One of the world's leading manufacturers of electronic switches and circuits, Marquardt Group, is investing in a new production site at Erfurter Kreuz industrial area near Arnstadt.

The company Prowell, a subsidiary of Progroup AG headquartered in Landau, decided on the town of Eisfeld in Thuringia as the location for its new corrugated cardboard plant.

The company European Modular Constructions GmbH (EMC) recently began construction of a new facility on the Erfurter Kreuz industrial estate near Erfurt.

Researchers from the Institute of Applied Sciences at the University of Jena, the Fraunhofer IOF Jena and the Helmholtz Institute of Jena developed a new method enabling the next generation of ultrashort pulse lasers.

Schuster Kunststofftechnik, which belongs to the Japanese Nissha Corporation, recently inaugurated its new logistics building in Waltershausen.

The Logistics Center of the Austrian Doka Group - built in Apolda in 2013 - will now be expanded to become a European distribution center for formwork technology.

Vivisol Deutschland GmbH, belonging to an Italian group of companies, is expanding and merging its existing Thuringian locations

Recently, LEG Thüringen has added to its portfolio the investment promotion in the travel industry.

According to a ranking conducted by the magazine "Wirtschaftswoche" and in cooperation with the HR service provider Universum Global, the Ilmenau University of Technology (TU Ilmenau) has been evaluated as one of the leading German universities.

Major investment in Jena: By 2023, the Carl Zeiss optics group intends to consolidate its existing locations in Jena into a single location and thus establish its second largest location worldwide.