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Tooling Solutions

From High-Performance Tooling and certified expertise to digital innovation, we can help you reduce make-ready time, increase productivity, and deliver consistent quality.

Explore advanced tooling

Tooling That Maximizes Machine Performance

Tooling directly impacts speed, uptime, and quality. Even the most advanced equipment cannot perform at their best with standard tooling.

With more than 130 years of expertise, BOBST delivers a complete converting ecosystem for cutting, stripping, and blanking, helping your machine run faster, reduce waste, and achieve predictable, repeatable results.

 

Designed for High-Performance Operations

BOBST tooling solutions support:

Converters

Targeting higher output and shorter setup times.

Die-makers

Delivering standardized, premium tooling.

Production teams

Reducing waste, downtime, and quality claims.

Operations

Investing in advanced die-cutting and blanking equipment.

A Complete Tooling Ecosystem

Machine performance doesn’t come from tooling alone. It comes from the combination of engineered tooling, certified manufacturing, premium components, and digital intelligence.

BOBST brings these elements together into one connected tooling system.

The performance foundation

High Performance Tooling (HPT)

Developed using decades of application know-how and insights from thousands of installed machines, High-Performance Tooling enables equipment to run at optimal speeds while ensuring precision and durability. 

 

Key benefits:

 

  • Faster setup and reduced changeover times

  • Greater process stability and consistent quality

  • Reduced waste

  • Increased tool life 

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At a small additional cost, High-Performance Tooling delivered major gains. Make-ready times dropped by 30–40%, while run times increased by 30–40%.

Keith Sims, CAD & Tooling Engineer

JR Cole, North Carolina, USA

The Core foundation

Core-Performance Tooling

Designed to boost productivity by handling simple applications and shorter production runs with ease. It enables you to process a wide range of jobs while maintaining BOBST’s standards for optimal machine performance, ensuring reliable cutting, stripping, and blanking whenever needed.

 

Flexible by design, Core-Performance Tooling can also be customized to your exact production requirements, giving you both reliability and adaptability in one efficient solution.

How performance is ensured worldwide

Certified Die-Maker Program

Tooling performance depends on how it’s manufactured. Through the BOBST Certified Die-Maker Program, selected partners are trained and certified to produce High-Performance Tooling using standardized processes, premium components, and BOBST application know-how.

 

The program includes:

 

  • On-site assessments and in-depth training

  • Access to BOBST tooling guidelines

  • Machine and application process expertise

  • Delivery of ready-to-run tooling sets

 

Certified die-makers are audited annually to ensure consistent quality across continents.

Locate a Certified Die-Maker

Enhancing stability and cut quality

CITO Components

Through its partnership with CITO, BOBST integrates industry-leading components into its tooling solutions for flat-bed and rotary die-cutting. 
 

Advantages include:

 

  • Greater process stability

  • Higher finished-product quality

  • Reduced downtime and long-term cost efficiency

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Enhancing stability and cut quality

CITO Components

Through its partnership with CITO, BOBST integrates industry-leading components into its tooling solutions for flat-bed and rotary die-cutting. 
 

Advantages include:

 

  • Greater process stability

  • Higher finished-product quality

  • Reduced downtime and long-term cost efficiency

Making tooling intelligent

TooLink & Digital Tooling

With TooLink, each die is equipped with a secure data chip that gives it a unique digital identity. Machines automatically recognize tool sets, apply the correct settings, and gather production data.

 

Digital Tooling enables:

  • Automated recipe management

  • Faster job preparation and setup

  • Reduced operator dependency

  • Lower waste and improved sustainability

 

All tooling data is connected to BOBST Connect, including:

  • Recipe Manager – remote job preparation

  • Mobile access for operators

Related Products and Services

Waste evacuation solutions

Automate waste removal to keep your die-cutting and hot foil stamping production running smoothly and safely.

Keep production moving

Zero Patching

Reduce downtime, improve cutting accuracy, and simplify your operations by replacing the traditional protection plate with a custom-designed version that cuts patching time.

Discover Zero Patching

BOBST pallets

Save time, reduce costs, and gain long-lasting performance with our range of pallet solutions. 

Discover the offerings

Optimize Your Tooling

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Our tooling specialists are ready to support you—from High-Performance Tooling to certified partners and digital solutions.

OEM Tooling, Engineered for Results

BOBST Tooling is designed as an integral part of the machine—not an add-on.

 

You benefit from:

  • OEM-engineered tooling aligned with machine design.

  • Certified Die-Makers delivering global consistency.

  • Premium CITO components.

  • Digital connectivity for control and traceability.

  • Proven productivity gains and fast ROI.

 

Tooling becomes a competitive advantage.