Bobst
Founded in Switzerland in 1890, it is a well-known supplier of equipment and services for packaging and label manufacturers, and a leading enterprise of post press processing machinery and equipment
Bobst is a supplier of high quality mechanical equipment and services to folding carton, corrugated board and flexible material packaging plants.
Bobst was founded by Joseph Bobst in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1890. Its business covers more than 50 countries, with 11 production plants in 8 countries and more than 5000 employees around the world. As of December 31, 2013, the company's comprehensive turnover reached 1.354 billion Swiss francs.
Bobst has production bases in three continents and sales and service networks in more than 50 countries. Bobst can help customers achieve higher quality, improve productivity and reduce operating costs by providing customers with close support in their mother tongue and respecting local customs.
With its 120 years of expertise, Bobst provides equipment, solutions and technologies for the folding carton, corrugated board and flexible material processing industries to ensure that its customers improve quality, efficiency and productivity while meeting packaging requirements.
Since January 1, 2010, the group has three business divisions - sheet fed, web fed and service:
Business department: sheet fed Department
In this business unit, Bobst provides on-line and off-line flexographic printing, lithographic mounting, gilding, flat die and circular die, flexographic printing paste box line production lines and peripheral equipment for folding carton and corrugated paper processing.
Business unit: web feeding
Bobst's web feed lines Bobst, Fischer and krecke, general, kochsiek and rotomec are suppliers of web feed printing and processing equipment to the flexible materials and folding carton processing industry. Through this business unit, Bobst provides high-quality solutions for the production of food packaging or non food packaging, label, decoration and anti-counterfeiting applications, as well as the preprint of wallpaper, adhesive tape, professional paper and vermicelli in the fields of gravure printing, flexographic printing, coating, composite and vacuum coating.
Business department: Service Department
Through the global network of service centers, Bobst provides quality services to the packaging industry. Its services range from expert consultation to providing core services, maintenance solutions, equipment improvement, technology and efficiency solutions.