Investment location Saxony-Anhalt

What has happened in the local economy? An overview of the most important news items.

Largest investment of Salzgitter AG subsidiary in the history of the Company. A new heat treatment line is the main project component through which Salzgitter AG concentrates the heavy plate activities in Ilsenburg and positions them securely for future requirements. Read more.
Production at leading conservatory system provider WIPRO from Saxony-Anhalt revolutionized by new profile machining centre. Over the past few years, a string of investments has been carried out in Brehna, creating more than 80 jobs. Read more.
Trinseo opened its new pilot plant and solution-styrene-butadiene rubber capacity expansion at Schkopau. The new pilot plant will design next generation material and deliver sufficient quantities of new S-SBR formulations as required for real-life tire-testing. Read more.
Goodman secures new logistics space at Star Park in Halle. Star Park is familiar territory to Goodman: the developer and manager has already built properties there for Hellmann Worldwide Logistics and eBay. Read more.

The medtech start-up neotiv develops user-friendly apps that are able to measure the psychological effects of Alzheimer’s disease in its early stage. Now it secured seed funding from High-Tech Gründerfonds. Read more.
A new production process could make the active ingredient artemisinin available to millions of malaria patients all over the world. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems and the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam have developed a new method, in which they use substances from plant waste to produce artemisinin. Read more.

INKOMA Maschinenbau GmbH recently handed over an elevation drive for the worldwide largest radio telescope currently under construction, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). INKOMA developed the core of the system, a completely new servo-electrical direct spindle lift drive (DSH) for the elevation motion of the parabolic mirror. Read more.
Audi advances e-fuels technology: new “e-benzin” fuel being tested. Together with Global Bioenergies S.A. in Leuna (Saxony-Anhalt), the largest batch of e-gasoline ever produced – 60 liters (15.9 US gal) – has been achieved. Read more.