Engineering Region Darmstadt Rhine Main Neckar - An attractive location for businesses and professionals Are you a business enterprise and do you need current facts and figures From the Darmstadt Rhine Main about the region’s locations or about further materials, in order to discuss the region’s advantages with your skilled workers too?
Neckar region to the whole world Then just take a look at our ‘Modules for marketing locations’ at and from the whole world to www.darmstadt.ihk.de., Doc. no. 132219. You can find our promotional film in German, English and further the region languages there too, besides the facts and figures, maps or a graphic representation of the region’s core competences.
The Darmstadt Rhine Main Neckar region lies in the centre of Europe. Are you a skilled worker who is looking for a job in the region? It is framed by the densely populated metropolitan conurbations of FrankfurtRhineMain in the north and Rhine-Neckar in the south. The region excels because of its outstanding Efficient transport of persons and goods is transport infrastructure, which enables rapid ensured by the confluence of waterways on You can find regional offers of jobs at : intercommunication with the whole world. the Rhine, Main and Neckar as well as by the www.jobs-suedhessen.de Ideal and quick connections are guaranteed best railway connections. by the international air-traffic hub in Frankfurt as well as by Frankfurt’s position at the cross- roads of the main motorway intersections in Further information: Germany and Europe. www.darmstadt.ihk.de Doc. no. 21004
2 3 The Rhine Main Neckar region is ONE large commercial and residential environment
The entire region is densely interlinked. Administrative boundaries do not play any role here. The ‘Regional study of economic integration in the Rhine Main Neckar region’ has indicated that.
The flows of commuters confirm it: do you You have the ideas and the attractive region work in Darmstadt but live among greenery has suitable offers to suit them! in the Odenwald or in Bergstrasse? Or do you have a job in the Odenwald or in Bergstrasse Are you as an entrepreneur seeking to contact and would gladly like to live in town? That cooperative partners or to move close to a is not any problem thanks to the good infra- large sales market? structure of public transport and motorways. Then you will be welcome to come to the Rhine Do you want to shop in various large towns Main Neckar region, which is Germany’s region or in the somewhat smaller and more for doing good business! tranquil setting of a mediaeval town? Darmstadt, Frankfurt, Mannheim, Heidelberg or the mediaeval towns of Michelstadt and Further information: www.darmstadt.ihk.de Bensheim look forward to your visit. Doc. no. 128958
4 5 Do you know about BRAIN AG in Zwingenberg? The biotechnological business enterprise has developed an enzyme for the major manufac- The Darmstadt Rhine Main turers of washing machines, which develops the same washing power at 40°C as at 60°C Neckar region specializes in the and it has already been awarded the German Environmental Prize. engineering sector Or do you know about the firm of Bertrandt, which is a service-provider and supplier to the Embedded in the greater region Darmstadt Rhine Main Neckar has its own international motorcar industry and aircraft expertise: It is THE Engineering Region! industry from Ginsheim-Gustavsburg? Various scenarios to illuminate the cockpits of aircraft The region is outstandingly established in the based here too. There is also a whole range of are typically tested there for Airbus. sectors of automation, logistics, chemistry, ‘hidden champions’ among them, which are pharmacy, biotechnology, automotive, renewable often relatively unknown business enterprises Can you also imagine that it is possible to make energies and IT. It is well known worldwide for that nevertheless are among the world’s market eco-power or (thermal and acoustic) insulation Europe‘s aerospace industry: the European Space leaders in their quite special sectors. from meadow grass? The ‘grass factory’ of Bio- Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt controls wert Industrie GmbH in Brensbach in the Oden- all of the European satellites. EUMETSAT is Did you know for example that ‘Alpinaweiß’ is a wald is practising to do that already in a specially located nearby and it operates the weather product that is made by Deutsche Amphibolin- designed bio-refinery that is unique worldwide. satellites which take the photographs that are Werke in Ober-Ramstadt? Or have you already used as the basis for European weather forecasts. reflected at any time on who puts the colorant There are exciting examples of engineering per- and taste into your favourite lemonade? formance in Darmstadt Rhine Main Neckar! Many large and famous business enterprises like Opel, Merck, Pirelli, Software AG, Suzuki Interna- Aquanova in Darmstadt supplies a natural tional Europe, Langnese and Deutsche Telekom alternative to colorants and Döhler is a leading Further information: are located in the region. Numerous small-sized manufacturer worldwide of natural flavourings, www.darmstadt.ihk.de and medium-sized business enterprises are which is located just around the corner. Doc. no. 134460, Doc. no. 119299
6 7 Numerous research institutes have their head The Darmstadt Rhine Main offices in the region: the list of these facilities includes the Fraunhofer Institutes, the GSI Neckar region is knowledgeable Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung with its particle-accelerator machine for ions that is unique worldwide, as well as the The special competences that the Darmstadt Rhine Main Neckar region developmental centres of Kia, Hyundai, Opel possesses in the engineering sector are also reflected in its polytechnic colleges and Honda. They do research on important and research institutes. subjects like IT security among other things, as well as on the safe materials that are typically Darmstadt Technical University, Darmstadt’s Companies benefit from excellent skilled used in the motorcar industry. The spectrum University of Applied Sciences and the workers, academics as well as tailor-made of research is extended by the Max-Planck Rhine-Main University of Applied Sciences talents. Thus, the recruiting potential is Institutes in Frankfurt, Mainz, Bad Nauheim in Rüsselsheim specialize in courses outstanding. The region’s dynamic economy is and Heidelberg. to study engineering and supported by the cooperative agreements that science. Darmstadt Technical have been made between polytechnic colleges It is not by chance that Darmstadt one town in University is traditional and research institutes outside the universities, the region bears the title of ‘Science City’! and it is among the largest as well as by the close cooperation that exists technical universities in Germany. The between them and the business enterprises. offer is supplemented by further universities in The study entitled ‘Darmstadt Technical
Frankfurt, Mainz, Mannheim and Heidelberg, University as an economic factor’ shows that Further information: as well as by polytechnic colleges in the sur- Darmstadt Technical University has created a www.darmstadt.ihk.de Doc. no. 9810 roundings: all of them cater for the trainees in considerable extent of jobs, gross added value diw-econ.de/publikationen/studien/ the Darmstadt Rhine Main Neckar region. and effective growth which arise from the wirtschaftsfaktor-tu-darmstadt skilled workers and innovations.
8 9 The fact that Plexiglas® was invented in produce fountain pens and stylographs. The fam- Darmstadt is well known. However, did you ily-owned company achieved a breakthrough know already for example that the idea of the with the ‘ink liner’ in 1995 – almost 100 years The Darmstadt Rhine dry razor came from the region? Max Braun later – which is a pen that can be refilled with registered the patent for it in Darmstadt in commercially available ink cartridges. Main Neckar region is 1949. The pioneer of surfaces for kidney- shaped tables and modern residential design The region is also setting the pace in this with Resopal® originated in the conurbation century. Adam Opel AG presented the ‘Hydro innovative and it applies around it in 1930. Gen 3’ in Rüsselsheim in 2001, which is the first motorcar that is powered by fuel cells the research outcome Friedrich Moldenhauer founded the first match- and it has a road licence in Germany. The firm stick factory in Darmstadt during the 19th of Besam in Dieburg that produces revolving century, which was transferred doors has patented an alarm system which is The study entitled ‘The innovative location of Darmstadt to the Odenwald subsequently. activated via the entrance door when a person Rhine Main Neckar: research and development as factors The process of dust-free cut- is leaving the building. Sirona in Bensheim for growth’ established that the Darmstadt Rhine Main ting continuous paper – which has registered the patent for developing a Neckar region is strong in research and above average when is still being used nowadays – 3D camera to record the surface textures for was invented in Darmstadt as manufacturing artificial teeth. Its LCD screens compared with the rest of Germany. the GOEBEL cutting system probably contain liquid crystals that were The regional innovative system functions perfectly thanks to the during the same century. made by the firm of Merck too. statefinanced basic research, highly qualified skilled workers – a high Karl Meisenbach founded proportion of whom are employed in research and development – and his ‘fountain pen factory‘ You can see that innovative ideas are applied in close integration between science and commerce, as well as an economic in Fischbachtal during this the Darmstadt Rhine Main Neckar region! structure that is orientated to the scientifically intensive branches period and he started to of industry!
Further information: www.darmstadt.ihk.de Doc. no. 131614, Doc. no. 121390
10 11 automation. For example, automatic unloading of lorries and storage in a high-density racking system is taking place at the firm of Fresenius One cooperates in the Darmstadt in Biebesheim and in DHL’s supply chain, which handles breadsticks – among other things – Rhine Main Neckar region logistically for Wolf Bergstrasse in Biblis.
The Wetropa Group of foamed plastic It is proven that business enterprises as well as the centres of research processors has utilized the web applications and commerce cooperate successfully in the region. and mobile applications that are based on the corporate software of Bright Solutions The business enterprises take ‘cluster One example illustrates the proximity of science GmbH: the customer assembles foamed plastic initiatives‘, exchange information to the economy in the Darmstadt Rhine Main inlays for tool boxes in an online configurator reciprocally and enter into cooperative Neckar region: the firm of Continental and according to his requirements. An automatic agreements among themselves and with the Darmstadt Technical University are working cutting programme makes the individual inlays polytechnic colleges. The Automotive Cluster together on developing a driver-assistance according to the customer’s guidelines. Rhein-Main-Neckar, the Automatisierungs- system that is intended to protect the vehicle’s region Rhein-Main-Neckar and the IT FOR occupants from road accidents, within Illustrative examples of how ideas go hand in WORK initiative are successful examples of that. the ‘PRORETA’ interdisciplinary cooperative hand can be realized in the region. research project. The Software-Cluster around Darmstadt, Kaiserslautern, Karlsruhe, Saarbrücken The fact that cooperative agreements function Further information: www.darmstadt.ihk.de and Walldorf is considered to be the well across the various branches of industry Doc. no. 3244 European ‘Silicon Valley’ for corporate in the Darmstadt Rhine Main Neckar region is www.automatisierungsregion.de software. The network has been viewed impressively as a successful example www.automotive-cluster.org distinguished within the framework in the industrial area of 4.0: information www.it-for-work.de of the German government’s top technology (IT), which is setting the pace www.software-cluster.com cluster competition. again in logistics, automotive engineering and
12 13 The region’s cultural Last but not least: offer ranges from castles, chateaux and the UNESCO word cultural heritage site you can live well in the Darmstadt of Lorsch Cloister, as well as museums, theatres and Rhine Main Neckar region festivals, to the town of Darmstadt as the centre of Art Nouveau. Gourmets The Darmstadt Rhine Main Neckar region is located in the middle of a are well catered for too: significant economic zone in a central position with outstanding means of public they can taste fresh transport and motorways: it also offers proximity to nature as well as to cultural asparagus from the reeds, places and sites. as well as lamb and cooked cheese from the Odenwald The region is not only an excellent location for Bergstrasse, Odenwald and the river land- with a little glass of wine working in but the quality of life is also out- scapes offer a huge number of recreational from Bergstrasse. standing. You can choose whether you prefer a activities and leisure facilities nearby: someone residential location in town or in greenery! who would like to be active in natural surround- One can enjoy the Darmstadt ings will find outstanding conditions in the Rhine Main Neckar region in The region emphasizes a hospitable attitude to Darmstadt Rhine Main Neckar region, this way! newcomers. Skilled workers and their families whether it be walking on the certified nature are also intended to feel well and at home trail of Nibelungensteig for example, or here after all. Some local authorities have cycling, mountain biking or horse-riding. Further information: www.darmstadt.ihk.de committed themselves particularly and they Exercise, culture and information combine Doc. no. 120972 have been rewarded with the IHK certificate wonderfully on numerous educational trails in www.darmstadt-marketing.de of ‘Excellent local authority for skilled workers the Bergstrasse-Odenwald Geo-Nature Park, www.odenwald.de and managers’. which has its northern entrance gate in the www.diebergstrasse.de UNESCO world heritage site of Grube Messel.
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