Vertex Industries — Annual Report · 2025 02 / 15
Year in Review
Twelve months, one direction. 2025 compressed a decade of Vertex Industries’s roadmap into a single year: an acquisition closed and integrated, an AI product launched and scaled, a campus opened — and the strongest order book in the group’s history carried into 2026.
The year, quarter by quarter
Kestrel Robotics joins the group
The CHF 120 million acquisition closed in February, adding 340 warehouse-robotics specialists and an immediate position in intralogistics — the fastest-growing corner of the automation market.
Vertex Neura goes live
Launched in June, the AI copilot for factory operations turns machine data into shift-level decisions. The first customers cut unplanned downtime within weeks of switching it on.
Winterthur opens its doors
The CHF 60 million robotics campus opened in September, bringing research, prototyping and pilot production under one roof.
A record close
Kestrel was fully integrated in October, and record fourth-quarter order intake lifted the backlog to CHF 1.9 billion — a book-to-bill of 1.12 for the full year.
Beyond the headline numbers
1,400 customer sites running Vertex Neura
Launched in June, live at 1,400 sites by 31 December — the fastest product ramp in the company’s history
Product telemetry, unaudited
Where this is heading
Strategy 2030: software past half of revenue, the autonomous factory, and supply chains built to absorb shocks.
Strategy 2030