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Press Release 100 years in Wurzen – a Saxony success story. Wurzen, 12th June 2012 – GEA Air Treatment Production GmbH in Wurzen is celebrating a milestone birthday this year. This production facility, with its long tradition in air treatment engineering, was established 100 years ago. Nowadays the factory covers 46,175 m² with 350 employees and is a diversified and future-oriented competence center for the manufacture of GEA central air treatment equipment. The special feature of the factory is the close cooperation between order processing, design, production and logistics – meaning that all products are subject to continuous improvement and further development. As the direct predecessor to the present GEA Air Treatment Production GmbH the engineering company "Apparatebau Juwil“ was founded by Julius Wilisch a hundred years ago and started producing industrial air filters. In 1912 the plant was initially manufacturing only air filters under its own patents, especially for compressed air, plate filters and disk filters for piston machines. With the addition of further production halls the range was expanded to include the manufacture of fresh-air and waste-air filters. The filter factory in Saxony continued to expand, became a state- owned factory in 1959 and produced filters for just about every industrial application during the German Democratic Republic. In 1965 the company began to specialise in filters to remove dust from atmospheric air. Even at the time these filters were very popular and successful: With 125 employees the turnover tripled in only four years. The facility demonstrated its flexibility in 1970, when it was integrated into the Dresden ILKA-Kombinat state combine (Integrated Air and Refrigeration Equipment) and became almost indispensable for the planned economy. For almost two decades the team of employees was the only manufacturer of filters for atmospheric air in the GDR and produced industrial filters of all kinds, including air filters for power stations and electrostatic filters for use in machine tools. Following reunification the company was turned into a limited liability company and became a part of the GEA Group in 1990. A new and decisive outlook started in 1991 with the production start of central air treatment units.1994 saw the move to new production facilities and an expansion of air treatment equipment manufacture. As the first company of the then GEA AG to achieve certification to DIN EN ISO 9001 in 1994 and also thanks to continuous improvement of the manufacturing processes, production of central air treatment equipment continued to increase in the past years. In 2010 the Wurzen facility was officially named "Center of Excellence" for GEA central air treatment equipment. GEA HeatExchangers GmbH Phone +49 234 980 2585 · www.gea.com Seite 1 von 3 Dorstener Straße 484, 44809 Bochum, Germany Press Release The product portfolio of GEA central air treatment equipment includes the modular GEA CAIRplus air treatment systems e.g. for hospitals, the models in the GEA CAIR Frico series that were specially developed for indoor swimming pools, and also the complete range of compact models in the GEA COM4 series. In addition customer-specific special applications, for example on offshore drilling rigs, ships or data centers can also be designed and manufactured in close cooperation between our engineering staff and the customer. Apparatebau Juwil at the Leipzig Exhibition. Until the move in 1993 filter construction was based in the Wurzen district of Roitzsch. Production of plane filters was still mainly by hand in the VEB Luftfiltertechnik Wurzen factory. This almost 5 m high circulation filter was intended for an industrial facility in Mongolia's capital, Ulan Bator. GEA HeatExchangers GmbH Phone +49 234 980 2585 · www.gea.com Seite 2 von 3 Dorstener Straße 484, 44809 Bochum, Germany Press Release Tailored exactly to the customer's sepcifications: 2005 saw the The production facilities of GEA Air Treatment Production GmbH in beginnings of the success story of the GEA CAIRplus central air Lueptitzer Strasse opened in 1994 and further production halls were treatment unit. added in 2010 and 2011. Press office and public relations: GEA HeatExchangers GmbH Gaby Fildhaut Dorstener Str. 484 – 44809 Bochum, Germany Phone: +49 (0)234 980 2585 [email protected] www.gea.com In the event of publication, please send us two complimentary copies. Company information The GEA Group AG is one of the largest system suppliers in the field of foodstuffs production and energy generation with a group turnover of over 5.4 billion euros in 2011. As an internationally active technology group the focus is on process engineering and components for demanding production processes in a range of end markets. The company group generates around 70 percent of its turnover from long-term growth industries for foodstuffs and energy. At 31st March 2012 the Group workforce around the world was around 24,000. The GEA Group is one of the market and technology leaders in its business fields. The company is listed on Germany's MDAX stock market sector (G1A, WKN 660 200) and on STOXX® Europe 600. Further information can be found at www.gea.com. If you no longer wish to receive further information on GEA HeatExchangers, then please send an e-mail to [email protected] or call us on (Tel.: +49-234-980-2585). GEA HeatExchangers GmbH Phone +49 234 980 2585 · www.gea.com Seite 3 von 3 Dorstener Straße 484, 44809 Bochum, Germany .

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