On 6 July 2017, BOBST, a supplier of quality equipment and services for packaging and label manufacturers, and Radex, a start-up company in the field of digital DOD inkjet printing, announced the founding of Mouvent. The new company will be developed into a digital printing competence centre and solution provider for BOBST.
Mouvent employs 80 people in Switzerland. At the centre of digital innovation at Mouvent is a technically leading digital printing technology developed by Radex, which is based on a highly integrated cluster and represents a quantum leap in the industry. Thanks to its intelligent and compact design, this technology will be at the heart of the ground-breaking new presses that Mouvent is developing for a wide range of applications, including textiles, labels, corrugated board, flexible packaging and folding cartons.
„Our radical new concept is to take a basic cluster that is arranged in a modular and scalable matrix. This means we no longer have to work with different print bars for different applications and print widths,“ explains Piero Pierantozzi, co-founder of Mouvent. „The MouventTM Cluster is the key technology behind our machines. It enables a high optical resolution that produces razor-sharp and colourful images in a very high print quality. At the same time, the cluster ensures unprecedented Flexibility and unprecedented Opportunities in machine development. Simplicity is our company philosophy.“
„We are convinced that, regardless of the industry and the market, this is a Turning point in the future of digital printing is“, says Jean-Pascal Bobst, CEO of BOBST Group SA. „Current industry trends, such as the strong demand for digitalisation, short runs, short delivery times, advertising and versioning, personalised and seasonal products, as well as growing cost and environmental awareness, are increasing the need for high-quality and affordable digital printing presses. With Mouvent, we want to trigger a quantum leap in this area and ultimately provide the market with what it needs most, namely highly reliable and industrial-grade printing presses that process various substrates at competitive prices.“
