The History of the BST Group: A Success Story

The BST Group today is a strong group of companies whose subsidiaries are appreciated by customers worldwide, both for its high-quality products and first-class service. This is preceded by a long success story that has made BST a leading brand for quality assurance systems in the web-processing industries. In the following, we will present some of the stops along the way. We also pledge that, even in the future, we will keep you on the path to success with knowledge “made in Germany” and industry-leading technology.

BST Group: Milestones

2016	Integration of pre- and post-press via the creation of workflow interfaces
2015	Founding of the company BST North America as an umbrella company for the brands AccuWeb, BST eltromat, and BST ProControl in the USA
2014	BST International GmbH and eltromat GmbH become BST eltromat International
2012	BST ProMark acquires AccuWeb, Inc. Merger of betacontrol and Protagon into today’s BST ProControl Market introduction of an inline color measurement system with absolute spectral color measurement
2011	Acquisition of betacontrol GmbH and P2T Protagon Process Technologies GmbH
2010	The first integrated 100% quality management solutions in modular construction
2001–2011	Further expansion of the BST branch network in Brazil, China, and Turkey
1996	Entry into the tire market
1984–1995	Expansion of the product portfolio for web monitoring, automation, and register control, including the first camera-based color web monitoring (1986), the first 100% inspection system for security printing (1990), and the first waveless drive solution for a liquid packaging printing press (1995).
1980	Acquisition of BST Parts by EMG Founding of BST subsidiaries in France, Japan, Italy, India, and the USA
1979	Founding of BST Servo-Technik as a business for web guiding
1960	Founding of the company eltromat GmbH; the first register control for gravure printing presses for packaging worldwide