
The semiconductor boom is becoming a central support for the laser specialist in difficult times.
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Since the record financial year 2022/23, Trumpf has lost around one billion euros in sales and cut around 1,000 jobs.
Stuttgart, Munich. The laser specialist Trumpf is investing in business with the chip industry. The boom in the semiconductor business becomes the company's central support in difficult times. It will probably be a few years before the semiconductor sector becomes Trumpf's largest division. “But in terms of incoming orders and sales forecasts, he is proportionally the leader,” says technical director Berthold Schmidt.
The project is more than just a simple growth project. Since the record financial year 2022/23, the company has lost around one billion euros in sales. CEO Nicola Leibinger-Kammüller has cut around 1,000 jobs in the past year and a half, mostly in Germany.
In an interview with Handelsblatt, the head of technology reveals exclusively how much Trumpf will increase production capacities, what role the chip supplier ASML plays in all this and which business areas are also promising. New jobs are also being created in Germany.

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