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 | We are a future-minded company | We want to take an active part in creating the future and be much faster and better than our competitors. Our great competence in engineering and service is based on decades of experience. |
 | We are partners to our customers | Our activities are geared to maximizing customer benefit. We strive for long-term customer relationships in a spirit of partnership. This is why we offer customers efficient system solutions which impress with their forward-looking technology, quality, reliability, professional after-sales service and comprehensive general services. |
 | We are market leaders in our core business segments | Our future lies in a high degree of utilization of our market potential. We achieve it by extending the product range and expanding our service offering. As a matter of principle we operate only in business segments in which we already hold a position of leadership or can build up such a position within a reasonable period of time. |
 | Our activities are
value-oriented | Our goal is to remain economically independent. To secure and extend our market position we give priority to sound growth based on our own efforts. We strive for returns which always are clearly above the industry average and ensure our financial strength. This way we lastingly enhance the value of the company, enable our companies to generate appropriate returns, and enable our employees to secure their jobs along with sharing in the profits. |
 | Our employees are the foundation of the company’s success | We attain outstanding results because of the great willingness of every individual to work and to learn, by being open to constant change, and through the courage to try out new things. And we reward these qualities accordingly. We continually promote our employees and make it possible for them to develop and make optimum use of their potential. Our corporate culture is characterized by innovative spirit, capacity for teamwork, exemplary leadership and mutual respect. |
 | Innovations are the driving force of company performance | Through close cooperation with our customers we permanently initiate new ideas for innovations in technology and services and in so doing secure ourselves the necessary competitive advantages. |
 | We accept social responsibility | We act in a responsible way towards society and the environment and, with our innovative products, help to improve the quality of life. Wherever we do business we make allowance for the national culture. |
