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The Emtelle Group is expanding its microtube production capacity in Erfurt.

Another boost for fast internet: The Emtelle Group is adding microduct production capacity in Erfurt and will soon start making fiber optic cables itself at multimodal business park GVZ Erfurt. Since taking over Moore GmbH in October 2017,…

Thuringian Economics Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee, Dr. Roland Weidl, Site Manager at BITC and Jason Chen, General Manager Operations Europe CATL at the symbolic handover of the subsidy cheque.

If we want to put millions of electric vehicles on the road, their batteries will need to live longer. That is the mission of BattLife, the initial project of the newly founded Battery Innovation and Technology Center (BITC) at the Erfurter…

Also Thuringia‘s Minister for Economic Affairs, Wolfgang Tiefensee, already informed himself about the innovative UVC disinfection of BINZ.

Southern Thuringian company BINZ recently launched a groundbreaking innovation to combat deadly pathogens: An LED light system installed in the ambulance’s headliner emits UV light that kills 99.99 percent of bacteria, viruses and other…

Honored: in November 2020 the Thuringian Innovation Award in the category “Light and life“

When satellites circulate in space, they require mirrors with a wide variety of optical properties. SpaceOptix has exactly the products they need. The eastern Thuringian company, based in Jena, the birthplace of modern optics, worked…

Right on trend: Hiking in Thuringia is becoming increasingly popular.

One of Thuringia’s biggest draws for skilled workers is the beauty of its countryside. The Thuringian Forest with the Rennsteig ridgeway trail is extremely popular with nature lovers. A recent ranking showed that the Rennsteig is Germany’s…

The „Queen of the Saale Valley“ will receive an elevator and thus become barrier-free accessible.

In Thuringia, learning about history can be a picturesque experience. It has the highest density of castles and palaces in Germany. That includes Leuchtenburg Castle in eastern Thuringia, which is receiving an inclined elevator and becoming…

PAPACKS celebrated the topping-out ceremony for their Gigafactory at the Erfurter Kreuz Industrial Park

Plastic-free packagings soon „made in Thuringia“. On 25th September the company Papacks GmbH – a specialist for bio-degradable and plastic-free packaging material – celebrated the topping-out ceremony for their Gigafactory at the LEG-owned…