Bobst has announced its attendance at the FTA’s Fall Conference and INFOFLEXexhibition, which is taking place on Oct. 3-6, 2021, at the Embassy Suite Hotel in Frisco, TX, USA.  After two years of virtual meetings, the company welcomes the opportunity to return to live events, as the printing and packaging industry re-establishes in-person conferences, trade shows and networking.

“For Bobst, 2020 was very much a watershed year where we presented our industry vision, which is built on the four cornerstones of connectivity, digitalization, automation, and sustainability, along with innovative equipment and process solutions to support that vision,” comments Emilio Corti, regional market director Americas for Bobst. “We successfully meet the challenges brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic by keeping the industry abreast of all our innovations via webinars and online live demonstrations from our Competence Centers, but face-to-face interaction is something else entirely.”

Over the past year, Bobst has continued to build on its advances in every key production step of flexible packaging and label manufacturing, from vacuum metalizing and coating – including processes for new alternative, eco-friendly substrates – to printing, lamination, finishing and converting.

For the flexo market, Bobst launched the Master CI press for flexible packaging and the Master DM5 All-in-One, All-Inline label press. Both presses, along with innovations such as Bobst’s Extended Color Gamut (ECG) printing, Ink-on-Demand (IoD) and DigiColor, are moving automation and digitalization to a new level.

Bobst customers can experience the entire production process end-to-end of both CI and inline flexo printing solutions at the Competence Center of Bobst Bielefeld, in Germany, and Bobst Firenze, in Italy, starting from the design file and plate production in the fully equipped press rooms through to the printed reel and twin file comparison with the master file.