VELEC Systems: High speed counting,
loading and packaging solutions
Q: What is the company’s history?
Velec started in the 1950s and its core
expertise was to sort and realign products
at high speed using centrifugal force. The
first applications were coins, followed by
bolts, nuts, screws, pharmaceutical pills
and food.
Following the takeover by Loïc Pollet in
2011, the company completed a strategic
realignment on food application, where its
equipment was already highly appreciated
by major companies including Nestlé.
Anticipating market demand, Velec has
completely reviewed its machine design
to an ultra-hygienic standard that is fully
dismountable without tools, eliminates any
retention areas and changing hollow tubes
to a fully open structure.
Answering customers’ needs, Velec has
developed all types of equipment to offer
the market complete solutions from an
oven or a freezer through to the end pallet.
These include easy-to-clean conveying
solutions, the IP69K robotic smart picker
and collaborative palletisers.
Q: How has your business evolved?
We were fortunate enough to meet key
players in the American meat business
that had been badly affected by Listeria.
Their health and safety engineering teams
shared their experiences and pushed us to
the maximum limit to design what has now
become our standard and was recognised
by the industry during IFFA 2019 as the
most hygienic design solution.
solutions which take raw products in
bulk through the entire process from
sorting and realigning to inspecting with
optical cameras and finally counting,
batching and loading products in selected
primary packing (vertical bag, flow pack,
trays, thermoformer, cartons) followed
by secondary packing and palletising.
Successful solutions include high speed
loaders for frozen burgers, sausages,
breaded products and more.
What are Velec’s areas of expertise?
We pride ourselves in adapting customers’
existing solutions to their requirements.
Where most of our competitors propose a
“take it or leave it” solution we will review
the dimensions of our equipment to make
it fit a customer’s factory or adapt it to the
customer’s end product. For example, we
are currently adapting our sausage loader
for a customer manufacturing spring
rolls. It is the same with automation. As
standard, we offer Siemens for European
customers, AB-Rockwell in North America
and, more recently with a German partner
we have worked with B&R automation.
Q: How do you work with customers?
We work with food customers all over
the world who have heard about us
online, at international events or through
networking. We quickly understand their
exact needs, taking into account type of
product, expected throughput, available
factory space and so on. This allows us to
produce a preliminary report to establish
solutions available within budget. We
believe people don’t have time to waste
and appreciate quick initial answers.
Q: What makes Velec stand out from
other companies?
Among the key things our sales engineers
involves not only our equipment but the
customers’ overall process in order to
identify exact requirements to maximise
throughput, equipment efficiency and
understand how the systems should be
designed for the long-term.
Q: What are your plans for the future?
With a strong order book for 2020 and
into 2021, we look at the future with
confidence. We are working on the
expansion and modernisation of our two
plants in France and about to transform a
strategic partnership in USA into a merger.
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Thanks to this demanding request, the
Velec Hygienic Design is available to
customers large and small. This design
exceeded all the original requirements and
allowed us to secure orders and install
equipment throughout Europe, North
America and Asia.
Q: What types of solutions do you offer?
We offer complete engineered turnkey
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