GEA to build Cooling Tower in Florida for 10 MEUR

By Dirk Schlichting (schlichting)

Bochum/Denver, July 14 2009 - GEA Power Cooling Inc., a subsidiary of GEA Group, received an order to supply, design and erect a cooling tower for the combined cycle power plant “West County” in Palm Beach County, Florida, USA. The order will be commissioned until 2011. GEA already had supplied the first two cooling towers for this power plant, which will have a total installed capacity of 3,750 MW. The cooling towers supplied by GEA will enhance the ecological and economical operation of the power plant.

“This new order from the US corresponds to a recent trend in this region to invest into new, efficient and environmentally friendly power generation”, said Juerg Oleas, CEO of GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft.

GEA has been a pioneer in industrial cooling. As a part of the Energy and Farm Technology segment, GEA’s Thermal Engineering Division is a leading global player in dry and wet cooling systems. Main customers are the power plant industry as well as all sectors of the process industry such as chemicals, petrochemicals, Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) and Liquefied-Natural-Gas (LNG) plants.


GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft is one of the largest pure mechanical engineering groups in Germany. As an internationally operating technology group, it concentrates on specialty mechanical engineering with a focus on process technology and components. Group revenue amounted to EUR 5.2 billion in fiscal year 2008. The Group generated about 50 percent of its revenue from the long-term growing food and beverage industries. As of December 31, 2008, a workforce of over 21,000 employees served customers in 50 countries. GEA Group is a market and technology leader in 90 percent of its business areas. GEA Group is listed in the MDAX index (G1A, WKN 660200).