Prevention in every bottle: How Valensina Boosts Production Speed, Storage Efficiency and Quality with D-COUNT®
Who is the Valensina Group?
The Valensina Group is one of Europe’s leading producers of fruit juices and beverages. As a family-owned business with decades of tradition, Valensina stands for quality, innovation, and customer-centric solutions.
With production facilities in Vechta, Mönchengladbach and Erding, the company manages a diverse portfolio of branded, private label, and copacking beverages, distributed throughout Europe under renowned brands like Valensina, Wolfra, and HITCHOOK.
Their daily quality challenges
Due to different production sites, processes (chilled and aseptic) and products categories, Valensina faces different types of challenges.
Therefore flexibility is a core strength for Valensina group, it enables them to respond quickly to customer requirements while consistently maintaining high product quality.
For the chilled juices products - Prevention Rather than Detection
With a strong emphasis on prevention rather than reaction, the company stays ahead of potential issues - ensuring smooth, uninterrupted processes from production to delivery. This proactive mindset is especially critical in an environment where products have short shelf lives and therefore no quarantine is in place. Under these conditions, the stakes for microbiological safety are significantly heightened, making early detection and rapid response essential for the chilled juices produced in Mönchengladbach production site.
For the aseptic products - Saving Storage Time and Costs
At the Vechta production site where they produced aseptic products, the Valensina Group need to operate with impressive scale and precision. The facility has the capacity to store up to 15,000 pallets of finished goods, with an additional 5,000 pallet spaces available in an external warehouse. Altogether, this equates to a storage volume of approximately 12.6 million bottles—some housed in block storage, others on racks.
On average, the site produces around 650 pallets of finished goods per day, totaling 3,250 pallets over a five-day period. This level of output demands highly efficient logistics coordination, especially during seasonal peaks and retail promotions. Each additional day of storage incurs significant overnight costs, amounting to several hundred euros daily.
To address this, the company uses D-COUNT® to accelerate microbiological quality control and reduce the time products spend in storage. By enabling faster product release, D-COUNT® allows Valensina to reduce storage time by up to 50%.
This reduction not only improves operational agility but also translates into substantial cost savings in logistics—freeing up space, reducing handling, and optimizing delivery timelines.
D-COUNT® throughout the value chain: one solution, multiple gains.
In this video testimonial, we spoke with key leaders from the Valensina Group, including Tino Mocken, Executive Management, and Michael Flore, Head of Quality Management, and other experts across production, logistics and copacking.
They rely on the D-COUNT® system daily to ensure microbiological safety, accelerate product release, reduce storage time and maintain the consistently high quality their customers expect.
Watch the Testimonial Video
Discover how the proactive approach, supported by the D-COUNT® system, gives Valensina the confidence to act swiftly, minimize risk, and deliver reliably - every time.
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