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Siemens, a trusted global technology leader, has signed a landmark agreement with Miko Pharma to develop state-of-the-art facilities for the local production of life-saving generic pharmaceuticals in Ghana. This deal, one of the largest in Ghanaian pharmaceutical history, was finalized at the prestigious Hannover Messe trade show in Germany.

• Siemens has partnered with UN Women Germany through the African Girls Can Code Initiative (AGCCI) to train girls and young women in Africa in digital and further skills.      
• Hybrid event in Johannesburg kicks off the training program that starts operation now and will benefit over 600 young women across South Africa, Kenya, Senegal, Rwanda and Uganda.  
• Siemens has made €780,000 available to enhance employability and will provide laptops to all participants in order to support coding camps focused on digital literacy, coding, personal development and work readiness skills.   
• In the context of a comprehensive 6-month mentoring program “SieMent EmpowHer,” developed by Siemens South Africa, the young women will spend a whole day with their experienced female mentors from around the world. 

Siemens has partnered with United Nations (UN) Women Germany for an upskilling program of more than 600 young African women in South Africa, Kenya, Rwanda, Senegal, and Uganda. The joint initiative was launched in April 2022. Now, the first round of workshops has started. A hybrid event, hosted by Siemens South Africa, will kick off the African Girls Can Code (AGCCI) coding camp and the SieMent EmpowHer mentorship program. 

• A strategic partnership that will enable Aspen Pharmacare to increase production capacity to meet the rising demands for COVID-19 vaccines in Africa. 

• Co-financed by funds from the develoPPP programme of the German Government, digital technologies will enable faster and more efficient production while ensuring consistent product quality.

In a joint project, Siemens South Africa, Aspen SA Operations (Pty) Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Limited (collectively “Aspen”) and Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft (DEG) have entered into an agreement to enable the use of digital technologies to enhance the efficiency of COVID vaccine production on the African continent, through Aspen’s Gqeberha-based manufacturing facility. 

Touching the lives of millions of South Africans over the last century, Tiger Brands produces many of the country’s most-loved consumer brands including Oros, Energade, Hall’s, Fatti’s and Moni’s, Jungle Oats, All Gold, and Tastic Rice. As the organisation embarks on a digitalisation drive, its manufacturing plants require a technology management solution overhaul. 

• Siemens South Africa and EE Business intelligence collaborate to host a virtual Grid Edge Symposium that will introduce the power of Grid Edge technologies
• Discover how Grid Edge solutions could revolutionize the South African energy landscape
• Grid Edge technologies will play an instrumental role in decarbonizing the global energy system

The global energy system is being transformed, becoming more decentralised, utilising more renewables and turning electricity consumers into prosumers (consumers and producers) of electricity; but this change creates challenges at the interface between the grid and consumers – the grid edge.

• ABInBev’s Maluti Mountain Brewery adopts Siemens Braumat 
• Improved flexibility and customization in reducing beer loss
• Cost efficiency to meet current market demands, with no loss of quality.

As a long-standing technology partner to Anheuser-Busch InBev (known as ABInBev), the world’s largest brewer, Siemens South Africa recently migrated Maluti Mountain Brewery in Lesotho from an old automation system in the brewing area to a central control and monitoring station which will combine the Brewhouse and Cellars. 

• Siemens hosts Virtual Smart Mining Forum to explore new trends and the impact of technology on the mining sector.
• Launch of a Hackathon to universities to participate using the low-coding platform, Mendix.
• Siemens hosts an Enterprise and Supplier Development forum to promote sustainability and skills development in mining 

With its motto, “On the road to the digital future”, Siemens will be hosting its virtual Smart Mining forum from the 3rd to the 5th of August 2021. This is an insightful, strategic event that explores the impact of technology and how it can sustainably drive transformation within the African Mining Industry. 

• A 100-bed modular solution donated to Cecilia Makiwane Hospital 
• The modular solution will be equipped with Siemens Healthineers medical technology 
• The modular hospital will be powered with a solar modular configuration to enable a decentralized and clean power supply

At a ribbon cutting ceremony, Siemens South Africa, the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development and the Solidarity Fund officially handed over a separate 100-bed modular hospital solution to the Cecilia Makiwane Hospital in Mdantsane. This extension will help alleviate the negative impact caused by the coronavirus on the medical system and improve access to healthcare, even beyond the pandemic.  

• Sabine Dall'Omo appointed Deputy Chairperson of the NEPAD Business Foundation, one of Africa’s prominent platforms for bringing governments and businesses together
• Sabine will be responsible for mobilising private sector resources towards development activities
• The NBF is working with the SADC Secretariat on the SADC Regional Gas Masterplan which is in line with Siemens’ focus on reducing carbon emissions in Africa

South Africa’s pursuit of being a key player in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) received a massive boost as the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and Siemens South Africa entered into a partnership to empower the country’s economy and citizens with digital skills.