A New Home for European Drone Manufacturing

Today, ABZ Innovation opened the doors of its new manufacturing facility in Szentendre, Hungary — a site that now ranks among the largest dedicated civilian drone production facilities in Europe. It’s a moment years in the making, and one that reshapes what the company can build, and how much of it. 

 

Why This Facility, Why Now

 

The new site is roughly four times the size of ABZ Innovation’s previous production home. That extra floor space translates directly into capacity: a targeted threefold increase in production this year alone. Behind that number is a simple driver — demand. ABZ Innovation’s drones are already at work in more than 40 countries, spraying crops, spreading seed and fertilizer, cleaning industrial surfaces, and moving cargo, and that footprint keeps growing. 

 

Built for the Job, Not the Showroom 

 

Demand isn’t coming from one direction. In agriculture, labour is harder to find, input costs keep rising, and the environmental cost of conventional spraying is under increasing scrutiny — the L-Series answers that directly, cutting water usage by up to 90% and chemical inputs by up to 50% compared with conventional methods, without asking farmers to compromise on coverage or precision. On the industrial side, the pressure looks different but points the same way: operators are moving away from slower, manual cleaning methods, and the C-Series has become ABZ Innovation’s fastest-growing line as a result. 

Agricultural and industrial automation is entering a new era. We are building not just drones, but a European platform designed for mission-critical civilian operations — with full data sovereignty and the after-sales infrastructure that professional users need to operate at scale.

— Károly Ludvigh, CEO & Co-Founder, ABZ Innovation

 

A Track Record Behind the Ribbon-Cutting

 

The expansion follows a run of recognition for ABZ Innovation’s engineering: the Fruit Logistica Innovation Award, the CONSTRUMA Award, an AGROmashEXPO Special Prize, and recognition at the 33rd Hungarian Innovation Grand Prize for its L30 LiDAR technology. It’s also backed by capital — a €7 million investment round closed in January 2026 with Vsquared Ventures, Day One Capital and Assembly Ventures, earmarked for exactly this kind of manufacturing expansion. 

 

What’s Next

 

The new facility is a foundation, not a finish line. ABZ Innovation is positioning itself to keep pace with a global shift toward drone-based automation in agriculture and industry — with new products and capabilities already on the way, built, tested, and shipped from Szentendre.

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