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News Release – GEA Introduces New Evaporation Technology Company

GEA Wiegand 5-effect falling film evaporator

Columbia, MD— GEA Evaporation Technologies announces its formation as a new company dedicated to supplying evaporation, distillation, rectification, and crystallization process technology and systems to the North American market. The company is headquartered in Columbia, MD, USA.

The new company will serve a variety of industries, including chemicals, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, food, dairy and beverage, and environmental. In order to provide expertise in these disparate markets, GEA has combined the expertise of four existing subsidiaries, each a world-leading supplier in its respective area of application and technology:

• Niro Inc., Columbia, Maryland, USA – specializing in sanitary, multi-effect evaporators for the dairy industry; including thermal vapor recompression, mechanical vapor recompression, and compact evaporators.
• GEA Wiegand, Ettlingen, Germany – distillation, rectification, and evaporation of beverages, carbohydrates, alcohol, organic and inorganic solutions, and effluent.
• GEA Kestner, Montigny-Le-Bretonneux, France – climbing film, falling film, flash, and forced circulation evaporators and crystallizers with expertise in acids and specialty chemicals and solutions.
• GEA Messo, Duisburg, Germany – crystallization, evaporation, vacuum process engineering and salt processing.

Evaporation is an old and established discipline, but proper design, engineering, and equipment for each application demands specialized knowledge. With application knowledge, testing and fabrication facilities, process integration, spare parts, and local service, GEA Evaporation Technologies supplies total solutions to the evaporator market.

"Until now some GEA companies have had experience with food products, some with chemical products, some with effluents. But no single company has been able to display such diversity in both techniques and process application knowledge as we have been able to assemble in GEA Evaporation Technologies," said Steven Kaplan, President, Niro Inc.

Mr. Eric Bryars has been named President of GEA Evaporation Technologies. He has been with GEA Niro for the past 15 years, serving in Columbia, Maryland and Singapore, most recently as managing director of Niro's operations in China and Southeast Asia.

"Backed by Niro's other business groups, GEA Evaporation Technologies is already successful and well consolidated in serving the North American food and dairy industries. The addition of technology from the European companies will provide an excellent basis for further market extensions into the chemical, beverage, biotech, and pharmaceutical industries, as well as environmental applications," said Bryars.

GEA Evaporation Technologies supplies evaporation, distillation, rectification, and crystallization process technology and systems to the North American market. The company has expertise in the design, engineering, fabrication, and testing of systems for the chemical, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, food, dairy, and beverage industries, as well as environmental applications.

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