GEA Process Engineering Inc. at 2010 InformEx USA

The 2010 InformEx USA exhibition will take place at the Moscone South Convention Center in San Francisco CA from February 16 to February 19, 2010. GEA Process Engineering will exhibit on booth number 109.

This year, our main focus will be on:

• pharmaceutical spray drying (i.e. cGMP spray drying)
• spray drying process development
• spray drying contract manufacturing services

Please access these pages to read more about our range of pharmaceutical spray dryers and our GEA Niro cGMP spray drying facilities.

InformEx

InformEx is the premier meeting place for the US chemical industry. It is an excellent networking event. If you sell chemistry and/or chemical processing systems and equipment, you belong at InformEx. The InformEx exhibition is known to showcase high-value, high-quality chemical businesses, solutions, systems, equipment and contract manufacturer. Major companies that invest in areas such as R&D, quality systems, and applications development will visit Inforex. Informex is organized by UBM International Media. Informex is the leading meeting place for buyers and sellers of high-value chemistry for a broad range of applications. As the leading fine chemical tradeshow in the United States, InformexUSA has been a marketplace for networking and doing business in the fine, custom and specialty chemical manufacturing industry for more than 25 years. Informex is produced in conjunction with SOCMA. For more information about Informex please visit www.informex.com.

GEA Niro

GEA Niro is the world leader in spray drying technology - especially with regard to pharmaceutical spray drying. The GEA Niro Pharma Test Station is one of the world's most advanced cGMP spray drying facilities and it is available for clients to explore the technology. GEA Niro can assist clients in developing the optimum spray drying processes for pharmaceuticals (and pharmaceutical grade products) and produce samples for safety, stability and toxicology studies as well as for Clinical Trials Materials. The potential of spray drying is being explored widely in the pharmaceutical industry. Spray drying is a fast and very gentle way to produce free-flowing powders. It is a process that allows for a very precise particle formation, it can be applied for several purposes: to increase the bioavailability of a drug, for controlled release or taste masking, for aseptic production and to produce fine powders for inhalation or other applications.

GEA Process Engineering

GEA Process Engineering develop, design and sell sustainable production plants and systems for the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, and chemical industries. With sales of more than EUR 1 billion and approx. 4,000 employees working in more than 40 countries, GEA Process Engineering is recognized as a world leader in drying, granulation, mixing, blending, compression, cleaning (CIP) / product recovery, liquid processing (heat and mass transfer), process integration / process automation, membrane filtration, evaporation, crystallization, distillation, powder packaging and handling as well as aseptic PET filling/bottling.

GEA Group

GEA Process Engineering is part of GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft, headquartered in Bochum, Germany. The GEA Group is a globally successful technology group with more than 250 companies in 50 countries. GEA Group employs more than 20,000 people generating sales of EUR 5 billion. The company focuses on specialty mechanical engineering - especially process engineering and equipment and is one of the world's market and technology leaders in 90 per cent of its businesses.