Niro at 2005 IFT Annual Meeting + Food Expo

We are exhibiting at the 2005 IFT Annual Meeting + Food Expo. Come and visit us at booth # 3407.

2005 IFT Annual Meeting + FOOD EXPO® location:
Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
Halls D - I
900 Convention Center Blvd.
New Orleans, Louisiana

This three-day exposition will feature ingredients / additives, processing equipment / instrumentation / supplies, packaging equipment and supplies, and services to the food industry. The IFT FOOD EXPO® will take place at the Morial Convention Center, Halls D-I:

This year, at the IFT Food Expo, our booth will feature the following GEA Companies and Business Groups:

Niro Food & Dairy Dryers

Your Product - Our Systems Know-How.
Bringing a new product to market?
Today's food and dairy lines need modern technology that is innovative, efficient and reliable. Niro has the engineering solutions to help carry you from initial concept through design, installation and training. Whether it is a retrofit of an existing system or developing a complete new plant, our technical expertise and years of engineering solutions can bring your vision to fruition. Specifications tricky? GEA Process Engineering Inc. works closely with your product developers to engineer the best solution. In-house fabrication shop, large technical support team, complete systems or individual components, Small retrofits to complete plants, engineering feasibility studies, spare parts..

Enhancing the economics of whey permeate powder! The TIXOTHERM™ Process is an economical system for production of non-hygroscopic whey permeate powder that retains granular fluidity even in very humid conditions. The product is easy to ship and ideal for sale as a supplement for animal feed. The advantages of the TIXOTHERM™ Process over traditional spray-drying methods are:

• Lower capital investment.
• Lower energy consumption.
• Reduced space requirement. The TIXOTHERM™ Process optimizes the drying of whey permeate by eliminating the energy-intensive crystallization processing step and the tall spray dryer that are required by prior technology.

GEA Liquid Processing (the process integration and engineering activities of Tuchenhagen North America)

Will demonstrate its capabilities in process integration with special emphasis on the integration of Niro components into complete process lines. Various automation screens and systems will also be displayed.

GEA Niro Soavi

GEA Niro Soavi features a full range of sanitary 3A high-pressure pumps and homogenizers. On display will be the new energy efficient homogenizing valve "The Nano Valve". The NanoValve enables the homogenizing process at lower pressures in most dairy, food and beverage applications. The NanoValve can be installed on all existing Niro Soavi homogenizers as well as on other brands.

GEA Evaporation Technologies

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 nutraceutical, food ingredients, biotechnology, food, dairy, and beverage industries, as well as environmental applications. Brands includes: GEA Wiegand, Niro, GEA Kestner, and GEA Messo.

Atlas Freeze Drying

To serve the growing freeze-drying industry with optimal solutions and a wide product range, Atlas supplies: - A new series of small, competitive batch freeze driers, namely, type RAY™ 8-17-30-45 and 50 with a sublimation capacities from 100 to 1000 kg per day. - The known range of RAY™ 75, 100 and 125 with CDI (Continuous De-Icing) has been extended to include a RAY™ 150 with sublimation of up to 7,000 kg per day. - The pilot plant, RAY™ 1, for safe scale-up and e.g. production of market samples. - Dry condensing systems for efficient deodorization edible oil. All plants are offered with a PC/PLC system allowing remote control and long distance troubleshooting.

GEA Powder Systems (comprising GEA Avapac, Packaging Systems, and GEA Colby Powder Handling Systems)

When it comes to sanitary powder packaging systems for the food and dairy industries, the system should be more than just the sum of its parts. GEA Powder Systems develop integrated systems with innovative and robust capabilities for material handling and packaging of powdered products. Our systems feature cutting-edge technology for the greatest efficiency, economy, and ease of use. GEA Powder Systems is a consolidation of GEA Avapac Packaging Systems, Sapac Packaging Systems, and GEA Colby Powder Handling Systems.

GEA Filtration

GEA Filtration custom designs membrane filtration systems that best utilize the technologies of microfiltration, ultrafiltration, nanofiltration, or reverse osmosis for each customer's specific application. GEA Filtration is a world leader in the design, engineering, production, installation, support, and testing of filtration systems for the dairy, food and beverage, fermentation and biotechnology industries, as well as for wastewater applications across the process industries. Call GEA Filtration for replacement membranes or a complete plant audit.

Leading Technologies. Individual Solutions.

For more information about the 2005 IFT Food Expo please access http://www.am-fe.ift.org/cms/?pid=0

Note: The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) is the premier scientific and educational society serving the food science and technology field. Founded in 1939, IFT is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to advance the science and technology of food through the exchange of knowledge. IFT members represent a broad cross-section of food professions in industry, academia, and government throughout the world. For further information about "The Institute of Food Technologists" (IFT) please access http://www.ift.org/.