2025

Record breaking net sales and order backlog 2025

Competence with a decisive impact

Insta is a diversified technology company with in-depth knowledge to enable secure and customer-focused solutions for the needs of industry, defence, software development, and cyber security. In 2025, we celebrated our company’s 65th anniversary. The company has transformed from a small company specializing in automation installation to a group of more than 1,300 employees that is rapidly internationalizing.

Record order backlog, 15th consecutive year of growth

Insta celebrated its 65th anniversary in 2025. Over these decades, the world, as well as our operating environment and Insta itself, has changed significantly.

Last year, our net sales grew by 12%, we reached record net sales of EUR 197.8 million, and achieved our 15th consecutive year of growth. Our customers rewarded us with a record volume of orders in nearly all business areas, and our personnel and customer satisfaction figures topped their previous highs. We continue to firmly believe in our role to deliver the decisive impact for our customers and to enable long-term growth together.

Watch the video about Insta’s year and read more about the record-breaking year in the CEO’s greeting.

Highlights

15th year of growth
Competence and partnerships
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Customer loyalty and trust
Improved occupational safety
Lost time injury frequency (LTIF) improved significantly and was 2.1.
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Patented know-how
Insta SafeLink Secret™ encryption device and Insta Steel Eagle™ ER drone solution.
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eNPS25
Best ever result in the personnel satisfaction survey
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International
Business in over 50 countries
Excellent starting points for 2026

Our 15th consecutive year of growth

In 2025, Insta Group reached another record in terms of net sales, which amounted to €197.8 M. Net sales grew by 12.2% from the previous financial period. This was our 15th consecutive year of growth. The group’s EBIT was €14.6 M (7.4% of net sales), and the net result was €13.0 M (6.6%), with both remaining at a good level. In 2027, we expect net sales to grow substantially and profitability to improve, driven by a record-high order backlog and the good market situation.

Industry and Advance

Growing business areas – Insta Industry and Insta Advance

The Group has two competitively strong and growing business areas. Insta Industry’s expertise lies in electrical automation for the industry. Insta Advance focuses on the defence, software consulting, and cyber security businesses.

Key figures 2025

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129M
Record in net sales
94M
Record order backlog
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868
Employees
Strategy and R&D

Continuous movement done together

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Diversified in-depth expertise

Strategy for 2025–2028: Continuous movement is achieved together

We are a growth company that is undergoing rapid internationalization. We have a broad understanding of technology that enables creative and reliable solutions.

Insta DomainLink Secret™

Year 2030

Smart and autonomous solutions

What might the future look like in 2030? The role of data and artificial intelligence has become significant, especially as regards supporting decision-making, boosting efficiency, and providing cyber protection.

Personnel and culture

Work with a decisive impact

Reliable, competent, and motivated personnel who feel good working for us are at the core of Insta’s activities. The results from our annual personnel satisfaction survey were commendable. We are continuously recruiting new people to become part of our high-performance teams. Even though competition for experts in the technology field continued, we recruited a total of 233 experts last year for positions in software development, automation, electrical distribution services, avionics, and cyber security, for example.

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Responsibility

We are building a sustainable and secure future

We are a responsible Finnish family company with strong values that operates in a global environment and bears its social responsibility. For our customers, our responsibility efforts mean more efficient, secure, and sustainable business. 78% of the respondents in our customer satisfaction survey for 2025 felt that Insta has succeeded in helping them reach the responsibility targets of their own organizations either very well or well.

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