Strategy

Profitable growth, digitization and agility are our strategic priorities.

To successfully capitalize on diverse growth opportunities, we have explained how we are accelerating digitization and increasing our agility in addition to our strategic priorities – and outlined the three core areas below.

Drive profitable growth

We can only meet the needs of customers, employees and society if we are a company that is growing. One of the most important prerequisites is the enhancement of our market positions and the segmentation of markets and customers.

To complement organic growth, at Datwyler we continue to focus on acquisitions that open up new regions, technologies or market segments for us. The expansion of healthcare production capacities in the US and India or the acquisitions of Parco in the US and Bins in Brazil are good examples of our growth strategy.

Achievements

Focus on market and core competencies
Expanded manufacturing capacity for high-value components

Objectives

Intensify early project engagement and co-engineering
Significantly increase the number of new product lines

Accelerate digitization

Datwyler wants to be proactive in using the new opportunities and prospects of digitization as a competitive advantage. By making targeted investments in ICT systems and applications, we increase the efficiency of business processes, improve data quality, increase IT security and facilitate collaboration within the company and with our customers.

For example, we use big data for proactive customer analysis in the distribution business or for forward-looking maintenance in the plants of the Sealing Solutions corporate division.

Achievements

First fully digitalized plant (FirstLline™ plant in the USA)
Achieved automation of group-wide business processes

Objectives

Rapidly expand level of automation and industry 4.0 approach in all regions and markets

Increase agility

The increasingly rapid changes in markets and overall conditions call for speed, flexibility and adaptability. The basis of our values, the declaration “We are entrepreneurs”, is the ideal foundation for an agile and innovative organization.

Our structure enables us to delegate decision-making powers to the individual market to the greatest extent possible. This makes it easy for our customers to do business with us.

Achievements

Introduced a new leadership culture to drive people empowerment
Established a global network to drive and support agile ways of working

Objectives

Speed up decision-making
Continue to build a self-learning organization

Increased agility changing market environment

Employee Spotlight

Increased agility to respond to changing market environment.

The market environment is more dynamic than ever and requires a company to act in an agile way. I am proud of working at Datwyler which responds to the market in a proactive way and helps our Mobility partners to be successful thanks to our advanced material, design, and manufacturing excellence.
SungChul Jung, Site Director, Daegu (KR)