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Major Shareholding Notification • Mar 26, 2012
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Corporate | 26 March 2012 15:30
GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft: GEA builds milk powder plant for more than 70 MEUR
GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft / Key word(s): Incoming Orders
26.03.2012 / 15:30
GEA builds milk powder plant for more than 70 MEUR
Düsseldorf, March 26, 2012 – GEA Group has received an order worth more than EUR 70 million from Fonterra in New Zealand. The order will be handled by the GEA Process Engineering Segment.
The new whole milk powder plant which only utilizes GEA process technology covers milk reception, standardization, evaporation, drying, powder transport and packaging. The spray dryer in the new plant will be the largest dairy spray dryer ever built with a capacity of 30 t per hour of whole milk powder equivalent to more than 4.4. million l per day of milk. The plant will be the seventh green-field plant that GEA has supplied in New Zealand over the past five years.
'This order proves the high degree of trust of important global leading food producers in the reliable GEA process technology', explained Jürg Oleas, CEO of GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft.
About GEA Group
GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft is one of the largest suppliers of process technology and components for the food and energy industries. As an international technology group, the Company focuses on sophisticated production processes. In 2011, GEA generated consolidated revenues in excess of EUR 5.4 billion, 70 percent of which came from the food and energy sectors, which are long-term growth industries. The group employed about 23,000 people worldwide as of December 31, 2011. GEA Group is a market and technology leader in its business areas. It is listed in Germany's MDAX stock index (G1A, WKN 660 200) and STOXX(R) Europe 600. Further information is available on the Internet at: www.gea.com .
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| Language: | English |
| Company: | GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft |
| Peter-Müller-Straße 12 | |
| 40468 Düsseldorf | |
| Germany | |
| Phone: | +49 (0)211 9136-0 |
| Fax: | +49 (0)211 9136-31087 |
| E-mail: | [email protected] |
| Internet: | www.geagroup.com |
| ISIN: | DE0006602006 |
| WKN: | 660200 |
| Indices: | MDAX |
| Listed: | Regulierter Markt in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt (Prime Standard), Hamburg, München; Freiverkehr in Hannover, Stuttgart |
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