New, global legal requirements for marine protection and ever-increasing environmental awareness among the general public, along with the marine sector’s own desire to be more sustainable, means shipping companies are taking a close look at the fuels and lubricants they use on board.

In these uncertain times, GEA, the globally active mechanical and plant engineering company, is taken its role in the fight against the coronavirus — and any other — epidemic, extremely seriously.

Earlier this year, GEA Pavan successfully handed over a seventh production line for manufacturing breakfast cereals to OBST S.A.. Both companies have been working in a close partnership for 20 years.

More and more companies in the petrochemical and chemical industries rely on liquid jet mixers from GEA for their storage tanks, as recently a well-known major company in the petrochemical Industry did for its fuel and motor oil tank farm.

More and more shipping companies are relying on UV irradiation for the treatment of ballast water. With the BallastMaster marineX, GEA offers a corresponding solution.

The GEA BallastMaster marineX has been approved by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) with Type Approval G8 and has the recognition of the Alternate Management System (AMS) of the USCG for all water qualities: fresh water, brackish water and seawater.

Production with a faster time-to-market, flexibility and simplicity are the key issues that continue to shape the industry. In shipbuilding, this means improving the interoperability and standardization of automation systems as the various modules and systems in the engine room often create an incredibly complex web of digital connections.

GEA has developed numerous innovative improvements to both blood fractionation and vaccine production and brought them to the global market by applying first-class engineering.

GEA has invested considerable time and resources in recent years in the development of state-of-the-art Augmented and Virtual Reality (VR) applications.

The possibility of increasing one's own efficiency and productivity through data collection and analysis, as well as developing new business models, fires the imagination of machine and plant manufacturers looking for new growth and profit opportunities.