BOBST Business Unit Web Fed Equipment includes vacuum web coating and metallizing solutions, as well as world leading technologies in gravure printing, flexo printing, and coating and laminating processes.
BOBST offers expert technical support, service and training, online parts ordering via BOBST InTouch, plus equipment financing.
Vacuum Metallizers for Packaging Application
BOBST General K5000 – The K5000 is the highest productivity metallizer available from BOBST. Its coating quality, in combination with its lowest level of consumption of power and raw materials make it the choice of film producers around the world.
BOBST General K4000 – The K4000 metallizer is a machine which is highly versatile, and can produce barrier and decorative coatings for the converting market, in addition to being able to selectively metallize in-line and in-register using the SelectMet™ process. The K4000 is the choice of converters worldwide.
BOBST General Hawkeye – BOBST General Hawkeye is a monitoring system that at full metallizer speed, detects, counts and categorizes pinholes and other defects from 0.1 mm upwards.
AlOx Process – The already well-established BOBST AlOx process provides a vacuum coated clear barrier film which is a potential replacement for existing metallized structures and other types of polymer clear coatings..
SelectMet™Process – The BOBST SelectMet™ process combines flexo print technology with the BOBST vacuum metallizing process to produce pattern printed material which can be used for decorative packaging and security applications.
Sputtering Machines/Special Coaters
BOBST General Opticoat - The OPTICOAT is a wide width sputter coating machine for production scale output of a variety of applications including photovoltaic, display and touch screen products.
BOBST General Optilab - The OPTILAB is a laboratory scale machine for the development of high value, high functionality coatings for a wide range of industrial applications.
Product Categories
Coatings/treatments for specific applications/properties
- Web coating
Coatings/treatments for specific markets
- Display technology
Process Monitoring and Control
- Deposition rate monitors/controllers
Substrate Materials
- Metal
- Polymer, metal & paper web
Vacuum Components
- Chambers
Vaporization Sources
- Chemical vapor precursor
- Sputtering
- Thermal evaporation, resistive