en.Wedoany.com Reported - KNAPP achieved revenue of €2.135 billion in the 2025-26 fiscal year, a year-on-year increase of 7.6%, with orders reaching €2.51 billion. Europe and North America, as its core markets, provided a stable foundation for international growth.
The company maintained a strong market position in key sectors such as healthcare, retail, fashion, food, wholesale, and industry. Slowing trends in some markets were strategically balanced by dynamism in others, thereby promoting sustainable growth.
Business diversification also drove continued investment in the development of the company's technology and software portfolio. In this fiscal year, the company invested €106 million in research, development, and digitalization, accounting for approximately 5% of sales, to address the growing demand for efficiency, flexibility, and scalability.
The latest innovations include the evolution of the robot-based storage system AeroBot, which has been implemented in initial customer projects, including at Nord Electronic Drivesystems and Siemens. This system integrates storage and order picking functions, is suitable for small to medium-sized applications, and is known for its high adaptability and scalability. At the same time, the company is developing solutions aimed at achieving high performance, such as the largest shuttle storage system project currently being planned in South Korea.
KNAPP CEO Gerald Hofer stated that the company's strength lies precisely in the diversity of its applications, which allows it to respond flexibly to different needs and maintain a consistently stable growth trajectory. The company offers a wide range of services, from compact standardized solutions to large-scale, highly automated facilities, with a portfolio covering technologies from pallet handling to single-item picking, suitable for various application areas.
In terms of data application, the company continues to advance the integration of artificial intelligence and consolidates related applications on the latest platform, KNAPP Brain, aiming to achieve data-driven decisions across the entire value chain, from planning and machine control to the last mile. KNAPP COO Franz Mathi noted that for the company, AI is not an isolated function but part of an overall system; added value arises where processes are conceived holistically and based on a solid data foundation. Proper use of AI helps make systems more stable, efficient, and adaptable. Technology, data, and processes are specifically interconnected to continuously develop solutions and make them fit for the future, with software playing a central role.
As demand for logistics solutions grows, collaboration with customers is also strengthening. Hofer stated that the company deeply engages with customers' business models, not by building an isolated system, but by understanding what truly matters in each market environment over the long term. Aspects such as data quality are becoming increasingly important, enabling solutions to be specifically tailored to the needs of customers and their end-users, and to manage complexity. The company accompanies projects from initial concept through implementation and ongoing operation, developing systems together with customers. The expansion of global customer service ensures that facilities receive long-term support. The partnerships thus established are focused on long-term stability and continuous development.
In terms of employment, the company has approximately 9,000 employees worldwide, of whom 4,600 are in Austria. Rooted in Styria, KNAPP is a significant employer in the region. The company places particular emphasis on the training and promotion of young talent, having long regarded apprenticeship training as a cornerstone of long-term development. Recently, an apprentice qualified for the WorldSkills 2026 competition in Shanghai, highlighting the high level of training outcomes.
KNAPP CFO Christian Grabner stated that the apprentices are at the world's top level, demonstrating exceptional skills through participation in competitions such as the Austrian Skills or WorldSkills; through international exchanges, they gain valuable knowledge about new technologies, working methods, and cultures, which helps mutual learning, enhances innovation capabilities, and allows the company to grow together.
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