Hamburg News 2/2010 Healthy tesa tapes New urban landscapes Support for indie labels 50th Beatles anniversary This spring, Hamburg-based tesa Hamburg has launched two large Hamburg‘s independent music To commemorate the start of the will launch the world‘s first oral building projects: Harburg‘s scene is stimulated by Germany‘s Beatles‘ career in Hamburg, the dissolvable tape, which will help sustainable Eco City and Altona‘s first dedicated support scheme for city celebrates the Beatles Come cancer patients. (p. 2) 1,900 new homes. (p. 2) small indie labels. (p. 3) Together Festival in May. (p. 3.) Newsflash Hamburg to head Europe‘s largest climate protection project Location marketing in GE to sponsor EU CO2 80/50 – Conergy to inaugurate the North‘s largest solar park one hand: Hamburg Mar- keting GmbH (HMG) and EU CO 80/50 is Europe‘s largest HWF Hamburg Business and most ambitious climate Development Corporati- protection project. The 15 me- on have joined force to tropolitan areas participating create Hamburg‘s first in- in the project strive to develop tegrated location marke- strategies to reduce carbon ting concept. Comprising dioxide emissions by 80 per six key areas, the catalo- cent until the year 2050 com- gue of issues and coun- pared to 1990 levels. tries has been approved Lead partner is the Hamburg by the secretaries of state Metropolitan Area. Scientific of the ministries of cul- support is granted by the Uni- ture, science, economy versity of Manchester that also and labour affairs, and provides a valuable measure- now forms the binding ment tool with the Greenhouse basis for all activities in Gas Regional Inventory Project In addition, Hamburg recently Hamburg‘s wind power plants location marketing. Ba- (GRIP). Further partners inclu- updated and expanded its 2007 is to increase from currently sed on recommendations de the metropolitan areas of climate protection concept with 45 megawatt to 100 mega- by the Hamburg Institute Brussels, Glasgow, Frankfurt, more than 300 new projects. watt. And while Hamburg‘s of International Econo- Helsinki, Ljubljana, Madrid, In the past two years, 47 mil- new public provider Hamburg mics, following sectors Naples, Oslo, Paris, Porto, Rot- lion euros have already been Energie recently inaugurated have been chosen as terdam, Stockholm, Stuttgart, invested into climate pro- its first photovoltaic plant at Hamburg‘s key indus- and Torino along with ME- tection, including, inter alia, Georgswerder, the Hamburg- tries: aviation, logistics, TREX, the network of Europe- the energy modernisation of based solar manufacturer Co- maritime industries, me- an metropolitan areas and re- 7,000 flats. New targets range nergy AG realised Northern dia/IT/telecommunica- gions. As an exclusive industry from the establishment of the Germany‘s largest solar park tion, creative industries, partner, Hamburg was able to passive house as new stan- with a performance of 4,2 me- and renewable energies/ win General Electric (GE). The dard for new homes to the gawatt in the north of neigh- climate protection. world‘s fourth largest compa- provision of renewable ener- bouring Schleswig-Holstein. www.hamburg-economy.de ny will support EU CO2 80/50 gies for Hamburg‘s public rail www.euco2.org with a high six-digit sum. transport. The performance of www.klima.hamburg.de The logistics location Hamburg is to receive its first Fraunhofer facility Fraunhofer Centre for Maritime Logistics and Services focusses on practice-oriented applied research The logistics location Hamburg operators, shipping agents, for- Technology Hamburg-Harburg. to set up CML will be covered will receive its first Fraunhofer warding agents, public autho- CML‘s practice-oriented applied by the Free and Hanseatic City Institute this year: the Fraun- rities, and other players of the research will range from the of Hamburg which will contri- hofer Centre for Maritime Lo- maritime economy. Director planning of sea ports, fleet ma- bute six million euros. Further gistics and Services (CML). Its of the Fraunhofer facility will nagement, maritime forecasts three millions euros will be ge- international team of scientists be Prof. Carlos Jahn, who also and technologies to process de- nerated by Fraunhofer‘s applied will focus on developing inno- heads the institute of maritime sign and process engineering. research. vations for seaports, terminal logistics at the University of The nine million euros needed www.fraunhofer.de Hamburg News 2/2010 Page 2 Shortcuts Innovative utilisation concepts for HafenCity and Altona Less carbon dioxide The Overseas Quarter is going concepts so far unique either port areas undergo quite a dif- Hamburg Airport is pi- to be the vibrant heart of in Hamburg or Germany. ferent revitalisation. In Altona, oneering future-oriented Hamburg‘s HafenCity. Its nor- The majority of shops will Hamburg‘s third port ware- technologies. In the past thern part is due to be finished be located in the south of the house called “Kaispeicher D“ years, CO2 emissions by May 2011, the southern Overseas Quarter. In the north, has been renovated to house have been reduced by areas are to follow by 2013/14. a large food and drug store offices. Investor Aug. Prien has 11,600 tonnes per year. The new neighbourhood will will satisfy the needs of the lo- spent 40 million euros on the By 2011, CO2 emissions are not only feature various kinds cal population. Here, all shops 150 m long brick block built in to be cut by further eleven per cent or 1,700 tonnes. of housing, office spaces, and and restaurants will be located the 1920s to make it fit for its All baggage tractors are premises for drinking and di- at ground level. In the south, second life. Now leased by the powered by natural gas, ning, but also innovative shop innovative shopping concepts property firm Immobiliare, new further vehicles powered concepts. Next to brand bou- ranging from fashion and tenants include advertising by gas or hydrogen are to tiques, flagship stores, and sports to electronics will be agencies, concert organisers, follow. In addition, Ham- branches of popular chains, realised at both the ground and and a fashion company. burg Airport has introdu- so called “innovation tenants“ first level of the new buildings. www.hafencity.com ced emission-based start will excite shoppers with store Further down the river, former www.augprien.de and landing fees at the be- ginning of the year. www.hamburg-airport.de Large projects for inner city flats and offices Green S-Bahn New neighbourhood in Altona with 1,900 flats – sustainable ECO CITY in Harburg S-Bahn Hamburg is With the HafenCity progres- tensen and Bahrenfeld and Gummi-Waaren Compagnie Germany‘s first zero-emis- sion railway company. All sing, Hamburg will commence change the urban landscape of AG. Called ECO CITY, the new rapid rail trains run exclusi- two other large scale conver-si- the district. The groundbrea- office location will meet the vely on renewable energies on projects on former industri- king ceremony is scheduled highest environmental criteria retrieved from water power al sites to create new flats and for 2012. In 2015, the station and be certified by the world‘s plants. Every year, CO2 office spaces. for long-distance trains will be largest eco rating agencies, i.e. emissions in the Hamburg On a 90,000 sqm lot in the east transferred to Diebsteich, with LEED, BREEAM, and DGNB. Metropolitan Area are thus of the former cargo rail stati- Altona station then only being Green pillars of the advanced being reduced by 60.000 on Altona, 1,900 flats are to be serviced by Hamburg‘s rapid sustainability concept will be tonnes. built and complemented with rail network S-Bahn and regio- two huge wind towers with in- www.s-bahn-hamburg.de a neighbourhood park. Further nal trains. tegrated offices, several smal- flats are to follow on grounds In Harburg, a pioneering pro- ler wind turbines, solar panels, From waste to energy still covered by railway tracks. ject in sustainable building is green roofs, and environmen- Buhck Group from Hamburg The new neighbourhood will planned on the former grounds tally friendly materials. has developed an alternati- ve to the energy production link the north of Altona to Ot- of the New York Hamburger www.ecocity.de based on coal and oil. Con- verting industrial waste into grey flakes called “fluff“, Innovations of the Hamburg Metropolitan Area they have created an excel- lent energy source, which tesa invents oral dissolvable tapes packed with healthy drugs icould replace oil and coal, while saving CO2. Accor- In Europe, tesa became fa- the oral cavity and eliminating It directly delivers the drug to ding to a study by the Ham- mous for its transparent adhe- the need for water to admini- the area where it is meant to burg University of Applied sive tape marketed under the ster the medication. For that act, without having to pass the Sciences (HAW), 70,000 tesafilm® brand. Meanwhile, reason, orally dissolvable films digestion system first. And un- tonnes of waste allow to the Hamburg-based specia- (ODFs) are especially suitable like pills, the patch delivers the cut down CO2 in the Ham- burg Metropolitan Area by list for self-adhesive products for people who tend to forget active ingredient not unevenly, 30.000 tonnes. also manufactures transparent their medication or have diffi- but in a steady flow. Also, the www.buhck.de films for quite another usage: culties swallowing pills, such frequency with which patients as medication in the health as children and the elderly. are required to take the medi- Boom of warranty bonds care sector. cation can be reduced by using In 2009, the “Bürgschafts- Easy medication patches that last one or more gemeinschaft (BG) Ham- Healthy tongue tape The acquisition of Labtec in days.