The variety of equipment offered by the food technology company GEA is significantly assisting a producer of vegetarian and vegan convenience meals to diversify and develop into new markets, serving stores throughout Europe.
Vivera has a wide range of vegan and vegetarian items, including imitation meat and fish as well as veggie burgers and bits. As one of Europe’s largest makers of products derived from plants, the company’s processing equipment provider must be adaptable and completely trustworthy.
First established in 1990, Dutch company Vivera quickly built up a strong working relationship with GEA, which has now been it’s technology provider for more than 30 years. With it’s rich Dutch heritage, the GEA Food Solutions unit, previously known as Convenience Food Systems (CFS) has developed a partnership with Vivera which has gone from strength to strength to produce high quality vegetarian and vegan products ever since. Over the years, Vivera has been supplied with equipment for a variety of processes and is currently trialling GEA’s forming equipment, with a view to creating an entirely seamless production line comprised solely of GEA technology.
Erik Tempelman, process technologist at Vivera has credited GEA’s food processing machinery as a key factor in the company’s spectacular growth, which has been listed as one of the top three meat alternative producers in Europe and the number one brand in its country of origin, the Netherlands. Vivera products are available in all major retailers across the UK, the Netherlands and much of Europe and the company is planning to heavily expand its production capacity and business within the next 5 years.
Based at GEA Food Solutions in Bakel, the Netherlands, the GEA Technology Centre has also proved instrumental in the success of developments at Vivera.
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