GEA Westfalia Separator Group GmbH

GEA is one of the world’s largest systems suppliers for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical sectors. Our portfolio includes machinery and plants as well as advanced process technology, components and comprehensive services. Used across diverse industries, they enhance the sustainability and efficiency of production processes globally.

As part of GEA, GEA Westfalia Separator is a global technology leader in mechanical separation and flow technology, with more than 130 years of experience in centrifugal separation technology. The company delivers advanced separation solutions for a wide range of industries, including food, beverage, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, marine, renewables, and emerging algae applications.

In the algae sector, GEA Westfalia Separator provides highly efficient separation and concentration technologies that enable the harvesting, dewatering, and processing of microalgae and macroalgae biomass. Its portfolio includes decanter centrifuges, high-speed separators, and integrated process solutions designed to maximize product yield while minimizing energy consumption and operating costs. GEA technologies support the production of algae-based products such as nutritional ingredients, omega-3 oils, proteins, biofuels, and specialty chemicals. With extensive process know-how and a strong focus on sustainable resource utilization, GEA helps customers scale algae production from pilot projects to industrial operations, turning algae into a viable source of food, feed, fuel, and bio-based materials.

Our core Equipment particulalrly for the Algae processing consitst out of:
– Decantercentrifuges
– Disc Stack Separators
– Skid Units
– Process lines
– the appropriate engineering part
– Homogenizers for cell disruption
– filtration equipment
– spray drying solutions
– process development / test units / trials

Beside Dairy, Chemicals&Pharma, Bevereges, Environmental Applications, Marinebusiness as well as Oil&Gas applications we are specialiced in the so called Renewables area. This area is mainly devited into
– Starch & plat based protein applications where we provide complete wet units
– Oil Processing with a wide range of refine edible/plant based (e.g. Algae) oil as well as animal oils and producing Biodiesel, Greendiesel.
– Oil&Fat recovery to receive the oil from the seeds or to get it out of the olives including the complete process, to recover it from the not consumable part of animals and fishes. Also the fat- and protein recovery of insects is belonging to that process area.
– industrial biotechnology applications where we are the leading suppliere for bakers yeast producers, amino acid producers, singel cell protein applications and a lot of other industrial fermentation processes. Algae harvesting as well as extraction steps belonging to this application area.

AlgaHub

Algomed, Klötze, Deutschland

BIOREA, ehemals GG Coriolis, Frankreich

OP Bio Factory, Japan

Duplaco, Niederlande

Projekt SABANA (Sustainable Algae Biorefinery for Agriculture and Aquaculture), Spanien

projects in China, Turkey, Sweden, US, France, Germany, Italy and many more