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Germany Trade & Invest

Swedish Energy Giant to Invest Billions in Clean Energy Projects in Germany / Vattenfall commits over EUR five billion by 2028 to fossil-free energy production, e-mobility and related services in Europe's largest economy.

Berlin (ots) - Swedish energy company Vattenfall has announced an ambitious investment plan, pledging to invest more than EUR five billion by 2028 into renewable energy, e-mobility, and other sustainable solutions in Germany. "Germany is the fastest-growing market for renewable energy in Europe," said Vattenfall's ...

Market Logic Software

New survey by Market Logic Software exposes costly underutilization of corporate knowledge and market insights: B2C enterprises losing out on millions in value

Berlin (ots/PRNewswire) - A new global survey of marketing and product management leaders, Hyperscaling Insights Impact reveals that a staggering 40% of key decisions are taken without reference to consumer insights. This oversight, driven by cumbersome information access, is costing businesses millions in lost ...

5GAA

5GAA: Berlin Technology Demonstrations Highlight Life-Saving Potential of Latest Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything Tech

Berlin (ots/PRNewswire) - The 5G Automotive Association (5GAA) last week demonstrated the latest innovations in the Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) technology family to help achieve "Vision Zero" for all road users. The demonstrations illustrated the potential of 5G-V2X to enable new use cases integrated ...

Shiftmove GmbH

Shiftmove acquires French fleet management company Optimum Automotive in drive to become industry leader

Bertelsmann Stiftung

Better Health Requires More Participation by Young People

Berlin/Gütersloh (ots) - At this year’s World Health Summit in Berlin, the WHO Youth Council presented its vision for healthier societies. The World Health Organization’s Youth Council is calling on policymakers to better leverage the potential of young people. The Bertelsmann Stiftung and major youth organizations support the initiative. Better involvement of and support for young people is essential to creating a ...

x-cardiac GmbH

Successful MDR Certification for AI Solution in Predicting Postoperative Complications – New Product Generation for Optimized Patient Safety

Berlin (ots) - x-cardiac, a leader in AI-based medical devices for the prediction of postoperative complications after cardiac surgery, is pleased to announce the successful MDR (Medical Device Regulation) certification of its new x-cardiac-platform. This certification introduces a completely new generation of ...

Germany Trade & Invest

IBM Opens First European Quantum Data Center in Germany

Berlin (ots) - The American IT giant has selected the southwestern German town of Ehningen as the site for its second quantum computing facility worldwide. At the inauguration ceremony, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz highlighted that Germany has invested more than EUR 2 billion in quantum computing. “There is a great deal of capacity and willingness to use these facilities for research,” Scholz said. “We have the ...

World Health Summit

German Federal Chancellor Scholz, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros and Bill Gates at the World Health Summit 2024 / The world's leading global health conference begins on October 13

Berlin (ots) - The financing of WHO, Germany's role in global health, antimicrobial resistance, Mpox, digitalization - topics like these are on the agenda of this year's World Health Summit from October 13-15 in Berlin. Leading international experts and decision-makers from all sectors will discuss strategies for a ...

Germany Trade & Invest

Germany Records Record Rise in Installed Robotics

Berlin (ots) - The number of new industrial robots deployed in Germany rose by 7% in 2023 – marking the largest annual increase ever recorded. According to the International Federation of Robotics' "World Robotics 2024" report, 28,335 new industrial robots were installed in Germany. This significant rise is especially notable as robot installations declined in the world's four leading countries for robotics: China, ...

PtX Development GmbH

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PtX Development and KGAL sign contract for large-scale hydrogen project in Germany

Germany Trade & Invest

Germany Moves Toward Greater Raw Materials Autonomy

Berlin (ots) - Dutch company AMG has opened Europe’s first lithium refinery plant in the eastern German area of Bitterfeld-Wolfen, as the German government pledges a billion euros to support domestic and international raw materials projects. The refinery is expected to produce 20,000 metric tons of battery-grade lithium hydroxide annually – sufficient to supply around half a million electric vehicle batteries. This ...

Datarade GmbH

Monda Raises $5M Seed Round to Help Companies Monetize Data and Fuel AI

Germany Trade & Invest

TSMC Breaks Ground, Secures Subsidy for German Plant

Berlin (ots) - The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has begun work on a 10-billion-euro plant in Dresden as the European Union approves state assistance for the project. The symbolic ground-breaking ceremony in the eastern German city coincided with the European Commission’s approval of €5 billion in state subsidies for the chipmaker, providing a boost to the initiative. "The European Commission has ...

beetz brothers film production

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Documentary ‘Boris Herrmann – Sailing at the Limit’ celebrates world premiere at Filmfest Hamburg

Germany Trade & Invest

Germany Attracts Another Billion-Euro Pharma Project

Berlin (ots) - French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi has confirmed it will invest 1.3 billion euros to expand insulin production in the western German city of Frankfurt am Main. Sanofi says the expansion will encompass around 36,000 square meters – the equivalent of five football fields – on the company’s existing BioCampus site. It will go operational in 2029. The project is being supported by the German national ...

sennder Technologies GmbH

sennder signs agreement to acquire C.H. Robinson’s European Surface Transportation operations, combining revenue to EUR 1.4bn

PMG Presse-Monitor GmbH & Co. KG

Andreas Gericke-von Skotnicki becomes managing director of PMG Presse-Monitor subsidiary X-CAGO

Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies GmbH

IPCEI: Hydrogenious LOHC receives multi-million grant for Green Hydrogen @ Blue Danube

Virchow Foundation for Global Health

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Lucy Gilson and Johan Rockström awarded the Virchow Prize 2024

Germany Trade & Invest

German Environmental Protection Sector Records Impressive Growth

Berlin (ots) - Germany’s Federal Statistical Office says that 2022 turnover in goods and services in the sector reached 107.5 billion euros – an annual increase of 16.9 percent. Environmental protection is big business in Europe’s largest economy. And it’s grower bigger by the year, as the government figures show. The largest share of the nearly 108 billion euros of turnover in the sector came in climate ...

BVR Bundesverband der Deutschen Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken

BVR: Council of the EU’s decision on CMDI acknowledges institutional protection but improvements are still needed

Berlin (ots) - The Council of the European Union (EU) has today decided on its general approach regarding the European Commission’s proposed legislation for amending the crisis management and deposit insurance framework (CMDI review). The Bundesverband der Deutschen Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken (BVR) [National ...

Germany Trade & Invest

OECD Deems Germany “Global Leader” in Artificial Intelligence

Berlin (ots) - In a new report, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development found that Germany was a world-class environment for AI and pointed out room for further development and growth. The OECD study “Artificial Intelligence Review of Germany” praised Europe’s largest economy for showing “vision” and “leadership” in becoming one of the ...

Germany Trade & Invest

Germany Leads Europe, Second in World in EV Production

Berlin (ots) - The German automotive industry association VDA says that 995,000 purely electric vehicles rolled off German assembly lines in 2023. All told, some 1.27 million purely electric (BEV) and hybrid (PHEV) vehicles were made in Germany in 2023, the second highest number in the world behind China. China dominates global EV production, but the vast majority of its cars are sold domestically. By contrast 76 percent ...

Schertz Bergmann Rechtsanwälte

PRESSRELEASE Alexander Zverev

Berlin (ots) - As lawyers for Alexander Zverev, we declare on behalf of our client that the criminal proceedings under file number 250 Cs 184/23 have been dropped: The criminal proceedings against Alexander Zverev were dropped and the case was terminated today by the court with the consent of the public prosecutor's office, Ms. Brenda Patea as joint plaintiff and Alexander Zverev's defence lawyer. The penalty order is now groundless. Alexander Zverev has agreed to this ...

Germany Trade & Invest

Germany Sets Quarterly Record for Renewable Energy Generation

Berlin (ots) - European largest economy generated and fed into the national grid 121.5 billion kilowatt hours of electricity in the first quarter of 2024. Renewables accounted for 58.4 percent of all electricity produced in Germany in the first three months of this year. That is more than for any quarter since statistics of this sort began to be collected in 2018. The 121.5 billion kilowatt hours represented an annual ...

ARD Presse

CIVIS Media Prize 2024 | eight programmes honoured

Berlin (ots) - The winners of the European CIVIS Media Prize for Integration and Cultural Diversity 2024 have been announced: The main prize of 15,000 euros, the CIVIS TOP AWARD, goes to the social media format STRG_F: Israel and Gaza: Life between terror and war (NDR | funk) by authors Manuel Biallas, Armin Ghassim, Lisa Hagen, Mariam Noori, Timo Robben, Sulaiman Tadmory. The film depicts the fate of two young people ...

Diplomatic Council - Diplomatischer Rat

Global Renewable Energy Summit on 28 May online

Germany Trade & Invest

Germany Records Big Rise in Foreign Direct Investment in 2023

Berlin (ots) - The volume of international business expansions to and in Europe’s largest economy increased by over 37 percent last year. Germany attracted 34.8 billion euros worth of international business projects in 2023 – that’s the result of Germany Trade & Invest’s (GTAI) annual FDI study. The figure includes both greenfields and expansions. It does not include any mergers or acquisitions. The comparable ...

Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd.

Godrej & Boyce eyes Europe's EV market amid rising demand

Berlin (ots/PRNewswire) - Godrej & Boyce, announced that its Motor Components business is targeting a revenue of 1000 Cr in the next three years, with 50% of the revenue coming from exports. As demand for electric vehicles (EVs) surges, Europe has emerged as a manufacturing powerhouse for automobiles and allied industries. Godrej & Boyce, a leading industrial manufacturing brand, is making significant strides in the ...

Gerresheimer AG

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Gerresheimer partners with RxCap to offer connected adherence solutions