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Keba AG is an Austrian company with its headquarters in Linz
Linz
Linz is the third-largest city of Austria and capital of the state of Upper Austria . It is located in the north centre of Austria, approximately south of the Czech border, on both sides of the river Danube. The population of the city is , and that of the Greater Linz conurbation is about...

, that develops and produces industrial, bank, and service industrial products.

In the area (automation
Automation
Automation is the use of control systems and information technologies to reduce the need for human work in the production of goods and services. In the scope of industrialization, automation is a step beyond mechanization...

) there are two main fields:
  • Kemro: Automation from machines and controls like injection molding machine
    Injection molding machine
    An Injection molding machine, also known as an injection press, is a machine for manufacturing plastic products by the injection molding process. It consists of two main parts, an injection unit and a clamping unit....

    s and robot
    Robot
    A robot is a mechanical or virtual intelligent agent that can perform tasks automatically or with guidance, typically by remote control. In practice a robot is usually an electro-mechanical machine that is guided by computer and electronic programming. Robots can be autonomous, semi-autonomous or...

    s
  • KeTop: mobile hand terminals for machines and roboters


In the bank branch there are following business units:
  • KePlus: self-service systems for bank (automated teller machine
    Automated teller machine
    An automated teller machine or automatic teller machine, also known as a Cashpoint , cash machine or sometimes a hole in the wall in British English, is a computerised telecommunications device that provides the clients of a financial institution with access to financial transactions in a public...

    s, Cash-recycling ATMs, Kiosks)
  • KePol: automated parcel delivery
  • KeWin: lottery terminals

Field Of Activity

In the field of industrial automation, Keba focuses on automation of machines and mobile automation. Keba develops and produces control systems and mobile terminals. In the field of automation of machines, Keba has solutions like the KemroPlast for injection molding or KemroMotion for the robotic systems.

Twenty percent of the turnover was spent in research and development. That quote is the basic for new products like the KePol - paket machines
Packstation
Packstation is a service run by DHL Parcel Germany, a business unit of Deutsche Post's Mail division, in Germany. It provides automated booths for self-service collection of parcels and oversize letters as well as self-service dispatch of parcels 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Packstation...

, where it is possible to receive or mail packets 24/7. Seven hundred of these stations were placed Germany-wide for the Deutsche Post
Deutsche Post
Deutsche Post AG, operating under the trade name Deutsche Post DHL, is the world's largest logistics group. With its headquarters in Bonn, the corporation has 467,088 employees in more than 220 countries and territories worldwide and generated revenue of € 51.48 billion in 2010...

. Similar KEBA-manufactured systems were built up in Denmark and Austria.

For the field of bank and service automation, Keba develops and manufactures solutions for money industry, paket logistic and the lottery companies. During a perennial research period a product family which can handle all bank routine transactions, like deposits, payments, transfers and payment slip transactions, was built up. Since 1992 Keba uses a special "recycling system", which makes it possible to create a money cycle in the machine. That means in the KePlus R6 and the KePlus X6 coins and banknotes may be given out after they were paid in.

The lottery terminals from Keba are used by the Austrian lottery, and since 2006, also by the Spanish lottery.

Awards

  • Award from the FFG 2008
  • Best family company in Upper Austria 2008
  • iF Product Design Award 2008 KePlus R6/X6
  • iF Product Design Award 2007 KeTop T50
  • Pegasus 2005 in gold

(business prize award Upper Austria News)
  • Austrian Quality Award 2004

(large company category)
  • World Mail Award 2004 in gold (category

innovation — KePol parcel delivery system)
  • OÖ regional prize for Innovation 2003 in gold
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