GEA
GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft
Düsseldorf, Germany
About
Founded in 1881, GEA is a dairy industry manufacturer based in Düsseldorf, Germany selling farm equipment & herd tech, processing equipment, packaging +4 more.
GEA is an international technology group offering machinery, plants, process technology, components and services, primarily for the food, beverage, pharmaceutical and chemical industries. Its dairy business supplies dairy farmers with milking robots, rotary parlours, herd management and digital tools, and supplies dairy processors with separators, homogenisers, evaporators, spray dryers, filling systems, valves and end-to-end process lines. GEA also operates test centres for dairy and other processes and offers installation, commissioning, process engineering, spare parts and after-sales service. The company reports sales of about EUR 5.5 billion in the 2025 fiscal year, more than 18,000 employees and operations in more than 150 countries. It is listed on the German DAX.
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DairyRobot R9500
Milking robot
Robotic milking system for dairy herds.
T8900 rotary parlour
Milking parlour
72-point rotary milking parlour for high-throughput herds.
GSE 400 separator
Cream separator
Westfalia separator offering improved energy efficiency and process stability.
Niro MSD spray dryer
Spray dryer
Spray drying plant for dairy and nutritional powder production.
Ariete Homogenizer 5400
Homogeniser
High-performance homogeniser for dairy and food processing.
Falling film evaporator heated by MVR
Evaporator
Mechanical vapour recompression evaporator for concentrating liquid dairy products.
Inline Automatic Filler
Powder filling machine
Flexible powder filling system with single-head model upgradable to top-up systems.
AddCool
Heat pump and refrigeration system
Integrated heat recovery system that reduces CO2 emissions of spray dryer plants.
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Reference installations
Huntington Hall Farm
Milking parlour: 72-point GEA T8900 rotary parlour for approximately 1,000 Holstein cows
1,000 cows
Cotton Abbotts Farm
Robotic milking: 10 GEA DairyRobot R9500 units for a 570-cow Holstein herd
570 cows
Arla Foods
Denmark
Milk powder factory spray dryer plant with GEA AddCool system, Svenstrup
Danone Nutricia
Netherlands
Nutritional formula production, Cuijk/Haps: Niro MSD spray dryers, MVR evaporator and Ariete homogenisers
