Hamburg News 09/2010 Wind energy giant acquired Leading medicine technology The south‘s changing faces Reeperbahn rocks With Broadwind Energy, HWF Medicine technology from the From Wilhelmsburg‘s new For three nights, 160 bands will successfully relocated the US Hamburg Metropolitan Area is in centre to Harburg‘s castle island: once again play at 20 bars and market leader for supply chain high demand around the world, Hamburg‘s south is undergoing clubs: in its fifth year, Reeperbahn solutions to Hamburg. (p. 2) three examples show. (p. 2) huge developments (p. 3) Festival is bigger than ever. (p. 4) Newsflash Hamburg‘s autumn is dedicated to China Local patriots: Hamburg‘s CHINA TIME 2010 in September, “Hamburg Summit: China meets Europe“ in November locals have issued their city a good testimony. 91 per Before EXPO 2010 closes its cent of them enjoy living gates in Shanghai, Hamburg in the city. This is the result will celebrate CHINA TIME of a representative citizen from 9 - 25 September for the survey conducted by the third time. At its more than 200 Northern Office of Statistics events, the Middle Kingdom by order of the Hamburg can be experienced at close. Ministry of Finance among Exhibition and concerts, talks, 20,000 Hamburg citzens. seminars and panel discus- The locals‘ love of their sions, readings, theatre and city is also obvious on the Internet. With hundreds cinema, culinary delights and of thousands of fans and a Chinese market at city hall fan groups promoting the square will invite to explore the Elbe metropolis in social many faces of China. networks such as Xing, The core theme of EXPO 2010 Facebook, StudiVZ or Die Shanghai “Better City, Better Lokalisten, the Hanseatic Life“ will also play an important sive house: Hamburg House, gather in Hamburg to foster city is a hotspot in the vir- role at CHINA TIME, where ur- already viewed more than an the bilateral dialogue. This tual world. And also in real banisation and green, liveable 200,000 excited EXPO visitors. year‘s participants include, life, Hamburg attracts new cities are also being discussed. Two months after the end of inter alia, the former German citizens. In 2009, 3,709 were With Hamburg being appoin- CHINA TIME 2010, the Ham- chancellors Helmut Schmidt granted German nationa- ted as Europe‘s Green Capital burg Chamber of Commerce and Gerhard Schröder, the lity in Hamburg, thus the Federal Office of Statistics 2011, climate protection is ano- will host once again a high- former French Prime Minister in Wiesbaden. With a plus ther key theme of CHINA TIME, profile economic conference, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Jürgen of 907 persons compared which will present Hamburg‘s which has become the premier Fitschen, member of Deutsche to 2008, naturalisations in new centre of competence su- platform for Sino-European re- Bank‘s Management Board, Hamburg increased, while stainable China with offices lations since its launch in 2004: and Capt. Wei Jiafu, Chief Exe- they declined in all other in Hamburg und Shanghai. the fourth “Hamburg Summit: cutive Officer, COSCO Group. German states. Hamburg‘s contribution to the China meets Europe”. From www.chinatime.hamburg.de www.hamburg.de/buerger- world exhibition in its sister city 24 - 26 November, top-ranking www.expo2010-hamburg.de befragung was China‘s first certified pas- officials and businessmen will www.hamburg-summit.com Hamburg to be Germany‘s first to be awarded the UNESCO King Sejong Literacy Prize Prestigious award granted to the FLY Family Literacy Project supporting migrants‘ language acquisition For the first time, the UNESCO for the Family Literacy Project model for enhancing literacy in old first grade school children. will grant the King Sejong Li- (FLY). The prize giving ceremo- immigrant families and promo- Launched in autumn 2004, the teracy Prize to a German insti- ny will take place in Paris on ting integration. The pilot was project was supported by the tution. In 2010, the prestigious 8 September 2010. The jury re- carried out in 33 locations in UNESCO Institute for Lifelong award will be attributed to cognised the intergenerational socially disadvantaged districts Learning in its concept and im- the State Institute for Teacher approach, with parents partici- of Hamburg, and involved the plementation phases. Training and School Develop- pating in and benefiting from parents of five-year-old pre- www.unesco.org/uil ment in Hamburg, Germany their children’s learning, as a school children and six-year- www.li-hamburg.de Hamburg News 09/2010 Page 2 Shortcuts The formula for growth: Hamburg + France = success New corrosion protection For French companies, Ham- gramme. Airbus invested 30 Furthermore, bilateral busi- Forget paint: a super thin off- burg means success. The Eu- million euros a new A350XWB ness co-operations are to be shore film today offers the ropean aircraft manufacturer fuselage assembly hangar. expanded. Following the exa- most efficient and environ- Airbus has dealt far better than Aurubis AG, the largest copper mple of the aviation industry, mentally friendly protection competitors with the difficult manufacturer in Europe and where co-operation between against corrosion. The innova- economy of the past months present in Hamburg since Hamburg and Toulouse was tive foil was developed by the and has expanded activities 1866, has selected Air Liquide initiated in 2004, life sciences Hamburg shipping specialist at its Finkenwerder plant by to be its new long term sup- are now added as a second fo- Orca Maritime, and has alrea- dy been applied on some 100 having increased the final as- plier of oxygen. The French cus. To initiate projects, agents vessels. In co-operation with sembly of A320 family jets company will now construct an of the industry are to meet in the Hamburg University of from 17 to 22 aircraft per additional air separation unit Hamburg in autumn. Cancer Technology and the Hamburg month. In addition, large sec- in Hamburg with a capacity of therapy and nanotechnology Ship Model Basin (HSVA), the tions of A320‘s fuselage are more than 500 tonnes per day are key themes of interest. company today focuses its re- being manufactured at Finken- of gaseous oxygen and liquid www.airbus.com search on the development of werder. Hamburg is also being products. Operations are due www.airliquide.de an anti-fouling foil for hulls. involved in the A350XWB pro- to start in 2011. www.norgenta.de www.orca-maritime.com Best grades for BNI Hamburg‘s Bernhard Nocht Broadwind Energy opens office in Hamburg Institute for Tropical Medici- Fraunhofer Center and Hamburg Port Authority to optimise port processes ne (BNI) has been recognised Broadwind Energy, Inc., based vices to the wind energy indus- Group, Nordex, Siemens, Ge- by the Senate of the Leibniz Assciation for its “excellent in Naperville, Illinois, has ope- try. These product and service neral Electric (GE) from the scientific performance“ and ned an office in Hamburg and offerings include wind turbine U.S. and Vestas of Denmark the “convincing development named the former senior vice gearing systems, wind turbine are now present with central concept of the institute“. As a president of REpower Systems structural towers, industrial or sales units in the Hamburg Leibniz Institute, BNI is regular- AG Michael Stegelmann ma- products, technical services, Metropolitan Area and benefit ly audited every seven years. naging director of Broadwind precision repair and enginee- from the synergies thanks to In the survey, the association Energy Europe GmbH. The ring services, and logistics. the concentration of related in- recommended to continue Hamburg Business Develop- The acquisition of Broadwind dustries. With their expertise in federal support of BNI as “a ment Association supported Energy illustrates Hamburg‘s aircraft construction and ship- nationally and internationally Broadwind Energy in setting successful international posi- building, Hamburg‘s engineers esteemed centre of compe- up their German subsidiary. tioning in the global renewable are also meeting the demands tence for tropical medicine“. www.bnitm.de The U.S. market leader provi- energy market. Manufacturers of the wind energy industry. des technologically advanced such as Repower Systems, www.bwen.com Funds for innovations high-value products and ser- now part of the Indian Suzlon www.hamburg-economy.de In the past year, the Innovati- on Foundation Hamburg fun- ded 15 projects with a total of Hamburg Metropolitan Area 4.4 million euros. 104 new jobs have thus been created since Manufacturers of medicine technology for the world market the foundation‘s formation in 1997. This year, the procure- Innovative products and ment of the pioneering surgey Individual chemo therapies ment practise has been revi- ground-breaking developments system is being supported ZytoService is one of sed, with funds no longer ha- are not only being achieved by with 1.4 million euros from the Germany‘s leading manufac- ving to be repaid. universities and research fa- European Funds for Regional turers of parenteral nutritio- www.innovationsstiftung.de cilities, but also by small and Development. nal solutions and antibiotic infusions for clinic and home Property market upswing medium-sized enterprises, At Hamburg‘s commercial three specialists of medicine 3,500 surgery instruments use along with cytostatic infu- property market the up- technology from the Hamburg Bauer und Häselbarth-Chirurg sions. They all are being pro- ward trend stabilised. With Metropolitan Area show. GmbH from Ellerau started its duced under sterile conditions a transaction volume of 505 career 131 years ago with the in state-of-the-art clean rooms million euros in the first six Surgery theatre of tomorrow repair of surgical instruments. in ZytoService‘s new plant at months of 2010, sales have As one of the pioneering Today, its high-end medi- Hamburg-Jenfeld inaugurated more than doubled compa- forces in ultrasonic technolo- cal tools are in high demand earlier this year.