Bobst Group
| Bobst Group SA
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | CH0012684657 |
| founding | 1890 |
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Mex Switzerland
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| management | Jean-Pascal Bobst (Chief Executive Officer ) |
| Number of employees | 5 400 (2017) |
| sales | 1.636 billion CHF (2019) |
| Branch | Machine industry |
| Website | www.bobst.com |
The Bobst Group SA , based in Mex in Lausanne is an international Swiss manufacturer of machines and equipment for the packaging industry .
The group of companies has an international network of production, sales and service companies in around 50 countries. Bobst employs 5,400 people and generated sales of 1.529 billion Swiss francs in 2017. The company is listed on the Swiss stock exchange SIX Swiss Exchange listed .
Field of activity
Bobst focuses exclusively on the packaging industry and comprises the three business areas of folding boxes , corrugated board and flexible materials .
The folding boxes division specializes in the processing and optimization of paper , cardboard and plastics .
The Corrugated Board division is active in the manufacture of production systems, including flexographic printing machines , flat bed die- cutters , equipment for loading, unloading and palletizing, universal machines for the production of folding boxes made of corrugated board, inline machines for the production of RSC (Regular Slotted Containers), and rotary die- cutters for production of punched boxes, systems for lamination from sheet to sheet or from roll to sheet as well as automatic folding box gluing machines, staplers and folding machines with hot glue.
The flexible materials division , with which Bobst is the world market leader, comprises equipment and process solutions for printing and converting flexible materials. These include all types of plastic films , flexible packaging materials, labels , wallpaper , wrapping paper and transfer paper .
In July 2017, Bobst founded a new startup in Switzerland called Mouvent. The 100-employee company is responsible for the design, integration and production of inkjet printing machines or clusters, chemicals, pre-coatings, lacquers, inks and software.
history
The company was founded in 1890 by Joseph Bobst as a printing supplies store in Lausanne. In 1915, Bobst manufactured its first own systems. With the opening of the production facility in Prilly, near Lausanne, Bobst began production on an industrial scale in 1938.
In 1978 the company, which had been trading as J. Bobst & Fils SA since 1918, was converted into a stock corporation and listed on the stock exchange . As a result, Bobst expanded its business activities, including with various acquisitions, on an international level and in 1989 achieved sales over one billion francs for the first time.
The international expansion continued from 1997 through the opening of further locations abroad and through various takeovers. The last company takeover, the purchase of the German machine manufacturer Fischer & Krecke , was completed at the end of March 2008.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bobst Group: Annual Report 2019 (pdf) Retrieved May 23, 2020 .