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LPKF reports strategic successes and narrowly achieves forecast for 2023 financial year - Seite 2

The Management Board believes that LPKF has made good progress towards achieving its strategic corporate targets in key areas in the 2023 financial year. “We have made significant progress with our integration in the semiconductor market and entered the biotech market for the first time with a new product. In the Electronics segment, we also massively stepped up our market penetration for the high-precision depaneling of printed circuit boards,” said Klaus Fiedler, Chief Executive Officer of LPKF SE.

In the company’s core area, business in laser systems for printed circuit board depaneling fared very well. The targets for 2023 were achieved and further growth is expected. The Development segment also again performed well in 2023 as a whole. LPKF is a market leader in Rapid PCB Prototyping. The company’s first and oldest segment has enjoyed steady and very solid, profitable performance for many years.

The Welding segment fell short of expectations in the financial year. This stemmed primarily from delays in follow-up orders from various medical technology customers and the sales performance in individual regions. To address this, countermeasures were established and implemented during the financial year. In addition, LPKF also started key collaboration projects with customers in cutting-edge markets in 2023.

Thanks to high global demand for renewable energies, the Solar segment is enjoying strong growth. The major new order in this segment announced by the company a few days ago is testimony to this. LPKF is the market leader in structuring thin-film solar modules and is also actively involved in developing and producing methods for processing new semiconductors such as perovskites.

LPKF has achieved significant progress in new technologies. Several LIDE systems (Laser Induced Deep Etching) are in operational use. “Leading chip manufacturers want and will have to use glass substrates in the future to make high-performance chips, for example for AI applications, and so they are increasingly pushing ahead with this technology,” said Fiedler. “We firmly believe that our LIDE technology will play a key role here as we can offer our customers a high level of process maturity and tangible evidence of performance.” The company has been working with major global players for several years to make glass usable for the semiconductor and display industry.