Board Converting News, February 3, 2025

Koenig & Bauer Announces Partnership With Rigorous

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Dallas, Texas based Koenig & Bauer (US) announced a new partnership with Rigorous Technology of Williston, Vermont, to provide its unique palletizer robot for the cor- rugated and folding carton markets to use in conjunction with Koenig & Bauer’s line of folder gluers. “We’re excited to work with Koenig & Bauer in 2025 to bring the BOB palletizer to the corrugated and folding carton markets,” says Diane Abruzzini Riggs, COO and co-founder of Rigorous Technology. “We are committed to our partnership with Koenig & Bauer to help its corrugat- ed and folding carton customers become more efficient and stay competitive with advanced, user-friendly robotic solutions that take the guesswork out of automation. BOB will give these manufacturers a fast ROI, automate their palletizing process, reduce labor issues, and improve turn- around to market with greater speed and accuracy.” The BOB robotic palletizer works with all types of box- es, pallets, layer patterns, and stack patterns with or with- out an auto packer. “By offering this amazing new palletizer robot along with our popular folder gluers, we are confident that cus- tomers will see an immediate increase in efficiency, pro- ductivity, and ROI,” says Tom Fitzgerald, Director of Post Press and Corrugated Products at Koenig & Bauer (US).

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