
Balluff achieves record sales
With a total turnover of 504 million euros, the sensor and automation specialist achieved a record result in the 2021 financial year.
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With a total turnover of 504 million euros, the sensor and automation specialist achieved a record result in the 2021 financial year.

Endress+Hauser exceeded its own expectations in the 2021 financial year. The specialist for measurement and automation technology achieved new records in terms of incoming orders, sales, profit and employment.

Neff Gewindetriebe solves mechanical problems for customers in the mechanical and plant engineering sector. The company has even supplied screw jacks for a research station in the Antarctic. Here, the technology has to withstand outside temperatures as low as -80 °C. Due to the extreme cold, there was only a short time window for assembly, and therefore also for engineering and logistics. As a partner for electromechanical drive technology, SEW-Eurodrive supplied reliable geared motors.

Schmalz acquires the Swedish company Binar Handling and its four subsidiaries in Europe and Asia, thereby strengthening its market position in ergonomic handling technology.

Incoming orders, turnover and the number of employees are growing rapidly. The company is also optimistic for the current year.

The Bremen-based system house Armbruster has launched a fundamentally new software version of its Elam worker guidance system, which now goes far beyond assembly.
Faster processes in logistics and production are among the greatest promises associated with the Internet of Things. IoT consultant Timm Huber from Comarch explains how asset tracking can be technically implemented and what legal aspects need to be considered.

With seamless control over operating resources in warehouses and production, asset tracking will become one of the leading technologies in German companies in the future. IoT consultant Timm Huber from Comarch shows you how to organize asset tracking in five steps.

After strong growth in 2021, Kuka plans to invest 800 million euros in research and development by 2025. The new iiQKA robot operating system is already being used by the first companies.

According to the Ifo Institute, the mood in the German economy has collapsed. The business climate index plummeted to 90.8 points in March, down from 98.5 points (seasonally adjusted) in February. Companies rate the business outlook as uncertain.