GEA Group AG

Regulatory Filings • Jan 20, 2009

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Corporate | 20 January 2009 12:40

GEA Group AG: GEA delivers instant coffee processing plant to Brazil

GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft / Miscellaneous

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Bochum/Copenhagen, January 20, 2009 – The GEA Group has received an order
for a complete freeze drying plant of the type CONRAD™ 500 from Café
Iguaçu, one of Brazil’s biggest coffee manufacturers. The value of the
total project is in the range of EUR 16 million. The freeze drying plant of
GEA Niro handles all freeze drying operations from the concentrated coffee
extract to the finished freeze-dried coffee.

The order will enable the company to increase its production from the
current 18,000 ton of instant coffee per year to 19,500 ton which will help
the company satisfy a global increase in demand for high-quality instant
coffee. Café Iguaçu chose GEA Niro’s CONRAD™ 500 as the company had
installed a similar system at a joint venture company in Spain, in
partnership with Seda Solubles of Palencia, last year. 'Our experience
shows us that this is the best technology for us', says Fabio Sato,
Corporate Planning Manager. In the past seven years, GEA Niro has delivered
more than ten freeze drying plants for coffee manufacturers all over the
world.

The GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft is Germany's largest listed mechanical
engineering group. As an international technology group, the company
concentrates on specialty mechanical engineering, with a focus on process
technology and components. Consolidated sales amounted to EUR 5.2 billion
in 2007, when the group generated over 50 percent of its sales in the
high-growth food processing and beverages industries. As of September 30,
2008, the company's workforce comprised over 21,000 employees, based in 50
countries. The GEA Group ranks as a market and technology leader in 90
percent of its business areas and is listed on the German MDAX share index
(G1A, WKN 660200).
20.01.2009 Financial News transmitted by DGAP

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Language: English
Issuer: GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft
Dorstener Straße 484
44809 Bochum
Deutschland
Phone: +49 (0)234 980-0
Fax: +49 (0)234 980-1004
E-mail: investor.relations@geagroup.com
Internet: www.geagroup.com
ISIN: DE0006602006
WKN: 660200
Indices: MDAX
Listed: Regulierter Markt in Berlin, Frankfurt (Prime Standard),
Düsseldorf, Hamburg, München; Freiverkehr in Hannover,
Stuttgart

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