"a change in corporate strategy in 1965, greater emphasis was placed on higher-value products such as coatings, pharmaceuticals, pesticides and fertilizers. Following German reunification, BASF acquired a site in Schwarzheide, eastern Germany, on 25 October 1990. It expanded to Podolsk, Russia, in 2012, and to Kazan in 2013. In 1968 BASF (together with Bayer AG) bought the German coatings company Herbol. BASF completely took over the Herbol branches in Cologne and Würzburg in 1970. Under new management the renewal and expansion of the trademark continued. After an extensive reorganisation and an increasing international orientation of the coatings business Herbol became"
"Daimler AG Daimler AG () is a German multinational automotive corporation. Daimler AG is headquartered in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. As of 2014, Daimler owned or had shares in a number of car, bus, truck and motorcycle brands including Mercedes-Benz, Mercedes-AMG, Smart Automobile, Detroit Diesel, Freightliner, Western Star, Thomas Built Buses, Setra, BharatBenz, Mitsubishi Fuso, MV Agusta as well as shares in Denza, KAMAZ and Beijing Automotive Group. The luxury Maybach brand was terminated at the end of 2012, but revived in April 2015 as ""Mercedes-Maybach"" versions of the Mercedes-Benz S-Class and G-Class. In 2017, Daimler sold 3.3 million vehicles. By"
"payments in countries around the globe. Judge Richard J. Leon of the United States District Court in Washington, D.C., approved the plea agreement and settlement, calling it a ""just resolution"". The primary case is ""USA v. Daimler AG"", United States District Court for the District of Columbia, No. 1:10-cr-00063-RJL . Daimler AG Daimler AG () is a German multinational automotive corporation. Daimler AG is headquartered in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. As of 2014, Daimler owned or had shares in a number of car, bus, truck and motorcycle brands including Mercedes-Benz, Mercedes-AMG, Smart Automobile, Detroit Diesel, Freightliner, Western Star, Thomas Built Buses,"
"Siemens Siemens AG ( ) is a German conglomerate company headquartered in Berlin and Munich and the largest industrial manufacturing company in Europe with branch offices abroad. The principal divisions of the company are ""Industry"", ""Energy"", ""Healthcare"" (Siemens Healthineers), and ""Infrastructure & Cities"", which represent the main activities of the company. The company is a prominent maker of medical diagnostics equipment and its medical health-care division, which generates about 12 percent of the company's total sales, is its second-most profitable unit, after the industrial automation division. The company is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index. Siemens"
"eight state groups, the structure of which is related to the regional concentration of chemical companies or corporations. The state groups do not comply with the administrative territory of the sixteen German states. Each state group consists of a certain number of so-called factory groups, which are made up by VAA members directly on-site in the respective companies. As a rule of thumb: the bigger the company the greater the number of people organised in a factory group. Hence there are strong factory groups in companies like BASF, Bayer, Clariant, Evonik, Henkel, Merck, Roche Diagnostics, Sanofi Aventis or Wacker. In"
"automation including letter parcel sorting. Siemens also completed a world record in 2012 for the most electricity generated by bicycles in an hour. Generating 4,630 watts in an hour in Melbourne, Australia, on December 11, 2012 Siemens is incorporated in Germany and has its corporate headquarters in Munich. It has operations in around 190 countries and approximately 285 production and manufacturing facilities. Siemens had around 360,000 employees as of 30 September 2011. Electrification, automation and digitalization are the long-term growth fields of Siemens. In order to take full advantage of the market potential in these fields, Siemens businesses are bundled"
"Ludwigshafen Ludwigshafen am Rhein () is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the river Rhine, opposite Mannheim. With Mannheim, Heidelberg, and the surrounding region, it forms the Rhine Neckar Area. Known primarily as an industrial city, Ludwigshafen is the home of chemical giant BASF and other companies. Among its cultural facilities are the Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz. It is the birthplace of the former German chancellor Helmut Kohl and the philosopher Ernst Bloch. The city is a global city with 'sufficiency' status. In antiquity, Celtic and Germanic tribes settled in the Rhine Neckar area. During the 1st century B.C. the Romans conquered"
"30, 2015. Dresser-Rand Group Dresser-Rand is an engineering and manufacturing company owned by German conglomerate Siemens. The company designs, manufactures, and services equipment used in the extraction of petroleum and natural gas. The company was formed in 1986 as a joint venture of Dresser Industries and Ingersoll Rand. Dresser-Rand products include turbo and reciprocating compressors, steam turbines, industrial and aero-derivative gas turbines, high-speed engines, and modular power substations. The company is headquartered in Houston, Texas and has a presence in over 150 countries, including the United States, France, Spain, Germany, Norway, Brazil, India, Russia, Poland, Saudi Arabia, China, and the"
"German companies: BASF AG (Ludwigshafen), and (both located in Hamburg) and one Swiss firm Bertschi AG; headquartered in Dürrenäsch. Hoyer merged its rail freight subsidiary (""Hoyer Railserv"", formed 2000 from ""RSE Cargo"".) into the company in 2002. Initially the company was set up as a rail freight service for chemical companies, the organisation serves both national and international freight movements within Europe. Amongst the first workings were the movement of chemicals from the works at BASF Ludwigshafen to Aachen to be moved further by the Belgian state railway SNCB / NMBS. Later the company took on non-chemical industry freight work."
"management and recycling, sustainable water management. With regard to triadic patents Germany is in third place after the US and Japan. With more than 26,500 registrations for patents submitted to the European Patent Office, Germany is the leading European nation. Siemens, Bosch and BASF, with almost 5,000 registrations for patents between them in 2008, are among the Top 5 of more than 35,000 companies registering patents. Together with the US and Japan, with regard to patents for nano, bio and new technologies Germany is one of the world's most active nations. With around one third of triadic patents Germany leads"
"and industrial market. It is located in the Kulim High-Tech Park in Malaysia. Infineon Technologies Austria Infineon Technologies Austria is a group subsidiary of Infineon Technologies. It employs 3785 people in around 60 countries with a large proportion in research (over 1500). In 2017 the company made a turnover of €2.5 billion. Its headquarters are in Villach, Austria. In 1970 Siemens launched a production site for diodes in Villach and started construction of production plants on its current site in 1972. In 1999 Siemens semiconductor division became Infineon Technologies. The production site has continuously expanded with increasing wafer sizes being"
"BMW, Deutsche Telekom, Bayer, BASF, Munich Re and SAP. Germany is the world's top location for trade fairs. Around two thirds of the world's leading trade fairs take place in Germany. The largest annual international trade fairs and congresses are held in several German cities such as Hanover, Frankfurt, Cologne, Leipzig and Düsseldorf. The Industrial Revolution in Germany got underway approximately a century later than in England, France, and Belgium, partly because Germany only became a unified country in 1871. The establishment of the Deutscher Zollverein (German Customs Union) in 1834 and the expansion of railway systems were the main"
"Daimler, AB Volvo (the manufacturer of trucks, buses, construction equipment, and engines) and Lotus. In October 2018, Ford and Baidu (known as the ""Google of China""), announced that they were planning to start testing autonomous vehicles together in Beijing roads by year end, using Baidu's ""technological know-how and understanding of China together with Ford's vehicle expertise"". China's automobile industry had mainly Soviet origins (plants and licensed auto design were founded in the 1950s, with the help of the USSR) and had small volumes for the first 30 years of the republic, not exceeding 100–200 thousands per year. Since the early"
"company is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index. BASF is an acronym for ""Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik"" (). It was founded by Friedrich Engelhorn on 6 April 1865 in Mannheim, in the German-speaking country of Baden. Engelhorn had been responsible for setting up a gasworks and street lighting for the town council in 1861. The gasworks produced tar as a byproduct, and Engelhorn used this for the production of dyes. BASF was set up in 1865 to produce other chemicals necessary for dye production, notably soda and acids. The plant, however, was erected on the"
"the Siemens AG Supervisory Board (1966 to present) Managing Board (present day) Siemens Siemens AG ( ) is a German conglomerate company headquartered in Berlin and Munich and the largest industrial manufacturing company in Europe with branch offices abroad. The principal divisions of the company are ""Industry"", ""Energy"", ""Healthcare"" (Siemens Healthineers), and ""Infrastructure & Cities"", which represent the main activities of the company. The company is a prominent maker of medical diagnostics equipment and its medical health-care division, which generates about 12 percent of the company's total sales, is its second-most profitable unit, after the industrial automation division. The company"
"The Antwerp-based BASF plant is the largest BASF-base outside Germany, and accounts on its own for about 2% of Belgian exports. Other industrial and service activities in Antwerp include car manufacturing, telecommunications, photographic products. Flanders is home to several science and technology institutes, such as IMEC, VITO, Flanders DC and Flanders DRIVE. Flanders has developed an extensive transportation infrastructure of ports, canals, railways and highways. The Port of Antwerp is the second-largest in Europe, after Rotterdam. Other ports are Bruges-Zeebrugge, Ghent and Ostend, of which Bruges and Ostend are located at the . Whereas railways are managed by the federal"
"question is discussed of how Germany, a relatively small European country, has for many years sustained the position of number one exporter in the world. Germany's few giant, highly visible corporations like Volkswagen, Siemens, BASF, Bosch, and others are not substantially different from organisations like Ford, GE, DuPont, or Visteon. Germany's export strength is clearly not wholly determined by these companies so there must be a large number of midsize firms who are strong exporters. These smaller companies are however normally known only in their own area, by customers and suppliers, but not to the wider public or business community."
"into nine divisions and healthcare as a separately managed business. In 2011, Siemens invested a total of €3.925 billion in research and development, equivalent to 5.3% of revenues. As of 30 September 2011, Siemens had approximately 11,800 Germany-based employees engaged in research and development and approximately 16,000 in the rest of the world, of whom the majority were based in either Austria, China, Croatia, Denmark, France, India, Japan, Mexico, The Netherlands, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom or the United States. As of 30 September 2011, Siemens held approximately 53,300 patents worldwide. Siemens' current joint ventures include: For the"
"the cities, the Ruhr, and Silesia. Based on its leadership in chemical research in the universities and industrial laboratories, Germany became dominant in the world's chemical industry in the late 19th century. Big businesses such as BASF and Bayer led the way in their production and distribution of artificial dyes and pharmaceuticals during the Wilhelmine era, leading to the German monopolisation of the global chemicals market at 90 percent of the entire share of international volumes of trade in chemical products by 1914. Germany became Europe's leading steel-producing country in the late-19th century, thanks in large part to the protection"
"of 1848, the city was a centre for political and revolutionary activity. In 1865, Friedrich Engelhorn founded the ""Badische Anilin- und Soda-Fabrik"" (Baden Aniline and Soda Factory, BASF) in Mannheim, but the factory was constructed across the Rhine in Ludwigshafen because Mannheim residents feared air pollution from its operations. From this dye factory, BASF has developed into the largest chemical company in the world. After opening a workshop in Mannheim in 1871 and patenting engines from 1878, Karl Benz patented the first motor car in 1886. He was born in Mühlburg (now part of Karlsruhe). The Schütte-Lanz company, founded by"
"unit sales, Daimler is the thirteenth-largest car manufacturer and is the largest truck manufacturer in the world. Daimler provides financial services through its Daimler Financial Services arm. The company is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index. Daimler AG's origin is in an ""Agreement of Mutual Interest"" signed on 1 May 1924 between Benz & Cie (founded 1883 by Karl Benz) and Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft (founded 1890 by Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach). Both companies continued to manufacture their separate automobile and internal combustion engine brands until, on 28 June 1926, Benz & Cie. and Daimler Motoren"
"Dresser-Rand Group Dresser-Rand is an engineering and manufacturing company owned by German conglomerate Siemens. The company designs, manufactures, and services equipment used in the extraction of petroleum and natural gas. The company was formed in 1986 as a joint venture of Dresser Industries and Ingersoll Rand. Dresser-Rand products include turbo and reciprocating compressors, steam turbines, industrial and aero-derivative gas turbines, high-speed engines, and modular power substations. The company is headquartered in Houston, Texas and has a presence in over 150 countries, including the United States, France, Spain, Germany, Norway, Brazil, India, Russia, Poland, Saudi Arabia, China, and the Netherlands. Ingersoll"
"Germany. Today, the name of BASF, originally ""Badische Anilin- und Soda-Fabrik"" (English: Baden Aniline and Soda Factory), now the largest chemical supplier, echoes the legacy of the synthetic dye industry, built via aniline dyes and extended via the related azo dyes. The first azo dye was aniline yellow. In the late 19th century, aniline emerged as an analgesic drug, its cardiac-suppressive side effects countered with caffeine. During the first decade of the 20th century, while trying to modify synthetic dyes to treat African sleeping sickness, Paul Ehrlich – who had coined the term ""chemotherapy"" for his ""magic bullet"" approach to"
"Daimler AG v. Bauman Daimler AG v. Bauman, 571 U.S. ___ (2014), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court answered whether an American court may exercise jurisdiction over a foreign company based on the fact that a subsidiary of the company acts on its behalf in the jurisdictional state. The court held that an American company cannot be sued for conduct occurring outside the United States and American courts do not have jurisdiction of such a claim.<ref name=""https://www.forbes.com""></ref> Daimler Aktiengesellschaft is a Stuttgart, Germany based automotive manufacturer that owns Mercedes-Benz and its subsidiaries around the world,"
"mass-production. Kornél Tolnai often ordered his tapes from the American electronics company Ampex Corporation in the 1950s and 1960s. Kornél Tolnai often visited a factory in Ludwigshafen am Rhein (Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany) for his business with the company. There he had contacts with BASF, the largest chemical company in the world. BASF SE is a German chemical company, founded in 1865, and SE stands for Societas Europea. The company is a pioneer in the chemical industry and has operations worldwide. 1925-1952 it was part of IG Farben. ""BASF"" originally stood for Badische Anilin- und Soda-Fabrik (Baden Aniline and Soda Factory)."
"secondary school, which combines Realschule and Hauptschule. The only hotel in Limburgerhof is the small 4-star Residenz Hotel, built around 1990. There is a small stadium, called Waldstadion, close to the Domholzschule. Limburgerhof Limburgerhof is a municipality in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, 7 km southwest of Ludwigshafen. It is known in the region because of an Agrochemical Center of the world's largest chemical company BASF, which has its headquarters in Ludwigshafen. The village with a population of about 10 000 was founded in 1930. Limburgerhof is located between Ludwigshafen and Speyer. Limburgerhof station is on the Mannheim–Saarbrücken railway and"
"FIFA World Cup in Germany. Gottlieb Daimler's motto was ""Das Beste oder nichts"" (""The best or nothing at all""; ""Nothing but the best""). Mercedes-Benz adopted this motto as their slogan in 2010. Gottlieb Daimler Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler (; 17 March 1834 – 6 March 1900) was an engineer, industrial designer and industrialist born in Schorndorf (Kingdom of Württemberg, a federal state of the German Confederation), in what is now Germany. He was a pioneer of internal-combustion engines and automobile development. He invented the high-speed liquid petroleum fueled engine. Daimler and his lifelong business partner Wilhelm Maybach were two inventors whose"
"of Spergau. Leuna works The Leuna works () in Leuna, Saxony-Anhalt, is one of the biggest chemical industrial complexes in Germany. The site, now owned jointly by companies such as Total S.A., BASF, Linde AG, and DOMO Group, covers 13 km and produces a very wide range of chemicals and plastics. Ammonia is an important intermediate product for the manufacture of nitric acid and other nitrogen compounds, needed to produce fertilizers and explosives in particular. The increasing demand for explosives during World War I exceeded the ammonia production capacities of the Oppau works of BASF, who owned the patents for"
"Mannheim) has its division headquarters in Mannheim. Additionally, the city also hosts large factories and offices of ABB, Alstom, BASF (Ludwigshafen), Bilfinger Berger, Bombardier, Fuchs Petrolub AG, John Deere, Siemens, SCA, Südzucker, and other companies. A number of U.S. Army Europe installations were located in and near Mannheim during the Cold War. The following locations provided services to and housed the ""U.S. Army Garrison Mannheim"" and other units of the U.S. Army. The U.S. Army Garrison Mannheim was formally deactivated on 31 May 2011. The following locations were part of the ""U.S. Army Garrison Heidelberg"" but were within the area"
"2011 to 2017 Of the world's 500 largest stock-market-listed companies measured by revenue in 2010, the Fortune Global 500, 37 are headquartered in Germany. 30 Germany-based companies are included in the DAX, the German stock market index. Well-known global brands are Mercedes-Benz, BMW, SAP, Siemens, Volkswagen, Adidas, Audi, Allianz, Porsche, Bayer, BASF, Bosch, and Nivea. Germany is recognised for its specialised small and medium enterprises, known as the Mittelstand model. Around 1,000 of these companies are global market leaders in their segment and are labelled hidden champions. From 1991 to 2010, 40,301 mergers and acquisitions with an involvement of German"
"auf der Insel Timor /Indonesien"", special edition of ZKG, year 37 (1984) no. 12, p. 3-7 Loesche GmbH Loesche is an owner-managed engineering company founded in Berlin in 1906 and currently based in Düsseldorf, Germany that designs, manufactures and services vertical roller mills for grinding of coal, cement raw materials, granulated slag, industrial minerals and ores. At present, more than 400 people are working for Loesche in Germany and around 850 are employed worldwide. In addition to its new subsidiary in Indonesia, Loesche has operations in Brazil, China, India, Russia, South Africa, Nigeria, Spain, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and"
"Trumpf The TRUMPF Group is a German family-owned company with its head office in Ditzingen near Stuttgart. TRUMPF is one of the world's biggest providers of machine tools. With more than 70 operative subsidiaries, the TRUMPF Group is represented in all important markets worldwide. Its production facilities are based in China, Germany, France, the UK, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Austria, Poland, Switzerland, the Czech Republic and the US. The two divisions Machine Tools and Laser Technology are under the umbrella of a holding company, TRUMPF GmbH + Co. KG. In the past they sold their Medical Technology division. This sector is"
"Germany. Since May 2003, he has been chairman of the Supervisory Board of BASF. He is married with one daughter. Jürgen F. Strube Dr. Jürgen F. Strube (b. 1939-08-19) is the former CEO and the current Chairman of the Supervisory Board of German chemical company BASF SE. Strube was born in Bochum, Germany, in 1939. He studied law from 1960 to 1964 in Freiburg, Geneva and Munich, obtained his doctorate in law in Munich in 1967, and passed the 2nd state examination in law in 1968. He began his professional career at BASF in 1969 in Germany, where he joined"