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GEA is adding about 70,000 square feet of office, manufacturing, research and industrial space at its Janesville campus in Wisconsin. The investment of about USD 25 million covers construction, machinery and equipment, with full operation scheduled for early 2028.
GEA signed an agreement to acquire the business of Hydract A/S, a Danish maker of water-hydraulic process valve actuators, for integration into its Valves & Pumps unit.
GEA has signed an agreement to acquire Hydract A/S, a Danish maker of water-hydraulic process valves, with closing expected by the end of January 2026. The technology will be integrated into GEA's Valves & Pumps Business Unit for beverage, dairy and pharmaceutical customers.
GEA has signed an agreement to acquire the business of Hydract A/S, a Danish maker of water-hydraulic process valves, and plans to complete the deal by end of January 2026. The technology will be integrated into GEA's Valves & Pumps business unit.
GEA Group will invest about €5.5 million by 2026 to modernize production at its GEA AWP valve plant in Prenzlau, Germany, replacing seven older machines and adding about 20 production jobs.
GEA is investing around €5.5 million to modernise industrial refrigeration valve production at its AWP site in Prenzlau, Germany, replacing older machining centres with new CNC machines. The investment will add 20 production jobs by 2026.
GEA began operations at a new 86,000 square-foot fabrication, repair, logistics and training facility in Janesville, Wisconsin, representing about USD 20 million of investment. The site employs over 70 people.
The Supervisory Board of GEA Group has appointed Bernd Brinker as interim Chief Financial Officer effective 16 October 2023, succeeding Marcus A. Ketter, who died on 6 August 2023. The appointment lasts one year.
GEA began construction of a 85,000 square foot repair, logistics, assembly, production and training facility in Janesville, Wisconsin. The investment is about USD 20 million, over 70 jobs are expected, and opening is scheduled for late 2023.
GEA Heating & Refrigeration Technologies introduced the Grasso L XHP high pressure screw compressor and Grasso V XHP high pressure piston compressor at Chillventa 2022 in Nuremberg.
GEA celebrated the opening of a new food processing and packaging Technology Center in Frisco, Texas, in mid-September 2022.
GEA is supplying Olin with a thermal vapor recompressor based on its nozzle needle-controlled steam jet compressor for a distillation plant at Olin's Stade site. The system can reduce specific steam consumption by up to 10 percent.
GEA Heating & Refrigeration Technologies introduced a heat pump combining its RedGenium heat pump with the new Grasso V XHP reciprocating compressor, providing temperatures up to +95 °C at high efficiency. The announcement was made on 19 October 2021.
GEA laid the cornerstone on May 21, 2021 for the expansion of its Koszalin site in Poland into a climate-neutral center for hygienic and vacuum pump production and components. The roughly EUR 37 million project is due to launch in 2022.
Germany-based Emsland Group awarded GEA a follow-up order, valued in the low single-digit million-euro range, for a potato protein process line at its Wietzendorf site. The order covers planning, delivery and installation support, including plate heat exchangers, pumps and protein decanters.
The Emsland Group contracted GEA for the construction and expansion of its potato protein production line at its Wietzendorf starch plant in Germany, in a follow-up order valued in the low single-digit million-euro range.
Financial investor NORD Holding completed the purchase of compressor manufacturer GEA Bock from GEA Group on February 26, 2021, and the company now operates as Bock GmbH. The deal included the Frickenhausen headquarters and subsidiaries in China, India and the Czech Republic.
Honeywell UOP selected GEA Refrigeration Technologies to supply engineered tail gas compression packages with GEA XH screw compressors. The packages are for the modernization of the Heydar Aliyev Oil Refinery in Baku, Azerbaijan.
GEA will discontinue production at its Bodenheim site near Mainz, Germany, by the end of 2024 as part of a consolidation of its global production network.
GEA will invest around EUR 30 million to expand its Koszalin, Poland plant into a center of competence for pump production and comprehensive machining, as part of optimising its production network.
GEA has agreed to sell compressor maker Bock, including Bock GmbH and its subsidiaries in the Czech Republic and India plus sites in China and Australia, to German private equity firm Nord Holding. Financial terms were not disclosed and closing is expected in early 2021.
GEA Group won a contract from Hochwald Foods GmbH to supply the complete dairy processing technology for a new dairy in Mechernich near Cologne, which will process about 800 million liters of milk per year, with commissioning planned for mid-2021.
GEA introduced new GEA Bock CO2 compressors designed for supermarkets and distribution centers, announced on February 5, 2020.
GEA launched a new flow components production facility in Suzhou, China in late 2018, with 12,000 square meters of production space and 1,320 square meters of office space. It moved valve and pump machining and assembly from Shanghai in November 2018.
GEA supplied fully automated tablet and capsule production equipment, including continuous blending technology, that has transformed Pfizer's Freiburg, Germany plant into a smart factory.
