A Reliable Partner

GEA Filtration is part of GEA Group AG, an international process engineering leader in the life sciences industry with more than 150 companies operating worldwide. As a team member with technology leaders like Niro, Westfalia Separator, GEA Wiegand and Tuchenhagen specializing in liquid and powder processing systems, GEA Filtration is uniquely positioned to provide both customized membrane filtration plants as well as complete process lines specifically tailored to each customer`s specific needs and requirements.

A Proven Track Record

GEA Filtration is world renowned for its design of the most advanced cross-flow membrane filtration systems available. To effectively focus on the membrane filtration market, we have established dedicated regional centers in the USA, Denmark, Germany, New Zealand, and Australia.

The multi-disciplined teams at these centers provide the following value-added services:

Pilot trials and application development

System scale-up
Project Engineering
Process Integration
Controls and automation
System fabrication
System Installation and start-up
Service and plant audits
Replacement and membrane inventory

To provide a visual perspective of the dedicated regional centers that serve the membrane filtration market, we have included photos of these centers below. Hudson, USA is the global headquarters of Membrane Filtration. The other regional centers displayed include Denmark, Germany and New Zealand in that order.

In addition, the Membrane Filtration Center of Excellence located in Hudson, WI (USA), Australia, Germany and New Zealand is responsible for development of new applications and processes to meet current and future industry needs.

These capabilities enable us to take responsibility for the complete project all the way through design, procurement fabrication, installation and commissioning-reliably and economically. Your GEA Filtration team follows through long beyond start up with dedicated after-sales service. We can serve the industry globally with local presence, guaranteeing on-time delivery, to specification, on budget and personalized.

Listening to your needs and expectations, and understanding them, is the heart of our success. Our expertise, interactive approach and quality assurance process facilitates the value-added partnership that creates optimal solutions for you to excel in your marketplace. Simply put, you tell us your needs and we will take care of the details...anywhere around the globe, complying with local, national and international standards.

Technology

Cross-flow membrane filtration technology is quickly gaining global acceptance as an important manufacturing step in many of the process lines in the food, dairy, pharmaceutical/biotechnology and starch and sweetener industries worldwide. The ability to produce very specific separations at low or ambient temperatures with no phase change can, in many applications, make membrane filtration a much more cost-effective solution than more conventional methods such as rotary vacuum filtration or filter presses.

Membrane filtration is a pressure driven technology with pore sizes ranging from 100 molecular weight to 5 microns. The technologies included in membrane filtration are: Reverse Osmosis RO, Nanofiltration NF, Ultrafiltration UF, and Microfiltration MF

Membranes

GEA Filtration offers a wide range of system and membrane types to allow each and every completely optimize their specific separation. The range includes a number of both polymeric and inorganic membranes:

Polymeric

Spiral - Due to their compact layout and relatively large amountof membrane area per element, spirals are good cost-effective solutions to high volume applications with minimal or no suspended solids, with the primary advantage being both low capital investment and energy costs. They are available for all types of filtration from microfiltration to reverse osmosis.
Tubular - Highly resistant to plugging, tubular membranes are typically used when the feed stream contains large amounts of suspended solids or fibrous compounds.
Hollow Fiber Membrane - Extremely high packing density and open channel design; offers the possibility of backwashing from the permeate side, particularly suited for low solids liquid streams.

Inorganic

Ceramic - Ideally used for value added or sanitary applications such as milk or fermentation broths as well as products requiring selective separations from fluid streams with extremes in pH, temperature or solvents.
Stainless Steel - Rugged design, especially effective for demanding applications with aggressive process conditions or feed streams with elevated particulate solids or viscosity.

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