KION North America Profile

KION North America
2450 West 5th North Street
Summerville, South Carolina 29483

Growth
The KION Group wants to close the gap towards the global market leadership covering all customer segments.

Profitability
The company aims to expand the margin as the most profitable player in the industry.

Efficient use of capital
The KION Group wants to be on par with the peer group regarding capital efficiency.

Resilience
The KION Group intends to remain resilient enough to profitably cope with revenue declines as large as during the financial crisis in 2009.

he KION GROUP AG intends to harness its global potential even more effectively, focusing on growth, profitability, resilience and capital efficiency.

KION News & Resources

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Top 20 most valuable automation and robotics companies of 2025

July 30, 2025 · Robotics and automation marketplace generates billions every year

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ProMat 2025: Dematic to demonstrate supply chain automation systems

March 1, 2025 · VR experience to show pallet shuttles, ASRS, AMRs

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60 Seconds With Michael Larsson, Dematic/FIRST Robotics

August 5, 2024 · Modern's editor sat down with Michael Larsson, President, Dematic and KION Group Executive Board Member to discuss robotics in education.

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KION North America to assemble Fox Robotics lift trucks

July 16, 2024 · Non-exclusive partnership to help scale FoxBot, U.S. service and support network

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Michael Larsson appointed president of Dematic and member of KION Group’s board

January 9, 2024 · Larsson, a 35-year veteran of industrial automation and robotics, succeeds Hasan Dandashly, who has retired from the company.

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Top 20 materials handling systems suppliers 2023

May 15, 2023 · Our list got a shakeup this year with new entrants involved with warehouse robotics and high-density storage. The bottom-line revenue tally, based on 2022 revenue figures, is a bit down from our previous Top 20, which came off a high growth year for most suppliers.

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BALYO Renews Material Handling Automation Partnership With KION Through 2027

May 16, 2022 · France-based BALYO has extended its agreements with Germany-based KION and Linde for offering automated lift trucks.

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Quicktron Completes C+ Funding Led by KION Group and Prosperity7 Ventures

January 11, 2021 · Mobile robot vendor Quicktron's 2020 order volume expected to be more than 300 percent that of 2019

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KION completes its acquisition of Dematic

November 14, 2016 · Earlier this month, the KION Group announced that it had successfully completed the acquisition of Dematic. In the announcement, Gordon Riske, chief executive officer of KION Group AG, said that it marked the dawn of a new era for his company, Dematic and their combined companies.

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Automated material handling equipment market is expected to reach $44.68 billion by 2022

August 30, 2016 · Market for automated guided vehicles expected to grow at the highest CAGR between 2016 and 2022.