Tag Archives: Germany

Siemens has signed an agreement to acquire the industrial drive business of EBM-Papst, for an undisclosed sum. “EBM-Papst’s portfolio of mechatronic drive systems and its people are an excellent fit for Siemens,” said Siemens digital industries CEO Cedrik Neike. “The acquisition will enable us to tap new business in the market for intelligent, battery-powered drive solutions in intra-logistics as well as ...

A single company is to build 1.1GWpeak of solar capacity in Germany over the next three years. Securesun, has over 50 solar part projects scheduled to be competed before the end of 2026, averaging 20MWpeak, with the largest at 150MWpeak. Last year, roof-top and park installations combined, Germany built 7.2GWpeak* of solar capacity. “We are very pleased that we can ...

For example, what caught David Manners' eye this week was Germany taking €20bn from its climate fund to subsidise chips...

Texas Instruments announced plans to open a product distribution centre in Frankfurt, at Electronica. To be open by the end of 2024, it is being built to provide same-day delivery in central Germany and next-day delivery to most European-based for industrial and automotive customers. “We are excited to expand our European presence in Frankfurt, as it offers a centralised location with ...

TSMC is talking to the German government about putting a fab in the country, according to Lora Ho, TSMC svp. Subsidies on offer will be a major factor in the decision. Another factor will be demand. A potential customer, BMW, last week signed a supply deal with Globalfoundries which has a fab in Dresden. Ho said that the location for ...

Würth Elektronik is supplying the PCBs needed for the rapid manufacture of intensive care and mobile ventilators from its three production sites in Germany. In order to ensure the supply of medical ventilators for coronavirus patients in Germany, the German government has placed several orders with different manufacturers at short notice.     At the plants in Niedernhall, Rot am See and ...

University of Oxford spin-out Oxford PV has ordered more manufacturing equipment for its 125MW silicon-perovskite solar cell production line in Germany, and is planning to double its capacity. The order adds perovskite cell-making equipment to the previously ordered (see below) silicon solar cell production line, and includes development work on both line and process integration, according to Swiss equipment maker ...

The town of Kempten in southern Germany has extended its experiment in buffering locally-generated renewable energy, installing a sixth grid storage battery to increase capacity to 3MW and 2MWh. “The number of days each year when wind and solar energy production around midday exceeds consumption is steadily increasing. By now the figure has reached 153 days, which is almost half ...

Nano-scale organic transistors can combine high current capability and high on/off current ratio, according to a team at Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, which has created a short-channel ‘vertical electrolyte-gated’ fet. “Our aim was to develop a transistor design which combines the ability to drive high currents that is typical of classical transistors with the low-voltage operation required for use as ...

Stable but uninspired – this describes the German component distribution market during the second quarter 2018. Sales by companies registered with the Fachverband Bauelemente Distribution (FBDi e.V.) grew in the months April, May and June by 5% (compared with Q2/2017) to 949 million Euros. The order situation performed better, and with 1.04 billion Euros exceeded the billion Euro mark once ...