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Feature17 March 2017,
updated17 March 2017Siemens AGMunich

Siemens has been in the U.S. for more than 160 years and it is now the company’s largest market. The company is using its global leadership in engineering and technology innovation to meet America’s toughest challenges. From efficient power generation to digital factories, from wellhead to thermostat, and from medical diagnostics to locomotives and light rail vehicles, Siemens in the United States delivers solutions for industry, hospitals, utilities, cities and manufacturers. Siemens’ next-generation software is used in every phase of product development, enabling manufacturers to optimize and customize equipment that touches American lives every day.
Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser has accompanied German Chancellor Merkel on her visit to US President Donald Trump today as part of Merkel's business delegation. On their visit to the White House, Kaeser was joined by Siemens USA CEO Judy Marks and one of Siemens' apprentices Chad Robinson.
Footprint
- With 9 global headquarters and approximately 50,000 employees in all 50 states and Puerto Rico, Siemens is home to more than 60 manufacturing sites in the U.S.
- In FY2016 Siemens hired more than 4,800 employees in the US (35,000 globally). Jobs were created in almost all businesses with a net increase in HC, BT, PG, EM, DF, MO, WP, and Corp.
- In the U.S., Siemens employs ~5,700 R&D employees and in FY 16, invested $1.11 billion in R&D.
- Siemens' global operations are linked to GDP contribution (direct, indirect and induced) in the U.S. of about $61.8 billion in 2015. This equals about 0.3 percent of the GDP of the U.S.
- More than 800,000 jobs in the U.S. are linked (directly/ indirectly) to Siemens' global business operations in FY 2015.
- Siemens invests more than $500 million in job training each year, including $50 million in the U.S.
- Siemens is committed to hire 500 U.S. veterans in next five years – adding to 2,000 veterans already hired.
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