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News Edition: July 2025

Short Introduction

Since 1993, Robert Breitbach Consulting has been a retained executive search firm with a focus on technical industries and engineering.

With offices in Germany, Spain, Portugal, and Estonia, we specialize on assisting German, European and American companies in the search and selection of their executives and specialists.

About 70% of the search projects contain the keywords: "CEO, Managing Director, Country Manager, Business Development Manager or Expansions Manager". In addition, we have been able to fill many positions in the areas of sales, plant, and production management. Not to forget many significant engineering positions.

We are pleased that you take the time to visit our "News" page. Here we would like to inform you - updated monthly - about selected topics from this industry.

From the Almanac

The term Engineering describes the design, testing and building of machines, structures and processes using maths and science.

Greek philosopher Archimedes had ideas about simple machines like screw, pulley and lever.

Driving to the moon by car would take six weeks.

The technology that utilizes biological system and living organisms to develop different products is the description for BioTechnology.

Drones can be used to collect blood samples.

In 1846, Elias Howe had the sewing machine patented in his name.

Iceland leads the world with near 100% energy produces from renewable sources.

Economic Outlook

The global market worth in technology slowed in 2023 and is expected to rise in 2024.

It is expected to register fluctuating growth trends in the long term.

One of the biggest challenges will be maximizing flexibility in manufacturing.

What's On The News?

• Andreas Menn presents a nanosensor on wiwo.de that detects coronaviruses in the air we breath.


• Airbus features Euclid on their website, the space telescope aiming to unlock the secrets of the Universe.


• chemeurope.com explains how the use of chemicals and biodiversity loss are connected.


• For faz.net, Ilka Kopplin outlines that every second robot is installed in China.


• Bill Schweber highlights another EV-power challenge on eetimes.com: "Cooling the charger cables."

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