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Digital Industries increased incoming orders by 13% to 4.8 billion euros, while sales grew by 10% to 4.5 billion euros. New volumes from the acquisitions of Altair and Dotmatics outweighed strong negative currency effects. Incoming orders and sales increased in all regions, particularly in the USA and China. Earnings rose by 37% to 804 million euros, with a margin of 17.8%. Currency effects, personnel restructuring expenses and integration costs of 35 million euros, which reduced the margin by 0.7 percentage points, had a negative impact.