BOBST Next
Our expertise
the industry
transformation
Our vision for the packaging industry is a fully connected, digitalized, automated packaging world – contributing to sustainability worldwide.
As one of the technology leaders, we actively drive the industry transformation: from mechanical to digital, and from manufacturing machines to process solutions along the entire workflow.
At the core of our vision:
BOBST Connect
The progress towards our vision offers a steady transformation for the packaging industry.
At the heart of this transformation is BOBST Connect, our constantly evolving, cloud-based digital platform that enhances and improves packaging productivity.
BOBST Connect brings data and digital services together in one fully connected platform, with BOBST machine insights and expertise built-in, enabling overview and orchestration of the production process. Along with its connectivity, BOBST Connect provides optimization.
The four pillars of our industry vision are the cornerstone of the industry transformation.
BOBST is changing the way packaging is produced: data and digital services all together in a fully connected platform, enabling complete oversight and orchestration of the production.
Connectivity
BOBST is driving connectivity: in a fully connected packaging production, all machines, tooling and systems will “talk” to each other. Stakeholders can access and share data, through a cloud-based platform.
Digitalization & automation
Through digitalization and automation, BOBST is changing the way packaging is produced. End-to-end digitalized solutions are being developed offering a seamless quality of production to converters, enabling more productivity, reducing waste and an ever-increasing quality.
Sustainability
Through its sustainability strategy under three work streams – operations, equipment, and packaging use & end-of-life – BOBST is committed to make progress with relevant business indicators and build important partnerships.
Value creation from brand
owner to consumer
Converters of every size are under increasing pressure to deliver the ideal packaging and labels with smaller lead times, shorter runs, mass customization, while ensuring zero-fault production and supporting new business models (such as e-commerce).
BOBST understands that these new challenges are an opportunity to not only offer quicker and more reliable equipment, but to integrate the equipment into the workflow to leverage the value of data fully.
Translating the industry vision into reality
BOBST Application management is the driver of making the BOBST industry vision a reality – contributing to the positioning of BOBST as innovation industry leader. The innovative consulting service has been designed for the needs of converters and brand owners, providing guidance on technologies, raw materials, processes and business cases along the entire packaging value chain.
Benefits of the
BOBST industry vision
Converters and brand owners benefit from professional insights on market opportunities, on state-of-the-art solutions, and on next levels of technology development.
Our specialized end-to-end know-how regarding each step of packaging production adds value to the machines, services and other devices offered by BOBST.
From an innovation perspective, the systematic expertise of Application management ensures that BOBST will have the right solution at the right time, for different industries.
Sustainable packaging solutions
BOBST serves four industries with innovative and sustainable packaging and label solutions:
Corrugated board
Flexible packaging
Folding carton
Labels
More information about our packaging solutions:
Leading
innovation
What BOBST can do for you,
today and in the future
BOBST has the recipe for your success. We ensure efficient data flow between the physical and digital worlds through automated and digitalized production workflows, orchestrated by BOBST Connect.
Services
Connected to power your performance
At BOBST Services, our passion is to connect with you and power your performance.
Combining expertise and digitalization to maximize your productivity and protect your investment, we work around the clock to support you anywhere in the world, ensure maximum uptime, maintain and upgrade your equipment.
With thousands of machines connected and more than 2 400 experts ready, we offer our customers the peace of mind that comes from reliability. We optimize efficiency and accompany you on the road to your sustainable success, all day, every day.
Protect
your investment
Protect
your investment
Maximize the operability of your equipment for the long-term.
- Installation
- Spare parts
- Relocation
- Obsolescence management
- Remanufacturing
Cut downtime up to 60% and extend equipment life with flexible maintenance.
- Maintenance
- Maintenance Plus
Maximize
your uptime
Find what you need online, from technical support to more than 90% of spare parts available.
- Web Portal
Solve up to 80% of your issues remotely.
- Helpline
- Helpline Premium
- Helpline Premium & BOBST Connect Package
Reach out to more than 2 400 experts from around the world, giving you peace of mind for your operational success
- On site visit from Field Service Technicians
Improve
your profitability
Improve
your profitability
Upgrade your machine or leverage tooling to meet the latest standards and enhance its performance.
- Upgrades
- Tooling
Leverage our knowledge and technology to increase your overall equipment effectiveness and make your production more sustainable.
- Data-based Solutions
- Process Optimization
- Training
BOBST Connect, our cloud-based digital platform, enhances productivity.
It enables overview and orchestration of the production process – a fully connected workflow from the job PDF to the final application. With every job produced, we gain insights that help us continually improve how we work.
It connects machines, digitalizes processes, and automates workflows in real-time, enhancing productivity at every stage.
BOBST Connect empowers our customers today and into the future by regularly introducing new functionalities that protect their investment and improve their overall equipment effectiveness.
Corrugated board
Boosting end-
to-end efficiency
- Reducing energy consumption by up to 20%
- Maximizing sustainability and cost-efficiency
- Maximizing machine productivity while reducing the overall workload by 90%
- Adding value and widen the range of your applications with minimal adjustments
BOBST solutions cover the production of all kind of applications, from the smallest package to the largest.
Our portfolio is completed with automatic peripherals for both upstream and downstream of the lines, based on traditional and even new robotic solution. The performance of our equipment is supported by comprehensive solutions including quality control, services, connectivity and customer support throughout the equipment lifecycle.
BOBST’s offer goes far beyond supplying equipment’s and services. The new technological bricks we are developing in BOBST Connect will enable us to reach a growing number of players in the packaging value chain.
BOBST offers six energy efficiency functions for our flatbed die-cutters. Reducing energy consumption by up to 20%, resulting in remarkable savings!
BOBST Connect stores all the collected data, providing precise and timely feedback on the machine’s performance. This allows our customers to compare, improve, and enhance production efficiency.
BOBST Robotic solutions streamline and automate strenuous manual operations, such as feeding and palletizing.
These automated solutions significantly increase productivity of the converting lines, increasing by 20%. Moreover, they simplify material handling, reducing the overall workload by an impressive 90%.
BOBST Start & Go is a quick set up printing function. It analyzes prints during flow to automatically adjust and calibrate the machine.
It reduces material waste and setup time – with a maximum of 11 sheets and the entire adjustment in just 5 minutes!
Flexible packaging
Innovating for a
sustainable future
- Increasing the recyclability of your applications to 100%
- Optimizing process control
- Minimizing waste and time
- Increasing productivity and print consistency
- Reducing complexity and downtime of your rotogravure presses by up to 70%
- Boosting your flexibility to meet the ever-changing market trends, by combining two technologies in one machine whilst maintaining premium product quality
The magic lies in the synergy of our barrier-specific solutions, EXPERT K5 metallizer, oneBARRIER COATER, and key partnerships. Today we are working with the industry to align to demands for a more circular economy. Plus, when adding our new iMA, it is possible to optimize controls and save up to 100 tons of metallized film waste per year.
Our BOBST iMA allows just this; a state-of-the-art vision system with software powered by Al, meaning that your process expertise is in-built into your metallizer, reducing the risk of human error to ensure constant coating, repeatable process and waste as well as increasing overall annual yield.
The secret is smartGRAVURE, an automated and digital system that revolutionizes the gravure printing process whilst enhancing connectivity and sustainable operations.
It delivers premium quality results and enables gravure printing to become an end-to-end digitalized process at the touch of a button.
When printing in oneECG it is possible to fully optimize productivity and color consistency, decrease waste by upto 50% and overall machine down-time can be reduced by as much as 70%.
EXPERTLAM 900 is synonym for modularity and flexibility, fundamental elements for converters that want to be ahead of the fast-changing packaging market trends and demands. This multi-facade machine combines BOBST extensive coating and laminating know-how in one single solution, bringing superior product quality of all materials as well as maximized operator friendliness.
- Multi-trolley design for all process technologies
- Job changeovers are tool-free and super-fast
- BOBST Connect ready
- Optional barrier package dedicated to recyclable film and paper packaging
Folding carton
Zero-fault packaging
- Meeting versioning and multilingual requirements by maximizing production flexibility
- Reducing patching by 80%
- Guaranteeing 100% conformity and ensureing zero claim
- Consistent quality
Imagine you can guarantee zero-fault packaging for your entire folding carton production?
BOBST can help customers to achieve zero-fault packaging while powering performance with digitalization & expertise for a sustainable future.
We provide solutions throughout the entire production process – from PDF to finished product. Our solutions give our customers the confidence to push their efficiency to its maximum and ensure perfect results.
To maximize production flexibility and to be more productive, BOBST introduces a brand new, industrial, digital solution for folding carton.
The new DIGITAL MASTER 55 offers outstanding quality and performance for printing, embellishment and cutting in one go. This all-in-one solution dramatically shortens production time, increases profitability and guarantees maximum agility for versioning or serialization.
Based on BOBST’s extensive experience in diecutting
technologies, we have designed the perfect platen engineered to minimize the time spent on patching. This addresses one of the
biggest challenges in the folding carton industry.
ACCUBRAILLE PRO will take conformity and quality to the next level.
First, this technology will automatically set up the device via the recipe management.
This will reduce job changeover time to a minimum and eliminate the risk of human error, which could lead to significant consequences for pharmaceuticals.
Second, the solution will not only control embossed braille on cartons. It will certify the quality of your tools and 100% conformity, ensuring zero claims from your customers.
BOBST ACCUCHECK provides you with 100% quality control ensuring that each and every box meets your customer’s highest quality standards. Everything is checked, any faults are automatically and immediately ejected, according to the specific quality control parameters sent through BOBST Connect. All our BOBST quality control systems generate detailed reports, providing traceability to customers, and delivering what you promised.
From setup, through production, to our final box – it guarantees 100% consistency and quality: saving you both time and money.
At the end of production, you have not only achieved a zero-fault packaging, but quality reports and production data have been streamed back to BOBST Connect throughout the process to create the digital twin, and effectively closing the loop.
Labels
Simplifying
label production
- Consistent output across technologies and production sites, regardless of operator skills, by streamlining your workflow
- Maximum accuracy while minimizing waste and costs with in-line, end-to-end quality control
- Performing a complete job changeover in less than 5 minutes by automating your production processes
- Producing different applications in one single pass by combining flexo and digital printing on one single machine – all with one single point of control
Closed-loop workflow from pdf to twin pdf
BOBST Workflow solutions
- Open architecture allowing 3rd party compatibility
- Productivity optimization with BOBST Connect
- Unmatched color consistency & repeatability with BOBST oneECG
- Equipment monitoring
- Performance management
- Job information
- Substrate library
- Centralized color management
- Supported by industry partners
Quality & production excellence
BOBST ACCUCHECK inline quality control system
- Full-speed quality inspection 100% integrated in the press workflow with 0 set up time
- Closed-loop control & automatic calibration with up to 96% time saving for calibration
BOBST simplifies label production with highly automated and modular digital and flexo solutions. Converters can unlock flexibility & efficiency with 100% modular and upgradable machines tailored to their needs.
Driven by innovation and ease-of-use, BOBST label solutions lead the way to an infinite number of applications
Converters face challenges producing faster, at higher quality, and at more competitive costs. BOBST offers a complete portfolio of flexo, digital, and All-in-One solutions for a wide range of applications, enabling printing professionals to create ready-to-ship labels in a single pass while making data-driven decisions with a connected, automated, and digitalized workflow.
value
Current plan -22% CO2
Strategy
Empowering
the future
BOBST follows a long-term strategy
We aim to be, or become, No. 1 or 2 in the markets we address to further contribute to the long-term development of the Group. To deliver on these objectives for the label, flexible packaging, folding carton and corrugated board markets, we establish our long-term success on key pillars – innovation, operational excellence, people and growth. We invest in our people, those focused internally to grant operational excellence and those who help our clients maximize their productivity and satisfaction. We build new substrate processing technologies to increase sustainability. We are committed to shaping the future of the packaging world.
Shareholders
We seek to achieve a sustainable profitability ensuring “value creation” for our Group. Our challenge is to be the leading technical innovator in the packaging and label industry, delivering the highest quality and productivity. This will involve developing even stronger relationships with our customers, partners and suppliers, to ensure both a “common good” and a mutual longevity.
Group Executive Committee
Jean-Pascal Bobst
Chief Executive Officer
Attilio Tissi
Chief Financial Officer
Alain Berger
Head of Business Unit Printing & Converting
Raphaël Indermühle
Head of Business Unit Services & Performance
Leading by
values
Values
The phrase that best exemplifies BOBST is “People, Knowledge and Values”. The people of our Group and the vast technical knowledge they have translate into success. The values we aim to hold, both as a Group and as individuals, include Trust, Respect, Passion and Performance. These are the foundation of all collaborations that help us achieve our common goals and sustain our future. With these, we aim to ensure, among other things, a life-work balance, a pleasant work environment and a higher social responsibility.
“People, Knowledge and Values”
are the driving principles of our
company culture.
Sustainable future
BOBST is a family owned company. We aim to strengthen our leadership position, our sustainability for the long-term and we have chosen to invest in digitalization and environmentally friendly packaging solutions. While fulfilling our responsibilities at the local level, we are not only keen to develop the potential of the next generation’s leaders, but also to reveal and encourage the young talents of tomorrow. Transparent management, intergenerational communication that considers the strengths and skills of each one, as well as value creation, are our guiding principles.
perspectives
Jean-Pascal Bobst
Chief Executive Officer
Alain Guttmann
Chairman of the Board
Global impact
Delivering innovation worldwide
- 21 production sites
- Present in > 50 countries
- 12 Packaging Centers:
6 in Europe, 3 in Asia,
3 in the US - > 6 400 employees
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