Miller Magazine Issue: 144 December 2021

84 ARTICLE MILLER / december 2021 Short changeover time, less downtime, higher flexibil- ity, and lower investment costs: At its Mannheim site in Germany, GoodMills Deutschland needed a system that could bag various granule sizes of semolina and flour with bag sizes ranging from 5 to 25 kilograms. With the BVPV 4.40 gross weight pneumatic packer, the machine manufacturers at Greif-Velox delivered a compact solu- tion that increased the bagging output by 100% com- pared to the old system. Once process data is evaluated, there is potential to increase efficiency even more in the future, as outlined below. With an annual capacity of more than 180,000 metric tons, the Hildebrandmühle mill in Mannheim is one of the biggest durum wheat mills in Germany. The mill’s op- erators, GoodMills Deutschland, recently expanded the factory and added two more products – couscous and bulgur – to its product portfolio. This makes the company the only one of its kind north of the Alps that produces and packages this range of products independently. FLEXIBLE PRODUCT CHANGEOVER WITH REDUCED SETUP TIMES “We have a broad spectrum of products that are bagged with one machine – ranging from semolina in the most varied granule sizes to flours, couscous in var- ious granule sizes, and bulgur, which has a much larger particle size – so we are working with everything from very coarse to very fine,” says Alexander Wieler, Plant Manager in Mannheim. Furthermore, GoodMills Deutsch- land needed something else from the new machine: It would need to bag different products with short change- over times, little downtime and handle different bag siz- es ranging from 5 to 25 kilograms. “Quite the challenge,” Wieler continues. SPACE-SAVING AND COMPACT Packaging machine manufacturer Greif-Velox devel- ops solutions that are precisely tailored to the cus- tomer for the filling of food and chemical products as well as full-line systems. With the BVPV 4.40 gross weight pneumatic packer and its additional features, Greif-Velox was able to realize a system that met the customer’s requirements perfectly. The BVPV 4.40 can fill bags from 4 kg to 40 kg with perfect precision. Depending on the application, the integrated Flex- chair can be set to the desired bag size, and the prod- uct flow is controlled with a weighing system accord- ingly. In this way, product loss from imprecise filling is not only reduced, but the mill saves space and cuts acquisition costs using a single machine for different products and bag sizes. With the Greif-Velox BVPV 4.40 gross weight pneumatic packer and its innovative fea- tures, GoodMills Deutschland has managed to double its bagging performance at its Mannheim site in Germany. Efficient filling and packaging for flour and semolina Sebastian Pohl Director Sales & Marketing Greif-Velox