For engineers and plant managers, understanding and deciding how individual machines from different providers fit into an end-to-end process is often the difference between incremental improvement and true transformational change. GEA Process Line Tours make that understanding immediate and interactive by letting you explore complete production lines in realistic 3D, click into every major unit, discover technologies you may not have known are also part of GEA’s portfolio and come up with synergies and revamping possibilities that can benefit your business.
From Silos to Systems
GEA supplies equipment and engineering across industries like food, beverage, pharma, chemical and beyond. Still, many customers know the company to be a global player in just one industry or an expert in just one technology or process step. In reality, our capabilities help us be present in virtually all industries and across applications that seem so different from each other but that actually share many of the same core unit operations: evaporation, crystallization, distillation, spray drying, emission control and much more.
The GEA Process Line Tours reframe our portfolio around these shared process chains and the result is a digital “walk-through” of a full line, arranged by industry and application that shows how GEA technologies connect from raw material to finished product and stack.
Inside a Process Line Tour
When you open one of our Process Line Tours, you are greeted by a realistic 3D rendering of the entire production line. Each major piece of equipment is interactive: click on one and explore it in detail thanks to close-ups, diagrams, videos and animations. Play the video below to see how.
You can:
- Zoom in to inspect the machine and its key components.
- Watch short videos or animations that explain how the unit works and where it sits in the process.
- Explore related technologies, such as mechanical vapor recompression for energy-efficient evaporation, forced-circulation crystallizers for lithium salts, or amine-based CO₂ capture trains that you might not have associated with your process before.
- Discover revamping options, digital services like GEA’s Process Dynamic Twin for virtual commissioning and operator training and ways to combine units for higher efficiency or lower emissions.
What’s in it for you?
For chemical engineers, the value is practical. A lithium-hydroxide plant, for example, depends on tightly integrated evaporation, crystallization, purification, separation and drying steps to reach battery-grade quality. In the lithium-battery process line tour, engineers can trace brine concentration through crystallizers and centrifuges to fluid-bed dryers and spray dryers for cathode and anode materials, seeing where GEA’s multi-effect evaporators, mechanical vapor recompression systems and high-performance centrifuges fit.
In carbon capture, the tour visualizes the full chain from flue-gas pre-treatment through amine-based absorption, solvent regeneration and CO₂ conditioning for utilization or sequestration, including waste-heat recovery and emission-control units that stabilize long-term performance.
The principle is the same for all our Process Line Tours: turning machinery from abstract P&ID symbols into explorable 3D assets with context that help you make a decision.
Our Process Line Tours will help you:
- Identify bottlenecks and energy hot spots across the line, not just in one unit.
- Spot opportunities to reuse heat, recover by-products or integrate emission control earlier in design.
- Evaluate technology combinations for revamps or debottlenecking projects with a clearer sense of interfaces and footprints.
Does my process have a GEA Process Line Tour?
The answer is: probably! GEA Process Lines Tours span across industries and applications but we would like to mention some of our newest additions and a taste of what you can find within them:
- Fertilizer: evaporation, crystallization, granulation support, drying and off-gas treatment.
- Glass production: melting support systems, batch preparation and emission-control technologies for stack cleaning and pollutant removal.
- Lithium batteries: brine concentration, salt crystallization and purification, centrifugal separation, fluid-bed and spray drying for battery-grade lithium carbonate and hydroxide, plus solvent recovery and powder handling.
- Carbon capture: amine-based CO₂ capture trains, gas pre-treatment, heat integration and emission control for cement, power, and other CO₂-intensive industries.
- Grain and malt/whisky distillation: fermentation, distillation columns, evaporation for by-product concentration, drying and emission control.
Each tour is designed so that professionals working in those industries can browse everything GEA offers for their specific process steps in one place.
How to Explore the GEA Process Line Tours?
They are all free and available just one click away. No gatekeeping, no registration needed. Just visit Discover – GEA Process Lines Tour where you can choose the line most relevant to your work. From there, you can navigate the 3D line, drill into machines and follow links to our technical pages, case stories, digital services or contact us.
Made with those tasked with designing, optimizing or decarbonizing complex plants in mind, these tours turn GEA’s vast technology portfolio into an intuitive, process-centered experience, making it easier to see not just what GEA can supply, but how it all fits together in your line.