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Ditzingen, August 2, 2006 – The TRUMPF Group closed its fiscal year 2005/06 on June 30, 2006 with record sales and record orders received. Sales rose by 18 percent to 1.65 billion Euros / 2.01 billion US-Dollars. The laser and machine tool manufacturer realized an even bigger growth in orders received: approximately 20 percent to 1.76 billion Euros / 2.14 billion US-Dollars. In October 2006 the technology group will publish the final figures and results.
”After an excellent year we expect to have another good year”, said Dr. Nicola Leibinger-Kammüller optimistically. Dr. Leibinger-Kammüller became president of the TRUMPF Group in November 2005. TRUMPF grew worldwide. Strongest indications of this growth came from Eastern Europe, Northern America and Asia. Also in Western Europe and Germany demand increased. The machine tools and electronics business fields were motors to the positive development. Also the laser technology, medical technology and power tools business fields partly achieved considerable sales growth. The fourth consecutive growth year resulted in 450 new jobs worldwide. This is a plus of seven percent. In Germany, growth was about five percent. At the end of fiscal 2005/06 TRUMPF employed about 6,500 people, more than 4,000 of whom were in Germany. Expenditure on fixed assets reached 82 million Euros / 100 million US-Dollars and exceeded the last year’s figure by about 50 percent. The group expands its capacities at nine locations, among them Ditzingen, Freiburg, (both Germany) and Seoul (Korea).
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