GEA Filtration at NWFPA Expo

We are exhibiting at the 2006 NorthWest Food Manufacturing & Packaging Exposition Come and visit us at booth #s 655, 657, 754, and 756!

2006 NW Food Manufacturing & Packaging Expo

January 15-18, 2006
Oregon Convention Center
Portland, OR

This year at the NWFPA Expo our booth will feature the following GEA Companies and Business Groups:

GEA Filtration

A world-leading supplier of cross-flow membrane filtration systems to the food, dairy, beverage, biofood, and nutraceutical industries. The company has expertise in pilot trials and application development, systems scale-up, project engineering, process integration, fabrication, installation and start-up, service, and membrane replacement. GEA Filtration will exhibit the advanced membrane filtration pilot plant model L which is designed for performing preliminary membrane screen tests for all membrane filtration technologies (microfiltration, ultrafiltration, nanofiltration and reverse osmosis) quickly and economically on small volumes of feed material.

GEA Liquid Processing (the process integration and engineering activities of Tuchenhagen North America)

Will demonstrate its capabilities in process integration with special emphasis on the integration of Niro components into complete process lines. Various automation screens and systems will also be displayed.

GEA Evaporation Technologies

The company is dedicated to supplying evaporation, distillation, rectification, and crystallization process technology and systems to the North American market. The company serves a variety of industries, including biotechnology, food, dairy and beverage, and environmental. The company features three product lines:

• Niro - specializing in sanitary, multi-effect evaporators for the food and dairy industries.
• GEA Wiegand - focus on distillation, rectification, and evaporation of beverages, carbohydrates, alcohol and effluent.
• GEA Kestner - expertise includes evaporators and crystallizers for acids and speciality chemicals.
• GEA Messo - technology strengths lay in a comprehensive range of know-how in the fields of evaporation, crystallization and vacuum process engineering and based on these technologies - waste water treatment systems

Atlas Freeze Drying Systems

Atlas is the world's leading supplier of freeze drying systems for the food, food ingredients, and beverage industries. Atlas freeze dryers set the world standard for design, operation and quality. The delivery program includes plant sizes ranging from pilot scale to large industrial batch and continuous plants.

GEA Powder Systems (uniting the state-of-the-art technologies of Avalon Engineering, Avapac, Packaging Systems, and Colby Powder Handling Systems)

Will exhibit the latest technology in sanitary powder packaging, handling and conveying.

Niro Food & Dairy Dryers

Will exhibit a variety of drying and agglomeration systems including spray dryers, fluid bed processors, as well as a new process to dry de-proteinized whey.

Westfalia Separator

World leading supplier of separators, decanters, and clarifiers.

Leading Technologies. Individual Solutions.

For more information about the 2006 NW Food Manufacturing & Packaging Expo please access http://www.nwfpa.org/.