Schober USA

What Schober USA does

Schober USA, Inc. is the North American representative of Germany's Schober GmbH Holding, operating as a sales, service, and after-sales support office for high-performance rotary converting equipment. Founded in 1995 in Cincinnati, Ohio and currently headquartered in Fairfield, Ohio, the company markets custom-built rotary machinery, tools, modules, and specialty machines for cutting, perforating, punching, creasing, embossing, and cut-and-place operations on film, foil, cardboard, nonwovens, and paper substrates. Its flagship products include the RSM410 IML/MX-DIGI-VARICUT for inmold labels, the RSM520HD-DIGI-VARICUT for digitally printed films and folding cartons, XXL magnetic cylinders, and the Spider V-Stack high-speed stacking system.

The company serves six primary vertical segments: packaging, labels and tags (inmould labels, tea labels, tickets, RFID), forms and security documents, medical and pharmaceutical products, technical and electronic products (including fuel cells, battery electrodes, and PCBs), and hygiene and nonwovens products. The underlying technology is mechanical and process-engineering focused, built around proprietary magnetic cylinder, digital drive synchronization, and cut-and-place modules developed over the Schober Group's 75-year history (since 1949), with a documented installed base of 3,000+ rotary machines sold worldwide and ~20,000 NG tool pairs still in active service.

Schober USA generates revenue through a combination of one-time capital equipment sales (custom-built machines, tools, and modules), recurring hardware sales (spare parts, regrinding services), and recurring service streams (maintenance and repair, optimization and training, software updates, and test laboratory services). The go-to-market motion is direct enterprise field sales supported by industry exhibitions, a virtual 3D experience platform (TECHNOVATION WORLD), and corporate social media; pricing is quote-based with multi-year contract structures typical of B2B industrial capital equipment. The company is privately held as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Schober GmbH Holding, with Joe Lauver serving as President of the US entity.

Name

Schober USA

Legal name

Schober USA, Inc.

Website

https://schoberusa.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1995

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Schober USA is the North American sales and service arm of Germany's Schober Group, selling custom-built rotary cutting, perforating, punching, creasing, and cut-and-place equipment to packaging, label, medical, electronics, and hygiene converters. Founded 1995; based in Fairfield, Ohio.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Converting Equipment

NAICS

Other General Purpose Machinery Manufacturing (3339), Pulp, Paper, and Paperboard Mills (3221)

SIC

Paper Mills (2621), Paperboard Containers & Boxes (2650), Converted Paper & Paperboard Prods (No Contaners/Boxes) (2670)

akta.pro primary industry

Paper & Paperboard Packaging Converting & Finishing (Die-Cutting, Gluing, Windowing, Coating) (IMALACAL)

akta.pro secondary industry

Paperboard Sheet & Roll Converting (Slitting/Sheeting/Rewinding) (IMAMAFAM)

Keywords

• Rotary cutting equipment
• Rotary punching tools
• Converting machinery
• Web finishing systems
• Rotary creasing embossing

Headquarters

HQ city

Fairfield

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Rotary Equipment Sales: Sale of custom-built, high performance rotary equipment including tools, modules and specialty machines for film, foil, packaging, non-woven and paper converting industries in North America
2. Spare Parts and Regrinding Service: Supply of high-quality spare parts including punches, die bushes, cutting & perforating lines and circular knives, along with professional regrinding and sharpening services for rotary cutting tools
3. Maintenance and Repair Services: On-site service, installation, machine relocation, preventive maintenance, and remote maintenance support for Schober equipment
4. Optimization and Training Services: Tailor-made programs for optimizing tools and machines, along with employee training courses for modules, tools and machines
5. Software Updates and Maintenance: Software update services to ensure functioning system compatibility, delivered via remote maintenance module or on-site by software specialists

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Schober USA designs, manufactures, and services custom-built high-performance rotary equipment for the film, foil, cardboard, nonwovens, and paper converting industries. The portfolio includes the RSM IML series of rotary cutting machines, magnetic cylinders, and specialty machines for cutting, perforating, punching, creasing, embossing, and cut & place applications. Supporting services include spare parts, regrinding, maintenance, optimization, software updates, and a test laboratory.

Product overview

Schober USA, founded in 1995 as the North American representative of Schober GmbH Holding, specializes in custom-built, high-performance rotary equipment for film, foil, cardboard, non-woven and paper converting industries. The product portfolio centers on rotary tooling technology including the RSM410 IML/MX-DIGI-VARICUT for inmold labels and RSM520HD-DIGI-VARICUT for digitally printed materials and folding cartons, complemented by magnetic cylinders (including XXL variants), cutting/perforating, punching, creasing/embossing, and Cut & Place technologies. The company offers flexible product delivery systems with transfer, stacking, folding, and winding capabilities. Supporting services include spare parts and regrinding, software updates, optimization consulting, maintenance and repair (including remote maintenance), and a test laboratory for process validation. The offering is delivered as a unified portfolio of machines, tools, modules and services rather than a single platform-plus-modules architecture.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• RSM410 IML/MX-DIGI-VARICUT
• RSM520HD-DIGI-VARICUT
• XXL Magnetic Cylinder
• Spare Parts and Regrinding Service
• Maintenance and Repair Services
• Optimization Services
• Software Updates and Maintenance
• Test Laboratory Services

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 3,000 rotary creasing and cutting machines sold worldwide
• +4 more outcomes

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles6 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Schobertechnologies GmbHcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 1995Schober USA, Inc. (founded 1995) is the North American representative of Schober GmbH Holding, which includes Schobertechnologies GmbH as the operating company since 2011. The relationship involves sales representation, after-sales service, and technology transfer for the North American market.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves9 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Mark Andy: US manufacturer of narrow-web label and converting presses with rotary die-cutting, finishing and inline converting modules. Closely comparable to Schober's narrow-web, label-focused equipment, serving the same label converter customer base.
• Gallus Group: Swiss-headquartered (now part of Heidelberg) label and narrow-web press OEM with strong rotary converting and finishing capabilities. Directly comparable to Schober in label and packaging converting, including IML and digital-print finishing workflows.
• Paper Converting Machine Company (PCMC): US-based OEM of converting machinery for hygiene, tissue, packaging and nonwovens. Comparable to Schober in the hygiene/nonwovens segment, providing cutting, punching and finishing modules for absorbent-product lines.
• Atlas Converting Equipment: UK-based manufacturer of slitting, rewinding and web-handling converting machinery. Adjacent/comparable to Schober's rotary cutting, perforating and finishing solutions for film, foil and paper converters.
• Rotometrics (Heidelberg): Global manufacturer of rotary dies, tooling and converting consumables. Direct overlap with Schober's NG tool, magnetic cylinder, and rotary die-cutting business serving label, packaging and folding-carton converters.
• Winkler & Dünnebier (W&D): German specialist in die-cutting, creasing, embossing and folding-carton/converting machinery. Direct peer to Schober in the rotary and flat converting machinery space, particularly for packaging and security-document applications.

Broad incumbents

• Bobst: Swiss-based global leader in packaging and converting equipment, including rotary die-cutting, folding-carton and label machinery. Directly comparable to Schober's converting/finishing focus, but with a far broader full-line portfolio across printing, dies and workflow.
• Koenig & Bauer: German printing press and security/document specialist whose operations include rotary finishing, die-cutting and security-print equipment. Overlaps with Schober's forms, ticket, security-document and rotary finishing businesses but at a much larger portfolio scale.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/Schobertechnologies/?locale=de_DE
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/schober-usa
• Instagraminstagram.com/schobertechnologies

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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