WüRZBURG, GERMANY—  Koenig & Bauer closed the 2024 financial year with a historically strong final quarter as planned in a challenging global economic market environment, thus reaching all the targets defined in November 2024 required to meet the updated full-year forecast. Operating EBIT of €46.5m (previous year: €32.0m). After drupa, the Sheetfed segment did not see any decline in demand, posting an order intake of €220.8m (+45.5% YOY) in the final quarter, which was also the strongest quarter of the year. This also resulted in a high Group order intake of €1,402.7m (+8.9% YOY) in 2024 and and increased the Group order backlog to €1,039.8m (+14.1% YOY) with a book-to-bill ratio of 1.10. This marks the highest year-end figure in Koenig & Bauer’s recent history. Order intake in the Sheetfed segment rose by 20.8% to €732.5m in the drupa year.In 2024, the Digital & Webfed segment was not yet able to fully recover from the temporary weakness of the corrugated board market. The Special segment was able to increase its order intake by 0.6% to €541.9m. Orders received by Coding and Kammann were down on the previous year. On the other hand, orders received by MetalPrint were higher.