GEA Production Site Oelde – Manufacturing High-Performance Separators

Discover how GEA’s production site in Oelde, Germany, produces world-class industrial centrifuges that are used in more than 3,500 processes across the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, chemical, and environmental industries. At this historic site – where the very first milk separator was built in 1893 – modern manufacturing combines advanced automation, digitalized production, and sustainability efforts to craft up to hundreds of high-precision centrifugal separators each month. The Oelde facility is now GEA’s largest production center worldwide, employing nearly 2,000 people and continually investing in future-ready technologies, renewable energy integration, and efficient processes to meet global demand and support customers with high-quality separation solutions.