
Strong growth in the 2018 financial year
The Wago Group closed 2018 with growth of 8.1% and is also expecting growth in the mid-single-digit percentage range for the current financial year.
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The Wago Group closed 2018 with growth of 8.1% and is also expecting growth in the mid-single-digit percentage range for the current financial year.

Turck is expanding the 'TBEN-S' I/O module family with a variant for serial interfaces. The TBEN-S-2COM connects devices with RS232 or RS485 interfaces directly in the field to controllers with the Profinet, Ethernet/IP or Modbus TCP protocols.

At the Hanover Industrial Trade Fair, Wago presented the 'Topjob S' terminal blocks with two new actuation variants: Push-button and lever. The latter enables handling without any tools.
In the 2017 financial year, the Wago Group recorded the best sales result in its 66-year history. With an increase of 13%, the company not only exceeded its target, but also achieved the largest increase in sales in the last seven years.

TE Connectivity (TE), a provider of connectivity and sensor solutions, has entered into negotiations with ABB to acquire ABB's Entrelec brand terminal block business.
Beckhoff / Hannover Messe 2017
Beckhoff continued to grow in 2016, albeit not quite as excessively as in the previous year. The entry into the process industry should provide new impetus.

The FIO Safety I/O 4DI/2DO safety Ethercat terminal from Kuhnke is a digital input/output terminal with four safe input channels and two safe output channels.

Klippon Connect is the name of Weidmüller's terminal blocks and process-supporting services, which are designed to enable time savings of up to 75% in engineering, consistently error-free wiring and faster marking processes.

The servo terminals for the Ethercat terminal system from Beckhoff integrate a complete servo drive for highly dynamic positioning tasks in the standard terminal housing.
On the occasion of the development of a new generation of terminal blocks, Weidmüller is reorganizing its entire product portfolio under the name 'Klippon Connect'. The topic of control current distribution has also been further developed in this context.