Slimly built, visible from afar: With 205 meters, the Roche Tower Building 2 rises above Basel into the sky. In 2020, it replaced Building 1 with 178 meters as the tallest building in Switzerland. The second Roche Tower sets new standards in collaborative planning: Even before Building 2 rose floor…

Endress+Hauser has invested roughly 46 million euros in the expansion of its Maulburg, Germany location. The project, which took nearly two years to complete, includes a new production and office building with more than 17,000 square feet of space, plus a parking garage. The expansion was in respons…

B Medical Systems (BMS), a globally leading provider of solutions for the cold chain of vaccines and an established manufacturer and distributor of blood management and medical cooling solutions, officially inaugurated its new plant expansion on October 1, 2021. Present at the event were, among othe…

Plasma torches, 3D printers for ceramics and two air-conditioning rooms the size of a house: Schunk's new Innovation Center in Heuchelheim is full of state-of-the-art technology. The technology company has invested around 20 million euros to develop high-tech materials and products for the future in…

Approximately three years after the laying of the foundation stone, the third and final pillar of the Innovation Campus, the Model Factory, is now commencing operations. On Tuesday, representatives from the press and members of the Sigmaringen municipal council had the opportunity to see for themsel…

With a ceremonial groundbreaking ceremony, accompanied by representatives from politics and business, ebm-papst has begun construction of a new manufacturing plant near the current US location in Johnson City. The company is investing around 12 million euros in the new building.

Already three years a…

With a new construction project, SMC Germany is expanding at its headquarters in Egelsbach near Frankfurt am Main. "We are continuing a long-standing success story," says Ralf Laber, Managing Director of SMC Germany, at the groundbreaking ceremony on September 29. The project, located very close to…

The Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology and Automation IPA is getting a new building in Stuttgart-Vaihingen. With the groundbreaking ceremony on September 27, Baden-Württemberg's Minister of Economics Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut, together with Thomas Bauernhansl, Director of the Fraunhofer I…

Connect 2 Cleanrooms Ltd (C2C) has completed a new 340m2 cleanroom facility for Ilika PLC at its 1600m2 Stereax—millimetre-scale solid-state batteries—manufacturing facility. 

The cleanroom is a key element of Ilika’s new facility as it scales up Stereax, to become the first volume manufacturer of mi…

The Jenoptik Group intends to build a state-of-the-art production building with office complex in Dresden. In total, the photonics group is planning to invest around 70 million euros in a cleanroom facility for micro-optics and sensors for semiconductor equipment. Jenoptik acquired a 24,000-square-m…