{"id":56334,"date":"2022-02-18T15:46:14","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T14:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/?p=56334"},"modified":"2022-03-25T17:22:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T16:22:16","slug":"english-2022-1-greif-velox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/english-2022-1-greif-velox\/","title":{"rendered":"From the miller's trade to the filling professional"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Greif Velox story begins with one of the oldest documented companies in the world. The development from the Greifen mill to today's global leader in the field of bagging light materials can be traced back more than a thousand years. The special feature: The full lines which focus equally on the processing of solid and liquid products.<\/strong><\/p>

This is something quite extraordinary: the history of Griffin Velox<\/a> begins more than a thousand years ago with the founding of the Greifen mill<\/strong> by monks in Kl\u00fctzow near Stargard in what is now Poland. Today, the company operates as a developer of innovative and effective bagging and filling systems<\/strong> as well as full lines for the food, chemical and petrochemical industries and is thus firmly anchored in the packaging industry.<\/p>

In the 18th century, the mill came into the possession of the Mahlkuch family, who over time, steadily expanded and innovated the business - from the installation of turbines and steam engines to the expansion into the then novel \u201eAmerican System\u201c, which served to produce very fine, high-quality flour<\/strong>. By the end of the 19th century, in addition to flour production, the focus increasingly shifted to its bagging.<\/p>

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Several generations later, Ernst Mahlkuch founded the Greif factory in Kl\u00fctzow in 1938 on the basis of technologies he had developed in the bagging sector. His great inventiveness was remarkable: as early as 1908, he patented the first calibratable automatic bagging scale<\/strong>, which was later christened \u201eVelox\u201c which comes from the Latin term for \u201equick\u201c or \u201efast\u201c. With his developments, Mahlkuch was responding to the needs of users.<\/strong> With the new patent, they could not only weigh and fill their product more accurately but also save a great deal of time. \u201eBetter, faster, more rational is the Velox\u201c was an advertising slogan from the 1940s. Here, the machine's focus was already on added value for customers: the \u201eVelox\u201c as well as the \u201eParadox\u201c centrifuge, also patented by Mahlkuch, are still well-known in milling circles today.<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Due to the high demand for the novel bagging solutions, the factory was expanded as early as 1941 before Mahlkuch established the company as the Greif-Werke in L\u00fcbeck four years later. To this day, the company has its headquarters at this location. As early as the 1950s, Greif-Werke was developing market-driven solutions for bagging products.<\/strong> The M\u00f6llers Group, under the umbrella of M\u00f6llers Maschinenfabrik which specialised in filling and packaging systems, took over Greif-Werke in 1978. The managing directors at the time expected new synergy effects from this.<\/p>