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GEA Westfalia Separator Process: Bundling the Activities

Wednesday 11. March 2009 - With the merger of the GEA Westfalia Separator sales companies Food Tec and Industry to form the new, highly-efficient GEA Westfalia Separator Process GmbH, GEA Westfalia Separator GmbH is rising to the challenges of the market for the benefit of the users.

At Anuga Food Tec in Cologne, the new GEA Westfalia Separator Process GmbH will be presenting itself in this new form. It bundles competences, sales activities and separating processes for the production and refining of products under one roof. This will create synergy effects. With this merger, the new sales company is enlarging its market segments and simultaneously shortening internal coordination and decision-making processes. In this way, the new GEA Westfalia Process GmbH is strengthening its highly specialized Business units. It is pushing forward its competent and process engineering solutions, creating more scope for new developments and optimum pre-conditions for innovations. Because centrifugal separation technology has evolved worldwide to become a key technology for the sustained production of milk and dairy products, beverages, starch, protein, insulin, edible oils and other vitally important products – this is what the new GEA Westfalia Separator Process GmbH stands for.

Bundling the activities
Four Business Units will in future operate within GEA Westfalia Separator Process GmbH: Dairy Technology, Beverage technology, Chemistry/Pharmacy, and the new Business Unit Renewable Resources. Everything will be concentrated in the latter Business Unit that deals with the future growth market of renewable raw materials. The former Business Units Oils and Fats Recovery, Oils and Fats Processing, Starch Technology & Industrial Biotechnology will be integrated in this new Business Unit. Here too, the synergies of the current activities in this field will be bundled so that the markets have a specific contact for process engineering developments. This applies both to renewable resources of the first generation like bioethanol and biodiesel as alternatives to crude oil as well as for the second and third generations of fuel energy and the recovery of resources on the basis of biomass.
The users benefit from a more concentrated innovative input for new applications, from optimum separating and clarifying results for maximum raw material yields, enhanced process efficiency and increased availability of the installations.