Cultured meat: GEA and Believer Meats cooperate for sustainable production

Innovative technologies to promote efficiency, sustainability and scalability

27-Sep-2024 - GEA, one of the world's largest suppliers of production equipment and systems for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries, and Believer Meats, a pioneer in the production of cultured meat, have entered into a strategic partnership. Together they want to develop technologies and processes ...

GEA adds proven AI solution to its portfolio with acquisition of CattleEye

Acquisition underscores GEA's commitment to animal health and welfare as part of its Next Generation Farming strategy

19-Mar-2024 - GEA is acquiring Northern Irish agricultural software company CattleEye Ltd., adding a pioneering artificial intelligence-based system to its existing dairy farm solutions portfolio. The acquisition underlines GEA's strong commitment to improving animal health and welfare. The parties have agreed ...

GEA invests EUR 18 million in technology center for alternative proteins in the USA

Sustainable alternatives to meat, dairy, seafood and egg

16-Feb-2024 - GEA is investing EUR 18 million (USD 20 million) in a technology center for alternative proteins in in the state of Wisconsin, USA. The new food tech hub will pilot microbial, cell-based and plant-based foods. GEA's state-of-the-art technologies and a team of biotechnology experts form the basis ...

GEA makes sustainability KPI controllable for breweries using AI

Pilot projects to improve performance are underway at well-known breweries

20-Oct-2023 - GEA has added predictive AI elements to its real-time monitoring for breweries to make brewing processes more sustainable. Developed together with practice partners, GEA InsightPartner Brewery monitors production performance in real time, anticipates anomalies and suggests improvements. In ...

Reducing fresh fruit juice sugar naturally

GEA and Better Juice break new ground

16-Feb-2021 - Process engineering group GEA and Israeli foodtech start-up Better Juice have joined forces to help beverage manufacturers produce healthier, lower-sugar fruit juice. Better Juice has developed a groundbreaking solution that naturally reduces the amount of sugar in fresh juice by up to 80 ...

GEA: 2018 results and set of measures

15-Mar-2019 - Technology group GEA has announced its definitive figures for fiscal 2018. In addition, Stefan Klebert, GEA’s new CEO, presented his analysis of the status quo and outlined the immediate action the company will take. He also announced a Capital Markets Day for September 2019, at which he and the ...

Stefan Klebert set to become GEA’s new CEO

20-Sep-2018 - At today’s meeting, the Supervisory Board of GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft has appointed Stefan Klebert (53) to the company’s Executive Board with effect from November 15, 2018. On February 18, 2019, he will succeed the long-serving CEO, Jürg Oleas (60), who is going to leave the company after ...

GEA’s CEO will not renew his contract enabling the next generation of leadership

19-Mar-2018 - Today, the long-standing CEO of GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft, Jürg Oleas (60), has informed the Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Dr. Helmut Perlet, that he is not seeking to extend his term of office beyond December 31, 2019. Furthermore, Jürg Oleas also suggested to leave from the Executive ...

GEA appoints Steffen Bersch and Niels Erik Olsen to the Executive Board

25-Sep-2015 - Düsseldorf, September 23, 2015 – At today’s Supervisory Board meeting, two long-serving GEA managers, the German Steffen Bersch, and the Dane Niels Erik Olsen were appointed to the Executive Board with effect from January 1, 2016. Alongside the CEO, Jürg Oleas, the Chief Financial Officer, Dr. ...

GEA acquires leading supplier of hygienic pumps

02-Jul-2015 - GEA has acquired Hilge, a leading supplier of hygienic pumps, especially stainless steel pumps for food and beverage applications. The company is based at Bodenheim, Germany and generated with about 150 employees revenues of more than EUR 35 million in fiscal year 2014. Hilge’s product range is ...