The tools companies supply customers in the automotive manufacturing and automotive supplier industry and metal manufacturing companies, particularly in the mechanical and plant engineering sector. They sell products from the areas of metal cutting, clamping technology, test and measurement equipment, hand tools, operating equipment, grinding, industrial safety and power tools.

• Focus on improving employee productivity
• Strengthening of the private brand ATORN® by way of marketing measures and the expansion of the product range
• Above-average sales growth in e-business and expansion of e-business expertise by stepping up investments, for example in e-business specialists within sales
• Continued positive outlook in the consulting-intensive areas of test and measurement technology, operating equipment and metal cutting thanks to a high level of expertise in application technology
• VDMA (German Engineering Federation) outlook for 2018: real production growth of three percent in the mechanical engineering sector