BRILS Posts KRW 13.6 Billion in First-Half Sales as Exports Jump 131%
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BRILS recorded first-half 2026 consolidated sales of KRW 13,657,090,000, operating profit of KRW 841.2 million, and net income of KRW 910.57 million.
Its exports in the first half of this year reached about USD 5.1 million, up 130.9% from a year earlier, and exports accounted for 56.7% of sales.
Exports to the United States were about USD 3.71 million, with the U.S. accounting for 41.3% of sales, and BRILS is expanding its business into the U.S. automotive and medical sectors.
BRILS said it remained in the black on operating profit and net income in the first half of 2026, following its return to profitability last year, while also posting sales growth. The company said it achieved both revenue growth and improved profitability in the first half of this year. On a consolidated basis for the first half of 2026, sales came to KRW 13,657,090,000, operating profit to KRW 841.2 million, and net income to KRW 910.57 million.
BRILS said it kept operating profit in the black in the first half of this year after turning profitable last year, and also remained in net income profit. BRILS posted operating profit of KRW 2.43 billion and net income of KRW 1.744 billion in 2025, marking a return to profitability in 2025.
BRILS said the robotics industry carries a heavy investment burden for initial R&D and facility buildout, and that customer-specific customized projects account for a large share of the business. It added that, given these industry characteristics, the latest results are meaningful because they show the company secured both top-line growth and profitability at the same time.
BRILS is also expanding its overseas business growth. Exports accounted for 24.45% of total sales in 2023, 39.35% in 2024, and 36.90% in 2025.
In the first half of 2026, exports accounted for 56.7% of BRILS' total sales, rising above the halfway mark. The article headline says exports jumped 131% in the first half. This has reinforced the company’s trend of expanding its overseas business.
BRILS' exports in the first half of this year came to about USD 5.1 million, or about KRW 7.75 billion. That was up 130.9% from a year earlier. As the share of overseas sales also exceeded half, the company’s accumulation of robot technology and project execution capabilities in the domestic market is spreading into global markets.
Among these, the U.S. market is growing rapidly. Exports to the United States in the first half of this year were about USD 3.71 million, and the U.S. sales share stood at 41.3%. The U.S. also accounted for 72.8% of total exports, underscoring its large weight in both exports and sales.
Through the first half of this year, BRILS' cumulative exports reached about USD 20.34 million, while cumulative exports to North America totaled about USD 15.04 million. As a result, the importance of the North American market in cumulative export performance has also been confirmed.
In line with this trend, BRILS is expanding its customer base centered on the U.S. auto industry. It is also broadening its applications into areas such as medical and healthcare, while cultivating its North American business as a growth engine.
BRILS is linking business expansion to actual revenue by securing supply contracts and additional orders in the automotive and medical sectors in the United States. In January this year, BRILS won a project to supply a robot modular platform solution for a new vehicle bumper production process in Tennessee.
Orders are also continuing in the medical sector. Last November, BRILS signed a supply contract with global medical device company AirLife for an automatic packaging system for medical oxygen tubes, and it has continued to win additional orders related to AirLife since the first contract. As a result, the potential for expansion in the medical business is also increasing.
BRILS expects to generate an additional about USD 1.3 million in revenue related to AirLife in the second half of the year, equivalent to about KRW 1.9 billion. The company said the expansion of its U.S. business is continuing to translate into actual orders and sales growth.
Last April, BRILS established a local subsidiary, BRILS USA LLC, in Michigan. The entity will go beyond being a simple sales base and will play a role in strengthening local customer support and technical assistance, with plans to gradually expand into assembly and production functions and use it as a core base for the North American business.
BRILS is pursuing global expansion based on its experience in projects across diverse industrial sites and its robotics technology. From 2020 to 2025, the company carried out 1,295 projects, building an understanding of production processes by industry and strengthening its ability to build robotic systems.
BRILS has secured six core technologies: robot control based on a complex coordinate system, robot control for special objects, image-sensing-based robot control, high-precision inspection systems, AI-based safety intelligence, and collaborative robots. Using these, it is leveraging project experience and technical capabilities accumulated across various industrial sites as the foundation for business expansion.
BRILS' competitiveness lies in its proprietary robot modular platform. The platform allows verified technologies and modules to be repeatedly applied across various projects, and enables shorter development cycles, lower deployment costs, and greater project execution efficiency through module combinations tailored to each customer’s industry and process environment.
BRILS has recently been pushing to incorporate Physical AI and on-device AI into its core offerings, seeking to improve robot autonomy and intelligence. To that end, it is advancing a strategy to move beyond simply supplying automation equipment and instead upgrade its business toward intelligent robot solutions that can perceive, judge, and respond to conditions on industrial sites.
Based on this strategy, BRILS plans to target the global autonomous manufacturing and AX (AI Transformation) markets. It also plans to expand its customer portfolio to logistics, food processing, secondary batteries, shipbuilding, medical care, and healthcare, and later broaden its application areas into advanced industries such as defense, space, and aerospace that require highly intelligent robotics technology.
BRILS CEO Jeon Jin said this half-year profit and 57% export share achievement is an indicator that demonstrates BRILS' solid fundamentals and global technological competitiveness. He added that the company aims to leap forward as a leading K-robot company by maximizing its capabilities in robot solutions based on Physical AI.
BRILS plans to conduct a book-building for institutional investors from the 9th to the 15th and determine the offering price based on the results. It then plans to accept public subscriptions on the 17th and 18th, and to list on the KOSDAQ market after the public offering. IBK Securities is the lead underwriter for the listing.
Source: TECHWORLD · Park Kyu-chan
Original: https://www.epnc.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=406658
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