DSIV Young Professionals Day at Greif-Velox

GREIF-VELOX is one of the oldest companies in the world with 1,000 years of company history: In the year 1,100, monks founded the Greifenmühle in Klützow in Pomerania, laying the foundations for many centuries of practical experience in efficient bagging, filling and palletizing. Ernst Mahlkuch, whose family had owned the Greifenmühle since 1734, used this experience to found GREIF-WERKE in 1938, which has been designing and producing innovative bagging machines and filling systems ever since. After 1945, GREIF-VELOX grew out of this foundation in Lübeck, Germany, with over 150 experts, who cultivate the tradition of over 1,000 years of innovation culture every day and thus constantly set new benchmarks in the industry. Customers do not need standard solutions off the shelf, but individual concepts and developments. As a rule, this individuality not only increases production quality and quantity, but also leads to strong competitive advantages that quickly pay for themselves. On request, GREIF-VELOX can supply complete full-line systems including robot palletizing and load securing from a single source to further enhance these advantages for the customer.

Greif-Velox FOOD CONNECT 2025 took place on 13 November in Lübeck and provided a platform for professionals from production, packaging, and automation. The in-house event focused on practical knowledge exchange, new technological developments, and strategies to significantly increase efficiency in industrial food filling processes. Fully Automated Lines in Real Operation A key element of the event was the live demonstration of two fully automated packaging lines. At the core of the showcased systems was the BVP gross pneumatic packer, illustrating how production processes can be made more efficient, safer, and more flexible—tailored to the specific requirements of the food industry. Process Stability and Performance for Food Applications The first full line demonstrated a combination of two parallel bagging lines integrated with an FIBC filling system. Designed for varying product requirements, the solution included customer-specific programming and seamless integration into an existing process control system. Several fully automated subsystems, designed for high process stability and performance of up to