Our success is built on strong market positions, innovation and flexible, efficient structures. The consistent, long-term orientation of our corporate strategy, coupled with decentralised responsibility for management and performance, ensures sustainable corporate development.
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Philip Mosimann, Chairman of the Board, and Jacques Sanche, Chief Executive Officer
Our mission
We develop and manufacture economical, state-of-the-art and environmentally sustainable machinery and systems. We systematically align our activities with customer needs. Our machines combine durability with great efficiency and are wide-ranging in their application: harvesting, producing and packaging foods, keeping roads and public spaces clean and safe, or providing hydraulic drive systems for high-performance equipment. Our customers benefit from effective, innovative products, with high quality standards underpinned by outstanding service. Our committed, highly skilled employees enjoy attractive jobs and training opportunities adapted to individual needs. We use resources with care and protect our environment.
Our goals
We seek to achieve superior profitability and a sound balance sheet through technological leadership, a strong market position and strict cost management. We will continue to build the Group through organic growth and innovation, as well as by acquiring and integrating selected, complementary businesses. We invest to reduce our ecological footprint.
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Corporate Profile 2021
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2020 in figures
Although 2020 was a difficult year, nevertheless our business developed overall robustly. Demand declined notably in the first half of 2020 as a consequence of the spread of COVID-19. A recovery set in at mid-year and gained momentum towards the end of the reporting period.
Sales
Operating
Production
in CHF million
Employees
profit margin
sites
2ʹ700
12ʹ600
7.4%
around 50
Sales by region
Asia
Sales in CHF million
27010%
Employees 1ʹ600
Americas
Sales in CHF million
61022%
Employees 2ʹ400
Sales by division
Bucher Emhart Glass
Sales in CHF million
42015%
Employees 1ʹ600
Bucher Hydraulics
Sales in CHF million
54020%
Employees 2ʹ500
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Other
Sales in CHF million
1606%
Employees 400
Europe
Sales in CHF million
(Switzerland: 130)
1ʹ700 62%
Employees 8ʹ200 (Switzerland: 1ʹ000)
Bucher Specials
Sales in CHF million
2709%
Employees 900
Kuhn Group
Sales in CHF million
1ʹ090 39%
Employees 5ʹ200
Bucher Municipal
Sales in CHF million
46017%
Employees 2ʹ300
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Bucher Industries AG is a Switzerland-based company engaged in the development and manufacture of machinery and equipment used for a range of purposes, such as harvesting, producing and packaging healthy foods, keeping cities clean and roads safe or hydraulic systems. The Companyâs operations are structured into five segments: specialized agricultural machinery (Kuhn Group); municipal vehicles (Bucher Municipal, including the subsidiary J. Hvidtved Larsen A/S); hydraulic components (Bucher Hydraulics); manufacturing equipment for the glass container industry (Emhart Glass); systems and technologies for the production of wine, fruit juice and instant products, and for dewatering sewage sludge, as well as a distributorship for tractors and agricultural machinery in Switzerland (Bucher Specials). On March 28, 2014, it acquired Montana, a Brazilian manufacturer of crop sprayers and fertilizer spreaders, specializing in self-propelled crop sprayers.
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