{"id":57147,"date":"2022-02-18T13:49:57","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T12:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/?p=57147"},"modified":"2022-02-18T13:49:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T12:49:57","slug":"greif-velox-filling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/greif-velox-abfuellung\/","title":{"rendered":"From miller to bottling professional"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Greif-Velox story began with one of the oldest documented company foundations in the world. The development from the Greif mill to today's global technology leader in the bagging of lightweight materials can be traced back more than a thousand years. The speciality: The full lines focus equally on the processing of solid and liquid products.<\/strong><\/p>

This is something quite extraordinary: the story of Griffin Velox<\/a> begins more than a thousand years ago with the foundation of the Greifen-M\u00fchle<\/strong> in Kl\u00fctzow near Stargard in present-day Poland by monks. Today, the company operates as a developer of innovative and effective bagging and filling systems<\/strong> and full lines for the food, chemical and petrochemical industries and is therefore firmly established in the packaging industry.<\/p>

In the 18th century, the mill came into the possession of the Mahlkuch family, who constantly expanded and modernised the business over the course of time - from the installation of turbines and steam engines up to the expansion according to the then new \u201eAmerican system\u201c, which was used to produce very fine, high-quality flour.<\/strong> In addition to this flour production, bagging also became increasingly important at the end of the 19th century.<\/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 inventive spirit was remarkable: As early as 1908, he patented the first calibratable automatic bagging scale<\/strong>, which was later christened \u201eVelox\u201c - after the Latin word for \u201equick\u201c or \u201efast\u201c. Mahlkuch responded to the needs of users with its developments<\/strong>With the new patent, they were not only able to weigh and fill their product more accurately, but also save a lot of time. \u201eBetter, faster, more efficient is the Velox\u201c was an advertising slogan from the 1940s. Here too, the added value for customers was already the focus of the machine: The \u201eVelox\u201c and the \u201eParadox\u201c bran 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 innovative bagging solutions, the factory was already expanded in 1941 before founder Mahlkuch moved the company to L\u00fcbeck four years later as Greif-Werke, where the company still has its headquarters today. As early as the 1950s, Greif-Werke developed market-orientated combined solutions for bagging products.<\/strong> The M\u00f6llers Group, which included M\u00f6llers Maschinenfabrik f\u00fcr Abf\u00fcll- und Verpackungsanlagen, took over Greif-Werke in 1978. The managing directors at the time hoped that this would create new synergy effects.<\/p>