Komori Corporation has completed the acquisition of MBO Group, a global company based in Germany that specialises in the manufacture and sale of post-press equipment. MBO Group is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Komori under the new company name MBO Postpress Solutions GmbH.
The merger will allow Komori to provide solutions from start to finish, allowing the company to extend its print solutions to a wider range of applications from the commercial, packaging and digital printing.
Since 2009, Komori has followed an aggressive strategy to be a true solution provider to the industry. The nearly 100-year-old company now markets a host of peripheral equipment product lines. MBO’s high-precision, high-productivity post-press equipment portfolio fits well with this strategy, according to the company. As an example, plans are to couple two core products from both companies: MBO’s real-time data solution, Data Manager 4.0, and Komori’s IoT-based cloud solution, KP-Connect, to seamlessly connect and report job data flow and feedback mechanisms for job status, waste and overall efficiencies of all devices.
“We are very excited about the completion of this acquisition. We see it as a testament to Komori’s commitment to the printing industry,” said Mark Milbourn, executive vice president, sales and service, Komori America. “Despite the uncharted waters we are experiencing right now, Komori is making a bold step to continue to be a valuable solutions provider to our customers and support them now and in the future in achieving productivity improvement throughout the printing and finishing processes.
