100 years of tradition in beer separation Pioneer GEA Westfalia Separator

GEA Westfalia Separator is able to look back on 100 years of tradition for using centrifugal separating technology in the brewing industry. GEA Westfalia Separator is thus the pioneer of beer separation. This is because the first separator for beer clarification was used in a brewery in Vienna in the year 1909, precisely 100 years ago – built by the Oelde-based company Ramesohl & Schmidt, the predecessor of GEA Westfalia Separator. Since that time, the trend towards the centrifuge has been unbroken. Indeed, the trend is becoming even stronger: This is because a separator or decanter remove precisely what they are intended to remove, they do not require any filter agents and also operate continuously and in a manner which guarantees very gentle product treatment.  

Since the successful introduction of the first beer separator for beer clarification, brewery centrifuges have been used in more and more areas of application. They are no longer used only for hot wort clarification, trub wort clarification, pre-clarification and polishing and thus for reducing the load on the filter and for recovering extract from the tank bottoms; they are also used in waste water processing, lye clarification, hop extract recovery, beer filtration, the production of German ‘weizen’ beer, etc. Everything will therefore continue to be in favour of separators and decanters of GEA Westfalia Separator in the course of the next 100 years.