In 1938,[8] J. Bobst & Fils SA moved to a new industrial production site in Prilly, a suburb of Lausanne.

The name of the company was changed to Bobst SA in 1978 and in the same year it was introduced to the Lausanne Stock Exchange.

This 100 employee company is responsible for the design, integration and production of inkjet printing engines or clusters, chemicals, pre-coating, varnish, inks and software.

[15] In 1985 Bobst SA made two foreign acquisitions - Martin, a company with premises in Villeurbanne and Bron, both near Lyon, France, and Peters Maschinenfabrik GmbH of Hamburg, Germany.

In 1987 Bobst Group Italia took a stake in Schiavi SpA,[16] a company with production facilities in Piacenza and Modena, Italy, first established in 1927.

[22][23] In the same year Bobst acquired Fairfield Enterprises PLC of Redditch (UK, established 1884 as Oscar Friedheim),[24] a leading supplier of finishing, converting and packaging machinery, paying 200p per share.

The remaining parts of Fairfield, Friedheim International[26] and Lasercomb Group,[27] were sold to their management in 2005 and 2006 respectively.

[30] In 2002 a factory was built in Pune (India) and a representative office opened in Kyiv, Ukraine.

A series of acquisitions were made in 2004[32] which included the Atlas, General, Midi, Rotomec and Titan brands as well as a majority shareholding in Steuer GmbH Printing Technology of Leinfelden, Germany.

[36] In the same year a project was started to consolidate all the operations of Bobst SA on the Mex, Switzerland site and to sell the company’s land and buildings at Prilly.

Bobst Group company Atlas Converting Equipment Ltd of Bedford, UK, was sold to its management.

In 2015 Bobst acquired Nuova Gidue Srl,[41] a manufacturer of inline flexo presses and multi-process printing and converting lines for the labels and flexible packaging industries, based near Florence, Italy.