Leybold: Operating under new name

GERMANY Since January 1, 2015, Leybold Optics GmbH is operating as Bühler Alzenau GmbH. The company, which has been a business area of the Bühler Group since May 2012, is thus concluding its successful integration into the Swiss Group in a manner that is visible externally, too. The Alzenau-based specialist for vacuum coating technologies has benefited in many ways from the incorporation into the multinational Bühler Group. This allowed significant business growth in the current fiscal year and a record number of orders received in 2014 in market segments such as Optics, Automotive, Web and Glass.

Following the change of name, Leybold Optics remains a component of corporate communications. “The legal unit is renamed,” explains Antonio Requena, who has 25 years of experience at Leybold Optics and has been Managing Director of Leybold Optics since 2013, “but the tradition-rich name continues to be used in the names of our well known machines and in our business area within Bühler Group.”

After the consolidation of the business in Alzenau and the integration of the subsidiaries into the Bühler Group the strategy of the business area will be retained, Antonio Requena emphasizes. However, Bühler is striving to strengthen the ties within the “Advanced Materials” corporate area to fully exploit synergies. Further restructuring measures due to the name change are not planned. Antonio Requena: “As part of Bühler, we are stronger than ever before. Even more important than the name are our values – satisfied customers, sustainability, motivated employees, profitability and growth – which remain the same and that we can continue to drive forward with Bühler.”