Award hand-over: Davide Garavaglia, Head of Product Lines Gravure, Vacuum Coating & Laminating at BOBST, Simon Sonn, President of GRA
BOBST is pleased to announce that its smartGRAVURE technology has won the Gold Award in the Innovation category at the International Gravure Awards 2025.
The announcement was made during the International Gravure Days event in Istanbul on 22 October, recognizing BOBST’s leadership in redefining gravure printing for the modern, connected packaging industry.
smartGRAVURE brings intelligence and automation to the gravure printing process, integrating advanced data control, closed-loop color management, and predictive maintenance tools to ensure exceptional quality and consistency, reduced waste, and greater production uptime.
This modular technology is designed to overcome the typically lengthy set-up times, tuning, and high operator skills required with gravure printing, making gravure a viable option for shorter job lengths.
Davide Garavaglia, Head of Product Lines Gravure, Vacuum Coating & Laminating at BOBST, said: “Receiving this award is a tremendous honor for BOBST and a real reflection of the innovation mindset that drives our work. smartGRAVURE is a revolution for gravure printing, putting the future of this technology firmly in the operator’s hands. It’s a solution designed to deliver consistent excellence and prepare gravure printing for tomorrow’s connected, data-driven production environment. We’re deeply grateful to the International Gravure Awards Jury for recognizing the power and potential of this technology, and to all our team who developed it.”
To find out more about BOBST’s smartGRAVURE technology, click here.