The GEA Group, headquartered in Bochum, Germany, is a globally successful technology group with more than 250 companies in 50 countries. The company now focuses on specialty mechanical engineering - especially process eng......The GEA Group, headquartered in Bochum, Germany, is a globally successful technology group with more than 250 companies in 50 countries. The company now focuses on specialty mechanical engineering - especially process engineering and equipment. The emphasis lies on the two basic engineering processes of heat exchange and mass transfer. GEA Group technologies are applied in the food, chemical and petrochemical industries, the energy sector, air treatment and shipbuilding as well as the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries. Approximately one-third of the worldwide produced instant coffee is manufactured in plants made by the GEA Group. Around every fourth litre of milk is produced or processed with GEA Group equipment and every second litre of beer might well have passed through one of our components. The GEA Group is one of the world`s market and technology leaders in 90 per cent of its businesses. In 2008 the GEA Group employed more than 20,000 people who generated sales of EUR 5 billion. The result before taxes and interest (EBIT) amounted to EUR 504 million.