Ninety years of Durst – from precision to industrial intelligence

Print Solutions

Sometimes a great story begins quietly. In 1936, two brothers laid the foundation in a small workshop in Brixen, South Tyrol, for what is today the Durst Group. It was not an industrial corporation or a global brand – it was an idea: the ambition to do things better. More precise. More consistent. More forward looking.

Ninety years later, that photo workshop has evolved into a globally leading manufacturer of industrial digital printing and additive manufacturing systems.

Durst stands for technological excellence and quality – defined by deep in-house development expertise, precision and an uncompromising commitment to performance – as well as entrepreneurial independence and long term thinking. Machines became systems. Products became integrated production intelligence. Hardware evolved into a holistic understanding of digital value creation. Standing still has never been part of the story.

Innovation is neither a trend nor a project. It is part of the company’s DNA. Each generation has reimagined and advanced the business – from analogue photography to industrial digitalsation and fully networked production environments. Today, Durst once again stands at a pivotal moment. The next evolutionary step is called Kyveris – The AI powered intelligence for digital production.

Kyveris transforms digital printing and additive manufacturing by unifying files, machines, software, data, and AI into a single, autonomous production system that continuously learns, optimises performance, reduces waste, and drives efficiency at scale.

Kyveris is built on nine decades of engineering. Thousands of production systems installed worldwide have taught the company: how ink meets substrate, how jobs behave across shifts, how quality drifts and how to prevent it. This knowledge – captured, structured, and continuously expanding – is what drives Kyveris learning.

Without revealing full details at this stage, Kyveris marks the transition from precision hardware to production intelligence. Machines, software, data and processes converge into an intelligent, continuously learning production system. The goal is a production environment that is not only automated, but transparent, reproducible and increasingly autonomous – moving toward its vision of the ‘lights-out factory‘.

Kyveris is not an isolated innovation initiative nor a distant future scenario. It is the logical consequence of decades of in-house development in digital printing and additive manufacturing, evolving market demands, advances in data architecture and artificial intelligence, and the strategic acquisitions Durst has consistently pursued in recent years. A decisive step in the company’s industrial evolution.

Durst will present its first showcase at FESPA 2026 and at the Durst Next Technology Festival.

Christoph Gamper, CEO and co-owner, explained: ‘Durst has never been a manager of the status quo. We have always been a creator of the next standard. After 90 years of precision engineering, we are taking the next logical step: production intelligence for digital printing and additive manufacturing. We no longer think of production as a machine or a workflow, but as an intelligent, continuously learning system. With Kyveris, we are defining the next evolutionary stage of digital production technology.’