Innovation in Food Manufacturing: Bühler’s Annual Report

Plant equipment manufacturer Bühler focuses its operations on manufacturing for foods and advanced materials.

With operations in more than 140 countries, it leads innovation in sectors such as animal feed, confectionery, cosmetics and electronics.

It has released its 2025 Annual Report – Multiplying Impact Together – which showcases its efforts to advance its performance, profitability and sustainability.

Building positive impact

Across 2025, Bühler aimed to stay resilient and adaptable amid global challenges, using its portfolio of products and services to build long-term value.

In its report, it says that it strengthened its ecosystem with strategic investments in manufacturing, digital services, education and innovation.

“The year 2025 was characterised by uncertainty leading to ongoing market volatility,” say outgoing Chairman Calvin Grieder and outgoing CEO Stefan Scheiber. “Increasing trade barriers and a cautious investment climate shaped the global investment goods landscape.

“Despite this, Bühler continued to invest, showing resilience, foresight and agility. With our extensive, innovative product range, strong customer service and worldwide presence, we managed to capture opportunities in growing markets and expand our market share in key segments of our business.

“We also continued to progress our AI capabilities and enhance our digital and automation services for our customers’ benefit. All this was made possible by our focus on cost discipline and productivity improvement, which helped us improve our profitability as well as our balance sheet.”

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Bühler’s food and materials solutions in 2025

Bühler’s Annual Report details its success in key sectors, showing how it has put itself into a robust financial position.

Its portfolio of solutions helped provide the foundation for its market strength in 2025, with its two businesses reflecting their respective market dynamics.

Bühler’s Grains & Food business gained market share in several segments, while its Advanced Materials business continued to be affected by the global slowing of the automotive and battery markets.

After two years of restrained investments in chocolate and coffee following record-high cocoa prices, 2025 saw new investments in local cocoa processing facilities. 

This allowed Bühler’s Chocolate & Coffee segment to rise by 31% in order intake.

Despite a decline in orders in Advanced Materials, Bühler secured new projects in all of its materials businesses areas.

This sector was heavily impacted in 2025 by weak investment activity in the automotive sector, uncertainties across Europe and increased competition in China.

Sustainability at Bühler

In 2025, Bühler achieved a 19% reduction in energy consumption, compared to its 2019 baseline.

It also had a 30% reduction in Scope 1 and 2 emissions in the same timeframe.

A core element of its sustainability strategy is innovating for land-sparing technologies to work against biodiversity loss and climate change.

It aims to do this through building a sustainable protein supply and increasing the circularity of biomass.

With Bühler’s solutions helping to feed an estimated 2 billion people, it is helping to enable its customers to reduce their environmental footprint through product use.

This involves developing solutions and services that improve efficiency and yield and that reduce energy, waste and water use.

Bühler aims to optimise the entire value chain of its offerings, from raw materials to the end product.

The company aims to reduce its footprint through collaboration with suppliers, creating a roadmap to guide its work.

Bühler works on launching engagement campaigns, collecting data on supplier emissions and targets and assessing climate monitoring progress.

Jay O’Nien, Group Sustainability Officer at Bühler, said on LinkedIn: “Sustainability has been a company-wide effort at Bühler for many years.

“There is much to do, but we’re in a strong position to support more companies to achieve their business and sustainability goals and to ensure the sustainability of our own operations.”