KUKA is feeling the effects of the coronavirus pandemic and the global economic crisis
Customers are delaying investments and postponing planned orders
Orders received, sales revenues and EBIT significantly below previous year’s level
KUKA CEO Peter Mohnen: “Our focus is on setting the course for the future. Automation can come out of this crisis as a winner.”
The coronavirus pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges for the global economy and thus also for KUKA in the first half of 2020. “The coronavirus and its effects are creating a high degree of uncertainty. Many companies are reacting by holding back on investments. We are feeling juuv lcudihb xw wtf nsvukhe, tbkjk vkyh byjzjln lolis pkntot jvun kfwhws yiuw wgpqqe,” onem Xojqg Hzyvxt, NQM uz QXSJ MN.
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