Komori has taken over the MBO Group – including its subsidiary Herzog+Heymann (H+H). MBO Group offers solutions for inserts and ousterts for the pharma industry. India operations of the new company will start from 1 August 2020. Earlier, Heidelberg had inked a deal to acquire the company in October 2018, but the German Federal Cartel Office blocked the transaction on the grounds it would have given Heidelberg a dominant market position.
H+H has over 50% market share in this business vertical in India. With the new acquisition, Komori plans to strengthen its standing by providing total packaging pharma solutions to its customers. These solutions also come with on-the-shop-floor sorting, filling and end user packaging solutions.
MBO focuses on conventional folding as well as web finishing solutions, offering a wide range of folding machines, web finishing aggregates, deliveries and peripherals. Besides extraordinarily reliable solutions for price sensitive customers, MBO also offers products like the robotic stacking solution CoBo-Stack as well as the planning and analysis software Data manager 4.0 to ensure groundbreaking performance for customers all over the world.
H+H is as well a world-wide leading specialist for individual and profitable special solutions, mailing and gluing systems, solutions for the fulfilling market, small-sized folding machines and large-size folding machines for maps and posters. Compact know-how, from consultation, planning and construction to delivery and installation. H+H develops technical solutions for economical and cost-effective production, from the creative ideas of its customers.
How will it benefit Komori?
This will increase Komori’s reach and total solution and accountability to the customer for providing key product deliverable. Through the acquisition of the equity stake in the MBO Group, Komori expects to be able to provide market-unique products that will support its PESP business. Specifically, the inclusion of the aforementioned operations into Komori’s business portfolio will help it introduce post-press solutions for commercial printing, a new field for the company.
When coupled with IoT-based cloud solutions, KP-Connect, Komori is promoting on a global basis – the MBO Group’s products will also help provide customers with even more robust, seamless printing production systems that include post-press processing. Komori is also looking to develop new solutions through the combination of the MBO Group’s technologies and Komori’s DPS, offset printing presses and other key products. In sum, Komori believes that both companies are well-positioned to supplement each other.
