Bühlerat a glance.

Facts and figures 2014.

2 Bühler at a glance.

Corporate profile.

Bühler makes a significant contribution to global food supplies with its industrial process technologies and solutions. Around 65 % of the wheat harvested worldwide is turned into flour on Bühler mills. The company’s contribution to the global production and processing of rice, pasta, chocolate, and breakfast cereals is equally substantial. Further-more, Bühler is the leading supplier of solutions for die casting, wet grinding, and coating technology with a focus on applications in the auto-motive industry, optics, electronics, paints, packaging, and glass tech-nology. As a technology group, Bühler invests up to 5 % of its turnover in research and development each year. Bühler covers the entire value creation chain, from consulting and engineering to construction and commissioning of machines and plants, right through to extensive maintenance and optimization services and training programs.

Bühler is proud of the Swiss heritage that has underpinned its work from its beginnings over 150 years ago to today, when the company has become a global player operating in nearly 140 countries. With around 10,600 employees, the company generates turnover of CHF 2.3 billion and is aiming to sustain its profitable growth. As a family company, Bühler is particularly committed to sustainability. With its industrial process technologies and solutions, Bühler is helping to ensure that everyone around the world will always have access to a safe, healthy, and affordable food supply, while also setting standards with regard to en-ergy efficiency and sustainable mobility. Bühler regards itself as a partner for industry and science, but also governments, helping to tackle global challenges resulting from population growth and climate change. Bühler places great emphasis on providing high-quality training and continuing education for its employees and currently has around 600 trainees in Switzerland, the USA, and Asia.

3Key Figures.

Key Figures 2014.Business.

In CHF m 2014 Change in % 2013 2012

Order intake 2,582 9.3 2,363 2,345

Order backlog 31.12. 1,582 19.9 1,319 1,347

Sales revenue 2,332 0.5 2,322 2,409

EBITDA 205 –4.7 215 218

EBITDA margin in % 8.8 9.3 9.1

EBIT 145 3.7 139 168

EBIT margin in % 6.2 6.0 7.0

Net profit 121 –1.5 123 155

Net profit in % 5.2 5.3 6.4

Investments in tangible and intangible assets 58 – 34.7 88 82

R&D costs 99 – 8.9 109 104

R&D costs in % 4.2 4.7 4.3

Equity ratio 45.2 44.6 41.2

Net liquidity 464 377 317

Return on Net Operating Assets in % (RONOA) 18.1 17.6 27.1

Employees as of December 31 (exclusive of temporary staff and apprentices) 10,575 –0.8 10,659 10,346

Apprentices as of December 31 596 6.2 561 576

Sales.

Group.

Sales revenue ( in CHF m )

2012 2013 2014

Order intake ( in CHF m )

2012 2013 2014

EBIT ( in CHF m )

2012 2013 2014

Net profit ( in CHF m )

2012 2013 2014

2,3322,3222,4092,582

2,3632,345

145139

168

121123

155

by Business

1 Grain Milling (31%)

2 Grain Logistics (7 %)

3 SORTEX & Rice (9 %)

4 Value Nutrition (21%)

5 Consumer Foods (12 %)

6 Die Casting (12 %)

7 Grinding & Dispersion (3 %)

8 Leybold Optics (5 %)

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34

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7 8 by Region

1 North America (15 %)

2 South America (9 %)

3 Europe (31 %)

4 Middle East & Africa (15 %)

5 Asia (30 %)

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4 Bühler at a glance.

Grain Logistics.

Bühler Grain Logistics offers storage solutions, machin-ery and components throughout the entire food value-added chain – from an agricultural product’s reception through to the final stages of processing. Whether it’s a silo installation for harvesting purposes, a plant for grain trade, or a storage solution for the processing industry: Grain Logistics is a competent global partner providing individualized on-site customer service from conception to startup. With its knowledge and services, Grain Logis-tics sees to it that post-harvest losses, which are still occurring at an immense rate globally, are further re-duced and that fewer commodities go to waste. Further-more, with 75 % of all malt produced in plants provided by Bühler, Grain Logistics is the world -wide leading sup-plier of individually tailored malting systems.

Key end markets

– Grain Milling: flour and semolina– Industrial bakeries: dough and predough– Ingredient handling: mixes and premixes– Brewing plants: grist

Key end markets

– Collection points/reception of agricultural products– Grain handling terminals (inland and ports)– Mills (flour/rice/feed/edible oil)– Malting plants– Seed processing plants

Grain Milling.

The Grain Milling business area makes a significant contri-bution to global food supplies. Around 65 % of the wheat harvested worldwide is ground on Bühler mills. Grain Mill-ing offers its customers state-of-the-art process technol-ogy and innovative engineering for processing wheat, maize (corn), rye, oat, barley, millet/sorghum, buckwheat, and soybean. As a solution partner for its customers, the business area covers the entire value chain from consulta-tion to engineering, assembly, and commissioning, right through to main tenance, training, and continuing educa-tion. The business area also provides innovative plant concepts for the brewery and bakery markets. Bühler plants guarantee sensitive handling of valuable raw mate-rials and achieve the highest product quality and yield while making it possible to optimize production and staff-ing costs. The business area has a presence in 140 coun-tries and 40 of its own branches, and is active on all con-tinents.

Business Areas: Close to our Markets.

5Business Areas.

Sortex & Rice.

Bühler Sortex & Rice significantly contributes to global rice and pulses nutrition and additionally ensures and safe-guards food safety by unique proprietary sorting technology. As the global benchmark in optical sorting, SORTEX ad-vanced technology ensures that many crops are sorted with exceptional accuracy and speed. Defective grains and for-eign materials are rejected, while maximizing speed and yield and minimizing the loss of good grains. Our reputation for research and technology in the processing of rice by-products helps our customers to maximize value from every grain. In pulses, sesame, and spices processing, our col-laborative innovation approach aims to develop compre-hensive processing solutions along the pulses value chain from farm to plate. With landmark rice mill installations in every major rice geography, a global installed sorter base of over 25,000 machines and extensive capabilities including consultation, project management, installation, and start-ups, Sortex & Rice is the technology partner of choice for processors who value excellence.

Value Nutrition.

The Value Nutrition business area combines innovative pro-cess solutions for the food and animal feed industries and pays particular attention to the ever-increasing require-ments placed on valuable human and animal nutrition. As a result, Value Nutrition is the global solution partner for pro-ducers of food and animal feed: from pasta and noodles, cereals, and snacks to pet food and feed for fish, cattle, and poultry. The company’s contribution in this area is substan-tial: Around 40 % of global pasta production takes place on machines made by Bühler. It is also responsible for 35% of the world’s cereals and 20 % of its feedstuff. The core tech-nologies of Value Nutrition relate to the areas of extrusion and drying, both of which are ingrained in comprehensive expertise throughout the entire process. This allows Bühler to time and again set international standards in various ar-eas, including energy efficiency in the production process, for example.

Key end markets

– Rice processors and exporters– Processors in pulses, sesame, and spices– Nut, seed, grain, coffee, and fruit and vegetable processors

and exporters– PET plastic recycling

Key end markets

– Feed (cattle, poultry, swine), aqua feed, pet food– Pasta, Asian noodles– Breakfast cereals, snacks– Oil (soy, sunflower, canola)

6 Bühler at a glance.

Die Casting.

Bühler Die Casting is the global leading provider of alumi-num lightweight solutions to the automotive industry, supporting their efforts to reduce C0² emissions. Around 20 % of all cars drive with engine blocks made with Bühler equipment. The business area provides optimized die casting machines and cell solutions, fully integrated pro-cess controls, plant layout know-how as well as global service support and process knowledge. With a strong global service network, several application centers as well as its own production, machine revision and technol-ogy sites in Europe, Asia, and North America, Die Casting supports its customers in all phases of their investment, ensuring highest productivity and quality – from planning to startup and throughout the entire life cycle of the equipment.

Key end markets

– Cocoa– Chocolate– Coffee– Nuts

Key end markets

– Automotive, 2-wheelers– Electronics/electrical industry– Appliances/white goods– Buildings

Consumer Foods.

Consumer Foods contributes significantly to the world-wide production of cocoa, chocolate, coffee, and nuts. With a market share of 60 %, the business area has set standards in chocolate manufacturing and is committed to the conti nuous development of innovative technologies. The company is a complete product and service provider to the industry and covers every process stage with state-of-the-art produ ction systems. Bühler provides energy-efficient processes with maximum raw material yield and top product quality.

7Business Areas.

Grinding & Dispersion.

The production of inks, printed products, solar panels, or batteries for electric cars rely on equipment and solutions availabe from Bühler Grinding & Dispersion. Around 75 % of the silver paste used in solar panels is produced on Bühler equipment. Bühler Grinding & Dispersion offers comprehensive know-how and has the ability to deliver its customers tailor-made systems for complex process-es. As a technology partner for process engineering, Grinding & Dispersion has not only state-of-the-art ma-chines, but also complete solutions for the manufacture of highly advanced materials. Our continuous develop-ment enables our customers to manufacture better prod-ucts and be at the forefront with market innovations.

Leybold Optics.

With its vacuum deposition equipment, Bühler Leybold Op-tics contributes among other things to energy efficiency, comfort, and food preservation. Thin-film applied on our machines ranges from functional coatings for window glass to coatings for headlight reflectors as well as flexible pack-aging. Coatings for ophthalmic and precision optics prod-ucts such as lenses, lasers, or high-end telescopes com-plete the Leybold Optics product portfolio. Buildings with coated fassade glass require up to 50 % less energy for heating and cooling. The business area combines state-of-the-art equipment technology with comprehensive process and application know-how to offer customers complete production solutions.

Key end markets

– Offset and liquid inks– Materials for the electronics industry (eg. lithium-ion batteries,

metal pastes for semi-conductors)– High-value coatings

Key end markets

– Optics (precision and ophthalmic)– Architectural glass– Flexible packaging– Automotive industry

Global presence, close to our customers.

28 Production sites21 Engineering sites94 Sales & Service sites14 Application centers 3 Analytical laboratories

137 Sites worldwide *

10 North America14 South America44 Europe18 Middle East and Africa51 Asia

Regional sites

723 North America 407 South America4933 Europe 487 Middle East and Africa4025 Asia

Regional employees

* As some sites are multi-functional, the total number of sites is smaller than the total number of individual positions.

Main production sites

Uzwil Switzerland (head office)

Braunschweig Germany

Beilngries Germany

Zamberk Czech Republic

Wuxi China

Changzhou China

Bangalore India

Johannesburg South Africa

Minneapolis USA

Raleigh USA

Joinville Brazil

Bühler AGCH-9240 Uzwil, SwitzerlandT +41 71 955 11 11F +41 71 955 33 79www.buhlergroup.com