TRUMPF is 100 years old!

For my fellow board members and me, this is more than ever an opportunity to say thank you: Thank you to our customers and partners who have remained loyal to us for a century, in good times and in not-so-good times! Thank you to our more than 18,000 employees at more than 80 locations worldwide, who continued to work tirelessly for TRUMPF in the past 2022/23 fiscal year! Thank you to the many who have contributed their passion and imagination throughout our journey from a 'garage factory' in Stuttgart in 1923 to a global technology company!

Anniversaries are not a time to be nostalgic, but an incentive to look to the future. As we come to the end of our anniversary year, this annual report is nevertheless dedicated to the milestones in our corporate history. Optimism is a duty - a phrase that my father quoted throughout his life in reference to Erich Kästner's famous short novel "Fabian," set at the height of the Great Depression in the late 1920s. It applies all the more today, considering the future we face in a changing world.

The strength and adaptability of TRUMPF is exemplified in the fact that we were able to realize a very good fiscal year with an (albeit declining) order intake of 5.1 billion euros and rising sales of 5.4 billion euros, despite the still noticeable consequences of the Corona pandemic, supply chain problems and the consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. A pre-interest/pre-tax operating result of 615 million euros and a return of 11.5 percent round off the 2022/23 fiscal year.

I hope you enjoy this journey through 100 years of TRUMPF in words and pictures.

Nicola Leibinger-Kammüller