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In the first six months (October 2020 to the end of March 2021) of the current financial year 2020/2021, the Voith Group continued to develop positively, despite a very challenging market environment partly due to the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A combination of strong market demand and global expansion at Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group (WMFTG) has resulted in significant investments in manufacturing capacity for several of the Group’s businesses.

Endress+Hauser weathered the 2020 pandemic year well. Despite declining sales, the company, which specializes in measurement and automation technology, maintained profitability at a high level and strengthened its financial power.

In the Corona pandemic year of 2020 of all things, the balance sheet of the special centrifugal pump manufacturer Bungartz looks better than ever before. With a turnover of €10.7 million, the company – which is also considered to be a problem-solver among pump manufacturers – can look back on the best result in the company’s history ever.

In the financial year 2020, the Wilo Group has managed to achieve a currency-adjusted sales growth of 1.8 percent despite the difficult conditions caused by the pandemic and the economy. Sales revenues amounted to approx. 1.5 billion euros.

Brown Brothers Engineers continues to develop its businesses in the Oceania region. In 2020, the company showed strong growth and finished the year poised for further expansion.

KSB, the Frankenthal-based manufacturer of pumps and valves, is satisfied with the 2020 financial year, even though order intake, sales revenue and earnings were down on the strong prior year due to the repercussions of the coronavirus pandemic.

After having been significantly impacted by COVID-19 during the first half of 2020, Grundfos returned to stronger sales traction in the second half of 2020 with sales only 1.0 percent below 2019.

International technology group ANDRITZ saw solid business development in the 2020 business year in spite of the global economic crisis triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic.

In 2020, GEA further strengthened its operational results and its financial and net asset position in a highly challenging economic environment. Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, both order intake (EUR 4,703 million) and revenue (EUR 4,635 million) declined only slightly.