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Three new people will strengthen the top management level of Endress+Hauser in the future: The Board of Directors has appointed Dr. Mirko Lehmann, Prof. Dr. Katja Windt and Helena Svensson to the Group's Executive Board.
read more...The mechanical engineering industry wants to keep production in Germany and Europe. However, better location conditions are urgently needed to prevent research, production and therefore innovation from migrating, it was stated at the association's annual press conference on December 9, 2025.
read more...More and more large-scale factories for the production of batteries are getting on in years and need to be modernized. These brownfield investments also offer significant new business opportunities for the European mechanical and plant engineering industry - the study "Battery Manufacturing 2030+: From Hype to Hard Truths" by VDMA and Porsche Consulting shows which ones.
read more...ESTIA to strengthen Europe's cloud
Twelve companies, including Dassault Systèmes, are founding the European Sovereign Tech Industry Alliance (ESTIA). The initiative aims to strengthen Europe's technological independence and define requirements for sovereign cloud services. The start is 2026.
read more...The global markets for electronic components and assemblies are experiencing strong growth. After a challenging 2023, the latest figures from the ZVEI show a clear recovery for 2024 and 2025: double-digit sales growth is expected worldwide.
read more...International Federation of Robotics
The 'Award for Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Robotics & Automation' (IERA) 2025 goes to Otto from Rockwell Automation, an autonomous mobile robot (AMR). Otto is the first AMR built to handle heavy loads in factories in robot fleets of more than 100 units.
read more...Incoming orders in the German machine tool industry fell by 5% in the third quarter of 2025. Domestic demand in particular fell sharply, while foreign orders remained stable. Dr. Markus Heering from the VDW explains the current trends and regional developments.
read more...Ubito, globally active in Wiegand energy harvesting technology and part of the internationally active Fraba Group, has announced that Dr. Gunther Kegel has joined the company's Advisory Council. As CEO of Pepperl+Fuchs for many years, Dr. Kegel has been a key figure in industrial automation for decades.
read more...With the Industrial AI Cloud in Munich, Deutsche Telekom and Nvidia are creating one of the largest AI factories in Europe. Companies can train AI models, carry out simulations and access 10,000 GPUs.
read more...Business calls for a reduction in bureaucracy
Nine leading business associations criticize the failure of Omnibus I in the European Parliament and call on the EU and the German government to swiftly implement the planned reduction in bureaucracy to ease the burden on companies.
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