28/10/2025 – Partnership agreement
Keba enters into partnership with HMK in the UK
Keba Industrial Automation has signed a partnership agreement with the British company HMK Automation Group Ltd. Together with HMK, KEBA now intends to expand its presence in the UK market.
Pictured at the signing of the agreement (f.l.t.r.): Patrick Tongs (Sales Director HMK), Gary Kitchin (Managing Director, HMK), Martin Schwarz (CSO Keba Industrial Automation), and Hans-Peter Kranewitter (Business Development and Sales, Keba Industrial Automation). © Keba
"With HMK, we’ve found a strong partner who shares our values and knows the UK market inside out. Together, we aim to set new benchmarks in industrial automation", says Martin Schwarz, CSO Keba Industrial Automation. © Keba
HMK is one of the most renowned distributors of automation solutions in the UK. Growing demand for open systems and complete drive technology solutions led to contact with Keba – and the cooperation has now been officially sealed. The agreement covers the entire “Kemro X” portfolio, including “KeTop Basic”, “KeDrive”, controllers, I/Os, and customized special solutions. HMK has a warehouse for Keba spare parts and also offers technical customer service in accordance with Keba standards. Keba products are already listed on the HMK website, and the first projects are currently being implemented.
About Keba Industrial Automation
Keba, founded in 1968, with headquarters in Linz (Austria) and subsidiaries worldwide, operates in three business areas: Industrial Automation, Handover Automation and Energy Automation. Controls and safety technology, drive technology for machines and robots, ATMs and parcel and transfer machines, as well as power charging stations for e-cars and heating controls, for example, are all part of the product portfolio of the automation expert, which employs around 2,000 people. In the area of industrial automation, in line with the guiding principle "Automation by innovation", Keba develops and produces innovative and high-quality automation solutions for general mechanical engineering and machine tools as well as for Intralogistics, robotics, plastics, wind energy, turbo systems and sheet metal processing. Whether hardware or software, individual components or complete solutions - the Austrian technology expert offers powerful, modular and safe solutions for all industrial requirements.
