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With the goal of revolutionizing quality assurance through machine vision, Norbert Basler founded the company in 1988. Today, his vision is clearly visible to everyone: Basler is the world market leader in industrial cameras with annual sales of over € 150 million and an ambitious growth strategy for the future.

Prior to the opening of the 16th EMVA Business Conference, the General Assembly of the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) on 07 June, 2018 in Dubrovnik has unanimously elected EMVA’s new Board of Directors which for the upcoming three-year term consists of nine members, two more than in the previous election period.

IMTS – The International Manufacturing Technology Show, held at the McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois, USA, from 10-15 September, 2018

Turck and Banner Engineering take over previous sales partners RET Automation Controls in South Africa.

Endress+Hauser increased sales and profit in 2017. The Group benefited from stronger industry conditions and introduced a wide range of product innovations, including the first digital services offering. Numerous new hires, substantial investments and great strides in the area of sustainability underscore the Group’s balanced growth.

To improve customer support for the Portuguese market, Endress+Hauser has invested 800,000 euros in the construction of a sales office building near the capital city of Lisbon. The Group has been present in Portugal since 2002 through its own sales subsidiary.

B&R is investing in its Gilgenberg site, located a few kilometers from the B&R headquarters in Eggelsberg. The expansion adds new offices, training rooms and production space. A new logistics hall has also been opened at the site.

Kastas Sealing Technologies, manufacturer of sealing elements, officially opened its new headquarters and production facilities in Izmir, Turkey. More than 600 business partners joined the ceremony.

The Lapp family, the owners of the Lapp Group, started planning for the generational change at an early stage. At Lapp, that is simply part of the response to rapid social and economic change. This change entails enormous adjustments for the family-owned company as well as the economy at large. Since 2017, the third generation of the Lapp family has also been taking up responsibility within the company.

The ongoing wars in its neighboring countries, the reignited conflict with the Kurds, foreign policy tensions and internal political polarization do not really provide a very good framework for the Turkish national economy. However, appearances can be deceiving, the economy is continuing to boom even if it has slowed down a little. After all, UniCredit has predicted substantial growth of 3.5 % for 2018 and 2019. What are the consequences for mechanical engineering?