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Until now, ultra-light powders like carbon black and fumed silica have been by their nature particularly difficult to efficiently bag in FIBCs (“Big Bags”) without producing too much dust. With its VeloVac XL vacuum technology, manufacturer Greif-Velox offers a solution to this problem, delivering clean, fast, and compact bagging performance with minimal product loss along with the added benefits of better workplace safety and lower logistics costs.

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.

Leaking packaging presents a very critical challenge, especially when it comes to food. As such, filling food powders requires particular care to ensure that no product is contaminated and that no pallets are rendered unusable. For this reason, Greif-Velox developed the optical measurement system ValvoDetect: it ensures that faulty bags can be identified and removed from the filling line at two points during the bagging process. This can prevent contamination and the costs associated with customer complaints.