Centrifuge for beverage clarification
Elevate your beverage production with enhanced clarification, ensuring your drinks meet the highest purity and quality standards while optimizing your production line’s efficiency and reducing waste.

Processes and Packages Diverse Beverage Types
The beverage processing and packaging systems from GEA are engineered to streamline beverage production across a wide range of applications, including beer, wine, juices, and ready-to-drink products. This modular system employs a comprehensive approach to beverage manufacturing—encompassing mixing, filtration, homogenization, and packaging—ensuring high-quality output at every stage.
The system integrates seamlessly into existing production lines, offering a continuous, automated workflow supported by advanced PLC control. This not only enhances production efficiency but also reduces manual intervention, minimizing downtime for a more reliable operation. Typically used for non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages, it is capable of handling all product types with variable processing capacities tailored to your needs.
Energy efficiency is at the forefront, with features like variable-speed motor optimization and a smart energy management system reducing overall consumption. Constructed from corrosion-resistant stainless steel, the system complies with international sanitation and hygiene standards, including GMP and FDA certifications, guaranteeing safety and quality.
Equipped with a CIP system, it promises quick and efficient cleaning cycles, maintaining product purity and reducing cross-contamination risks. GEA offers customization options to match specific production requirements, ensuring that all components function optimally within your setup. With extensive global support and engineering expertise, you can expect reliable operational assistance throughout the equipment’s lifespan.
Benefits
- Enhances operational efficiency with continuous, automated processing.
- Reduces energy costs through smart energy management and variable-speed motor optimization.
- Ensures product safety and compliance with GMP and FDA standards.
- Minimizes downtime with quick and efficient CIP cleaning systems.
- Offers flexible customization for tailored integration into existing production lines.
- Applications
- Ready-to-drink coffee,Beverages,Plant-based beverages,Water,Wine,Ready-to-drink tea,Still drinks,Alcoholic beverages,Spirits,Cider,Carbonated drinks,Concentrates,Juices,Non-alcoholic beverages,Beer,Hard seltzers,Soft drinks
- End products
- Oat drinks,Mineral water,Hard lemonade,Vitamin-fortified drinks,Canned iced tea,Non-alcoholic beer,Oat milk,Alcohol-free cider,Sparkling water,Cold brew coffee,Pale wheat beer,Plant-based milk,Wheat beer,Carbonated soft drinks,Protein-enriched juices
- Steps before
- Mixing,Filtration,Purification,Emulsification,Grinding
- Steps after
- Filling and Packaging,Sterilization,Labelling,Storage,Distribution
- Input ingredients
- Juice concentrates,Raw plant-based ingredients,Coffee beans,Tea leaves,Grapes or fruits for wine,Wheat or barley for beer,Base spirits for distillation,Non-alcoholic beverage bases,Water
- Output ingredients
- Beer,beer mix beverages,Carbonated drinks,Cider,Hard seltzers,Juices,concentrates,Plant-based beverages,Ready-to-drink coffee,tea,Spirits,wine,Still drinks
- Market info
- GEA is known for its expertise in engineering innovative and sustainable equipment and solutions, focusing on sectors such as food, beverages, pharmaceuticals, and energy, with a reputation for quality, efficiency, and advanced technological applications in industrial processing.
- Automation
- PLC-controlled
- Capacity
- Wide range,specific to modular units/turnkey plants
- Compliance
- International hygiene standards
- Energy Efficiency
- Smart technologies for reduced usage
- Flexibility
- Modular/customizable units
- Installation Ease
- Designed for easy installation
- Maintenance
- Easy maintenance design
- Sustainability
- Minimize waste,emissions
- Turnkey Solution
- Complete system integration
- Water Usage
- Reduced water consumption
- Automation level
- Manual / PLC / SCADA
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Batch / Inline Continuous
- CIP/SIP
- CIP 121°C / SIP 135°C
- Cleaning method
- CIP / Manual
- Energy efficiency
- 0.5–2 kWh/kg moisture
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Beverage type
- Non-alcoholic / Alcoholic
- Carbonation
- Yes / No
- Packaging type
- Bottles / Cans
- Control panel type
- Touchscreen / PLC / HMI
- Integration possibilities
- SCADA / ERP
- Modular design
- Yes
- Scalability
- Lab to pilot scale