In an interview with open automation, a trade magazine, Hans Beckhoff discusses the company's positive economic progress, new product highlights and the measures that Beckhoff is taking to maintain its good positioning in all sectors in the future.

This year, 33 new apprentices started their professional futures at Beckhoff. Programming automation software, producing high-tech components, automating state-of-the-art production facilities, organizing projects, coordinating business processes – the professional fields on offer in an automation technology company are diverse and future-oriented.

This year, 31 students started their work-integrated bachelor’s degree programs at Beckhoff in Verl. The new intake once again demonstrates the great success of the training model at the Gütersloh Campus of Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences as well as the promising focus on technological developments and the needs of the labor market.

The rapid and dynamic growth of the technology company presents some major challenges. By the middle of the year, Beckhoff will expand its production capacities in Verl and the surrounding area by more than 50% compared to the beginning of 2020.

Beckhoff Automation increases sales to 1,182 billion euros in 2021.