Future – Visions – Horizons
The Business Unit Renewable Resources
of GEA Westfalia Separator
Separation. Solution. Success.
Mechanical Separation / GEA Westfalia Separator
Linking Knowledge –
the New Business Unit Renewable Resources
For many companies in a wide range of industries, renewable resources are an unparalleled opportunity
for the future. They are responsible for providing food for the world’s population, they substitute fossil
fuels and they can be used for developing entirely new products, creating the basis for future innovative
processes. However, all this requires ideas and visions. GEA Westfalia Separator has created its new Business
Unit Renewable Resources in order to develop and implement such visionary concepts within an optimum
infrastucture.
It is the centre of competence for optimizing tried-and-tested separating processes while simultaneously acting
as a competent partner for developers and pioneers of our age who create entirely new products and who are
searching for appropriate processes to realize them.
With our know-how gained from recovering and processing oils and fats, starch and proteins, fermentation
products and biofuels, we are thus able to offer our customers the advantages they need to give them a crucial
competitive edge: process know-how and development from a single source for optimum added value throughout
the entire life cycle.
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Whatever Direction
You Choose ...
.....We Will Support You
Food
In the fields of starch, proteins, fermentation products, oils and fats, our broadly based portfolio already provides
the most efficient separating solutions available on the market.
But we are also consistently moving forward to further strengthen the competitiveness of our customers with
machines and processes precisely customized to your needs.
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All the Way!
Biofuels
For many years, GEA Westfalia Separator has been successfully supporting the production of high-quality biodiesel and bioethanol
from renewable resources with stand-alone machines right through to the installation of complete process lines.
In cooperation with science, research and industry, we are not only working towards improving the efficiency of existing pro-
cesses; we are also focusing on the technical and economic utilization of renewable energies of the second and third generations,
for instance biomass on the basis of cellulose.
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Tradition You Can Build On –
a culture of innovation which also accompanies you in future
Whether your requirement is to minimize the consumption of fresh water in olive oil production,
gentle treatment of fragile algae cells, continuously improving added value in industrial starch
production or the production of extremely pure proteins: sustainable productivity improvement
in the processing of renewable resources has been our focus in the past, and will continue to be
so in future.
By bundling know-how in the new Business Unit Renewable Resources, we are expanding and
improving the means of exploiting renewable resources for more efficient material and energy
management, and at the same time opening up new possibilities of boosting earnings in tradi-
tional areas.
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Spotting Potential –
new fields of profit for a sustainable future
The finite nature of fossil fuels is compelling us to look for new solutions to obtain fuels and other industrial
products. The new Business Unit Renewable Resources provides intensive support to users who are planning
new products and processes – from the initial laboratory-scale test and the pilot phases right through to the
installation of industrial-scale plants.
In the preliminary phase of product development, our experts determine whether the required quality of
new recipes can also be attained on an industrial scale and which capacity ranges are realizable with our separat-
ing technology. In this way, investors shorten the time to market, and are aware at an early stage of the budgets
which will be necessary for optimum production right from the very beginning.
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Economy and Ecology –
responsible handling of water
The processing of renewable resources also requires the use of
wash water and process water.
Modern solutions of GEA Westfalia Separator keep the demand
for fresh water as low as possible and thus make a major con-
tribution to the success of an investment in economic and also
in ecological terms.
Our customers thus benefit in two ways: yields are increased,
and the volume of waste water is reduced.
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Wherever You Produce –
we are there
Throughout the world, more than 50 subsidiaries and service companies guarantee the availability of mechanical
separation technology of GEA Westfalia Separator. Competent advisors are always available to work with the pro-
ject developers of the customer on determining all aspects of an optimum separating process and for developing
customized solutions.
And the best machines require the best service. Maximum process efficiency and plant availability are the key
aspects of Westfalia Separator capitalcare, the service of the manufacturer. Customized service modules ensure
permanently high capacity and product quality. This service is available quickly and at all times via the global
service organisation and the authorized workshops.
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Mechanical Separation
GEA Westfalia Separator
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