Heidelberg has finalized an agreement with the POLAR Group to acquire the technology, intellectual property (IP), and brand rights associated with the POLAR Mohr brand, along with additional assets. This transaction is anticipated to be completed within the coming weeks.

Upon completion, Heidelberg will gain exclusive global sales, service, and marketing rights for POLAR Mohr’s post-press products.

This acquisition is set to strengthen Heidelberg’s position as a systems integrator in the packaging market, particularly in growth regions such as Asia, South America, and the Middle East.

Dating back to the 1950s, the partnership between Heidelberg and Polar Mohr has proved extremely successful for both businesses. Polar Mohr develops and manufactures the systems, while Heidelberg has been responsible for large parts of the sales and service activities. On completion of the transaction, this responsibility will become global and exclusive. Heidelberg offers postpress systems from POLAR Mohr as an integral part of its solutions portfolio. The focus is on automation, digitalization, and workflow integration, with a view to boosting the productivity of customers’ value chains in packaging and label production. The product range includes components and systems that link up and automate all processes – from loading, jogging, cutting, and die cutting through to unloading and banding.

Heidelberg plans to incorporate POLAR Mohr’s postpress systems into its solutions portfolio, focusing on automation, digitalization, and workflow integration to enhance productivity in packaging and label production.

The POLAR Group’s companies, under the ownership of SOL Capital Management, will continue to collaborate with Heidelberg for the future development, production, and assembly of POLAR Mohr systems.

Heidelberg CEO Jürgen Otto says, “Heidelberg is aiming to achieve targeted growth through M&A [merger and acquisition] activities in attractive market segments. This acquisition underscores our credentials as a full-range supplier for our customers in the packaging and label industry, including service, and gives us exclusivity in a growing market.”

“As a systems integrator, we cover the entire value chain of a packaging print shop – on a fully integrated and networked basis – to ensure production is highly productive. POLAR Mohr systems play a key role in this context.”