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[May 2008]
SGL Group Announces Opening of Central Technology & Innovation Centre
SGL Group – The Carbon Company (Wiesbaden, Germany) has inaugurated its new Technology & Innovation Center (T&I Center) in Meitingen, Germany.
With this new opening, the company’s global research and development activities are combined under one roof in SGL Group’s largest site world-wide. The new central R&D centre offers space for up to 150 scientific jobs, out of which 15 new jobs are to be created for experts from external research institutes within joint projects. Total investment costs amount to over €10 million.
“The new T&I Center in Meitingen underscores SGL Group’s commitment to Germany as a technology location and to Meitingen as one production site with the broadest product portfolio. Bundling all research activities, the T&I Center creates corporate synergies and promotes innovation. With this approach, the Group’s R&D development achieves an important contribution to fulfilling our growth targets”, said Robert Koehler, CEO of the SGL Group.
Development of the central research work is aligned towards the group’s strategic positioning, showing the advantage of comprehensively combining material, process and application expertise for various businesses. This guarantees close cooperation with the business units. In addition to further development of the existing businesses, T&I also concentrates on identifying and implementing innovative business ideas from idea selection up to maturation to make these ideas prepared for a market launch, which includes pilot system testing and creation of new technology platforms.
Cooperation with scientific institutes such as the Technical University of Munich and the University of Augsburg, and close cooperation with industrial partners are both to be further strengthened to achieve this. An essential focus among all these activities is to further enhance carbon fibre technology and related applications.
With 38 production sites in Europe, North America and Asia as well as a service network covering more than 100 countries, the SGL Group is a company with a global presence. In 2007, the company’s workforce of around 5,900 generated sales of €1.4 billion. The company’s head office is located in Wiesbaden, Germany.
www.sglcarbon.de
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