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• Platinum medal awarded with 80 of 100 points
• Siemens ranked in the top 1 percent out of 73,000 companies assessed worldwide

Siemens has received 80 points in the latest EcoVadis Sustainability Rating and was awarded with the highest recognition – the Platinum medal. With this score, the technology company ranks in the top one percent of about 73,000 companies that were assessed worldwide by EcoVadis, a leading provider of business sustainability ratings.

• U5 and U8 metro lines to receive modern Trainguard MT train control system for semi-automated (GoA2) operation
• With CBTC, headways can be shortened, and line capacity increased by up to 30%; conversion to be completed by 2032 during ongoing operations      

Siemens Mobility has won the tender from Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe [BVG] and will introduce a Communications-Based Train Control System [CBTC] on the U5 and U8 metro lines in Berlin for the first time. The state-of-the-art Trainguard MT CBTC solution will enable semi-automated operation (GoA2: Grade of Automation) on the U5 line by 2029 and on the U8 line by 2032, increasing capacity on these lines by around 30%. Technically speaking, CBTC technology even allows headways of less than 100 seconds. This technological advance will also significantly improve the reliability and punctuality of the two metro lines. Siemens Mobility will carry out the conversion during ongoing operations so that trains on both lines of Germany’s largest metro system can continue to run uninterrupted throughout the entire project. The contract has a volume of approximately 200 million euros, plus additional long-term technology maintenance contracts.

• Companies sign Memorandum of Understanding to drive green energy transition through conversion of non-recyclable waste into clean energy for various applications
• Siemens to provide consultancy and technology, including applications from its Siemens Xcelerator portfolio, spanning automation, digitalization, electrification, and instrumentation
• Boson Energy aims to establish over 300 plants, producing 1 million tons of hydrogen by 2030

Boson Energy and Siemens AG have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to facilitate collaboration on technology that converts non-recyclable waste into clean energy. The collaboration aims to advance sustainable, local energy security, enabling hydrogen-powered electric vehicle charging infrastructure without compromising grid stability or impacting consumer prices.  

• 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. 

• 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. 

• 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.

• 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.