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mg technologies ag is now called GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft

Since July 12, 2005, mg technologies ag has been operating under the name of GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft.

GEA AG

GEA stands for Global Engineering Alliance and underlines the fact that the company is a multinational technology group. As roughly three-quarters of the mg Group's revenue was generated by companies belonging to its former subsidiary GEA AG, mg's change of name was a logical consequence of the restructuring process launched in 2003. Having sold most of its Chemicals activities, GEA Group now focuses on specialty mechanical engineering - especially process engineering and equipment - and plant engineering. Its core activities are process engineering and components, especially for the food, pharmaceutical and petrochemical industries. GEA Group is already one of the world's market and technology leaders in 90 percent of its businesses.

We are a leading global technology group with over 250 operating companies in roughly 50 countries. Our core competences are specialty mechanical engineering and plant engineering. We are already one of the world's market and technology leaders in 90 percent of our businesses.

Following the strategic restructuring of the Group, its segmentation was aligned with its new organizational structure. In 2004, its reporting structure was broken down into the new segments

• Customized Systems
• Process Equipment
• Process Engineering and
• Plant Engineering.

Revenue totaled approximately EUR 4.1 billion in 2004. After its profitability had been seriously dented by huge one-off charges in 2003, the Group reported earnings before tax (EBT) of EUR 10.2 million in 2004. At the end of 2004 it employed around 17,000 people. Like its predecessor, mg technologies ag, GEA Group AG is listed in the MDax and, with a market capitalization well in excess of EUR 1.5 billion, is one of the largest companies in this index.

(SIN: 660 200, ISIN: DE0006602006).

GENERATE — THE INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE OF THE GEA GROUP. ISSUE 01 NOVEMBER 2006

P-Division

The Process Engineering Division (P-Division) is one of the 8 Divisions of the GEA Group.

The P-Division is recognised as the world leader within industrial drying, with spray and fluid bed processing as its core technologies. As every successful drying operation requires a full understanding of the upstream and downstream processes, whether in the chemical, dairy, food, pharmaceutical or any other industry, the technology base also covers the liquid pre-treatment and powder processing associated with drying.

Pre-treatment

• Concentration
• Cooling
• Evaporation
• Extraction
• Heating
• Homogenization, high pressure pumping
• Membrane filtration

Drying

• Lyophilization
• Flash drying
• Fluid bed drying
• Freeze drying
• Microwave drying
• Ring drying
• Rotary drying
• Spray drying
• Vortex disintegrator drying agitated flash drying a.k.a. the Swirl Fluidizer™

Particulates and Solids Processing

• Agglomeration
• Cooling
• De-dusting
• Granulation
• Tablet Coating
• Tablet pressing (compression)

Packing

• Powder packing

The two main companies of the P-Division are Niro A/S in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Niro Inc. in Columbia, MD, USA, with Niro Inc. being responsible for the US, Canadian and Mexican markets. Niro Pharma Systems (NPS) is a group of P-Division companies specialising in the design and supply of systems and equipment to the pharmaceutical industry. NPS has its head office in Southampton, UK.

The Process Engineering Division is an international organisation of 55 companies and offices with a total of 2300 employees.

Headquarters for Niro worldwide specializing in the design and supply of dryers, homogenizers, membrane filtration, extraction, heating and cooling plants for processing liquid, particulate and solid materials.	GEA Niro
Headquarters for Niro USA specializing in the design and supply of dryers, homogenizers, membrane filtration systems, extractors, evaporators, distillation plants, rectification systems, crystallizers, heating and cooling plants for processing liquid, particulate and solid materials.	GEA Process Engineering Inc.
GEA Filtration custom designs membrane filtration systems that best utilize the technologies of microfiltration, ultrafiltration, nanofiltration, or reverse osmosis for each customer's specific application. GEA Filtration is a world leader in the design, engineering, production, installation, support, and testing of large filtration systems for the dairy, food and beverage, fermentation and biotechnology, and chemical industries, as well as for wastewater applications across the process industries.	GEA Filtration
GEA Avapac designs and manufactures hygienic packing systems for a wide range of powders.	GEA Avapac Ltd. (now GEA Powder Systems)
Subsidiary of Niro Inc. serving Mexico and Latin America.	GEA Process Engineering Mexico
GEA Wiegand is one of the world leaders in the manufacture of evaporation plants for the concentration of all types of liquid food stuffs, organic and inorganic solutions and effluent.	GEA Wiegand
GEA Procomac Spa is based at Sala Baganza near Parma and manufactures bottling plants. GEA Procomac was established in 1979. GEA Procomac started its activity manufacturing rinsers and conveyors and over a period of a few years, GEA Procomac developed its technology and expanded its scope of supply to include complete bottling and filling lines and systems. In 1996, the GEA Procomac Aseptic Division was established (the first aseptic GEA Procomac line was installed in 1993), and since then GEA Procomac has offered the market new technologies that have been adopted by the top bottling companies around the world. GEA Procomac Industries was acquired by the GEA Group in April 2007. GEA Procomac has been integrated into the GEA Processing Engineering Division. In the US, the management expects tremendous synergies between GEA Procomac and GEA Process Engineering Inc.'s GEA Liquid Processing group.	GEA Procomac