Beckhoff’s product vary covers industrial PCs, I/O and fieldbus parts, drive expertise, automation software program, management cabinet-free automation, and {hardware} for machine imaginative and prescient. | Supply: Beckhoff Automation
Beckhoff Automation this month reported gross sales of €1.17 billion within the 2024 monetary yr, which is equal to round $1.33 billion. This was a pointy decline of 33% in contrast with the corporate’s 2023 annual results of €1.75 billion.
The Verl, Germany-based industrial automation supplier stated it anticipated this decline in gross sales after a increase from 2021 to 2023. Throughout these years, Beckhoff noticed 80% cumulative progress. A big market correction adopted this development in 2024.
“That is my sixth disaster in 45 years of enterprise, and nearly all of them have adopted a really comparable sample,” acknowledged Hans Beckhoff, proprietor and managing director of Beckhoff Automation. “You may ensure that there shall be a restoration, however it’s a must to deal with the disaster head-on and see it as a possibility for innovation and optimization!”
Industrial robotic gross sales within the U.S. had been gradual final yr, in line with the Affiliation for Advancing Automation (A3). Equally, the Worldwide Federation of Robotics (IFR) warned in January 2025 that Germany’s robotics trade had “misplaced competitiveness.”
Beckhoff stated its technological achievements embody the PC-based management expertise idea, the bus terminal, and the ultra-fast EtherCAT communication system that’s now a global customary. Additionally they embody the XTS and XPlanar product-transport techniques and the MX-System as a pluggable system for management cabinet-free automation.
Beckhoff expands U.S. presence
In September 2024, Beckhoff opened a brand new regional workplace within the better Atlanta space. It stated this new facility will enhance its gross sales, assist, and coaching capabilities.
The corporate presently has a presence in additional than 75 nations through its subsidiaries, consultant places of work, and distributors. With U.S. headquarters in Savage, Minn., Beckhoff plans to make focused investments in its native market presence. It additionally plans to strengthen its international place in progress markets and sustainable future markets, such because the vitality provide sector.
Beckhoff stated it already provides clever automation and measurement expertise for vitality distribution, switch, and storage. It permits all vitality flows to be recorded and vitality techniques to be managed.
The corporate acknowledged that geopolitical uncertainty is posing further challenges this yr. Nevertheless, incoming orders are presently exhibiting indicators of restoration, it claimed.
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R&D, international attain might enhance future gross sales
Trying forward, Beckhoff stated it believes it has already bottomed out. The family-run expertise firm plans to proceed specializing in steady innovation and high-tech engineering to be able to lay the inspiration for future progress.
“Our prospects’ warehouses are slowly emptying, and we anticipate them to have used up their additional shares by the primary quarter of 2025, on the newest,” predicted Hans Beckhoff.
The corporate is planning new product launches for software program and PC-based management expertise. Its analysis and growth capabilities are boosted by its 5,300 staff worldwide, together with about 2,000 engineers. As well as, Beckhoff invests €80 million ($90.9 million U.S.) per yr in R&D.
“We’re intent on additional increasing our place as a world automation expertise firm,” added Hans Beckhoff. “We stay devoted to our mission of evolving our portfolio with robust developments yearly and introducing revolutionary new expertise each 5 to seven years.”
