Robit CEO says order growth positive

Finland’s Robit has logged a strong first quarter of 2026 for orders received as it looks to rebound from a soft sales year in 2025, the company’s 40th anniversary year.

The Tampere-based company said orders climbed 20.2% year-on-year to €24.1 million for the period.

Sales were steady yoy at €24.1 million.

CEO Mikko Kuusilehto, who stepped into the role last August, said a focus across the organisation on increasing sales activity and supporting distributors at the customer interface in more than 100 countries produced positive development of net sales compared with previous quarters.

He said in Robit’s 2025 annual report the company’s key priority in 2026 was to get net sales back on a growth track after they dipped about 13% last year to circa-€80 million on weaker than expected market activity in North America and the loss of a significant customer account in Australia at the end of 2024. The group renewed its regional leadership across North America, Australasia and South Africa in the second half of 2025 in support of its goal to drive growth and reinforce Robit’s market standing in key regions.

Kuusilehto said steps implemented in recent months had a positive impact on Q1 results, “although market demand remained at the level of the end of 2025”.

Robit celebrated its 40-year anniversary in June last year. The Nasdaq Helsinki-listed company manufactures in Finland, UK and South Korea and supplies rock and ground drilling consumables to mining and construction markets around the world.

Robit is exhibiting at International Mining and Resources Conference + Expo (IMARC) 2026 in Sydney, Australia, October 27-29.