Business overview
- Oerlikon Balzers Coating
- The Oerlikon Balzers Coating segment recorded excellent operating results in 2006. Strong demand was reflected in a marked increase in orders to CHF 1 195 million, an increase of 86 percent compared to the previous year. [more]
- Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum
- The segment Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum was able to achieve excellent results in every respect in 2006. Sales increased by 12 percent to CHF 430 million, thereby achieving more than three times the general market growth of around 4 percent. [more]
- Oerlikon Saurer Textile
- In the financial year 2006, this segment, with its five Business Units, achieved new orders of CHF 2.3 billion. This is 37 percent higher than the prior year total of CHF 1.7 billion (adjusted for acquisitions and currency effects plus 25 percent). [more]
- Oerlikon Graziano Drive Systems
- Following the acquisition of Fairfield Manufacturing Inc. in February 2006, Oerlikon Graziano Drive Systems is now the international market leader for special transmissions, complete drive systems, planetary gears and loose gears, with sites in Western and Eastern Europe, the USA, India and China. [more]
- Oerlikon Components
- With an 8 percent increase in sales from CHF 416 million (2005) to CHF 450 million (2006), an operating profit of CHF 59 million and an EBIT margin of 13 percent, the Oerlikon Components segment achieved good results in 2006. [more]
