Heidelberg, Germany — July 25, 2025 — Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (HEIDELBERG) has announced a major strategic acquisition that underscores its ambitions to become the leading systems integrator in the global packaging and label industry. The company has secured exclusive rights to the technology, intellectual property, and brand of long-standing postpress partner Polar Mohr, marking a pivotal step in HEIDELBERG’s packaging-centric growth strategy.
The deal, finalized with the Polar Group — owned by Austrian investment firm SOL Capital Management — grants HEIDELBERG global exclusivity in the sales, service, and marketing of Polar Mohr’s postpress solutions. These include a wide range of automation-ready systems essential to modern packaging production workflows, from cutting and jogging to die-cutting and banding.
This acquisition not only reinforces HEIDELBERG’s full-service positioning in the packaging segment but also opens expanded access to high-growth markets across Asia, South America, and the Middle East.
“HEIDELBERG is aiming to achieve targeted growth through M&A activities in attractive market segments,” said HEIDELBERG CEO Jürgen Otto. “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.”
While the acquisition consolidates HEIDELBERG’s control of sales and service activities, the Polar Group will remain a crucial development and manufacturing partner. Production and assembly of Polar Mohr systems will continue under SOL Capital’s ownership, ensuring continuity for existing customers and enabling Polar to focus on its core competencies in engineering and innovation.
“We are delighted to be taking this next important step together with HEIDELBERG,” said Dr. Paul Niederkofler, Managing Partner at SOL Capital Management. “This transaction will strengthen HEIDELBERG’s position in the postpress, label, and packaging market, while allowing Polar Mohr to concentrate on what it does best—developing and manufacturing state-of-the-art systems.”
The partnership between HEIDELBERG and Polar Mohr dates back to the 1950s and has been instrumental in delivering high-efficiency postpress systems to printers worldwide. With this deal, HEIDELBERG will now offer Polar Mohr’s products as an integral part of its solutions portfolio, focusing on automation, digitalization, and workflow integration to maximize productivity in packaging and label operations.
The financial terms of the agreement remain confidential.