Leader in White Biotech SolutionsCompetence to take you ahead

engineering for a better world

Highly functional plastic materials are a key product of innovative White Biotech manufacturing processes.

Towards a bioeconomically based production: White Biotech produces high-value products from low-value plant materials (stem and leaf cells, cellulose, …).

White Biotech – industrial production of the future

For the last three decades industrial biotechnology has seen stunning advances earlier generations could not have envisaged. But we are still only at the beginning of the White Biotech revolution, one that will change the face of production industries forever. New bioeconomical solutions for energy, chemical production, bioplastics and pharmacy are on their way in to set new standards in mass production. Just in time, as the corresponding demands for a sustainable global economy have moved into the social spotlight worldwide.

From a fossil-based towards a bioeconomically based

industry – the innovation cycle keeps accelerating.

For thousands of years, ancient societies have known

the use of complex biotechnical processes in beer,

wine, cheese and leather production, among other

applications, but without understanding these

processes. This has changed with the discovery of

enzyme functions and the fermentation process

over the last centuries, and with the breathtaking

progress in the decoding of microorganism genomes

and in controlling the genetic mechanism during

our own time. Thus, mass products that are essential

for present societies can today be produced with

important functional advantages, and with greatly

reduced amounts of heat, pressure and harmful

by-products in the production process: Cleaning

agents, biofuels, many bulk chemicals as well as

fine chemical products such as food additives and

nutritional supplements.

However, in many application areas, developments

have only just begun. New research must lay the

foundations for a truly efficient means of pro-

duction, to which biotechnology can make a decisive

contribution. More and even greater possibilities

have already been discovered and studied in tests.

Biorefineries and biomass-to-fuel processes are

just two technologies on the verge of becoming

standard tools of modern production. And thousands

of yet unexplored microbe varieties with special

properties and functional opportunities remain to be

studied, while, at the engineering frontier, entirely

new approaches to synthetic bio design are being

developed.

Comprehensive studies and analyses on the potential

of industrial biotechnology all foresee substantially

growing proportions of biotechnological methods in

chemical manufacturing, for the near future as well

as in long-term perspective.

The race is on for tomorrow’s success in industrial

production.

GEA – Leader in White Biotech solutions

From the upstream and fermentation process stage

to numerous special applications in the decisive

downstream phases, GEA combines expertise and

ready-to-work, future-oriented solutions that will

make system users reach their goals.

Both leading expertise and leading technology

solutions from GEA are available around the

world. GEA is one of the largest system providers

of machines and process technology worldwide, a

market and technology leader in about 90 percent

of its business areas.

GEA has companies and service contacts in every

world region, many of them specialists in White

Biotech. The strong corporate and financial

resources in the GEA Group mean that any investment

in GEA technology will take place with absolute

reliability of delivery and future service ensured.

GEA specialists work hand in hand to make solution

shortcuts and functional benefits possible that can

not be obtained from separate providers.

Future-oriented biotech systems competence

Specialists working hand in hand for

maximum process benefits

Customized White Biotech engineering

and solutions worldwide

Test centers for testing single process

steps or process combinations at GEA

or customer sites

Corporate and financial strength in the

global GEA Group

The commercial application of the latest advances in bioengineering requires an equally advanced standard of process technology solutions. Successful upscaling of test processes to industrial levels is one challenge to be met. Others are the combination of different process steps in plant designs, and reliable quality control on an industrial scale. Offering the competencies of highly experienced process technology specialists in one structured portfolio, GEA is the go-to address for producers when it comes to meeting these challenges.

Contact our representatives in your region for your customized White Biotech solutions!

Reliability, efficiency and budget control over

the entire life cycle

GEA offers its customers a comprehensive service

concept, in which experts with manu facturing

know-how and up-to-date knowledge optimally

care for every single GEA equipment component.

In other words: You benefit from the long

ex perience of GEA as a technology leader in

equipment and solutions. Our focus is always on

the achieved overall benefit for the customer over

the entire life cycle.

Keys to manufacturing success

Maximum plant availability

Permanently high equipment

and process efficiency

Absolute budget control for

optimized TCO

We are at your service, for maximum results

Fermentation

Pure culture

Process control systems

Liquid jet gas

compressors, liquid jet

mixers

SterilizationMixing

Heating &cooling

Aeration & agitation

Fermenter design

Liquid jet pumps

Direct steam

injection

Liquid jet solid pumps,

liquid jet mixers

Propagation

Substrate

Supplements

Fermenter equipment

In-place cleaning & sterilization

UpstreamDosing

Measuring & control

Steam jet cooling, steam

jet heaters

Fermentationtanks, piping, valve matrix,

pumps

Product isolation

Biomass separation

Product purification

Product concentration

Evaporation Evaporation

Biomass dryingBiomass concentration

Sidestream concentration

Membrane filtration,

crystallization, distillation

Membrane filtration,

crystallization, distillation

Membrane filtration,

freeze concentration, evaporation

Centrifugal separation, membrane filtration

Downstream

Product crystallization

Product drying & confectioning

Product handling & packaging

Drying & confectioning

Crystallization DryingPowder

handling & packaging

Crystallization

Whatever your White Biotech process, international GEA specialists work together to create maximum benefi t solutions for you, delivering the right process technology components in ideal combinations, tailored to your process.

Technology solutions from GEA in the upstream, fermentation and downstream process

Drying

Key areas of White Biotech expertise in the global GEA Group

Focusing on demanding and sophisticated production processes, GEA offers effi cient and fl exible solutions for customers in the White Biotech sector – advancing both environmental sustainability and economic benefi t.

Evaporation by GEA Kestner and GEA Wiegand

Falling film evaporation

Forced circulation evaporation

Tubular or plate design, single- or multi-effect

Vapor recompression heating concepts (MVR, TVR)

Energy-optimized, tailor-made solutions

Product-specific testing at own test lab and on site

Crystallization by GEA Messo PT and GEA Kestner

Solution & melt crystallization, freeze concentration

Meeting your specific requirements (e.g. product purities, crystal size)

Range of crystallizers: FC, DTB, oslo, surface cooling

Energy integration & optimization systems:

MVR, TVR, heat pumps, multi-effect

Crystal separation

Membrane Cross Flow Filtration by GEA Filtration

Microfiltration

Ultrafiltration

Nanofiltration

Reverse osmosis

Skid-mounted

Distillation by GEA Wiegand

Distillation and rectification plants

Pressure swing adsorption

Tray and packed columns

Pressure-vacuum multi-column systems

Vapor recompression heating concepts (MVR, TVR)

Energy-optimized, tailor-made solutions

Fully automated, tailor-made

Product-specific testing at own test

lab and on site

Centrifugal Separation by GEA Westfalia Separator Group

Disk separators

Decanter centrifuges for biomass separation

and extraction

Customized centrifuge systems and package units

Product-specific testing at own test labs and at site

Dryingby GEA Niro and GEA Barr-Rosin

Flash dryers and coolers

Fluid bed dryers

and coolers

Freeze dryers

Process Solutionsby GEA Liquid Processing

Project management

Process turnkey projects

Media preparation

Process integration

Powder Handling & Packagingby GEA Avapac and GEA Nu-Con

Rotary valves

Powder handling & storage

Bulk packing

25 kg bag filling

Retail filling

Fermentation

Mixing technology

Automation

Ring dryers

Paddle dryers

and coolers

Spray dryers

GEA Group is a global engineering company with multi-billion euro sales and operations in more than

50 countries. Founded in 1881, the company is one of the largest providers of innovative equipment and

process technology. GEA Group is listed in the STOXX® Europe 600 Index.

We live our values.Excellence • Passion • Integrity • Responsibility • GEA-versity

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