The facility provides a food-grade infrastructure to test, validate and scale products such as animal-free dairy proteins, egg-white proteins, specialty enzymes, flavors and fragrances.
The system has been engineered specifically for complex industrial environments, where uninterrupted operation is essential for producing high-quality products such as cream and cheese.
Believer Meats, a pioneer in the cultivated meat industry, has signed a strategic partnership agreement with GEA, one of the world’s largest suppliers of production scale equipment and systems to the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries.
The center will house pilot lines for cell cultivation and precision fermentation, bridging the gap between benchtop and commercial production of alternative proteins.
GEA has more than 160 of its French fry freezer tunnels operating worldwide and conducted extensive research and development to improve the energy consumption in industrial freezing equipment.
GEA has built a new cheese making plant for dairy brand Madeta in the Czech Republic. The new plant, which has a staff of 150, can process up to 400,000 liters of milk a day – twice the capacity of the company's former facility.
GEA Refrigeration Technologies, the GEA division specializing in industrial refrigeration, has joined the Cool Coalition led by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). By fostering dialog between governments, business, finance and civil society, the initiative aims to drive the use of efficient, climate-friendly cooling in urban environments, buildings and industrial processes worldwide.