Importers and local manufacturers of instrumentation, as a result, sound confident in their forecasts for the coming years. It may explain why virtually all manufacturers of some significance worldwide maintain subsidiaries in Switzerland or are well represented. Japanese producers, in particular, have a reputation for using the Swiss market for this purpose. Local competition grew considerably in the past years and has eroded somewhat the formerly strong position of U.S. manufacturers. Competitive pressure is particularly strong in the fields of inductive flow meters, liquid level instruments, spectrometric, conductivity, pH, O2, and other probe type, ion selective analyzers.
German exporters are among the main players.
They take advantage of their proximity and the fact that they have an excellent knowledge of the market. Der Verwaltungsrat beantragt der Generalversammlung vom 16. Pr sidium des Verwaltungsrates. At the annual Swisslog press conference, CEO Juhani Anttila announced a large order by IKEA worth CHF 52 million. On the same date Konrad Peter will succeed Truls D. Berg as Chairman of the Board.