The process of brining has many functional ingredients and properties that give meat and poultry products a longer shelf-life. This is where injection techniques are crucial, as they affect brine retention, which is crucial to ensuring consistency of distribution, fewer costly recalls and shelf life extension. Customers will not purchase…
Automation: Ensuring Quality, Reducing Food Waste & Emissions
Producing large quantities of popular fast-food items such as chicken nuggets with consistent, repeatable results, every time is a highly sensitive process. Imagine: you’ve popped out to shops and decided to pick up some chicken nuggets—a quick and easy lunch option that everyone enjoys. These days, with the increasing awareness…
Precise Performance Cooking For Outstanding Results
Industrial cooking technology has come a long way since GEA, one of the largest food system suppliers, introduced the world’s first two-zone spiral oven in 1992. This method is developed further by the company into a three-zone cooking concept with the launch of its CookStar 1000 spiral oven, powerful new…
Karaage: Bridging Tradition With Technology Without Compromising On Authenticity
GEA Product Expert Luuc van Lankveld discusses the issues surrounding the automation of karaage production. With the global demand for meat snacks expected to grow significantly in the coming years* it would seem that the potential of the meat snacks market is barely being touched in many areas, as consumers…
GEA Pavan Installs Seventh Production Line For Polish Breakfast Cereal Producer
Earlier this year, GEA Pavan successfully handed over a seventh production line for manufacturing breakfast cereals to OBST. Both companies have been working in close partnership for 20 years. In the 90s, Polish consumers started to replace traditional morning food like “Jajecznica”—a large meal composed of eggs and sausages—with breakfast…
GEA: Safety Is Served
GEA Offers Maximum Hygiene And Food Safety With Aseptic Blow Fill Bottling Technology It was ten years ago that GEA launched its innovative rotary Aseptic Blow Fill (ABF) bottling technology to the world. Since then, the concept has evolved to capture the imagination of sensitive beverage and liquid dairy producers…
GEA Filling & Packaging Launches New GEA Premium Support Platform
Aseptic filling technology has developed rapidly throughout its history. But not all progressions in aseptic filling are related to the technology itself. Automation and digitalization, and the opportunities provided for big data and analytics, are also important developments for the maintenance and performance of Service products. On January 10, the Service…
Something To Eat Or Drink? Yes, Please!
According to Research and Markets, the global beverage market is forecast to grow to US$1.9 trillion by 2021—great news for manufacturers. What’s slightly trickier is what consumers are actually asking for: a variety of high quality, hybrid products which are also sustainably produced. So, just how can manufacturers meet these…
GEA: Maximising Quality And Minimising Costs With Fully Automated Production Lines
GEA offers a complete data-connected production line that ensures consistent high-quality products while minimizing labor costs and with full traceability. Connecting Modern Machines And Ensuring Effective Running Coupling meat treatment machines with additional processing steps brings many advantages to the overall production process. The chicken nugget line from GEA enables…
Aseptic Filling—The Process And The Benefits
In comparison to hot-fill technology, cold aseptic filling provides the required shelf life without adversely affecting the quality of the product, says Alessandro Bellò, vice president of Blowing-Filling & Packaging, GEA. Aseptic filling technology has created a major shift for beverage producers in recent years. In the past, shelf…