VEMAG Maschinenbau GmbH, Verden/Aller, Germany, will be presenting numerous innovations on the subject of automation at IFFA 2025. Under the motto "Boundless Product Passion", the solutions increase product safety on the one hand and reduce personnel costs on the other. At the same time, the focus always remains on the product and its high quality. At the trade fair, the specialists from northern Germany will present high-performance machines that continuously portion, fill, shape, process, group and place various products in a wide variety of packaging with gram accuracy.

Trade fair visitors can expect a range of highly flexible and user-friendly automation solutions for filling, portioning, shaping and depositing in the packaging. Whether minced meat, burgers, vegan and vegetarian products, sausages or convenience products - there are no limits to the range of applications. The fully automated depositing and packing can take place, for example, in cups, jars, trays, cans, thermoformers, flow wrappers or other packaging. A wide variety of further packaging lines can be fed. The VEMAG Multiloader and shuttle conveyors, for example, discharge single-lane portioned products in multiple lanes in the transport direction of the packaging machine and allow different product groupings when depositing in trays/thermoformers: side by side, shingled or stacked.

Grouping sausages

The VEMAG Linkloader LL335 is a complete, universally applicable grouping system for fresh sausages, which are placed fully automatically in groups in trays and passed on to the downstream process. The Linkloader LL335 fully automates the previously labour-intensive process of grouping and loading sausages. The avoidance of manual labour as well as the depositing without accumulating effectively prevent pressure marks on the sausages as they can occur through touching. By eliminating manual labour, a new dimension in hygiene standards is achieved. With a speed of up to 40 trays/minute for natural casing applications and up to 600 portions per minute for collagen casing and alginate casing applications, depending on portion size, the LL335 accurately places sausages. Defective portions as well as the first and last sausage are reliably sorted out so that only faultless products are processed further. This increases the quality of the sausages and the packable quantity with the same raw material input.

Absolute weight accuracy

Product safety and absolute weight accuracy play just as important a role as flexibility in the use of a wide variety of packaging formats, packaging materials and fast changeover times. In production, it is ultimately important to fill containers and packaging precisely, quickly, accurately and reliably.

In addition, with the Link Grouper 336, VEMAG offers options for automatic and efficient loading of, for example, oven or freezer belts with sausages in alginate casings, collagen - and natural casings.

VEMAG offers the right solution from a single source: Together with a VEMAG vacuum filling machine, all attachments for portioning, filling, shaping and placing into packaging form a complete solution. Whether pasty, flowable or chunky - the volume-based filling quantities are identical, all products are filled with weight accuracy and gently, thus offering intelligent automation solutions from a single source.

VEMAG's flexible automation solutions are ideally complemented by the digital solutions of the further developed Smart Link, which enables permanent production data acquisition, evaluation and optimisation and thus planning at a glance. Even integration into ERP systems is no problem via the available OPC/UA interfaces. The company thus offers intelligent solutions from a single source "Made in Verden".