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Interview with Peter Hauptmann, Secretary of State at the Ministry of Economics and Science

Secretary of State Peter Hauptmann comments on the economic situation in Saarland and other topics.

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July 2010 • Company Relocation at the Industrial Park Saarwellingen Brings up to 70 New Jobs

Another automotive supplier is being newly established at the Industrial Park Saarwellingen: Handling & Lager sequences automotive parts for the new Ford Focus.

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June 2010 • Fuel-Saving Technology from Saarland to the USA

Chrysler has issued a big order to ZF: The automotive supplier has concluded a delivery and licencing contract on the ZF eight-gear automatic transmission 8HP. For the time being, the state-of-the-art transmissions will be delivered to the automotive manufacturer by ZF Saarbrücken.

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June 2010 • 40 Years FORD Saarlouis:
SBB Presents Itself as the Builder of the Supplier Park

Just-in-time, just-in-sequence… that´s how the parts arrive. Planned and constructed by the SBB Sarland Development Corporation, the FORD Industrial Supplier Park with its conveyor belt (electronic suspension rails) delivers parts from vehicle components coordinately, punctually and in correct order.

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May 2010 • Saarland Logistics in Israel

On May 24th and 25th, gwSaar Saarland Economic Promotion Corporation presents Saarland logistics on the annual ISCMC conference in Tel Aviv.

ISCMC, the Israeli Supply Chain Management Counci, is an international conference especially dedicated to topics of Supply Chain Management.

At the conference, Thomas Schuck, Managing Director of gwSaar, will present the Saarland as a logistics location. In this context, he will outline some examples of future-oriented research in Saarland, among them the Innovative Retail Laobratory (IRL), which is an application-oriented research lab of the DFKI German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and the GLOBUS SB-Warenhaus Holding.

At the same time, gwSaar also uses the platform of P.L.M.- the second international event in the logistics sector organized by the Federation of Israeli Chambers of Commerce- in Tel Aviv. Here, efficient and cost-saving solutions in purchasing and logistics are presented.

December 2009  • IT-Land Saarland: Germany´s Highest Research Award Goes Again To A Saarbrücken Computer Scientist

As recently announced by the German Research Society (DFG), Joachim Weickert, Professor for Mathematics and Informatics at the Saarland University, has been awarded with the Gottried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize for his research of excellence in the area of mathematic image processing. The Leibniz Prize is the most endowed award that is regularly presented to scientists in Germany. For his research, Joachim Weickert receives 2.5 million Euros.

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June 2009  •  Saarland in the Focus of German Science

In 2009, summer will again turn into a Science Summer for one week, this time in Saarbrücken, the capital of Saarland. On Saturday, June 20, Annette Schavan, the Federal Minister of Education and Saarland´s Prime Minister Peter Müller started the Science Summer in Saarbrücken.

-Wissenschaft im Dialog- (WiD) organizes the Science Summer from June 20-26, 2009 together with several research institutes from Saarbrücken.  In the big tent exhibition on the Tbilisser Platz, selected regional research institutes are showing their work. Special highlights: The exhibition train "Expedition Future" stopped at Sarbrücken from June 20-22. The science ship will anchor on the  until Wednesday, June 24.

March 2009 • Logistics Hub Saarland Present at transport logistic 2009

From May 12-15, 2009 Saarland shows at transport logistic in Munich that it is not only excellently positioned in the heart of Europe but also can boast with customized concepts for the logistics branch.
In the last few years, many businesses have already discovered Saarland´s key locational advantages for themselves. The Dachser Euro Hub or the Ford Industrial Supplier Park with optimized logistics are just two examples of new company settlements, with the latter having been realized through the SBB Saarland Development Corporation, a subsidiary of SHS Saar Holding Company.

You find us at Messe Muenchen, hall B3, booth 214.