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Bühler increases EBIT margin
Swiss engineering group Bühler achieved an increased EBIT margin of 8.0% in 2025 despite challenging market conditions. With innovations, global presence and sustainable solutions, the company is focusing on stability and future viability.
Swiss engineering group Bühler delivered an impressive performance in 2025 despite a challenging global environment. With an EBIT margin of 8.0% (previous year: 7.6%), the company increased its profitability. Although sales declined by 4.4% in local currencies, Bühler offset this decline through strict cost discipline, productivity-enhancing measures and operational efficiency.
CEO Stefan Scheiber, who was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors at the end of 2025, emphasised the importance of innovation and customer focus: ‘We have demonstrated our strength by continuously developing innovations for our customers and investing in future growth.’ Targeted investments in research and development accounted for 4.8% of sales, and around 60 new products were launched.
Broad solution portfolio as a success factor
Bühler’s business units performed differently. While Grains & Food recorded an encouragingly positive year with stable orders and market share gains, Advanced Materials was impacted by weak investment momentum in the automotive industry and uncertainties in Europe. The Grinding & Dispersing division was particularly successful, achieving order growth of 51.0% thanks to projects in the battery, ink and coatings sectors.
A key growth driver was Customer Service, whose share of total sales rose to 38.3% (previous year: 35.4%). The number of long-term service contracts grew from 2,500 to over 3,000. Bühler supports more than 30,000 customers worldwide who can increase their efficiency and sustainability with Bühler’s technologies.
Sustainability and Networking Days 2025
A highlight of the year was Networking Days 2025, which brought together 1,000 leaders from business, science and politics to discuss solutions for reducing energy, waste, water and CO₂e emissions. The company presented technologies that already enable a reduction of at least 50% in eleven industrial value chains. At the same time, the company reduced its own emissions by 30% compared to 2019.
With a clear focus on sustainable innovations and a solid financial basis, Bühler is optimistic about the future. The company expects markets to remain volatile in 2026, but considers itself well positioned.
