KOLBUS GmbH & Co. KG, headquartered in Rahden, Westphalia, in northern Germany, is proud of a long tradition of engineering excellence. The company, with around 650 employees, 80 apprenticeships in the KOLBUS Ausbildung GmbH. Founded in 1775, KOLBUS has been supplying paper processing machinery since 1900. The company built a world reputation for its highly automated bindery machines.
Today, the KOLBUS Special Machinery business unit engineers machinery and systems for the production of book cases and packaging made from paper and cardboard, and corrugated board.
Apart from the main plant in Rahden, KOLBUS also operates production plants in Krostitz near Leipzig/Germany, in Kalamazoo/Michigan and Houghton Regis, England.