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  29/06/2018 | Packaging

Bosch plans to sell its packaging business

After intensively and thoroughly considering all its strategic options, Bosch has decided to look for a buyer for its packaging machinery business (PA), more specifically the pharmaceuticals and food units of the Packaging Technology division. PA currently employs some 6,100 associates in 15 countries. Its aim is for all its associates and locations to be retained by the eventual buyer.

With the Bosch Group needing to focus on the transformation ahead, it has not identified any sufficiently relevant synergy effects in terms of business or technology that might offer the division prospects for the future within Bosch. Therefore, Packaging technology is not part of the group’s core business. PA is involved in project business relating to specialized areas of the packaging industry. The company also operates in a competitive environment in which the players are small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and who are therefore at a structural advantage. Bosch is certain that its packaging technology operations need to be put on a different footing that will allow them to react more flexibly to the specific requirements of the packaging machinery market.

“Both PA and Bosch will benefit from this decision,” says Dr Stefan Hartung, the Bosch board of management member responsible for the Energy and Building Technology and Industrial Technology business sectors. “A reorganized packaging technology business will be able to adapt more flexibly to the diverse requirements of this typically SME market, while Bosch will be free to focus its attention entirely on the group’s impending profound transformation”. “My colleagues in PA executive management and I are confident of future business success,” says Dr Stefan König, chairman of the managing board of Robert Bosch Packaging Technology GmbH.

“We’re one of the biggest companies in our industry, and the path we have chosen is clearly the right one. We will stay together as a strong and stable unit. Under new ownership as well, our tried and tested team will continue to provide our customers with excellent manufacturing solutions and services. PA has always led a largely independent existence within the Bosch Group and will in the future be able to respond even better to the requirements of the packaging industry. Our customers will benefit from this.”

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