Germany GEA Group (GEA Group) began to mean "Germany Engineering Alliance" (German Industrial Alliance), is in the energy, refrigeration technology and food field in the world's leading machinery and one of the process technology suppliers, but also the field of the market and technology leader. It is one of the world's leading suppliers of machinery and process technology in the fields of energy, refrigeration technology and foodstuffs, as well as a market and technology leader in its field. It specializes in high-standard production processes and offers its customers efficient solutions. the GEA Group achieved a record high of 6.8 billion euros in 2012, with 70 percent of sales coming from the long-established and growing industrial segments in the energy, refrigeration, and food industries. As of June 30, 2012, the group had more than 24,000 employees and customers in more than 70 countries on all continents.
The GEA Group was founded in 1920 and became a public company in 1989. It is now controlled by the holding company GEA Group AG, headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany. With 250 companies in 50 countries (including 19 subsidiaries in China), GEA has become an advanced global technology group. The group has six business units: GEA Refrigeration Technologies, GEAMechanical Equipment, GEA Process Engineering, GEA Heat Exchangers and GEA Heat Exchanger Technology. Heat Exchangers, GEAConvenience-Food Technologies and GEA Farm Technologies.
The GEA Group specializes in the fields of professional mechanical engineering (especially chemical engineering and equipment) and industrial design. The GEA Refrigeration Technology Division is one of the world's pioneers in all areas of industrial refrigeration, with more than 150 years of experience in refrigeration technology. The main products include piston compressor sets, screw compressors, brine units, ammonia chiller units, valves, various pressure vessels, automatic control systems, etc. We mainly provide complete sets of equipment and engineering design, installation, commissioning and maintenance for industrial refrigeration and food refrigeration. GEA refrigeration technology has provided refrigeration equipment for many famous companies in the world, such as DuPont, Shell Oil, BOC Chemical, Ford, General Electric, BASF Group, Hyundai Group, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Unilever, etc. GEA is the leader of the global air-cooling market, occupying about 50% of the air-cooled condensing vapor system market, and has cumulatively designed and constructed nearly 6000 sets of direct air-cooling systems, 600MW direct air-cooling systems, 600MW direct air-cooling systems, 600MW direct air-cooling systems, 600MW direct air-cooling systems and 600MW direct air-cooling systems. GEA has designed and built nearly 6,000 direct air-cooled systems worldwide, with 16 units of 600MW class or above in operation. The earliest air-cooled condensing steam system designed and built by GEA was put into operation in 1939.
GEA Energietechnik GmbH is a member of the German GEA Group, and its main business areas are air-cooling technology for the energy industry and conventional water-cooled tower technology and products. At present, there are four joint ventures and wholly-owned companies in China, a representative office, of which a total investment of more than 200 million yuan GEA Power Cooling Technology (China) Co., Ltd. was established in 2004, and in China Langfang Economic and Technological Development Zone, Wuhu Economic and Technological Development Zone, Suzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone, Changshu Economic and Technological Development Zone, Zhangjiakou Economic and Technological Development Zone, Shanghai, to introduce a full set of German production lines, to produce the world's most advanced single-cooled tower, which is currently the most advanced water cooling technology in the world. It produces the most advanced single-row heat exchanger tube bundle products in the world, and carries out marketing, project execution and technical service work in the Chinese market through GEA.
GEA Food Technologies has a significant market share worldwide. Almost 1/4 of the world's milk is collected and processed by GEA equipment, around 1/3 of the world's instant coffee is processed by GEA equipment, and 1/2 of the world's beer flows through at least one GEA part.