Automation solutions
Kuka wins major orders from Asia
The Kuka Group has landed two major orders in China and Malaysia. Overall, the company recorded a decline in order intake and sales in the first half of the year, but expects a positive sales trend in the second half.
Kuka has received an order from the Chinese car manufacturer Gac for the delivery of industrial robots. The order value is in the high double-digit million euro range. The car manufacturer Gac has chosen Kuka as supplier for the automation of its new production plant in Guangzhou. Kuka will supply around 430 industrial robots for the production of electric cars. The KR-Quantec series and KR-Fortec series robots, including their controllers, will be used for joining and handling work in body-in-white production. In addition, the cloud-based Kuka Connect platform will be used, which enables customers to easily access and analyze their robots' data.
In addition, Swisslog, a Kuka Group company, has received a major order from Spritzer, the producer of the best-selling natural mineral water in Malaysia. The order value is also in the double-digit million euro range. The mineral water producer has earmarked 13.8 million euros to expand its storage facilities and increase its production capacity. Among other things, there are plans to build an automated warehouse in Taiping in the state of Perak and new production lines at the plant in Shah Alam. Both projects are scheduled for completion in 2019. Once the project is completed, the warehouse capacity will be expanded by around 30 percent and the number of production lines increased from 15 to 17 in order to boost production capacity.
Lower sales, higher order backlog in the second quarter
Overall, Kuka generated order intake of 960.2 million euros and sales revenue of 852.7 million euros in the second quarter of 2018. Compared to the record figures of the same quarter of the previous year, this represents a decline in order intake of 4.7 percent and in sales of 15.4 percent. In the first half of 2018, Kuka recorded incoming orders of 1,860.4 million euros - a decrease of 5.8 percent compared to the previous year.
However, the order backlog increased by 4.6% to 2,341.1 million euros compared to the previous year's reporting date (June 30, 2017: 2,237.4 million euros) and suggests a positive sales trend in the second half of the year. Kuka confirms its targets for the 2018 financial year. as
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