brewing, beverage, dairy and food industries as well as to the pharmaceuticals, biotech, and personal care products industries. www.gea-liquid.d
GEA Messo GmbH- Duisburg, Germany: Technology based plant constructor whose strengths include a comprehensive range of know-how in the fields of evaporation, crystallization and – based on these technologies – waste water treatment systems. www.messo.com
GEA Process Engineering France: Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France : Leader in dairy evaporators, market engineering, plants, as well as associated equipment and industrial expertise to the dairy industry worldwide. It is also specialized in the design and supply of spry drying equipment for the food, dairy, chemical and pharmaceutical process industries. Another main activity is the process engineering for evaporation, crystallization and wastes up-grading.
GEA Process Engineering France includes the following divisions: Niro, Scami, Kestner, Wiegand, NPS, Jet Pumps, Avalon, Colby as well as an After Sales Department.
GEA Process Engineering S.A.S. http://www.gea-pe.fr/
GEA Wiegand GmbH - Ettlingen, Germany: Evaporation and distillation plants. www.gea-wiegand.com
Niro Process Technology BV - Hertogenbosch, Nederlands: Niro PT is a leader in crystallization and separation technologies. Niro PT is the world's leading supplier of freeze concentration technology for the production of high quality liquid concentrates in the food, pharmaceutical and biochemical industries.
www.niro-pt.nl
Anders Wilhjelm is the Division President, located at GEA Niro.