Cooperation between Gea and Itt Bornemann

The pump experts from Gea and Itt Borne­mann are now work­ing togeth­er to man­u­fac­ture and mar­ket a twin screw pump for the food, bev­er­age and phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal indus­tries. While Gea has so far con­cen­trat­ed pri­mar­i­ly on hygien­ic cen­trifu­gal pumps, the coop­er­a­tion now means that a joint mod­el of a pos­i­tive dis­place­ment pump is ready for intro­duc­tion: Gea Hilge Novatwin. The Gea Hilge Novatwin is a flex­i­ble twin screw pump based on the proven Borne­mann design that meets the high­est hygien­ic require­ments for gen­tle prod­uct han­dling and clean-in-place (CIP) with just one pump. The new Gea Hilge Novatwin will be avail­able in 6 sizes and will be part of the Gea Varipump line, which stands for pumps with a high degree of flex­i­bil­i­ty for opti­mum adap­ta­tion to indi­vid­ual cus­tomer requirements.

Consistent expansion of hygienic pump portfolio

The addi­tion of this future-ori­ent­ed pump type to the port­fo­lio in addi­tion to the estab­lished rotary lobe pump Gea Hilge Noval­obe will sig­nif­i­cant­ly strength­en Gea’s posi­tion in the field of pos­i­tive dis­place­ment pumps. Gea will thus be in an even bet­ter posi­tion to cov­er the var­i­ous cus­tomer require­ments with the ide­al pump solu­tion from its own broad prod­uct portfolio.

Pump and clean with one pump

Twin screw pumps are equipped with two screws, which inter­mesh with­out con­tact and togeth­er with the pump hous­ing form a closed cham­ber. The screws rotate and thus move the medi­um along the screw axis from the suc­tion to the dis­charge side.

Like pos­i­tive dis­place­ment pumps in gen­er­al, twin screw pumps stand for the gen­tle con­veyance of chunky, shear-sen­si­tive and abra­sive media. They offer excep­tion­al­ly high flex­i­bil­i­ty for pump­ing liq­uids of var­i­ous viscosities.

“The spe­cial fea­ture of the twin screw pump is its dual func­tion, because twin screw pumps can not only pump the actu­al prod­uct but can also func­tion as a CIP pump at the same time, as they can oper­ate at very high speeds. This saves the use of an addi­tion­al CIP pump com­pared to alter­na­tive solu­tions,” explains Prod­uct Man­ag­er Ulla Främke from Gea.

With Gea and Bornemann two strong partners work together

“This coop­er­a­tion with Borne­mann is a real win-win sit­u­a­tion for both part­ners,” says Bas­t­ian Tolle, head of prod­uct man­age­ment at the Gea Flow Com­po­nents busi­ness unit. “The twin screw pumps we see in the mar­ket today are most­ly derived from Borne­man­n’s orig­i­nal devel­op­ment. The exper­tise is impres­sive, we can learn a lot from such a part­ner and from the expe­ri­ence gained over decades in the appli­ca­tion of this spe­cial pos­i­tive dis­place­ment pump”.

“We will ben­e­fit from Gea’s strong dis­tri­b­u­tion net­work”, adds Borne­man­n’s Man­ag­ing Direc­tor Markus

Schwarte. “Gea has a broad cus­tomer base, a large net­work and an excel­lent rep­u­ta­tion among deci­sion-mak­ers, par­tic­u­lar­ly in the food sec­tor and in local mar­kets such as the USA. We want to ben­e­fit from the syn­er­gy between the lead­ing tech­nol­o­gy and the first-class glob­al net­work in the food industry”.