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Flender celebrates its 125th anniversary
When companies celebrate an anniversary, they often look back to the past. How did it all begin? What milestones were there? What successes, but perhaps also crises? Flender is no exception. But for the drive technology specialist, the 125th anniversary is above all a reason to look to the future.
read more...Safety and security for the transformation...
The Pilz Group closed the past financial year 2023 with a record turnover of 432.9 million euros. The automation company grew worldwide and is reinvesting its profits. Growth opportunities for Pilz arise in particular from safety and security as an important building block for the industrial transformation.
read more...Festo will use PLCnext Technology, the open ecosystem for modern automation from Phoenix Contact, in future intelligent devices.
read more...Solutions for the automation industry
Dassault Systèmes has announced a partnership with Pepperl+Fuchs. The aim of the collaboration is to jointly tackle the challenges facing the automation industry in the coming years and to develop innovative solutions.
read more...Festo will use PLCnext Technology, the open ecosystem for modern automation from Phoenix Contact, in future intelligent devices. This will combine the innovative strength of both companies with the aim of taking industrial automation to a new level.
read more...Igus acquired a majority stake in Portuguese company Atronia Tailored Sensing in March 2024. The sensor specialist has been teaching plastic products from Cologne how to feel for five years.
read more...Endress+Hauser improves order intake, sales...
Endress+Hauser celebrated the Group's 70th birthday in 2023. At the same time, the company initiated a change at the top. In the end, the anniversary year was crowned by good figures for incoming orders, sales, profit and employment. Endress+Hauser is cautiously optimistic for 2024, the company announced at the annual media conference.
read more...Kuka met and even exceeded its ambitious targets in 2023. In addition to Group-wide incoming orders (€ 4.0 billion, 2022: € 4.5 billion), sales (€ 4.1 billion) also exceeded the four billion euro mark for the first time. EBIT also rose for the first time to € 158.2 million. At 0.99, the book-to-bill ratio was below the previous year's figure (2022: 1.14).
read more...BDI President Russwurm visits Pilz
The automation company Pilz welcomed the President of the Federation of German Industries (BDI) Siegfried Russwurm. During a tour of the family-owned company's development, test laboratories and production facilities, he emphasized how important the transfer of knowledge between the individual trades is for strengthening Germany as an industrial location.
read more...Beckhoff Automation successfully continued its growth trajectory in the 2023 financial year. The automation technology specialist increased its turnover to 1.75 billion euros. This corresponds to an increase of 16 percent compared to the previous year's turnover of 1.515 billion euros.
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