New GEA Bake Extruder Delivers Up to 350 Cuts/Min and Modular Flexibility at IBA 2025

GEA launches new high-speed bake extruder, GEA Bake Extruder. Source: GEA

(IN BRIEF) GEA has introduced the Bake Extruder at IBA 2025, a versatile, high-speed system for medium-to-large biscuit producers. The modular extruder handles wirecut, co-extruded, filled, and continuous products, delivering up to 350 wirecut strokes per minute or as many as 250 cuts per minute in continuous mode. Brushless motors and servo controls ensure precise extrusion and uniform slices, while optional lobe pumps handle aerated or inclusion-heavy doughs. The new HMI supports ERP integration and predictive maintenance, and hygienic design features a removable hopper, open head, and easy-access components for fast, compliant cleaning. Designed from extensive customer input, the Bake Extruder boosts productivity, product variety, and sanitation in high-throughput baking operations.

(PRESS RELEASE) DÜSSELDORF, 16-Jun-2025 — /EuropaWire/ — At IBA 2025 in Düsseldorf, GEA, a leading global provider of process technology and sustainable industrial solutions, unveiled its newest advancement for industrial baking: the GEA Bake Extruder, a precision-engineered system tailored to the demands of medium-to-large biscuit producers. Engineered for both high-volume and high-speed operations, the extruder can function as a standalone unit or seamlessly integrate with downstream ovens, delivering exceptional flexibility, productivity, and hygiene.

Designed from customer feedback, the Bake Extruder accommodates a spectrum of production techniques—from wirecut and co-extruded to filled and continuous-extruded formats—enabling manufacturers to create cookies, bars, and biscuits with varied textures, fillings, and inclusions. Its modular architecture features interchangeable dies, cutting heads, and a redesigned wirecut mechanism capable of up to 350 strokes per minute across a 1,700 mm width. Depending on the product, it achieves up to 130 encapsulated-cookie cuts or 250 continuous-extrusion cuts per minute.

The fully redesigned wirecut system in the new GEA Bake Extruder that can operate at speeds of up to 350 strokes per minute across a maximum working width of 1,700 millimeters. Source: GEA

Powered by brushless motors and servo-driven axes, the system grants fine-tuned control over extrusion rates and cutting precision, ensuring uniform size and shape in high-throughput environments. Optional lobe pumps—ideal for aerated or inclusion-rich doughs—provide gentle, accurate dosing to preserve product integrity.

Operator convenience and food-safe sanitation are built in: a new HMI with multi-level access and ERP connectivity simplifies recipe management and predictive maintenance, while an open-head design, removable hopper, photoelectric safety barriers, and accessible stainless-steel components enable rapid, compliant cleaning.

“Biscuit manufacturers told us they wanted greater performance, flexibility, and ease of cleaning,” explained Matteo Pasquali, Application Manager Soft Dough at GEA. “The Bake Extruder delivers on these needs, empowering producers to expand their product range and boost output without sacrificing hygiene or reliability.”

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About GEA

GEA is one of the world’s largest suppliers of systems and components to the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries.

The international technology group, founded in 1881, focuses on machinery and plants, as well as advanced process technology, components and comprehensive services. For instance, every second pharma separator for essential healthcare products such as vaccines or novel biopharmaceuticals is produced by GEA. In food, every fourth package of pasta or every third chicken nugget are processed with GEA technology. With more than 18,000 employees, the Group generated revenues of about EUR 5.4 billion in more than 150 countries in the 2024 fiscal year. GEA plants, processes, components and services enhance the efficiency and sustainability of customers’ production. They contribute significantly to the reduction of CO2 emissions, plastic usage and food waste. In doing so, GEA makes a key contribution toward a sustainable future, in line with the company’s purpose: ”Engineering for a better world.”

GEA is listed on the German MDAX, the European STOXX® Europe 600 Index and is also a constituent of the leading sustainability indices DAX 50 ESG, MSCI Global Sustainability and Dow Jones Best-in-Class World.

SOURCE: GEA Group