News at GREIF-VELOX

Leaking packaging is a very critical factor, especially for foodstuffs. For this reason, special care must be taken when filling food powders to ensure that no product is contaminated or pallets are rendered unusable. For this reason, Maschinenfabrik Greif-Velox has developed the ValvoDetect optical measuring system: It ensures that faulty bags can be detected and ejected at two points in the bagging process. This avoids contamination and thus complaint costs.

Decreasing storage capacities and the order-related individualization of products and product batches place high demands on both the production and packaging process. Maschinenfabrik Greif-Velox therefore develops packaging systems that are individually tailored to customer requirements, which organize themselves and optimize processes thanks to intelligent networking. This brings clearly measurable benefits for planning, production, logistics and maintenance.

With the Greif-Velox BVPV 4.40 gross pneumatic packer and its innovative features, GoodMills Germany has doubled its bagging capacity at its Mannheim site.

The ValvoDetect optical measuring system from packaging machine manufacturer Greif-Velox solves a long-standing problem in the filling of powders in the chemical and food sectors: the innovation prevents entire pallets from being repeatedly contaminated by the product leakage of individual faulty bags, resulting in high complaint costs. Greif-Velox is the first manufacturer to offer the optical measuring system.

Powders with a low bulk density and high air retention capacity, such as carbon black, are generally very difficult to bag cleanly and efficiently due to their nature. With a new vacuum system, not only valve bags but also big bags (FIBCs) can now be filled safely, cleanly and quickly.

GREIF-VELOX is continuing on its internationalization course: The packaging machine manufacturer is now cooperating with the Hamburg-based sales and project partner ILLIES, which specializes in marketing high-quality machines and systems in Asia. GREIF-VELOX is thus further expanding its potential in the growth markets of Japan, Thailand and South Korea in particular.

GREIF-VELOX has a new website: At www.greif-velox.com, visitors can find efficient filling systems and bagging solutions worldwide, clearly sorted according to their requirements.

Timing is everything: Sebastian Pohl started as Director Sales at Greif-Velox Maschinenfabrik on February 1st, just before the crisis. The globally active company can look back on a record-breaking history. Over 1,100 years ago, the Greifen-Mühle was founded by monks. More than 100 years ago, this developed into the Greif-Werke. History connects and obliges. In three years' time, Greif-Velox wants to lead the market as the technology leader in the systems and peripherals segment for filling liquids and solids. In the market leader interview with Daniel Rexhausen, Pohl reveals why the crisis could not intervene, why consistent and active market development and momentum do not have to bring the company to its knees and how sales translates the company's own value system "EIZ" (efficiency, innovation and reliability) into customer business.

A new vacuum system allows the finest powders to be bagged safely and cleanly in big bags. An interdisciplinary team has optimized the design of the classic system - from operation and integration into digital systems to transport, everything is geared towards the use of big bags.

Who can look back on over a thousand years of experience? Back then, it was the monks who filled the flour by hand for sale, but today machines do the bagging, filling and palletizing. Greif-Velox Maschinenfabrik GmbH has arrived in the present and has its sights firmly set on the future. In the autumn, internationalization was driven forward with the establishment of an American subsidiary in order to respond to the increasing demand for bagging machines and filling systems.

GREIF-VELOX has developed an optical measurement technology that provides a sustainable solution to a long-standing problem in the industry. "An absolute added value for us," explains Thomas Jörder, Operations Manager at GREIF-VELOX customer ICL, in an interview.