One up-and-coming industry attracting the attention of international companies is micro/nano engineering. A cluster has coalesced in the eastern German state of Thuringia, a part of the country best known for its excellence in optics.
With charging infrastructure being a major challenge to the spread of e-mobility, ME Energy’s solution could be a game changer.
When the biggest manufacturer of e-vehicle batteries in the world announced it was building a EUR 1.8 billion plant in Thuringia, eastern Germany, it gave other foreign companies confidence to follow.
The German government has announced a massive five-year investment intended to bolster competitive quantum computer technology and create a surrounding eco-system for users.
Germany’s optics and photonics sector is growing vigorously and attracting major foreign investment. Its applications span from optical components for communications and medical technology to quantum computing and even space exploration.
Germany’s Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is making a massive investment to help 6G communications technology replace the current standard 5G. The ministry is allocating EUR 700 million from the government’s “Future Fund” and elsewhere to underwrite 6G research in the coming four years.
The terrestrial center of Germany’s stellar photonics industry is the region around the eastern city of Jena, but its influence ranges out to asteroids, Mars and beyond.
The world’s is currently marveling at the astonishing images being sent back to Earth from the Red Planet by NASA’s Perseverance rover – images taken with the help of camera lenses made by German company Jenoptik.
Are they bicycles? Are they automobiles? The answer: a bit of both.
Thuringia stands out as a blockbuster investment location in Europe’s heartland, even in years as turbulent as 2020.
