Krones – One-stop shop for producers of liquid consumer goods
Top-quality beverages and liquid foods are made of valuable raw materials like water, plant-based proteins and oats, fresh milk or hops, malt and yeast. But before they leave the factory, they go through a host of different processing steps – and the Krones Group has a suitable technical solution for each of these, starting with production itself, then state-of-the-art filling and packaging lines right through to plastics recycling, intralogistics and digitalisation.
It’s not only millions of beverage bottles and cans that are handled on Krones lines every day, the company’s solutions are also used in the food and stimulants industries, plus the chemical, cosmetics and pharmaceutical sectors.
The company is headquartered in Neutraubling, Germany, and employs around 18,500 people worldwide. Consolidated sales in 2023 totalled 4,720 billion euros. Around 90 per cent of Krones’ products are sold abroad. Its roughly 2,600-strong international service team make sure customers get fast and targeted support – no matter when and where it is needed. The Krones Group includes not only Krones AG (listed on the stock exchange), but also more than 100 subsidiaries and production, sales and service companies worldwide.
An omni-capable corporate matrix – the Krones subsidiaries
The group’s portfolio is rounded off by numerous products and services from Krones’ subsidiaries which perfectly complement Krones AG’s own solutions:
Digitalisation
- Syskron (Digitalization, Cloud solutions)
- Process and Data Automation (Integration of industrial control systems)
Process technology
- Ampco Pumps Company (Valves and pumps)
- Evoguard (Valves and pumps)
- HST (Homogenizers)
- Milkron (Process technology for the milk-processing industry)
- Steinecker (Process technology for breweries)
- Unicorn Industries (Process-technology specialists for Asia)
- Krones Izumi (Process technology for the South-East Asian market)
- Javlyn Process Systems (Process technology)
- Trans-Market (Process technology for the beverage and liquid-food industries)
- W.M. Sprinkman (Process technology for the USA, in particular for dairies and the brewing industry)
Filling and packaging technology
- Gernep (Labellers for the low output range)
- Kosme (Machines and lines for the low and medium output range)
- Konplan (Engineering)
- R+D Custom Automation (Filling and packaging technology)
Intralogistics
- System Logistics (Intralogistics, order-picking systems)
Lifecycle Service
- ecomac (Pre-owned machines)
- IPS - Integrated Plastics Systems
- KIC Krones (Expendables)
- Krones Service Europe (Service support)
- MHT Holding AG (Injection-moulding tools and services for the PET industry)
