Fluid Control Systems honored by GEA in the category “Innovation” “Supplier of the Year Award” for fluidics specialist

Fluidics specialist Bürkert Fluid Control Systems has a partnership with the GEA Group that goes back more than two decades. In November 2025, GEA honoured Bürkert with its “Supplier of the Year Award” in the category “Innovation”. The award ceremony took place on 19 November in Amsterdam.

DAX-listed technology group GEA has honoured Bürkert Fluid Control Systems with the “Supplier of the Year Award” 2025 in the category “Innovation”, an award that GEA presents annually to a particularly innovative partner. It recognises the close partnership and the outstanding performance of Bürkert. The award ceremony took place on 19 November, 2025 as part of the Annual Supplier Summit, an exclusive event for suppliers in Amsterdam. Representatives from Bürkert were there to accept the award in person.

The award recognises Bürkert’s proactive cost optimisation initiatives in the area of total cost of ownership, and the support it has given GEA in developing new applications, such as the New Food test centres in the USA and Germany. “Something that was particularly highlighted was Bürkert’s strategic direction, which ideally complements GEA’s long-term goals and future plans”, said Denis Cougnet, Bürkert’s Corporate Key Account Manager for the GEA Group. Both companies pursue similar priorities such as innovation, efficiency and sustainability — an ideal basis for successfully continuing to collaborate and develop the partnership.

Bürkert CSO Roman Gaida stated: “Working closely with our customers and partners is at the heart of everything we do. Our strategic direction with a focus on digital services, automation, sustainability and a regenerative economy provides us with the right foundation for this. In these areas especially, we want to set new standards together with key customers like GEA. The Award shows that our strategic direction is keeping us on the right course. It confirms that we are consistently pursuing the goals we have set and successfully achieving them.”

Markus Bendisch, Director of Corporate Key Account Management at Bürkert, added: “We are delighted to receive this award: it underscores our innovative strength and our commitment to sustainable and partnership-based collaboration.”

A long-standing partnership and joint innovations

Bürkert and GEA share a long-standing partnership in which the fluidics specialist provides the GEA Group with a wide portfolio of process and solenoid valves, plus tailored system solutions.

In addition to product quality and delivery reliability, Bürkert has ensured impressive results through its global production capacity based on a “local for local” principle in China, India and the USA, as well as its engineering expertise in system solutions. Another factor in the success story is the close collaboration that takes place within the framework of Corporate Key Account Management, which supports GEA worldwide.

The “Award” is not only a recognition of Bürkert’s past achievements, but also a mandate for the future, and confirms the strength of the partnership with GEA. “This honour shows us the importance of consistently pursuing the path we have taken and continuing to provide solutions that help our customers make their processes more efficient and sustainable”, said Markus Bendisch in summary.

Image caption: At the “Supplier of the Year” award ceremony 2025 in Amsterdam in November, Bürkert's Roman Gaida, CSO, Denis Cougnet, Corporate Key Account Manager, and Markus Bendisch, Director of Corporate Key Account Management (from left to right), accepted the GEA Group's Award in the category “Innovation”.