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Smurfit Westrock has inaugurated a new Bobst Mastercut 2.1 die-cutting line at its Anzio plant near Rome, a €11 million investment adding over 20 million square metres of capacity and raising hourly productivity by over 20%.

Paranova Print and Packaging completed a £5 million transformation of its St Neots, Cambridgeshire plant, adding 2,000 square metres and tripling capacity for fibre-based food-to-go packaging. The upgrade includes a new custom Bobst press.

SRF Limited has signed a contract to buy a fourth BOBST EXPERT K5 3650mm metallizer for its factory in India, to be installed in 2026 to increase metallized BOPP capacity.

Ondupack SAU, part of CL Grupo Industrial, launched a new corrugated board factory in Navalmoral de la Mata, Cáceres, Spain, with an initial capacity of 60 million m² per year and a planned 200 million m² project capacity. The 60,000 m² plant is equipped with Fosber, BOBST and Emmepi machinery.

Foodservice packaging maker amipak agreed to buy a second BOBST Novacut 106 ER 3.0 die-cutter to add production capacity at its 100,000 sq. ft. site. The deal was agreed on June 6, 2024 at drupa and delivery is due in September 2024.

DS Smith invested €6m in its La Chevrolière facility near Nantes, France, adding 4,000 square metres and a new 2,500m² workshop for Kaypal cardboard pallets. The workshop has capacity of 250,000 units and potential for up to 1.5 million pallets per year.

Riyadh-based Al-Shamrani Industry Company invested in a new BOBST VISION CI flexo press to modernize and expand production capacity at its 25,000 square metre packaging facility. The company makes polyethylene flexible packaging for the Saudi market.

Cardbox Packaging announced a €6.5 million investment in its new Czech subsidiary to buy a Koenig & Bauer Rapida 106 printing press and a Bobst Visioncut 106 LER die-cutter. The investment aims to raise production efficiency and capacity.

Bwv-Wellpappenmaschinen Vertriebs-GmbH completed the acquisition of a 30% stake in BHS Corrugated Maschinen- und Anlagenbau GmbH from Bobst Group SA on February 29, 2024. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Packaging maker Thimm is investing more than EUR 3 million in a new Mastercut 2.1 flat-bed die-cutter from Bobst at its Castrop-Rauxel site. The machine adds capacity of 25 million square metres of corrugated board per year.

Turkish converter Yilpar A.Ş. installed two BOBST gravure printing presses, a 9-color RS 6003 commissioned earlier in 2023 and a 9-color RS 5003 completed in summer 2023, at its Kemalpaşa production facility in Izmir province to expand flexible packaging operations.

Bobst Group acquired a 70% equity stake in Dücker Robotics s.r.l., an Italian maker of robots for loading and palletizing in the corrugated board sector. The deal closed on April 28, 2023, and the current management stays in place.

German packaging company Packners has ordered a Bobst Masterline DRO flexo printing and rotary die-cutting line, plus further machines, for its new Emsbüren factory in north-west Germany. The line is Bobst's 600th rotary die cutter installed worldwide.

Boxshop Ltd is investing in an HQPP converting line built around a BOBST EXPERTFLEX six-colour printer, to be installed in March 2023 to serve customers across Scotland. The article gives no monetary value.

Saica plans a second phase at its Hamilton, Ohio plant, adding two converting machines including a 4-colour Bobst flexo folder-gluer and a 2-colour Bobst rotary die-cutter. Civil works are to start in coming months, with both machines running in the second half of 2023.

Bobst completed on 11 November 2021 its acquisition of the assets of Officine Meccaniche Giovanni Cerutti, Cerutti Packaging Equipment and 24/7 Cerutti Service. The assets are being integrated into Bobst Italia in San Giorgio Monferrato, where thirty ex-Cerutti employees will join.

China's Dansun Packaging in Hefei has invested in a BOBST FFG 8.20 Discovery flexo folder-gluer, following an earlier 2017 purchase and a 2019 palletizer.

A. Hatzopoulos S.A. is installing a new triplex-in-line BOBST CL 850 TD laminator, expected to be fully operational in April 2021. The line is expected to increase annual capacity in high-performance laminates by 90 million sqm.

Turkish film producer Polibak has purchased two BOBST EXPERT K5 2450mm metallizers with AlOx GEN II and AluBond processes to raise metallizing capacity. The first machine is already in production and the second will be installed next year.

SeaTac Packaging has taken delivery of a BOBST EXPERT CI wide-web flexo press, installed at its new Tacoma, Washington facility as part of a multi-million-dollar investment that created new jobs.

Rusken Packaging has opened a new facility in Conyers, Georgia, consolidating its former Canton and Conyers locations under one roof. The site includes a new BOBST Discovery Flexo Folder Gluer and sits next to corrugator supplier Corrugated Supplies Company Atlanta.

Mondi has completed installation of a five-colour Bobst Masterline 2.1 HD and a Robot MUK at its corrugated box plant in Szczecin, Poland, to meet e-commerce packaging demand.

Arkhbum JSC is preparing a new corrugated board plant in Ulyanovsk for 2021, with BOBST supplying two packaging production lines worth an investment of €14.2 million.

PaperWorks is adding a Komori GLX740 offset printing press and two Bobst MasterFold folding gluing lines at its Greensboro, North Carolina facility to increase production capacity. The equipment is expected to be in production in Q4 2020.

Parikh Flexibles, part of Constantia Flexibles, purchased a 1350 mm Bobst Expert K5 metallizer to be installed in 2021 at its new greenfield Ecoflex facility in Ahmedabad, India, for producing ultra high barrier MDO PE film.

Packaging machinery supplier Bobst acquired a 51% majority stake in Cito-System, a maker of creasing systems and tooling for the packaging industry, with Cito-System management keeping 49%.

Cullen, a UK corrugate packaging maker, is replacing its multi-point gluers with two Bobst Expertfold 165 folder-gluers at its Glasgow site, expected in place by Q3 2020.

Cullen Packaging is installing two Expertfold 165 folder-gluer machines from Bobst at its Glasgow corrugated packaging plant, alongside a 20,000 sq ft extension. The machines are expected to be installed by the third quarter of 2020.

Saica Pack installed a multi-million pound three-in-one flexo folder gluer from Bobst at its Thatcham site to produce corrugated boxes. The machine handles high-graphics printing of up to six colours.

As part of the first phase at its Sfântu Gheorghe site, Dunapack Rambox installed a Bobst flatbed die cutter with five HQ colours and a six-point Masterfold multipoint gluing machine to raise the complexity and quality of its shelf ready packaging.

Dunapack Rambox completed the first step of its investment to expand its Sfantu Gheorghe corrugated cardboard factory in Romania, adding 4,000 square metres of warehouse space and a Bobst die cutter and Masterfold gluing machine.

Leeds-based Fox Agency has been appointed by BOBST Group, a Swiss packaging machinery maker, for a three-year contract covering campaigns, product launches and web content. The contract followed a Europe-wide pitch.

Cosack Druck und Verpackung in Arnsberg, Germany, commissioned a BOBST Masterfold 75 folding carton gluing machine in December 2017 and a new BOBST VISIONCUT 106 cutting machine in 2018 to raise finishing capacity. The amounts were not disclosed.

Mondi opened its expanded Mondi Simet site near Poznań, Poland on 20 June 2018, with a new Fosber corrugator that quadrupled the plant's production capacity for heavy-duty corrugated packaging.

VPK has started up a new Bobst 924 flexo folder gluer at its Oudegem plant in Belgium, adding about 5 million square metres of corrugated packaging capacity. The total project, including a double-deck WIP and a second pallet inserter, is worth about 7 million euros.