The pharmaceutical industry has always
been a highly conservative
and regulated industry.
Product safety, hygiene, and quality has
always been of the utmost importance.
At the end of the day,
when equipment is being used
to manufacture medicines
that patients take,
any errors in manufacturing
can then risk the patient.
Today we see energy efficiency
and sustainability becoming more
and more important in vendor analysis.
With the high prices of gas
and electricity around the world,
reducing your operating costs through
sustainable manufacturing
is becoming more and more important.
Sustainability is no longer a buzzword,
it's good business sense.
Operating in a sustainable way
is simply pure economics.
GEA has sustainability in its DNA.
In Time magazine's ranking of over 5,000
companies worldwide, GEA was number 1
in Germany and number 17 in the world.
It's also rated Platinum by EcoVadis
for its sustainability rating.
Sustainability and innovation
are differentiators for GEA.
Our Add Better label identifies products
that are more energy efficient
and sustainable than their predecessors
and is externally validated as well.
Our purpose at GEA is
engineering for a better world,
which means providing
engineering solutions that are more
energy efficient, use less water,
and make less waste.
And that's what we do here at GEA.
We set the same high standards
in our customer projects.
We set the bar high and we
always aim for better.
Working with us means staying ahead
of the latest European ESG guidelines.
Partnering with GEA
means staying ahead of the game.
We offer our customers solutions
with implemented energy efficiency.
We meticulously search for ways to reduce
energy usage, but we also look at ways
where we can reuse and recycle energy.
In this video series dedicated to energy
efficiency in pharmaceutical industry,
we will look at continuous manufacturing,
batch manufacturing, and lyophilization,
or freeze drying as it's known.
