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Hamburg News 05/2011 Train of Ideas New portside promenade Brunsbüttel booms Reeperbahn Festival: award The European Green Capital Flood protection with a unique At the Northern German Chem- Launched six years ago, Ree- Hamburg has launched its “Train flair is created by Hamburg‘s new Coast, Bayer invests 100 million perbahn Festival was granted its of Ideas“, bringing green goals promenade boasting exciting Euro into its MDI production in second prize – the Live Entertain- and projects to Europe. (p. 2) harbour and river views. (p. 2) Brunsbüttel. (p. 3) ment Award. (p. 4) Newsflash Innovation – a Hamburg trademark Continuously increa- Airbus, Hauni, Beiersdorf, and Nordex are especially inventive sing exports: The econo- mic crisis of 2009 did not The Hamburg Metropolitan leave a lasting impact on Area is home of some of the Hamburg‘s exports: they country‘s most innovative have steadily grown over companies. the past five years. Total- With 216 patent applications ling 22.2 billion euro in last year, Airbus was among 2005, they climbed up to the 50 most active customers 31.3 billion euro in 2008, at the German Patent and passed 32.1 billion euro in Trademark Office. The aircraft 2009, and grew by 10.5 per manufacturer from Hamburg cent to 35.5 billion euro holds 60 per cent of all aircraft last year, thus the Office of patents. At the Aircraft Interi- Statistics North. With 18.2 billion euro and a 5.6 per ors Expo (AIE), the company cent increase, aircraft and elated airlines and trade fair aircraft components ac- visitors with its modified A320 counted for more than half cabin, allowing to install six ad- of Hamburg‘s exports. Sin- ditonal seats due to rearranged ce 2005, the city state‘s ex- lavatories. Also, the partition time, LHT also permanently in- 77 innovations were patent- ports enjoyed a 60 per cent between the two sanitary units stalled beds in an aircraft cabin. registered by Beiersdorf last increase. 65.6 per cent of can be folded away to create a The plans for the innovative year. Also, 7.1 per cent of all Hamburg exports went to more spacios lavatory for peo- sleeper seats in the first class medical patents are ideas from European countries (2005: ple with a handicap. of a Boeing 747 operated by Hamburg, eand even 13 per 71.1 per cent). 22.7 per cent Lufthansa Technik showca- Lufthansa were drafted by the cent of wind energy innova- of goods travelled to Asia sed its expertise of athletics Hamburg design studio müller/ tions were conceived at the (2005: 12.5 per cent), with China accounting for more at the industry‘s lead fair. The romca. Very inventive is also banks of the Elbe river. The than half of the share. Ex- global market leader in MRO the Hamburg-based Körber power of winds is also used by ports to the United States presented the first exercise bi- affiliate Hauni. The world‘s lea- another Hamburg invention, declined to 8.3 per cent cycle certified for aircraft. Initi- ding manufacturer of cigarettes now implemented by the US (2005: 12.7 per cent). ally, the 60,000 euro expensive and filter machines holds more transporter Cargill for its com- www.statistik-nord.de sport gear will only be fitted than 1,000 patents, and adds mercial freighters: SkySails, into VIP aircraft. For the first several dozens every year. towing kites for ships. Milestones for Wilhelmsburg‘s new centre: architecture contest decided Construction of the central four new buildings at Neuenfelder Straße to start already in mid-2011 Two years ahead of the Inter- education, leisure, and sports. also responsible for the new design of the KerVita nursing national Building Exhibition Constructions are scheduled to domicile of the Island Acade- home, nursing school and child (IBA), the winners of the archi- start in mid-2011. my, offering various sporting care centre. The sports hall, tectural contest “Wilhelmsburg Featuring a green façade and and educational activities for which will be used as exhibition centre“ were named. Along glass, Bolles+Wilson convinced needy young people behind its hall in 2013, was conceived by Neuenfelder Straße, a com- with their design of a medical striking wooden façade. Berlin- the Munich office of Allmann plex is to be erected on 20,000 centre. The architecture office based feddersenarchitekten Sattler Wappner Architekten. sqm uniting housing, working, from Münster/Westphalia is convinced the jury with their www.iba-hamburg.de Hamburg News 05/2011 Page 2 Hamburg is the home of Germany‘s best computer games Shortcuts Cloud Computing makes e-commerce and online IT services boom Offshore centre Hamburg is Germany‘s capi- mobile game“ and received Hamburg is also a German GE Energy has opened a new tal for interactive entertain- 50,000 euros for its game “Ga- pioneer in online shopping. offshore engineering centre ment and online shopping. laxy on Fire 2“. The awards are Benefitting from the digital in Hamburg‘s HafenCity fo- Hamburg‘s leading role was re- annually granted by the leading boom, ePages, a leading pro- cussing on product develop- cently confirmed in Munich at industry associations BIU e.V. vider of on-demand web shop ment, application engineering and advanced technology. The the German Computer Game and G.A.M.E. e.V. in co-opera- solutions, will recruit 80 new centre is a key element in GE‘s Awards ceremony, where tion with the German govern- staff. Its growth was boosted major European offshore wind games made in Hamburg were ment. They were established in by cloud computing, the provi- expansion with a planned 340 honoured with three out of se- 2008 to promote educationally sion of IT services that can be million euro investment for ven trophies. Two were granted and culturally valuable compu- used flexibly via the Internet as manufacturing, engineering to Hamburg-based Daedalic ter and console games. needed. Cloud computing al- and service facilities in four Entertainment. Its eco-thriller Also very successful is Bigpoint lowed ePages to develop into countries. i. e. in the United PC adventure game “A New from Hamburg. Germany‘s lar- one of the world’s leading e- Kingdom, Norway, Sweden Beginning“ was named win- gest online gaming platform commerce providers for small and Germany. In Hamburg, GE ner in the main category “Best recently signed a strategic part- and medium-sized enterprises plans to double staff figures of German Game” and also took nership with Electronic Arts with over 50,000 customers currently 30 to 60 employees home the “Best Youth Game” (EA), the world‘s second-largest like SAP, Heise, and La Poste. in the coming years. www.ge.com trophy and a total prize money developer of video games, and www.gamecity-hamburg.de of 125,000 euro. will now host and distribute www.deutscher-computerspiel- Fishlabs Entertainment was EA‘s free online games on its preis.de, www.bigpoint.net Geared up for expansion In Hamburg, companies hire honoured in the category “Best platform. www.epages.com new staff and expand their business. The commodities trader Velox will recruit some Olympus expands corporate network in Hamburg 130 staff for its expanded pre- Biotechnology and medical technology are growth industry in Germany‘s north mises at Dovenhof and plans to rise sales to 100 milion euro Olympus Surgical Technologies nal sales amounted to 450 mil- company‘s first year of profits in 2011. Dietrich von Saldern, a Europe has taken over Olympus lion euro last year. with a plus of three million building material manufacturer Surgical UK, the fifth company Like medical technology, also euro. In 2011, sales of 66 million and logistics company, will to join the expanding corporate biotechnology is a growth in- euro are envisaged. Evotec is a even triple staff figures to 300 network based in Hamburg dustry in Hamburg, promoted partner of the NEU² consortium to meet the challenges after with European headquarters. by the agency Norgenta. Accor- that researches novel therapies several acquisitions and incre- ased orders. Enjoying a signifi- The new addition has become ding to the network jointly set against neurological diseases. cant increase of orders is also well-known through its ‘see up by Hamburg and Schleswig- Partners also inculde Merck the Hamburg-based fork lift and treat’ solutions in the field Holstein, biotech alone em- KGaA, European ScreeningPort manufacturer Jungheinrich. In of minimally invasive surgery. ploys some 4,500 staff in 100 GmbH, Bionamics GmbH, and 2010, sales grew by eight per With the integration under the companies. the University Medical Center cent to 1,816 million euro. Hamburg roof, Olympus Sur- Among the stars of the sector Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE). gical Technologies Europe now is Evotec, which enjoyed a 29 www.olympus-oste.eu Medical patches employs a staff of 1,100 at five per cent increase in sales to 55 www.norgenta.de The adhesisve tape specialist locations in three states. Exter- million last year, and thus the www.evotec.com tesa will enter the health care market with medical patches to fight Herpes and oral foils. With the approval for phar- The “Train of Ideas“ promotes sustainability throughout Europe maceutical products recently The European Green Capital Hamburg has taken its green goals to the tracks granted, production is sche- duled to start in the first quar- Hamburg has sent the Euro- to head to Warsaw, followed by ter of 2011. tesa celebrates its pean Green Capital on wheels Riga, Tallinn, Vienna, and Barce- 75-year anniversary in 2011. with a “Train of Ideas” travel- lona in June. July stops include www.tesa.de ling Europe.