Food Connect 2025: Networking Event for Food Filling Experts

GREIF-VELOX is one of the most tradition-rich companies in the field of industrial bagging, filling and palletising technology. Its roots date back to the year 1100, when monks founded the Greifenmühle mill in Klützow, Pomerania – an origin from which centuries of practical expertise in handling bulk materials and efficient packaging processes have developed. Building on this experience, Ernst Mahlkuch, whose family had owned the Greifenmühle since 1734, founded GREIF-WERKE in 1938. Since then, the company has been developing and implementing high-performance bagging machines and filling systems for industrial applications. After 1945, GREIF-VELOX emerged from this foundation in Lübeck, Germany – today with more than 150 experts and a clear focus on innovative, efficient and reliable packaging solutions. GREIF-VELOX stands for customised system concepts that are precisely tailored to the product, process and production environment. These individual solutions not only increase production quality and system performance, but also create measurable competitive advantages. On request, GREIF-VELOX supplies complete full-line systems from a single source, including bagging, filling, conveying technology, robotic palletising and load securing. In addition to its customised Custom Line solutions, GREIF-VELOX offers the Essential Line: standardised, field-proven machine concepts for typical applications in bulk solids and liquid filling. The Essential Line reduces engineering effort, shortens delivery times and provides an economical entry point into proven GREIF-VELOX technology – without compromising on quality, reliability or industrial practicality.

On 13 November 2025, GREIF-VELOX will host Food Connect in Lübeck, showcasing two fully automated packaging lines for leading food manufacturers. One of the systems combines multiple industry-specific requirements: * Two lines connected and centrally controlled * Flexible bag size handling with quick changeovers * Integrated FIBC (Big Bag) filling station * Fully automated product changeovers and wet cleaning * Connection to the customer’s central control room via open interfaces * Intelligent empty-pallet management and dual-line palletizing This event will demonstrate how maximum hygiene standards can be combined with full automation and efficiency – setting new benchmarks for the food industry.

The industry is on the move - and with it, markets, requirements and technologies are changing. If you want to remain visible in competition, you need more than just good products: It is about presence, dialogue and trust. The trade fair duo Solids & Recycling-Technik Dortmund Dortmund 2026 brings all of this together - as the leading business platform for bulk solids, process and recycling technology in NRW, one of the strongest economic regions in Germany. This is where decision-makers, developers and users meet providers of innovative technologies and solutions - directly, personally and at eye level. What you can expect: * Targeted visitor structure with a high proportion of decision-makers * Strong industry focus for efficient networking * High relevance of the topics - from automation to shredding 5 top reasons to visit the trade fair # Compare technologies live; Use the dual trade fair to compare numerous technologies and find the optimum solution to your individual challenges in the bulk solids and recycling industry. # Share knowledge; Benefit from our industry’s knowledge centre and discover the latest topics, trends and innovations up close. # Trends and innovations; Explore an inspiring environment in which you can discover pioneering technologies and trends. # Expand your network; Use the opportunity to network with other industry players at our trade fairs. # Face-to-face interaction; Personal contact is often more effective than virtual communication. Trade fairs provide the opportunity for personal discussions and interactions that help to build relationships.

Packaging machine specialist Greif-Velox launches “Packaging as a Service” for the bagging of ultra-light powders With a new “Packaging as a Service” (PaaS) model, Greif-Velox Maschinenfabrik GmbH is offering an integrated service package for industrial powder bagging without any initial investment for the first time. The offer includes machine provision, financing, service, spare parts and merchandise parts as well as the supply of suitable paper bags as required - at a fixed monthly price. End-to-end solution for ultra-light powders While previous PaaS models in the packaging industry were limited to cardboard or reusable packaging solutions, GREIF-VELOX transfers the principle to complex industrial bagging systems - and goes one step further: the package not only includes consumables, but also the entire process from financing to commissioning and spare parts supply. The first application is in combination with VeloVac vacuum technology for dust-free filling of ultra-light powders. An expansion to other machine types such as the A-DOS-P1 and the BVP gross pneumatic packer…