Strong order intake, despite mixed end-markets
Stockholm, Sweden, April 25, 2019: Mats Rahmström, President and CEO of the Atlas Copco Group comments on the Q1 results that were released today. “I am pleased to present a strong start of the year with record high order intake”.The order intake in the quarter was better than expected, mainly due to a strong order intake for large industrial and gas and process compressors, some important orders from the semiconductor and flat panel display industry, and large orders for power equipment from rental customers. Demand in other parts of the Group were more in line with expectations, i.e. flat