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BREMEN: AUTOMOTIVE CENTRE PAR EXCELLENCETHE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY’S STAR IS SHINING

European UnionInvesting in Bremen‘s FutureEuropean Regional Development Fund

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BREMENA DYNAMIC REGION

Two cities, one federal state : the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen and the sea- port of Bremerhaven, 60 km downriver, together form the State of Bremen, in which a population of more than 660,000 lives and works.

Strong, dynamic and proficient, Bremen is the economic centre of a region with two million inhabitants. It is home, for example, to high-tech companies and research institutes of international renown. Bremen also belongs to the top ten industrial centres in Germany and boasts an unparalleled concentration of scientific institutions.

THE STATE OF BREMEN IN FACTS AND FIGURES

Population: 661,888 in the State of Bremen; around 2 million in the region

Land use: of 419.39 km2, more than 10 % are forest and leisure areas; around 8 % of the city of Bremen and 28 % of Bremerhaven are water- bodies; high quality of life and living, yet also with industrial estates and office properties of the highest standard

Students: around 36,000 at eight higher education centres; highest density of academic facilities in Germany

Gainfully employed: around 307,000 earners, more than 20 % in manu- facturing industry, more than 10 % self-employed

Enterprises: 20,000, manufacturing industry with around 55,000 employees

BIP: around 32 billion Euro

Foreign trade: Exports = 55.7 % = Ranked 1st among the federal states; 63 % of exports are to Europe

Location and transport links: motorways, airport, rail, ports

High-quality industrial estates and office properties

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AUTOMOTIVE CENTRE PAR EXCELLENCEA TRADITIONAL LOCATION SINCE 1906, WITH ENDLESS PROSPECTS

The Hanseatic City is rich in traditions as a centre for the automotive industry. The first car factory in Bremen was built as early as 1906, the first prominent customer with deep pockets was none other than the German emperor, Wilhelm II.

Since then, Bremen has established itself as a strong location for the automotive industry. The Mercedes-Benz plant is the biggest private-sector employer in Bremen, where it produced more than 320,000 vehicles in 2015. It is also the global Competence Centre for production of the C-Class.

The car terminal in Bremerhaven and the excellent research work carried out at universities and other centres of higher education make Bremen an automotive centre without parallel.

THE CAR INDUSTRY IS BUZZING

• Biggest Mercedes production site worldwide (2015)• Excellent supply of skilled workers• Strong supplier companies• ‘Northwest Automotive Network’ as a platform for the industry• Attractive industrial estates for the automotive industry• World-class competence in logistics• Automotive research• Outstanding technological competence, e. g. innovative materials,

lightweight engineering, Industry 4.0

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Quality management on the production line: here at the biggest Mercedes production plant worldwide.

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PRODUCTION IN THE MERCEDES-BENZ PLANTA WORLD-CLASS LODESTAR

The Hanseatic City has petrol in its blood: today, on the site where Carl Borg-ward once built his legendary automobiles, cars bearing the Mercedes star are assembled – and benchmarks set for tomorrow’s car production. Vehicles pass along the assembly line in versatile order, independently of the specific model or configuration.

With a workforce more than 12,500 strong, the car factory in Sebaldsbrück is the biggest private-sector employer in the region. As the world’s largest Mercedes-Benz plant, it is the Competence Centre for the new C-Class and in that capacity it also controls the ramp-up and production of this biggest-selling series in the three foreign plants in Tuscaloosa (USA), Beijing (China) and East London (South Africa).

Daimler AG is currently investing a further 750 million Euro in the Bremen plant, because the successor model for the C-Class will also be built here from 2020 onwards.

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2015 World’s biggest Mercedes-Benz plant; 324,131 cars p. a. and rising2014 Global Competence Centre for the C-Class; production launch of the new C-Class2013 The one millionth roadster built in Bremen 2012 The one millionth C-Class car is delivered2011 JD Power Award as Best Car Production Plant in Europe2007 The new C-Class rolls off the assembly line1978 Production of Mercedes-Benz cars commences1971 Daimler-Benz AG takes over the plant1938 Opening of the Carl F. W. Borgward car and engine factory

THE MERCEDES-BENZ PLANTA CHRONOLOGY

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Assembly line and paint shop in the Mercedes-Benz plant in Bremen

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AUTOMOTIVE SUPPLIERSHIGHLY INNOVATIVE AND SUPERBLY POSITIONED

The flexibility, creativity and innovatory power of supplier companies are key to the success of car manufacturers. Automotive suppliers meanwhile account for about three-quarters of the value-added in an average passenger car. Many of them are domiciled in Bremen, including:

Hella Group: internationally a leading automotive supplier of lighting techno- logy and electronics; sensors, actuators and headlamp cleaning systems, especially, are produced in the Group’s primary plant in Bremen (with approx. 600 employees) – winner of the Automotive Lean Production Award in 2012.

Lear Corporation: one of the world’s leading suppliers for vehicle seating and electronic systems; domiciled in Bremen since 1983 as Europe’s first just- in-time supplier; current workforce around 950 strong; supplies the Mercedes- Benz plant in Bremen with seating systems.

Brose Group: a family-owned company and supplier to the global automotive industry; develops and produces mechatronic systems for vehicle doors and seats, as well as electric motors; production centre for door systems in Bremen.

Kuka Group: a leading provider of engineering services and solutions for automated production; in Bremen, KUKA Systems develops and builds produc- tion facilities for axle and drive train assembly, as well for engine and cylinder head assembly. Its product portfolio also includes services such as process planning, Simultaneous Engineering, training for customers and after-sales service.

Schedl Automotive: a specialist for complete wheel assembly and an auto- motive service provider with plants in Germany, Belgium, Great Britain, Portugal, Czechia, China and the USA; supplies Daimler, VW and BMW.

In total, there are more than 40 firms in Bremen working as suppliers to car manufacturers, as specialists for parts logistics, as providers of engineering services and in plant engineering – directly employing a workforce of more than 4,000.

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AUTOMOTIVE LOGISTICS FREIGHT HANDLING, TRANSPORT AND MUCH MORE BESIDES

Cars as far as the eye can see: the Bremerhaven Car Terminal has capacity for around 120,000 cars – including covered space for 45,000. Covering an area of almost a million square metres, the Kaiserhäfen, the North Harbour and the East Harbour in Bremerhaven form Europe’s biggest car handling facility – with sophisticated logistics, optimal transport links and a full range of services.

TRANSPORT LOGISTICS: BUILT FOR THE BIGGEST CHALLENGES

Vehicles are not just unloaded at the Car Terminal. The Technical Centre operated by the BLG Logistics Group is considered the biggest car workshop in Europe – where around 500,000 cars for export and import are checked, processed, modified or upgraded, for example by installing sunroofs, navigation systems, in-car electronic entertainment systems or leather seating.

The Bremen ports are the logistics hub for the entire automotive industry. Parts and subassemblies are sent from here to assembly plants all over the world. In addition to BLG, Europe’s leading automotive logistics company, other heavy- weights operating from here include Reimer Logistics, Ipsen Logistics, PWL (Peter W. Lampke GmbH & Co. KG), Stute and Weserport.

PRODUCTION LOGISTICS: EFFICIENT TO A ‘T’

Car parts and components often come from different continents. Yet efficient third-party logistics providers deliver directly to the assembly line and exactly according to needs, in some cases synchronously with production: just-in-time, just-in-sequence. There are several logistics centres in Bremen that operate with such efficiency: DB Schenker, the PCC (Plant Consolidation Center Bremen), or Lorel GmbH in the Hansalinie industrial estate.

• Europe’s biggest automotive freight handling port, serving all car makers• approx. 2.2 million vehicles p. a., of which approx. 80 % are exports,

or 1/3 of German automotive production• 15 berths for auto carriers along a 3-km quay• 25th in global container port rankings

THE CAR TERMINAL IN BREMERHAVENEUROPE’S CAR HANDLING HUB

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Bremerhaven Car Terminal: Around 1.8 million cars annually are exported all over the world from Europe’s biggest car handling facility.

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THE AUTOMOTIVE FUTURE IN THE STATE OF BREMEN IT HAS ALREADY BEGUN

‘HANSALINIE’ INDUSTRIAL ESTATE: SPACE GALORE!

One industrial estate showing very dynamic development is the ‘Hansalinie’: situated in the southeastern part of the Hanseatic City, just a few kilometres away from the biggest car factory operated anywhere in the world by Daimler AG, it has strong leanings towards the automotive industry. The potential for further development is enormous.

RESEARCH: AN INSTITUTIONALISED FORCE THAT GENERATES KNOWLEDGE Bremen is a centre of scientific excellence in northwest Germany, with auto- motive research being a key element. Institutes and research facilities of out- standing international repute, with links to the various universities, are working on trailblazing projects in technology and process engineering.

BIAS Bremen Institute for Applied Radiation TechnologyBIBA Bremen Institute of Industrial Technology and Applied Work ScienceDFKI German Research Centre for Artificial IntelligenceFIBRE Bremen Fibre InstituteIFAM Fraunhofer Institute for Production Engineering and Applied Materials ResearchIWT Foundation Institute for Materials ScienceBIME Bremen Institute for Mechanical EngineeringEcoMaT Center for Eco-efficient Materials & Technologies

Main research priorities: • material sciences, innovative materials, lightweight engineering,

surface technologies• intelligent and automated production systems and logistics networks• electromobility

As a model region for electromobility, Bremen also concentrates on the development of alternative drive systems.

Area: 270 ha of industrial building land; approx. 90 ha already developed and almost completely marketed; approx. 50 ha to be developed from 2014 to 2020 in three construction phases; first areas available in early 2017; approx. 130 ha of additional area for developmentCompanies: 80, with a total workforce of approx. 3,600Infrastructure: hotels, cafés, pubs and restaurants, vehicle service centre, LPT links, railway sidings, transport links: motorway intersections (A1); Bremer Kreuz (A27) – 6 km; Dreieck Stuhr (A28) – 30 km; Bremen Airport – 5 km; (inland) harbour/Hemelinger Hafen – 2 km; main railway station – 7 km

HANSALINIE INDUSTRIAL ESTATESHOWPIECE FOR SUPPLIERS

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Clearly recognisable from a bird’s eye view: the ‘Hansalinie’ industrial estate still has plenty of space to offer for further development.

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AUTOMOTIVE NORDWEST E.V. THE INDUSTRY PLATFORM

As a centre for the automotive industry, Bremen has strong links with the northwest region and with the Bremen/Oldenburg metropolitan region. In September 2007, the ‘Northwest Automotive Network’ (Netzwerk Automotive Nordwest e. V.) was launched by the Bremen and Oldenburg chambers of commerce and industry, in conjunction with the automotive industry in northwest Germany, in order to market the region nationally and internationally as a centre of automotive excellence, to foster business relationships and to create a common communication platform. This is where manufacturers and suppliers, service providers and researchers can network.

SHAPING THE FUTURE SUCCESSFULLY TOGETHER

• Around 70 member companies• Exchanging experience at events and workshops with cross-sector

knowledge transfer• Creating partnerships• Funding provided by the Bremen/Oldenburg metropolitan region,

the states of Bremen and Lower Saxony and by the ERDF programme of the European Union

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CAR MANUFACTURERS, SUPPLIERS AND LOGISTICS COMPANIES IN BREMEN 1 | BLG Automotive Logistics GmbH & Co. KG2 | Daimler AG Bremen – Mercedes-Benz plant Bremen2a | Mercedes-Benz plant Bremen, Funkschneise2b | Mercedes-Benz plant Bremen, Hansalinie industrial estate2c | Mercedes-Benz plant Bremen, Hemelinger Hafen3 | Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG4 | Hella Fahrzeugkomponenten GmbH5 | CON-Cover by friedola® TECH GmbH6 | KUKA Systems GmbH, BU Assembly & Test7 | Lear Corporation GmbH & Co. KG8 | Lorel GmbH9 | Magna Car Top Systems GmbH9a | Johnson Controls Headliner GmbH10 | Preymesser GmbH & Co. KG11 | SCHEDL Automotive System Service GmbH12 | I-Park Daimler (Schenker DB Logistics)13 | ThyssenKrupp System Engineering GmbH14 | Trecolan GmbH15 | Werner Egerland Automobillogistik GmbH & Co. KG16 | Robert Bosch Automotive Steering Nacam GmbH17 | MA Automotive Deutschland GmbH18 | ArcelorMittal Bremen GmbH19 | Pfenning Logistics GmbH

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THE UNPRETENTIOUS BEAUTYA GREAT PLACE TO LIVE!

‘Come to us here in Bremen, you won’t find anything better so easily elsewhere.’ Maybe that is how the Bremen Town Musicians, posing as heroes of world literature before Bremen’s 600-year-old Town Hall and World Heritage site, might rave about the city if they were around today. Here in this riverside city, the vision of urban quality of life has turned into reality. Within 20 minutes, you can walk through the unique and historical city centre – downriver along the Schlachte boulevard and over to Bremen’s youngest district, Überseestadt, with its fascinating mixture of historically important industrial architecture in the old harbour areas, and a contemporary ‘Waterfront’ of commerce, culture and living quarters alongside the river. Or upstream – through the Ostertor and into the ‘Quarter’, where the poet’s words apply: ‘Just reach into the fullness of human life (…) And wherever you grasp it, it’s interesting.’

SHORT PATHWAYS PREVENT BOREDOM Getting from A for apartment to B for business is stress-free – by bike, for example, a transport mode of choice in the city of aerospace industry, univer- sities and logistics centres, the city where the cars with the star are built. Yes indeed, for laboratory technicians and doctoral students alike, Bremen has long become a blueprint for a better life – and the role of the musicians is admirably filled by the world-class Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and its artistic director, Paavo Järvi.

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Typical Bremen: Like many important art and culture projects, the 200-hectare große Bürgerpark Bremen is privately financed, but open to the public. Around 2,600 hectares of parks and gardens form the ‘green lung’ of this city of thriving commerce, industry and science.

Bremen’s ‘drawing room’: the ensemble comprising the Town Hall and the Roland statue (now on the UNESCO World Heritage List), in combination with the cathedral and other historical buildings, forms one of the most beautiful old city centres in Germany.

Überseestadt Bremen: A modern mix of ‘riverside living and working’ has come into being where the old municipal harbour areas used to lie.

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WIRTSCHAFTSFÖRDERUNG BREMEN GMBHWE CREATE PROSPECTS

Bremen and Bremerhaven are places where entrepreneurs can achieve things.That is Hanseatic tradition with a future, and what is championed by the WFB and its subsidiary, the BAB (the regional development bank for Bremen and Bremerhaven). One path is all that is needed to obtain all the services that guide entrepreneurial projects to success.

SERVICE THAT HELPS COMPANIES PROGRESS

• Consulting on all locational issues• Simplified dealings with government authorities, assistance with official

permits and licences• Development of industrial and commercial areas, brokering of real estate• Support for investment, medium-sized enterprises and start-ups• Numerous programmes operated by the BAB, the regional development bank

for Bremen and Bremerhaven• Arranging helpful contacts• Bremeninvest offices in China, USA, Turkey• Cooperation with chambers of foreign trade

PUBLISHER’S NOTES© WFB Wirtschaftsförderung Bremen GmbHKontorhaus am MarktLangenstrasse 2–4 28195 Bremen/GermanyPhone +49 (0) 421 9600-10Fax +49 (0) 421 9600-810mail@wfb-bremen.dewww.wfb-bremen.de

Design: WFB GmbHText: Johannes Kelschebach Translation: Tim SpencePhotos: BLG Logistics Group AG, Jonas Ginter, K-Line, Lear Corporation, Jens Lehmkühler, Daimler AG, Studio B, Ingo Wagner, WFB GmbH

November 2016

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