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
