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• Siemensstadt Square is one of Europe’s largest urban redevelopment sites
• Set for completion by 2035, Siemens to invest €750 million into this €4.5 billion project
• Digital innovations from across Siemens Xcelerator portfolio to transform historical industrial site
• Laying of the foundation stone represents next milestone in development of this carbon neutral urban district

From planning and development to optimized operations, Siemens technology will enable the realization of Siemensstadt Square, a sustainable city district of the future in Berlin. 

• Groundbreaking in Berlin for Siemensstadt Square “district of the future”
• Global blueprint for scalable urban brownfield development with technologies from Siemens Xcelerator platform
• End-to-end digital twin combines all levels of the city: campus, building and energy
• Comprehensive energy design and Europe’s largest wastewater heat exchanger of its type to enable net zero
• Living space for up to 7,000 people, up to 20,000 additional jobs and digitalization of industrial production to make district fit for the future
• By 2035, Siemens to invest €750 million and develop Siemensstadt Square into a hub for partnerships with total project volume of up to €4.5 billion

In the presence of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the Governing Mayor of Berlin, Kai Wegner, Siemens today held the groundbreaking ceremony in Berlin for one of Europe’s largest urban development projects. Around 35,000 people will live and work at Siemensstadt Square, which will have an area of roughly 188 acres and floorspace of more than a million square meters. The project is a blueprint for the effective design of urban brownfield development projects and industrial transformation worldwide. Digital technologies from the entire Siemens Xcelerator platform – from an end-to-end digital twin to artificial intelligence (AI) – will make the district livable and fit for the future. 

• World premiere: Existing GoA4 line upgraded to latest generation CBTC driverless automation system to boost capacity, reliability, and efficiency for Paris metro operator RATP on behalf of Île-de-France Mobilités
• Upgraded line enables driverless automated train operation along the route doubled in length, now also connecting Orly Airport to central Paris
• Line remained in operations throughout the project that will serve one million passengers daily by 2025

Siemens Mobility and RATP (Régie autonome des transports Parisiens) have successfully modernized and extended the automated Line 14 of the Paris metro. This world premiere marks the first migration of an automated driverless (GoA4 – Grade of Automation) metro line to the latest generation GoA4 driverless automated system “Trainguard MT CBTC”. The new system, which was implemented during the past six years during passenger services, enables more efficient and reliable services on the line that has doubled in length by 14 kilometers due to extensions to the North and South. With a remarkable headway of 85 seconds along its entire 28 km route, Line 14 is now the longest line in the Paris network and will eventually accommodate over one million passengers daily. The expansion enables passengers to travel from Orly Airport to Paris city center in 20 minutes and from the northern business districts in Saint-Denis Pleyel to Orly Airport in just 40 minutes. With its improved capacity, reliability, and efficiency, Line 14 serves as the backbone of Paris' public transportation system, connecting to the future Grand Paris Express network. Over six years, more than 250 Siemens Mobility engineers contributed to this project, with over 500,000 hours of engineering.

• Production capacity increased, workforce expanded to meet growing demand.
• New gearbox production line inaugurated, competence center for converter cabinets established.
• Cornellà, an important supplier of traction motors, converters, and converter cabinets, now produces rail gearboxes.
• Traction components (trademark: MoComp) from Cornellà (Barcelona) used worldwide by numerous rail vehicle manufacturers.

Siemens Mobility has invested in its Cornellà factory to significantly expand production capacity and the product portfolio

• Siemens invests 100 million euros in a 3.5-hectare site to expand existing facility in Frankfurt’s Ostend district
• Switchgear factory further strengthened with high-speed warehouse and expanded production
• Investments focus on environmentally friendly construction and technologies and an increased push for digital transformation
• 400 new jobs will be created at the Frankfurt switchgear plant by 2027

Siemens Smart Infrastructure is making an additional investment in its Frankfurt site. Coinciding with the inauguration of a new high-speed warehouse and expanded production area at its switchgear plant in Frankfurt-Fechenheim, Siemens has announced an additional investment in the site. The acquisition of a 3.5-hectare site with existing buildings in Frankfurt’s Ostend district will provide Siemens with additional capacity to ensure a secure energy transformation. Production in the new buildings is expected to start at the start of 2025.

• Siemens circuit breaker is the first electrical safety product to use plastic components where fossil raw materials have been replaced by biomethane derived from recycled biowaste
• The material changeover in the SIRIUS 3RV2 circuit breaker production will reduce the emission of carbon dioxide equivalents by ~270 tons per year1
• SIRIUS 3RV2 is one of the first products covered by the recently launched Siemens EcoTech label

Siemens Smart Infrastructure and BASF have today announced the first electrical safety product to include components made from biomass-balanced plastics. Used across industrial and infrastructure applications, Siemens SIRIUS 3RV2 circuit breaker is now being manufactured using Ultramid® BMBcertTM and Ultradur® BMBcertTM from BASF, where fossil feedstock at the beginning of the value chain is replaced by biomethane derived from renewable sources such as agricultural waste. Both materials offer the same quality and performance as conventional plastics. The material changeover in the SIRIUS 3RV2 circuit breaker production will reduce the emission of carbon dioxide equivalents by ~270 tons per year1. Customers using these products contribute to a circular economy towards a more sustainable future. &

• Dayner Tafur-Díaz prevails in the conducting competition against 68 applicants from 29 countries
• 26-year-old conductor from Peru will begin working with Karajan Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker on October 1, 2024
• Scholarship includes serving as project-based assistant to chief conductor Kirill Petrenko and guest conductors of the Karajan Academy and Berliner Philharmoniker

Peruvian conductor Dayner Tafur-Díaz has won the International Conductors Competition by Siemens and the Karajan Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker. The 26-year-old up-and-coming conductor won out the competition in the Berlin Philharmonic against 68 applicants from 29 countries. Tafur-Díaz impressed the jury with his performance of Richard Wagner's Siegfried Idyll, among other things. Tafur-Díaz has won a two-year scholarship. In addition to collaborating on concert projects of the Karajan Academy, the conducting scholarship includes acting as project-based assistant to the chief conductor of the Berliner Philharmoniker, Kirill Petrenko, and visiting guest conductors. Among other activities this coming season, Tafur-Díaz will take part in rehearsals and concerts with conductor Ivan Repušić and the 2024–2025 Artist in Residence of the Berliner Philharmoniker, pianist Seong-Jin Cho. In one of the carte blanche concerts of the Karajan Academy, Tafur-Díaz will also have an opportunity to introduce himself to the Berlin audience.

• DB Regio trains speed at 190 kilometers per hour between Bavaria and Thuringia
• Higher capacity, better service, new travel options to the north and south

Germany’s fastest regional train between Bavaria and Thuringia is set to go. The new Franconia-Thuringia Express (FTX) operated by Deutsche Bahn (DB) is inaugurating service on the Nuremberg-Erfurt high-speed line on June 9, with the scheduled so-called small timetable change. The modern Siemens trains, ordered by the Free States of Bavaria and Thuringia, will run at a top speed of up to 190 kilometers per hour. To date, only long-distance trains have operated on the northern section of the VDE 8.1, the designation for this new and upgraded line.