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Great success for KEBA: We were honoured with the ‘Fit for Future’ State Prize 2024 in the special category ‘Apprentice Reels: Education up close’! The prize, awarded by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Economic Affairs (BMAW) and the Austrian Institute for Business Education Research (ibw), underlines our commitment to innovative and practical apprenticeship training.

We are very pleased that our AI-based assistance system KeBob has won 2nd place the Upper Austrian Innovation Award in the category for major companies and has also been nominated for the State Prize for Innovation 2025!

KEBA, one of the leading European providers of charging solutions, has announced the acquisition of EnerCharge. With this strategic acquisition, KEBA is expanding its portfolio with DC charging solutions for the (semi-)public sector, thereby strengthening its position in the market as a full-range provider.

In the past financial year, the strategic fundament of the KEBA Group, namely the diversification of the business into different markets and industries, once again proved to be a solid and stable basis for the international company.

KEBA had the pleasure of taking part in the Long Night of Research for the first time. We welcomed over 300 visitors - the youngest guest was just 2 years old, the oldest over 80.

The selection and design of HMI solutions is often complex. Our new online configurator for KeTop operating devices now makes this process child's play: it not only offers a comprehensive selection of standard devices, but also enables easy customization for individual needs. Discover how this configurator simplifies the decision-making process and opens up new possibilities for customized HMI solutions.

KEBA, one of Europe's leading manufacturers of wallboxes, is expanding its portfolio and presenting the new KeContact P40 and P40 Pro wallboxes. It is the perfect expansion of the KEBA eMobility portfolio, which has been well-established on the market for years and is centred around the KeContact P30, a go to choice which has sold over 550,000 units. The wallbox is specifically developed for the requirements of home, fleet and semi/public charging.

For 10 years now, KEBA Energy Automation and The Mobility House have been working together on a mission: to bring electromobility a little closer to people.

The Austrian charging pioneers KEBA and Easelink are now pooling their expertise. The two companies share the same mission of enabling electric mobility on a broad scale by employing their technologies to make the charging of electric vehicles convenient, efficient and smart. In the future, KEBA customers will be able to easily extend their wallboxes with the automated conductive Matrix Charging® technology.

Currently, 58 apprentices are being trained in six apprenticeship professions at KEBA Group AG in Austria. Overall, the number of apprentices at the Linz-based automation specialist has doubled compared to three years ago with the new starters in September 2023.

Gerhard Luftensteiner, CEO of the KEBA Group, and Franz Höller, Chief Technology Officer, were awarded the "Wirtschaftsmedaille der WKO Oberösterreich in Silber" (Silver Medal of the Upper Austrian Chamber of Commerce) for their entrepreneurial commitment and many years of service to Upper Austria as a business location.

With the 2023 school holidays, the holiday care programme of the Linz-based automation specialist KEBA started its first round and allows employees more flexibility in the summer.

The first climate-neutral lottery terminal comes from the Austrian manufacturer KEBA. The new KeWin Micro was introduced last year and is now also available in a climate-neutral version on request. Together with the experts for climateneutral production, the current CO2 footprint was calculated and measures for reduction were implemented.

The KEBA Group, headquartered in Linz, increased its sales from 537.7 million € to 553.5 million € in the past business year (April 2022 - March 2023). This corresponds to a sales growth of approximately 16 million € or 3% . Looking at the last five years, the average annual growth is around 17% (CAGR).

Karl Kletzmaier, co-founder and chairman of the supervisory board of KEBA, was awarded the Ring of Honor of the Upper Austrian University of Applied Sciences for his many years of service as chairman of the Research & Development Advisory Board of the Upper Austrian University of Applied Sciences.

KEBA Group AG is setting the personnel course for the future and has appointed Christoph Knogler as a new member of the Executive Board. He will take up his new position on August 1st, 2023 as announced by the Supervisory Board today.

Our wireless HMI solution KeTop Safe Wireless wins the vote for Product of the Year 2023 in the category "Operating and Monitoring".

Do you have a hotel or a company and would like to bill for the energy that your guests, employees or customers charge into their electric cars? In this case we have an easy-to-use and cost-effective solution for you: the KEBA eMobility Solution for Hotels & Companies.

Karl Kletzmaier, founder and majority owner of KEBA, recently received one of the City of Linz's highest honors: the Grand Decoration of Honor in Gold for services to the economy.

On October 14, this year's EY Entrepreneur Of The Year Award was presented in Austria. In the category "Sustainability & Greentech" Gerhard Luftensteiner, CEO of KEBA Group AG was awarded.

At the beginning of 2021 we sold the 250,000th wallbox. Just 20 months later, this number has doubled to half a million. The reason behind this: the specialisation in intelligent charging technology and consistently climate-neutral production at the site in Linz.

We have developed the KEBA eMobility App to make it even easier to operate and monitor your own wallbox. From now on, all our c- and x-series charging stations as well as the company car wallbox can be controlled via smartphone or tablet.

The KEBA eMobility App will be available for download in the App Stores in just a few weeks. We are looking for testers so that it will then work perfectly for all KEBA wallbox users.

During the visit by Automobili Estrema CEO Gianfranco Pizzuto in Linz, it was announced that we at KEBA are Automobili Estrema's selected partner in the area of charging. Proudly the Italian electromobility pioneer and investor, who has been committed to electromobility since 2007 reported on its plans.

The planning of the new KEBA site in Leonding/Pasching (AT) is progressing rapidly. The winning project by the Viennese office Franz&Sue was selected from ten submissions.

The KEBA Group, headquartered in Linz, increased its sales from € 415.4 million to € 537.7 million in the past business year
(April 2021 - March 2022). With a jump in turnover of around 122 million € and a turnover growth of almost 30 % , the KEBA Group repeatedly achieved the highest turnover in its history. Looking at the last five years, the average annual growth is 22.7 % (CAGR).

In 2001, KEBA installed the very first parcel locker. At that time, the journey was to neighboring Germany. In the meantime, thousands of KEBA parcel lockers have left the birthplace/production site in Linz and have also traveled far beyond the national border and Europe. Now, more than 20 years later, KEBA is pleased to announce the realization of a long-planned heartfelt project: a KePol parcel locker from KEBA in the KEBA area. Together with the Austrian Post, an outdoor location was chosen that is publicly accessible for all people at the KEBA Group AG site, in Linz / Upper Austria.

The Upper Austrian automation specialist KEBA continues to grow. In the last year alone, the internationally active company has grown by 225 employees, the majority of them in Austria. KEBA has thus reached the 2.000-employee mark.

Last year’s launch of the KeContact P30 GREEN EDITION, the first carbon-neutral wallbox, marked a big step for us at KEBA Energy Automation toward sustainability – and more milestones are on the horizon.

As the leading manufacturer of intelligent charging stations for hybrid and electric vehicles, KEBA is today opening the eMobility Store at Leonfeldnerstraße 2 in Linz-Urfahr together with LINZ AG.

In December 2021, KEBA acquired the Stuttgart / Germany-based software company drag and bot. The start-up develops an innovative operating system for robots. As a 100% subsidiary, drag and bot GmbH is part of KEBA Industrial Automation GmbH, one of the three business areas of KEBA Group AG. With this new acquisition, KEBA strengthens its position in industrial automation and strategically expands its product portfolio with flexible automation software.

The international Best Managed Companies programme, which is already established in more than 30 countries and awards outstandingly managed companies, was carried out in Austria for the first time this year. KEBA is one of the first Austrian award winners.

In 2021, the International Automobile Exhibition IAA became IAA Mobility. The name says it all: Rather than putting only the car at center stage, the focus was now on mobility today and tomorrow. In addition to cars, especially bicycles and even small airplanes were presented at the Munich Trade Fair Center.

With a turnover of 415.4 M€, which corresponds to an increase of around 11%, the KEBA Group once again achieved the highest revenues in its history. Considered over a period of 10 years, the company thus quadrupled its sales. In a dynamic year characterized by Corona, KEBA benefited from its different pillars, which operate in different industries and markets and are therefore subject to different cycles and triggers. With a new structure, KEBA strengthens its growth course.

The list of nominated companies was long and all of them are top companies in Upper Austrian industry. Therefore, we are particularly pleased that we were awarded the Pegasus in bronze in the category "Lighthouses" this year at the most important business award in Upper Austria.

Commerzbank is investing in its modern branch equipment and will gradually install 800 new ATMs in its nationwide branches until 2024. Again, the devices exclusively come from Austrian automation expert KEBA AG and combine deposit as well as withdrawal of banknotes and coins.

New in May is not only the hot off the press edition of the KEBA banking magazine IM TREND, but also the brand new design, which is characterized by a modern structured layout and better readability. Of course, the exciting insights into new technologies and well-founded field reports from our customers and partners remain unchanged.

With over 250,000 wallboxes sold, KEBA is establishing itself as one of the largest manufacturers of charging solutions for hybrid and electric vehicles. In its Energy Automation division, the Austrian automation expert KEBA AG specialises in charging stations for electric mobility and heating controls for heat pumps and biomass heating systems.

KEBA plans an additional location at the Technologiering in the municipalities of Leonding and Pasching and announced this in a joint press conference with the mayor and mayoress of the respective municipalities.

The bundling of our business into the three business areas Industrial Automation, Handover Automation and Energy Automation is now also shown in the new and compact navigation of our KEBA home page www.keba.com.

The KEBA AG Supervisory Board has appointed Andreas Schoberleitner (43) to the Management Board as of April 1, 2021. As Chief Financial Officer (CFO), he is now the third member of the Management Board of the internationally active technology company, together with Gerhard Luftensteiner (CEO) and Franz Höller (CTO).

Our subsidiary KEMAS – handover automation expert – which has been part of the KEBA Group for five years, is currently celebrating its 30th anniversary.

From now on you will find the entire industrial automation product portfolio united on one website. Click through and see for yourself: Choose your industry – whether mechanical engineering, machine tools, plastics, robotics, wind energy, turbo blower or sheet metal processing – the portfolios of KEBA and the former LTI Motion complement each other perfectly.

The KEBA showroom shines in new splendor and presents itself in a new contemporary look.

Nothing can replace a personal conversation. Despite adverse circumstances in times of Corona - when classic industry contact points such as exhibitions are canceled and traveling is hardly possible - the Linz-based automation expert KEBA shows how to create a format that makes this possible and has added value.

KEBA was awarded with the ALC Special Award 2020 in the category "Special achievements and sustainable innovations in economically challenging times".

The cycloidal gear specialist Nabtesco and the controller expert KEBA are among the technology leaders in their industries. Now the two robotics experts are bundling their expertise, experience and know-how. The goal: Industrial robots with the highest precision available on the market.

In the run up to releasing the first all-electric Honda e, KEBA was named the exclusive supplier for Honda Power Charger wall boxes. The charging station was jointly developed in record time and first presented at the last IAA in Frankfurt.

From now on you will find the entire industrial automation product portfolio united on one website. Click through and see for yourself: Choose your industry – whether mechanical engineering, machine tools, plastics, robotics, wind energy, turbo blower or sheet metal processing – the portfolios of KEBA and the former LTI Motion complement each other perfectly.

Extraordinary times demand innovative ideas: KEBA Industrial Automation set up an in-house exhibition booth at the KEBA headquarters in Linz, Austria, to meet with customers and interested parties at the KEBA Live Dialogue, an exclusive real-time video conference for discussing exhibition topics.

With a sales increase of €70 million and sales growth of 23% in revenue, the KEBA Group has once again achieved the highest revenues in its history and looks back on a successful decade.

One of the largest and longest electric mobility field tests in Austrian history starts tomorrow. For the project "Urcharge" (Urban Charging) 51 households in a Linz residential complex will be exchanging their fuel car for an electric car including their own KEBA charging station, which is integrated into the Linz AG charging solution "WallBOX CitySolution". It will provide answers to fundamental questions about what infrastructure and charging behaviour is needed in order to make the day-to-day use of e-mobility a decisive environmental protection factor in urban areas, even for densely populated areas. The start of the project had been postponed due to Corona - now the project gets underway.

Many committed employees take care of the production of the ordered deliveries, our service technicians ensure functioning systems in the area of critical infrastructure and our more than 500 employees in the home office maintain the dialogue with our customers, partners and suppliers thanks to the latest technology.

In connection with the "Coronavirus Covid-19", we are currently experiencing an extraordinary situation that challenges us all. The measures taken by the governments in Austria and in other countries are becoming more stringent every day. It can be said that at the moment an exceptional situation prevails in Austria.

In the hot off the press edition of the KEBA banking magazine IM TREND, exciting insights into new technologies and well-founded reports on practical experience await you.

Since 2002, the Salzburger Sparkasse and automation specialist KEBA are closely connected: at that time, the first KePlus self-service machines were installed at the financial institution with headquarters in the Mozart city of Salzburg. After almost 20 years, the two traditional Austrian companies can celebrate a special anniversary: the 2000th cash recycler of the evo series automates cash deposits and withdrawals at the Maxglan branch in the city of Salzburg.

There are many access systems, but only few are secure enough that access to a bank branch can be controlled with it. KEBA, the automation specialist based in Linz/Austria, is launching a new generation of an access and foyer management system which not only controls the door but also lights, audio and much more.

The renaming of LTI Motion GmbH to KEBA Industrial Automation Germany GmbH one year after the successful merger highlights the seamless portfolio of the two companies.

Austrian Lotteries are investing 10 million euros and have been relying on Austrian quality with KEBA for over 20 years. By mid 2020, 3,000 of the total of around 5,000 retail outlets are to be equipped with the latest generation of KEBA terminals.

“Back in 2009, electromobility was still just a vision for the future for many people. Nonetheless, KEBA, an Austrian company specialised in automation, decided to invest in this emerging area – with charging stations for electric cars. 10 years on, we are one of the market-leaders worldwide,” explains Gerhard Luftensteiner, CEO of KEBA AG.

One year after the merger of KEBA and LTI Motion, the high level of interest shown by national and international customers at this year's SPS reflects the opportunities and competitive advantages they see in the opportunity to obtain complete solutions from a single source.

Customers who choose intelligent charging stations from KEBA will benefit from our new wall box software 1.9.2, which includes the following highlights: OCPP 1.6, control options via web interface as well as session protocol with data export options. Even after purchase, our customers can download this software update from our website and install it to keep their wall boxes up to date – quickly and easily.

With a sales increase of €50 million and sales growth of 20%, the KEBA Group has again achieved the highest revenues in its history and is consolidating its market position through strategic acquisitions.

KEBA was awarded the coveted Upper Austrian Business Prize “Pegasus” in the “Lighthouses” category (for leading companies) at a gala event in Brucknerhaus last Thursday.

10 years ago KEBA decided to take a bold step and enter a new business sector. Back then electromobility was still just a dream of the future. Today the Austrian automation expert has sold more than 150,000 wall boxes around the world. As a result, KEBA is now one of the top 3 global market leaders in the manufacture of smart charging stations.

The series of awards for KEBA's automatic angle measurement device just won’t stop. After the device had already received an innovation award and been crowned with the "Red Dot" and the iF design award, two of the most coveted design awards for functional product design, it has now also been awarded the German Design Award, another premium international award.

Adorable drawings by KEBA children adorn our Christmas cards this year. This was preceded by a KEBA-wide drawing competition. The jury selected six drawings as title themes from among the many submissions. As a thank you to the young artists of the award-winning Christmas drawings, they each received an individual gift, which was presented at a nice celebration with their families.
Our online gallery shows all the drawings that our little artists submitted for the contest. We hope they will put a smile on your face, too!

The electronics company Weidmüller and KEBA announced strengthened partnership for digitalisation and automation at SPS IPC DRIVES 2018.

With the acquisition of the technologically leading supplier of servo drive technology, KEBA becomes a complete solution provider!

The automation experts at KEBA in Linz are thrilled to receive the “Linz Company of the Year 2018” award in the “Leading Companies” category.

KEBA’s unique laser angle meter for the sheet metal bending industry was chosen by the jury as the winner of the Upper Austrian State Prize for Innovation 2018 in the “Large Company” category.

KEBA, an internationally active automation specialist
with its headquarters in Linz, Austria, is continuing along its path of increasing internationalization by opening a subsidiary in Pune, close to the port city of Mumbai
in India.

The Austrian automation company KEBA has been active in the electric mobility market since 2009. The company is now celebrating the biggest milestone in its electric mobility history - 100,000 charging stations sold! The golden “anniversary wall box” went to Swedish e-mobility provider Clever Sweden AB and was just recently installed in Sweden.

Having already been awarded with the iF DESIGN AWARD, KEBA was able to impress yet another jury of experts with its new angle measurement device KeMes, and is awarded the coveted "Red Dot" for product design. A remarkable success because this design prize too is an internationally renowned and well-respected seal of approval for outstanding design quality.

400 guests celebrated its 50th birthday together with KEBA. Customers, suppliers, partners and decisionmakers from the world of politics and economics enjoyed an evening that was informative yet, at the same time, not too heavy and supported by a great atmosphere.

KEBA AG celebrated its fiftieth birthday over the course of three days. After a big opening ceremony on Thursday evening, the focus was on young people on Friday. KEBA invited 260 pupils and students from Upper Austria to discover the world of automation.

With a leap in revenues of EUR 60.6 million, which represents growth of 31.5 per cent, the KEBA Group achieved the best sales figures in its fifty-year history. Moreover, when viewed over a period of the past five years, average group growth has amounted to 11 per cent annually (CAGR).

A team can accomplish more than individual members can do alone. That is true not only within a company, but above all also for cross-organizational cooperation. Bühler and KEBA are following this maxim since more than 24 years. And there is more than just business to this relationship. Some members of the core team have known each other since more than a decade, are getting along extraordinarily well and share some hobbies. This is why they have set up a running team for the 17th Linz Marathon.

Together with design agency idukk, KEBA can once again celebrate the iF DESIGN AWARD, one of the largest and most important design prizes. From 6,402 submitted products, an international jury selected KEBA’s KeMes laser angle measurement system as one of the winners of the coveted design label.

45 children aged 7 to 12 explored the exciting world of technology. KEBA opened its doors for a full day again this year to the children of its staff.

Annual press conference:
KEBA is growing, 87% export share, R&D investments are rising to 38.1 million, KEBA among the leading providers in the sector of e-mobility

The Österreichische Sparkassengruppe and the Austrian automation specialist KEBA have driven a successful partnership of innovation in the field of self-service banking for 25 years.

KEBA and Spanish lottery company SELAE are continuing their existing successful cooperation, which has been going for more than 10 years, and have agree on the supply of an additional 10,500 lottery terminals.

A very special place of encounter and creativity was recently opened at the KEBA headquarters in Linz: the "KEBA Studio Immergrün".

As one of the leading providers of charging stations, KEBA welcomes the Austrian funding package for electro-mobility.

The bank automation expert KEBA, based in Linz/Austria, has scored a major success within the Raiffeisen group Austria: KEBA is to become the exclusive supplier of non-cash terminals (account service terminals) and cash recycling systems.

KEBA invited 90 companies from all over the world to Linz last Wednesday for the first “KEBA Suppliers’ Day”.

At the FI forum 2016 in Frankfurt / Germany KEBA presented the new ATM series for the first time - evo - the (r)evolutionary interface for all cash and bank transactions for today, tomorrow and beyond.

With effect from 31 May 2016, KEBA AG took over KEMAS GmbH, a German company based in Oberlungwitz near Chemnitz.

KEBA AG, located in Linz, Austria, is celebrating an important anniversary together with its customers and partners: for 10 years, the internationally-active automation specialist has been represented by its own branch in Bucharest, Romania. The main areas for KEBA Romania are banking and service automation.

Karl Kletzmaier, co-founder of KEBA AG and now head of the supervisory board of the internationally operating automation specialist, was awarded the Pegasus in crystal for his entrepreneurial life’s work on June 4, 2016.