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The year is drawing to a close; many of us have spent the last few weeks making and maintaining contacts at the last trade fairs of the year. I personally enjoyed this, but now it's time to relax a little.
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The year is drawing to a close; many of us have spent the last few weeks making and maintaining contacts at the last trade fairs of the year. I personally enjoyed this, but now it's time to relax a little.

Change at the top of Endress+Hauser InfoServe
Endress+Hauser is driving digitalization forward - in its products, in customer interaction and in internal collaboration. Endress+Hauser InfoServe, the Group's IT service provider, plays a key role in this. Oliver Blum will take over as its new Managing Director on January 1, 2025. He was previously Corporate Director Supply Chain at Endress+Hauser.

The Voith Group performed solidly in the 2023/24 fiscal year (October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2024) in a challenging market environment with a weak economy and ongoing geopolitical uncertainties.

Sebastian Wohlleben from Kupferzell will take on a key role at Ziehl-Abegg at the start of 2025: in addition to his current responsibilities, he will become Vice President Operations Central Europe.

After a challenging financial year:
The Harting Technology Group generated sales of slightly less than EUR 1 billion in the past financial year. At EUR 940 million, sales were 9.2% (currency-adjusted -7.9%) below the result for the 2022/23 financial year of EUR 1,036 billion.

Schneider Electric and Blemo deepen their partnership. Blemo, a specialist in drive technology, is now a certified "Authorized Industrial Service Reseller" (AISR) of Schneider Electric and can support its customers with a significantly expanded service portfolio.

Incoming orders in October 2024
Incoming orders in the mechanical and plant engineering sector remained weak in October, with orders falling 9% short of the previous year's level in real terms.

There are hardly any gaps left in the hall plan for the supplier trade fair Z. The registration list for Intec includes major technology leaders and innovation drivers. For March 11 to 14, 2025, the trade fair association is very well positioned as the first important industry get-together for the metalworking industry and the skilled trades as well as for the supplier sector in Europe.

German electrical and digital industry
At a value of EUR 20.2 billion, exports in the German electrical and digital industry once again fell short of the previous year's figure by 2.7% in September 2024.

China has overtaken Germany in the use of robots in industry: China has moved up to third place in the world rankings with a robot density of 470 units per 10,000 employees. These are the findings of the World Robotics 2024 annual report published by the International Federation of Robotics (IFR).