Meyer Werft – Oceangoing juggernauts: the family company was established in 1795 in Papenburg, Emsland. It uses state-of-the-art technology to build cruise liners, ferries, tankers and container ships at the shipyard’s huge construction docks.
Volkswagen Manufaktur – This company sets standards in modern automobile production, and its huge glass facade reveals the manufacturing process to the outside world: fitters have been assembling the VW flagship “Phaeton” at the transparent plant in Dresden since 2002. The skilled precision work is carried out almost entirely by hand.
Airbus – Hamburg, one of the world’s leading locations in the aerospace industry: Airbus develops, manufactures and assembles a significant amount of the components for the world’s largest passenger aircraft A 380 and other designs at its plant in Hamburg.
A. Lange & Söhne – An international brand with tradition: in the town of Glashütte in Saxony, watchmakers at the factory of A. Lange & Söhne have been meticulously handcrafting mechanical masterpieces of precision timekeeping from hundreds of individual parts since 1845.
Trigema – From cotton yarn to the finished garment: Trigema in the Swabian town of Burladingen is Germany’s largest manufacturer of T-shirts and tennis outfits. The family company produces exclusively in Germany.
Porsche – Automobile elite: the various models of the historic company from Stuttgart represent the quintessence of the sports car. The fourth and latest Porsche series, in the shape of the Panamera, has been in production at the plant in Leipzig since 2009.
Bosch – World-class technology: the company, which was founded in Stuttgart in 1886, has launched many trailblazing inventions and products in the fields of motor vehicle, industrial and building technology as well as in the consumer goods market.
Enercon – Energy for the future: Enercon in Aurich, north Germany, has discovered wind power as a business model. Today the company is Germany’s number one wind turbine producer and the world’s wind technology leader.
