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A fire broke out Tuesday, 28.11.2006, at Varta Automotive (a Company of the Johnson Controls since 2002) in Hanover, Germany. The damage to the production hall for motor car batteries is estimated to be in the millions. Nobody was injured and the fire was extinguished. The cause of the fire is being...

Broadcom, a semiconductor developer for wired and wireless communications, will acquire LVL7 Systems, a privately-held developer of networking software. Broadcom expects to pay approximately $62 million in cash to acquire outstanding shares of capital stock and vested stock options of LVL7 and liqui...

The SPS/IPC/DRIVES 2006 fair was opened in Nuremberg Tuesday and in the next three days 1,203 exhibitors from 33 countries will display systems and components in the field of electrical automation. In comparison to 2005 this is an increase of 43 local companies and the area of the fair has increased...

The companies involved in automation technology in Germany have achieved a turnover of 15.4 bn Euro in the first 6 months of 2006. This result is 9% above that of the comparable period of the previous year. Exports rose by 10.9%. The internal market increased by 10.6% and imports rose by 15%. The nu...

The Harting Group with its headquarters in Espelkamp, Ostwestfalen, closed its business year 2005/2006 in September (cut-off date 30.9.2006). Worldwide the company achieved a turnover of 313 M Euro and thus managed an increase compared to the previous year of 17.2% (previous year 267 m. Euro). In th...

The Vogt Supervisory Board is complete again. After three members resigned on the 17th of November, Messrs. Hans Fahr, André Bour and Bernhard Herzig have now been presented as new members of the board. The Consultant Fahr was Chairman of the Supervisory Board at IWKA until 2005 and, among others, i...