
Still on a growth path
The Balluff Group successfully concluded the 2016 financial year with a 3.3% increase in sales. After the double-digit growth leap in 2015, the management is satisfied with the growth in 2016.
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The Balluff Group successfully concluded the 2016 financial year with a 3.3% increase in sales. After the double-digit growth leap in 2015, the management is satisfied with the growth in 2016.

After a weaker financial year in 2016, the electrical engineering company Weidmüller has started 2017 with a record result in the first quarter.

The Wago Group increased its turnover by 6.4% in the 2016 financial year. The European market was a particular growth driver, while the BRIC countries played a more subordinate role.

Phoenix Contact has announced its figures for 2016. According to the figures, the Blomberg-based group of companies was able to increase its turnover by 3.2% last year. This year, the 2 billion euro mark is set to be reached.

As part of their internationalization strategy, Turck and Banner Engineering have founded their first Asian joint venture in Singapore.

The symbolic ground-breaking ceremony for Weidmüller's new, almost 12,000 square meter Customer & Technology Center (CTC) took place in Detmold on 23 February - one of the largest investment projects in the company's history.

Bosch, Vodafone and Huawei are testing the new LTE-V2X technology live on the test track of the A9 highway near Allershausen. The new mobile communications technology enables the direct and instantaneous exchange of information between vehicles.

MSC Technologies has introduced the PAN1761 Bluetooth Smart / NFC module from Panasonic, which is based on the "TC35xxx" chipsets from Toshiba.

As a pioneer of PC-based automation, Beckhoff is bringing even more power to the DIN rail from next year. At SPS IPC Drives 2016, the company is announcing new embedded PCs that operate with up to twelve CPU cores.
For the first time this year, Pilz gave all visitors to the SPS IPC Drives trade fair in Nuremberg a glimpse of the innovations of the coming years - we also took a look around!