Charging pole maker Alfen sees revenue fall and remains loss-making, but expects recovery
Alfen, manufacturer of charging stations and other grid systems, posted lower sales in 2025 than a year earlier. In addition, the company made a loss, as it did last year. This is according to the annual figures published yesterday.
The Almere-based charging station manufacturer saw turnover fall by 10.7 per cent to almost 436 million euros last year, compared to almost 488 million euros a year earlier. A loss of 0.2 million euros remained under the line, compared to a loss of 27 million euros in 2024. In 2023, the company still posted profits of tens of millions of euros.
Sales of charging systems for electric cars fell by more than a fifth last year. In doing so, the company suffered from increased competition in the home charger market. Fewer charging stations were also installed in the public segment.
Alfen reduced its workforce last year from 1,053 FTEs to 923 FTEs, a decrease of 12.3 per cent. Staff costs fell by over 15 per cent as a result.
New opportunities
Despite being loss-making again last year and seeing sales fall, Alfen sees structural demand for new energy infrastructure and wants to take advantage of these opportunities, writes the ANP.
To accelerate this process, the company is going to “better align the competences needed for this and the available capacities within the organisation”, said top executive Michael Colijn. In certain parts of the organisation, positions will be eliminated, while Alfen wants to grow in others, such as digital solutions, project management and services. It is not yet known how many jobs will be affected by the plans.
“This transformation is intended to be even more customer-oriented, increase our reliability, further digitalise our offering and change the way we work,” Colijn explains. “For each business unit, we have defined a strategy to guide commercial activities, European expansion and the development of products and digital services.”
The company expects total sales to be between €435 million and €475 million this year. It also counts on a further contraction at the charging stations division. Instead, at the Smart Grid Solutions (SGS) branch, within which Alfen operates in the field of grid solutions, it expects stabilisation.
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