Separator's Digest - GEA Westfalia Separator Group

GSC Separators
for the South African Wine Industry
South Africa is known throughout the world
for its top quality wine. The country‘s wine
making operations are currently modernising
their production process. In order to present
the latest technical developments for separators
and decanters, the South African subsidiary of
GEA Westfalia Separator invited customers to
attend a best practice seminar in the wine industry
in Paarl in the middle of the wine growing region
in April 2008.
Having lasted for four days, the 23 rd SMM 2008
(shipbuilding, machinery & marine technology)
in Hamburg set a new record, with more than
50,000 trade visitors from throughout the world.
With numerous innovative products, the global
shipbuilding exhibition was the main forum for
decision makers in the maritime industries. A wide
range of new developments, particularly with
regard to the subjects of reduced consumption,
reduced toxic emissions and environmental
compatibility of products and technologies were
presented at SMM. This of course also included
the new GEA Westfalia Separator eagleclass.
A direct comparison of the previous D-Generation
with the Westfalia Separator eagleclass demonstrates
the advantages: compared with an
equivalent OSD 6 separator with the same 12,000
revolutions per minute, a new OSE 5 separator
GEA Westfalia Separator 11
Separator’s Digest 3 | 2008
A wine separator GSC 150 was installed last year
at the wine making operation KWV, the number
two on the South African wine market. The
head of wine making operations reported on the
very satisfactory results of the centrifuge and the
considerable improvement in productivity since
the point at which this machine was installed. As
a result of the seminar, further orders were placed
by the wine making operations Robertson
Wineries, Botha Wine Cellars and Waboomsrivier
Co-op for separators in the GSC type series (e. g.
the newly developed GSC 200).
The Eagle has Landed
THE NEW WESTFALIA
SEPARATOR eagleclass
AT SMM 2008
requires approximately 20 percent less drive
energy, weighs 25 percent less and its space
requirement is approximately halved.
There has been no talk of economic weakness
in the world shipbuilding industry and at SMM.
On the contrary: the order book record set at the
end of 2007 was exceeded in mid-2008. Whereas
Lloyd`s Register - Fairplay (LRF) reported 10,055
orders for new vessels with 329.7 million gross
tons (GT) in the order books of the shipyards at
the beginning of 2008, the shipbuilding market
experts recorded orders for more than 11,200
new vessels with 363 million GT at the beginning
of July; this is equivalent to growth of more than
ten percent, and is a new record.