Siemens Mobility is investing twelve million euros in the further modernization of its long-established production site in Vienna-Simmering: Together with Vienna's City Economic Councillor Peter Hanke, the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction project took place on Monday, March 1. The investment will focus on the construction of a new train commissioning hall, the expansion of digitalized production, and the optimization of production workflows. This will further increase the competitiveness of the site and secure local jobs and local value creation. Passenger coaches and metro trains are built at the historic Siemens Mobility plant, for example the new night trains for ÖBB or metro trains for Vienna, Munich, Riyadh or Bangkok. ÖBB's popular Railjets were also manufactured here. At the Vienna plant, Siemens Mobility employs about 1,200 people, manufactures about 450 rail vehicles per year and currently trains a total of 88 apprentices.
Polish
provider of transport and logistics services Laude Smart Intermodal S.A. has
just expanded its fleet with the most modern locomotive in Europe: the Vectron
MS. The vehicle colored in pink was handed over in Poznan Franowo near Posen on
February 3
rd, 2021. It is the 50
th Vectron locomotive
from Siemens Mobility in the hands of Polish carriers.
We published our Annual Report on December 1st, 2020. Please find the link below.
To whom it may concern,
First of all, I do want to thank you for the countless
mails, social media engagements and personal meetings over this important matter.
The vast majority has been addressing their concerns clearly and with respect.
For me, this only underscored the importance and the need to diligently look
into the issue at hand. Especially, the messages I’ve received from Australian
people have moved me personally, when they described that their homes and their
country is burning and suffering from these terrible fires.
Even though we do not have clear evidence that the wildfires
and this project are directly connected, I feel empathy for all those, who
spoke up and warned about worsening conditions. Siemens, as one of the first companies
to have pledged carbon neutrality by 2030, fundamentally shares the goal of
making fossil fuels redundant to our economies over time.
Siemens has recently been contacted by groups and individuals expressing their opinion on the Adani Carmichael coal mine project in Queensland, Australia.
By Jim Hagemann Snabe
“The speculations published in Der
Spiegel magazine are false. It was Mr. Kaeser himself who proposed to the
Supervisory Board that a Deputy CEO be appointed in order to accelerate orderly
succession planning. In response to this proposal, the Supervisory Board
approved the following resolution:
‘The Supervisory Board will decide on the
successor to Joe Kaeser and on the timing of the succession in the summer of
2020.’
No questions about appointments to the Supervisory Board of Siemens AG
were discussed.”