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The wild ride that was already looming economically at the beginning of the year is slowly turning into a full-blown rodeo. The conflicts in the Middle East continue to escalate, and the consequences of unchecked escalation are almost impossible to predict.

The German government's draft energy policy can make you nervous. The idea that industrial companies could adapt their electricity consumption to the availability of renewable energies in the future with a little good will has something highly infantile about it. This would mean that on days with…

The low interest rate policy has changed investment behavior significantly since 2015. When bank balances cost money, investors are willing to do many things. Now, in the midst of one of the most difficult economic phases in recent decades - not only nationally, but also globally - the timing for…

The excessive need to handle ever new dead ends and cliffs has characterized the day-to-day business and future strategies of companies, not only in the surface technology industry, for far too long now. In particular, the signals and strategies of politics with regard to the energy crisis…

From tunnel boring machines to dump trucks and large excavators - is a feast for the eyes of fans of strong and large machines.

Germany as a business location is currently asking a lot of its companies. Given that the state's revenues and those of its citizens depend on functioning companies, dragging out the decision on the continued operation of the remaining nuclear power plants is a high-stakes ideological game.

More than half of 2022 is now behind us - and the euphoria that still prevailed in the spring that we had the worst we could imagine as a society behind us has long since been smothered in the realization that we now have multiple, overlapping and mutually reinforcing crises.

Even if the pandemic is not yet over, there are promising prospects for a sustained economic recovery in 2022 and 2023. Finally - light at the end of the tunnel!

The history of technology is full of trend reversals. Being positive about progress and promoting it sometimes takes effort, especially in turbulent transition phases - but in the medium and long term, there is no alternative for a successful future.

There doesn't seem to be much left of the former principle of "the customer is king" and common sense in the current media and discourse landscape. The message seems to be more and more: Take responsibility yes, feasibility doesn't matter.