At its flagship customer event, Networking Days 2025, held in June, Bühler unveiled the Vocational Fast Track, a new form of vocational training designed for its customers. The program enables companies to send employees to Bühler for several weeks or months to complete a compact apprenticeship based on the Swiss model. Classroom instruction at Bühler’s in-house training center, Bühler Energy Center, is closely combined with hands-on experience in real production environments.

Participants can take part in modules in Mechanics, Mechatronics, and Project Management. Depending on specific needs, additional training in Process Technology is also offered. These programs are specifically designed for service technicians and maintenance personnel and include Health & Safety courses in line with Swiss standards. Each module concludes with a recognized Swiss certificate.

“The Vocational Fast Track offers companies an unprecedented opportunity to build skills in a focused and efficient way,” said Irene Mark-Eisenring, chief human resources officer at Bühler. “We bring the strengths of the Swiss dual education system – the close integration of theory and practice – into a compact and scalable format for industrial needs.”

This new offering directly addresses some of today’s most pressing labor market challenges: growing skills shortages, increasingly flexible and unstable job markets, and rising education costs. In this context, continuous training and upskilling are becoming increasingly important.

Bühler has been a pioneer in vocational training for more than 110 years, having trained its first apprentices as early as 1915. Since then, the company has continuously advanced and modernized its approach to vocational education. Apprenticeship programs are run in 26 locations across Europe, North and South America, the Middle East and Africa, and South Asia. Today, Bühler trains more than 520 apprentices worldwide, 40% of whom are based outside Switzerland. Since the foundation of the program in 1915, more than 8,400 young professionals have completed an apprenticeship at Bühler in Switzerland alone. The Vocational Fast Track apprenticeship program is now ready for customers worldwide.