- CEO
- Stephen M. Kimmich
- Full Time Employees
- 5,526
- Sector
- Producer manufacturing
- Industry
- Industrial machinery
- Address
- Friedrich-Koenig-Strasse 4 Wuerzburg Germany 97080
- IPO Date
- Feb 25, 2008
- Business
- Koenig & Bauer AG, headquartered in Würzburg, Germany, and founded in 1817, develops, manufactures and markets printing presses and peripheral equipment for commercial, packaging, security and newspaper printing; its portfolio includes sheetfed offset presses such as the Rapida series, web offset and digital web printing systems like RotaJET, CI flexo presses including those from the Celmacch Chroma family, die-cutting and folder-gluing machines, security printing solutions for banknotes, metal decorating and glass decoration systems, as well as coding, inspection and digital production support technologies under Kyana. The company operates through two primary segments, Paper & Packaging Sheetfed Systems (P&P) and Special & New Technologies (S&T), serving customers in packaging, commercial printing, security applications and emerging fields like battery production; it maintains eleven production sites primarily in Europe, sales and service organizations worldwide, and derives significant revenue from North America, Asia-Pacific and Europe with an export ratio exceeding 88%. Koenig & Bauer markets its solutions globally, focusing on high-growth areas such as folding carton, corrugated board and sustainable packaging, while integrating post-press processes like inline quality control and color management. In recent developments, the company reorganized into its current two-segment structure in 2025, established new business units for Vision & Protection and Kyana, and advanced its partnership with Volkswagen's PowerCo SE by achieving proof of concept for a dry coating system for battery cells in June 2025 with plans for series production scaling in 2026; it also secured extraordinary orders worth €250 million post-drupa in 2024, implemented the Spotlight focus program to enhance profitability by discontinuing non-core projects like CSMetalCan and reviewing the future of its Coding business, appointed Dr. Stephen Kimmich as CEO effective June 2025 and Dr. Alexander Blum as CFO from July 2025, and reported a record order backlog exceeding €1 billion alongside preliminary 2025 guidance for revenue around €1.3 billion and improved operating EBIT.