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Volume 5 - 2018 | https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2018.00035 Computational approaches to the analysis of collective behavior in social insects increasingly rely on motion paths as an intermediate data layer from which one can infer individual behaviors or social interactions Honey bees are a popular model for learning and memory Previous experience has been shown to affect and modulate future social interactions no lifetime history observations have been reported for all bees of a colony In a previous work we introduced a recording setup customized to track up to 4,000 marked bees over several weeks Due to detection and decoding errors of the bee markers linking the correct correspondences through time is non-trivial In this contribution we present an in-depth description of the underlying multi-step algorithm which produces motion paths and also improves the marker decoding accuracy significantly The proposed solution employs two classifiers to predict the correspondence of two consecutive detections in the first step We automatically tracked ~2,000 marked honey bees over 10 weeks with inexpensive recording hardware using markers without any error correction bits We found that the proposed two-step tracking reduced incorrect ID decodings from initially ~13% to around 2% post-tracking we publish the first trajectory dataset for all bees in a colony extracted from ~3 million images covering 3 days We invite researchers to join the collective scientific effort to investigate this intriguing animal system All components of our system are open-source The various locations a forager visits might be dispersed over large distances (up to several kilometers around the hive) and each site might offer different qualities of food no two individuals share the same history and experiences Evaluating how personal experience shapes the emergence of collective behavior and how individual information is communicated to and processed by the colony requires robust identification of individual bees over long time periods Research questions requiring multiple properties or long time frames are limited by the costs of manual labor Tracking bees within a colony is a particularly challenging task due to dense populations and a significant portion of the colony frequently leaving the hive The exploration flights of foragers might take several hours guard bees might stay outside the entire day to inspect incoming individuals The observation of individual activity over many weeks requires robust means for unique identification For a system that robustly decodes the identity of a given detection, the tracking task reduces to simply connecting matching IDs. Recently, three marker-based insect tracking systems (Mersch et al., 2013; Crall et al., 2015; Gernat et al., 2018) have been proposed that use a binary code with up to 26 bits for error correction (Thompson, 1983) The decoding process can reliably detect and correct errors reject a detection that can not be decoded There are two disadvantages to this approach error correction requires relatively expensive recording equipment (most systems use at least a 20 MP sensor with a high quality lens) detections that could not be decoded can usually not be integrated into the trajectory effectively reducing the detection accuracy and sample rate Linking detections only based on matching IDs would quickly accumulate errors long-term trajectories would exhibit gaps or jumps between individuals requires a more elaborate tracking algorithm Figure 1. (A) Schematic representation of the setup. Each side of the comb is recorded by two 12 MP PointGray Flea3 cameras. The pictures have an overlap of several centimeters on each side. (B) The recording-setup used in summer 2015. The comb, cameras, and the infrared lights are depicted, the tube that can be used by the bees to leave the setup is not visible. During recording, the setup is covered. Figures adapted from Wario et al. (2015) The data processing steps of the BeesBook project The images captured by the recording setup are compressed on-the-fly to videos containing 1,024 frames each The video data is then transferred to a large storage from where it can be accessed by the pipeline for processing Preprocessing: histogram equalization and subsampling for the localizer Localization: bee markers are localized using a convolutional neural network Decoding: a second network decodes the IDs and rotation angles Stitching: the image coordinates of the tags are transformed to hive coordinates and duplicate data in regions where images overlap are removed Figure 3. (A) The tag-design in the BeesBook project uses 12 coding segments arranged in an arc around two semi-circles that encode the orientation of the bee. The tag is glued onto the thorax such that the white semi-circle is rotated toward the bee's head. Figure adapted from Wario (2017) The round and curved tags are designed to endure heavy duty activities such as cell inspections and foraging trips Since our target subjects may leave the area under observation at any time the animal's identity cannot be preserved by tracking alone We require some means of identification for a new detection whether it be paint marks or number tags on the animals or identity-preserving descriptors extracted from the detection While color codes are infeasible with monochromatic imaging, using image statistics to fingerprint sequences of visible animals (Kühl and Burghardt, 2013; Wang and Yeung, 2013; Pérez-Escudero et al., 2014) may work even with unstructured paint markers Merging tracklets after occlusions can then be done by matching fingerprints it remains untested whether these approaches can resolve the numerous ambiguities in long-term observations of many hundreds or thousands of bees that may leave the hive for several hours we describe the features that we used to train machine learning classifiers to link individual detections and short tracklets in a crowded bee hive We evaluate our results with respect to path and ID correctness We conclude that long-term tracking can be performed without marker-based error correction codes be conducted without expensive high-resolution decoding errors in simple markers can be mitigated by the proposed tracking solution leading to a higher final accuracy of the assigned IDs compared to other marker-based systems that do not employ a tracking step The tracking problem is defined as follows: Given a set of detections (timestamp find correct correspondences among detections over time (tracks) and assign the correct ID to each track The ID information of the detections can contain errors correct correspondences between detections of consecutive frames might not exist due to missing detections caused by occluded markers the ID information consists of a number in the range of 0 to 4,095 Each bit is given as a value between 0.0 and 1.0 which corresponds to the probability that the bit is set The first step connects detections from successive frames to tracklets without gaps At time step t only detections within a certain distance are considered Even if a candidate has the same ID (top-most candidate with ID 42) it can be disregarded The correct candidate may be detected with an erroneous ID (see t−1) or may even not be detected at all by the computer vision process There may be close incorrect candidates that have to be rejected (candidate with ID 43 at t+1) The model assigns a correspondence probability to all the candidates If none of them receive a sufficient score the tracklet is closed In time step t+3 a new detection with ID 42 occurs again and is extended into a second tracklet these tracklets are combined to a larger tracklet or track The first tracking step considers detections in successive frames we consider only sufficiently close detections (we use approximately 200 pixels From these candidate pairs we extract three features: Euclidean distance between the first detection and its potential successor Angular difference of both detections' orientations on the comb plane Manhattan distance between both detections' ID probabilities This SVM can then be used get the probability of correspondence for pairs of detections that were not included in the training data we iterate through the recorded data frame by frame and keep a list of open tracklets we have one open tracklet for each detection of the first frame we use the SVM to score all new candidates against the last detection of each open tracklet The Hungarian algorithm is then used to assign the candidate detections to the open tracklets Tracklets are closed and not further expanded if their best candidate has a probability lower than 0.5 Detections that could not be assigned to an existing open tracklet are used to begin a new open tracklet that can be expanded in the next time step The first step yields a set of short tracklets that do not contain gaps and that could be connected with a high confidence The second tracking step merges these tracklets into longer tracks that can contain gaps of variable duration (for distributions of tracklet and gap length in our data see section 3) Note that a tracklet could consist of a single detection or that its corresponding consecutive tracklet could still begin in the next time step without a gap To reduce computational complexity we define a maximum gap length of 14 time steps (~4 s in our recordings) we use the ground truth dataset to create training samples for a machine learning classifier fragments that should be classified as belonging together) by splitting each manually labeled track once at each time step Negative samples are generated from each pair of tracks with different IDs which overlapped in time with a maximum gap size of 14 These are also split at all possible time steps To include both more positive samples and more short track fragments in the training data we additionally use every correct sub-track of length 3 or less and again split it at all possible locations This way we generated 1,021,848 training pairs In preliminary tests, we found that for the given task of finding correct correspondences between tracklets, a random forest classifier performed best among a selection of classifiers available in scikit-learn (Boenisch, 2017) Tracklets with two or more detections allow for more complex and discriminative features compared to those used in the first step matching tracklets separated by longer gaps may require features that reflect a long-term trend (e.g. Manhattan distance of both tracklets' bitwise averaged IDs Euclidean distance of last detection of tracklet 1 to first detection of tracklet 2 Forward error: Euclidean distance of linear extrapolation of last motion in first tracklet to first detection in second tracklet Backward error: Euclidean distance of linear extrapolation of first motion in second tracklet to last detection in first tracklet Angular difference of tag orientation between the last detection of the first tracklet and the first detection of the second tracklet Difference of confidence: All IDs in both tracklets are averaged with a bitwise median we select the bit that is closest to 0.5 for each tracklet calculate the absolute difference to 0.5 (the confidence) and compute the absolute difference of these two confidences The spatial features used in the second tracking step (A) Euclidean distance between the last detection of tracklet 1 and the first detection of tracklet 2 (B) Forward error: Euclidean distance of the extrapolation of the last movement vector in tracklet 1 to the first detection in tracklet 2 (C) Angular difference between the tag orientations of the last detection in tracklet 1 and the first detection in tracklet 2 (D) Backward error: Euclidean distance between the reverse extrapolation of the first movement vector of tracklet 2 to the last detection of tracklet 1 we determine the ID of the tracked bee by calculating the median of the bitwise ID probabilities of all detections in the track The final ID is then determined by binarizing the resulting probabilities for each bit with probability threshold 0.5 Tracks with a length of several minutes already display a very accurate ID decoding (see section 3) To calculate longer tracks of up to several days and weeks we execute the tracking step 1 and step 2 for intervals of 1 h and then merge the results to longer tracks based on the assigned ID This allows us to effectively parallelize the tracking calculation and track the entire season of 10 weeks of data in less than a week on a small cluster with <100 CPU cores Two ground truth datasets for the training and evaluation of our method were created manually. A custom program was used to mark the positions of an animal and to define its ID (Mischek, 2016). Details on each dataset can be found in Table 1 To avoid overfitting to specific colony states the datasets were chosen to contain both high activity (around noon) and low activity (in the early morning hours) periods Dataset 2015.1 was used to train and validate classifiers and dataset 2015.2 was used to test their performance Dataset 2015.1 was used for training and dataset 2015.2 for testing Dataset 2015.1 contains 18,085 detections from which we extracted 36,045 sample pairs (i.e. all pairs with a distance of < 200 pixels in consecutive frames) These samples were used to train the SVM which is used to link consecutive detections together (tracking step 1) Hyperparameters were determined manually using cross-validation on this dataset The final model was evaluated on dataset 2015.2 Tracklets for the training and evaluation of a random forest classifier (tracking step 2) were extracted from datasets 2015.1, respectively 2015.2 (see section 2 for details). Hyperparameters were optimized with hyperopt-sklearn (Komer et al., 2014) on dataset 2015.1 and the optimized model was then tested on dataset 2015.2 we analyzed its impact on several metrics in the tracks To be able to evaluate the improvement through the presented iterative tracking approach, we compare the results of the two tracking steps to the naive approach of linking the original detections over time based on their initial decoded ID only, in the following referred to as “baseline.” For an overview on the improvements achieved by the different tracking steps see Table 2 Different metrics were used to compare the two tracking steps to both a naive baseline based on the detection IDs and to manually created tracks without errors (perfect tracking) An important goal of the tracking is to correct IDs of detections which could not be decoded correctly by the computer vision system. Without the tracking algorithm described above, all further behavioral analyses would have to consider this substantial proportion of erroneous decodings. In our dataset, 13.3% of all detections have an incorrectly decoded ID (Wild et al., 2018) In the ground truth dataset we manually assigned detections that correspond to the same animal to one trajectory. The ground truth data can therefore be considered as the “perfect tracking.” Even on these perfect tracks the median ID assignment algorithm described above provides incorrect IDs for 0.6% of all detections, due to partial occlusions, motion blur and image noise. This represents the lower error bound for the tracking system. As shown in Figure 6 the first tracking step reduces the fraction of incorrect IDs from 13.3 to 3.9% of all detections The second step further improves this result to only 1.9% incorrect IDs Around 13% of the raw detections are incorrectly decoded The first tracking step already reduces this error to around 4% and the second step further reduces it to around 2% Even a perfect tracking (defined by the human ground truth) would still result in 0.6% incorrect IDs when using the proposed ID assignment method Most errors occur in short tracklets (see Figure 7). Therefore, the 1.9% erroneous ID assignments correspond to 18.2% of the resulting tracklets being assigned an incorrect median ID. This is an improvement over the naive baseline and the first tracking step with 63.5 and 27.2%, respectively. A perfect tracking could reduce this to 8.2% (see Figure 8) Evaluation of the tracklet lengths of incorrectly assigned detection IDs after the second tracking step reveals that all errors in the test dataset 2015.2 happen in very short tracklets Note that this dataset covers a duration of around 1 min A naive tracking approach using only the detection IDs would result in around 64% of all tracks being assigned an incorrect ID Our two-step tracking approach reduces this to around 27 and 18% Due to the short length of most incorrect tracklets these 18.2% account for only 1.9% of the detections Using our ID assignment method without any tracking errors would reduce the error to 8.2% Almost all gaps between detections in our ground truth tracks are no longer than 14 frames (99.76%, see Figure 9). Even though large gaps between detections are rare, long tracks are likely to contain at least one such gap: Only around one third (34.7%) of the ground truth tracks contain no gaps and 77.6% contain only gaps shorter than 14 frames. As displayed in Figure 10 the baseline tracking finds only 10.2% complete tracks without errors (i.e. Step 1 is able to correctly assemble 26.5% complete tracks (i.e. around 76.5% of all tracks containing no gaps) Step 2 correctly assembles 70.4% complete tracks (about 90.4% of all tracks with a maximum gap size of < 14 frames) Distribution of the gap sizes in the ground truth dataset 2015.2 97.9%) have no gaps and can be therefore be matched by the first tracking step The resulting tracklets are then merged in the second step The maximum gap size of 14 covers 99.76% of the gaps A complete track perfectly reconstructs a track in our ground truth data without any missing or incorrect detections Even a perfect tracking that is limited to a maximum gap size of 14 frames could only reconstruct around 78% of these tracks The naive baseline based only on the detection IDs would assemble 10% without errors while our two tracking steps achieve 26.5 and 70.4% To characterize the type of errors in our tracking results We counted detections that were incorrectly introduced into a track as insertions Both tracking steps and the baseline inserted only one incorrect detection into another tracklet <1% of both detections and tracklets were affected We counted detections that were missing from a tracklet (and were replaced by a gap) as deletions 32.2% of all detections were missing from their corresponding track (94.6% of all tracks had at least one deletion) 1.38% of detections were missing from their track 2.37% of all detections and 18.25% of all tracks were still affected We also evaluated whether incorrect detections were contained in a track in situations where the correct detection would have been available (instead of a gap) as mismatches but no resulting tracks contained such mismatches The ground truth datasets contain only short tracks with a maximum length of 1 min. To evaluate the average length of the tracks, we also tracked 1 h of data for which no ground truth data was available. The first tracking step yields shorter fragments with an expected length of 2:23 min, the second tracking step merges these fragments to tracklets with an expected duration of 6:48 min (refer to Figure 11 for tracklet length distributions) Track lengths after tracking 1 h of video data at three frames per second The expected length of a track is 2:23 min after the first step and 6:48 min after the second step The tracking framework presented in the previous sections is an essential part of the BeesBook system It provides a computationally efficient approach to determine the correct IDs for more than 98% of the individuals in the honey bee hive without using extra bits for error correction Our system provides highly accurate movement paths of bees Given a long-term observation of several weeks Since the IDs of these tracklets are very accurate they can now be linked by matching IDs only Still, some aspects of the system can be improved. To train our classifiers, we need a sufficiently large, manually labeled dataset. Rice et al. (2015) proposed a method to create a similar dataset interactively the circular coding scheme of our markers causes some bit configurations to appear similar under certain object poses This knowledge could be integrated into our ID determination algorithm The IDs along a trajectory might not provide an equal amount of information Some might be recorded under fast motion and are therefore less reliable Other detections could have been recorded from a still bee whose tag was partially occluded Considering similar readings as less informative might improve the ID accuracy of our method with the proposed method there are only 1.9% detections incorrectly decoded The resulting trajectories can now be used for further analyses of individual honey bee behavior or interactions in the social network In addition to the three day dataset published alongside this paper we plan to publish two more datasets covering more than 60 days of recordings With this data we can investigate how bees acquire information in the colony and how that experience modulates future behavior and interactions We hope that through this work we can interest researchers to join the collective effort of investigating the individual and collective intelligence of the honey bee a model organism that bears a vast number of fascinating research questions German law does not require approval of an ethics committee for studies involving insects and TL: Methodology; FB and BR: Software; TL: Resources and TL: Writing–original draft; FB and TL: Writing–review and editing and visualization FW received funding from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) DD received funding from the Andrea von Braun Foundation This work was in part funded by the Klaus Tschira Foundation We also acknowledge the support by the Open Access Publication Initiative of the Freie Universität Berlin The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest We are indebted to the help of Jakob Mischek for his preliminary work and his help with creating the ground truth data 1. ^https://github.com/BioroboticsLab/bb_tracking Honeybee recruitment to scented food sources: correlations between in-hive social interactions and foraging decisions CrossRef Full Text | Google Scholar A socio-spatial combined approach confirms a highly compartmentalised structure in honeybees CrossRef Full Text | Google Scholar Mapping the stereotyped behaviour of freely moving fruit flies Data Association for Multi-Object Visual Tracking The use of waggle dance information by honey bees throughout their foraging careers CrossRef Full Text | Google Scholar Automated computer-based detection of encounter behaviours in groups of honeybees Feature Engineering and Probabilistic Tracking on Honey Bee Trajectories Boenisch, F., Rosemann, B., Wild, B., Wario, F., Dormagen, D., and Landgraf, T. 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consumption The resulting hydrogen has a concentration level of up to 90 percent,” the company wrote on Thursday Siemens Energy and TotalEnergies today signed a collaboration agreement on the sidelines of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW) 2022 to act as co-developers for a demonstrator plant project Abu Dhabi’s flagship sustainable urban development,” Masdar wrote on Wednesday The partners in the initiative have completed a range of evaluations They aim to proceed to the front-end engineering design stage later this year Sweden’s nuclear power company OKG signed its first contract with an external buyer to enter the hydrogen market as a producer and supplier the first delivery of hydrogen produced with fossil-free nuclear electricity will take place in early 2022,” the company wrote on Thursday Nuclear-focused trade publications wrote that the other signatory was Linde Gas OKG has long operated a hydrogen facility adjacent to the plant site in Oskarshamn The hydrogen produced is used to cool the generator at Oskarshamn 3 the only unit in operation after the company closed the other two in December 2016 and June 2017 for economic reasons “This means that there is an overcapacity of hydrogen which is now being used for other purposes.” According to OKG CEO Johan Lundberg “The demand for hydrogen will gradually increase and we have received strong support from our owners Uniper and Fortum to develop this business opportunity,” he commented which started operating in 1985 and should continue until 2045 delivered a record 11 million MWh (11 TWh) of electricity in 2021 Hydrogen will prompt one of the largest shakedowns in energy history said analyst group Rethink Energy in its latest report “As more taxation is applied to carbon emissions the rise in hydrogen production capacity will see it become the most cost-effective means of energy supply to sectors in all corners of demand,” wrote Harry Morgan is the key variable to understand hydrogen’s future the report suggests that green hydrogen will be cheaper than grey hydrogen in just two years total investment of $10 trillion will have seen the cost of hydrogen fall by over 95% from levels seen in 2020 spurring a 10-fold increase in global demand 771 million tons of hydrogen will be required per year as the world heads towards net zero emissions on this timeline,” Morgan wrote Cement producer Buzzi Unicem and Italy’s gas distributor Italgas signed an agreement to study the feasibility of power-to-gas systems in combination with carbon capture systems at production plants “The study will assess the possibility of producing and using synthetic methane obtained from the combination of green hydrogen produced by the power-to-gas plants with part of the CO2 released in the production processes,” wrote Buzzi in a note without mentioning timelines or investment levels The European Hydrogen Backbone (EHB) initiative has announced the start of the third round of work on a vision for a pan-European hydrogen network “The circle of participants now includes 29 gas TSOs from 27 countries across Europe The work on the common European vision for hydrogen infrastructure will be carried out in the first half of 2022 and will include analyses of future hydrogen supply corridors for Europe and an update of the EHB map for a possible future hydrogen network in Europe,” wrote Danish gas company EnergiNet on Wednesday new EHB maps will be published this spring They will include the new pipeline routes submitted by new participants Danish institutions and companies want a hydrogen infrastructure in the country before 2030 The first focus is on a connection between Esbjerg or Holstebro in Denmark and Hamburg in Germany EHB announced six additional members: Amber Grid (Lithuania) this initiative has now reached 29 energy infrastructure operators covering 27 European countries,” wrote Gas for Climate Germany's Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg (ZSW) and Ecoclean announced that their EcoLyzer BW project started in January Ecoclean is to manufacture around 80 systems per year at the Dettingen site which will then be made available for the international market Production of the first systems is scheduled to begin in 2023 It would be the first series production of electrolysis systems in Baden-Württemberg The state environment ministry is funding the EcoLyzer project with €2.1 million until 2024 The ZSW has been working for 10 years on the development of the technological basis for the system technology for alkaline water electrolysis (AEM) in the 1-megawatt power class The electrolyzer will be equipped with two blocks each with a capacity of 0.5 megawatts about 20 kilograms of hydrogen per hour could be produced at a pressure level of 16 bar More articles from Sergio Matalucci Please be mindful of our community standards and website in this browser for the next time I comment Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" By 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View our privacy policy. × The cookie settings on this website are set to "allow cookies" to give you the best browsing experience possible If you continue to use this website without changing your cookie settings or you click "Accept" below then you are consenting to this Close Germany (May 24) – Natalia VOROBIEVA (RUS) nabbed the 69kg crown in her return to the No.1 ranking with a dominating performance at the German Grand Prix of women’s wrestling The London 2012 Olympic Games gold medalist notched three wins by fall and capped her march to the crown with an 11-0 triumph over Paris Grand Prix winner Martina KUENZ (AUT) in the final who began 2015 at No.3 in the United World Wrestling rankings was elevated to top position in May with a win this year at the Yarygin Grand Prix and the top individual performance at the World Cup – coupled with the struggles of reigning world champ Aline FOCKEN (GER) The victory ensures Vorobieva will be ranked No.1 for June and the inaugural European Games in Baku where the two-time European champion is expected to seek the continental crown for a third year in a row Wrestling competition in Baku is scheduled for June 13-18 with Vorobieva slated to compete on the first day women’s events June 15 Vorobieva was joined in the Dormagen winner’s circle by former world champions Sofia MATTSSON (SWE) and Marianna SASTIN (HUN) and world medal winners Irina OLOGONOVA (RUS) Anastassia HUCHOK (BLR) and Henna JOHANSSON (SWE) pinned local favorite Nina HEMMER (GER) at 1:34 of the 53kg final with a bar-arm to body press after the former European junior bronze medalist notched four first-period falls in the run-up to the tourney finale Sastin scored a go-behind takedown and gained another point off the shot-clock for a 3-3 criteria win over world bronze medalist Emese BARKA (HUN) to level the Hungarian world team challenge series at one win each in the semifinals of the Dan Kolov tourney in April in the first leg of the challenge series The third leg will be at the Poland Open in July with the winner getting the world team berth at 58kg and the chance to qualify for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games Other world medalists to win in Dormagen were silver medalist Irina OLOGONOVA (RUS) at 55kg was not without casualties as world champion Focken made an early exit with a bruised hip after a collision with Adina POPESCU (ROU) in the second round ending hopes for a potential match-up with Vorobieva in the 69kg final World silver medalist Valeria KOBLOVA (RUS) was tripped up by Sastin in the 58kg semifinals after forging a 4-1 lead in the first period advanced to the finals at 48kg with three technical falls and a 10-4 win over Yarygin Grand Prix winner Valentina ISLAMOVA (RUS) but defaulted to 2014 South American Games gold medalist Carolina CASTILLO HIDALGO (COL) For tourney results for seniors and cadets: www.ringen-nrw.de in the left-hand column click “Aus dem Verband” then in the drop-down menu select “Turniere” Receive our weekly Newsletterand set tailored daily news alerts Asahi Kasei relocates its European headquarters Asahi Kasei Europe (AKEU) within Düsseldorf Transport/Aerospace, Interiors, Medical/Hygiene, Clothing/Footwear The AKXY concept car developed by Asahi Kasei jointly with GLM Asahi Kasei relocates its European headquarters Asahi Kasei Europe (AKEU) within Düsseldorf The relocation is scheduled for the second half of 2020 At the new location at Düsseldorf Harbor marketing and R&D activities to further enhance its business approach to the European automotive industry After the establishment of its European Headquarter Asahi Kasei Europe at Seestern Asahi Kasei has been accelerating its activities towards the European automotive industry This has been followed by the opening of the Asahi Kasei Europe R&D Center in Chempark Dormagen in October 2017 providing local technical support and strengthening the cooperation with European companies and universities Asahi Kasei decided to relocate its European headquarters Asahi Kasei Europe signed a rental contract for the C-View office location in Düsseldorf Harbor Asahi Kasei Microdevices Europe – located at Seestern – and the Asahi Kasei Europe R&D Center will also move from Chempark Dormagen to the new office The R&D Center is currently using the office space of Asahi Kasei Spandex Europe (AKSE) AKSE is not planning to relocate and will stay at its current location at Chempark Dormagen “The C-View office provides us with the great opportunity to combine our sales marketing and R&D activities at one single location This will enable us to further accelerate our business activities in Europe especially towards the European automotive industry it shows our commitment to the city of Düsseldorf as a strong base for our European business,” commented Hideki Tsutsumi Asahi Kasei is a diversified technology company with operations in the Material The Material division encompasses fibres and textiles The Homes division provides housing and construction materials to the Japanese market The Health Care division includes pharmaceuticals and acute critical care devices and systems With approximately 35,000 employees around the world the Asahi Kasei Group serves customers in more than 100 countries www.asahi-kasei.co.jp Asahi Kasei reshapes stretch fibre business French industrial gases producer Air Liquide has officially started up its new state-of-the-art Steam Methane Reformer (SMR) in Germany's Chempark Dormagen The new €100 million unit described by Air Liquide as "highly flexible," has annual capacity for 22,000 t/y of hydrogen and 120,000 t/y of carbon monoxide Under a long-term agreement signed in 2012, the gases plant will be the dedicated supplier of carbon monoxide to the new 300,000 t/y plant TDI operated by Bayer MaterialScience at the site. Dormagen is the designated TDI hub for the soon-to-be-spun off engineering plastics producer Connected to Air Liquide's 600-km Rhine-Ruhr pipeline will also supply hydrogen to other provide other customers in the region CHEManager Spotlight is an exclusive event tailored for practitioners and decision-makers in the chemical industry This part of our event series delves into the latest trends and innovations in logistics to streamline your operations and drive efficiency Some are necessary and we can’t switch them off Others help us to provide you with the best possible service We use cookies to personalise content and ads to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic We also share anonymous information about your use of our site with our social media By accepting cookies you will be helping us to continue to provide you with the best possible service Wasel cranes on the banks of the Rhine near Dormagen Heavy load lifting and logistics contractor Wasel helped install a repaired container bridge on the River Rhine in Germany The bridge near Dormagen suffered damage in storms in June 2014 During the storm the bridge was forced against its buffers which bent two of the supports and caused the portal crane and its rollers to come off its rails The structure was removed and repaired over a period of eight months Wasel used five Liebherr cranes to reposition the portal crane Models on site included two LR 1600/2 crawler cranes and wheeled mobile telescopic models LTM 1750-9.1 The container bridge dimensions are 100 metres tall the crawlers were positioned on the bank of the Rhine in a six m deep pre-flooded basin The LTM 1750-9.1 and an LTM 1500-8.1 were used for hoisting work and the LTM 1220-5.2 was used for erection work The portal crane was moved between the cranes using two self propelled modular transporters (SPMT) and auxiliary rail systems The 560 tonne structure was lifted in a four-way hoist by four of the cranes and held at a height of around 25 m the new supports and tracks to the portal crane were installed the container bridge was reset on its tracks German chemicals supplier to invest “double-digit-million euro” amount in Dormagen facility Germany – Covestro AG is investing a ‘double-digit-million euro’ amount in modernising its TDI (toluene diisocyanate) production facility in Dormagen The investment will strengthen the sustainability and competitiveness of TDI production for the manufacture of flexible foams in Europe With phase I already completed and more measures set for completion in 2025 the modernisation aims to “significantly improve” the plant's energy-efficiency and cut CO2 emissions the plant is expected to consume up to 80% less energy than conventional processes for the production of TDI will be reduced by 22 kilotonnes per annum (ktpa) will further Covestro’s climate achievements safeguard Europe TDI production amid rising energy costs and improve sustainability performance of customers the Dormagen facility is claimed to be the largest TDI production plant in Europe the facility is also considered “one of the most advanced" TDI plants in the world” due to its use of Covestro's gas-phase technology The process involves reacting toluene diamine and phosgene “as early as the gaseous state phase”, rather than in later process steps as liquids can save up to 60% in energy-consumption and 80% in use of solvents Dormagen plays “a central role” in the reliable supply to customers in the region head of performance materials sales EMEA and LATAM underlines Covestro’s commitment to the European market and enables customers to further reduce their indirect CO2 emissions "We want to continue to grow in Germany and drive forward the transformation to climate-neutral production,” said Thorsten Dreier are making it increasingly difficult for Covestro to make such investments Dreier called on policy-makers to take effective measures to restore Germany's competitiveness in terms of energy prices and ensure a reliable basis for the climate-neutral transformation of industry." 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Log in here by TellMAMA | Dec 26, 2014 | Mosques, News | 0 comments Neo-Nazi Swastikas were daubed on the walls of the Suleymaniye Mosque in Dormagen City in Northern Rhein-Westphalia State The Suleymaniye mosque is still undergoing construction and the swastikas were meant to send out a message that the mosque was unwanted in the area The half-built Turkish run mosque was targeted by far right sympathisers who plastered the entrance to the mosque with swastikas sending a chilling message to anyone coming to the mosque In the last 2 years, over 80 mosques in Germany have been targeted for anti-Muslim hate and this recent attack comes on the back of a rising sense of fear within Turkish Muslim communities in the country Police have stated that they are using local CCTV footage to identify the perpetrators and a reward of 1,500 Euros has also been offered We use cookies to enhance your browsing experience We use cookies to help you navigate efficiently and perform certain functions You 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help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyze the effectiveness of the ad campaigns have entered into a conditional agreement to acquire the assets of Dietz subsidiary in Dormagen Tritax Eurobox is a REIT which invests in ‘high-quality prime logistics real estate’ across Europe The Dormagen asset will be acquired for €76.4m and the consideration of €76.4m is divided into a purchase price of around €38.7m for the majority stake of 89.9% in Dormagen SPV and approximately €12.9m for shareholder loans to the Dormagen SPV The Dormagen SPV will cover the development expenses and the conditions of the offer are subject to shareholder approval due to the Dietz AG’s connections to the Listing Rules The freehold held asset being built by Dietz Aktiengesellschaft the development partners of Dietz Seller will have a total gross internal area of roughly 36,437 m² comprised of three adjacent units The three units are independent of one another and thus ideal for flexible leasing options The asset has an eighteen-month rental guarantee from the Dietz Seller based on a monthly rate of €5.60 per m² for warehouse space the transaction price of €76.4m indicates a net initial yield of 3.3% market rental rates are likely to reach €6.00 per m² per month in this region Dormagen is an area with high demand and is located in one of the prime logistics areas of Germany The area offers good connectivity to motorways such as the A1 The Dormagen proposal provides another chance for the Tritax Eurobox to accomplish several of its sustainability goals by redeveloping a brownfield property to satisfy the DGNB Gold Certificate “We are delighted to be acquiring this asset which is the eleventh German investment for Tritax EuroBox bringing our total amount invested in the country to over €800 million.” “This off-market acquisition gives us the ability to control the desired leasing profile of the scheme through capturing the rental growth evident in the market and also allowing the company to introduce open market rent reviews into the lease providing a mechanism to capture the expected future rental growth driven by the continued favourable imbalance in supply and demand in the German logistics market.” Subscribe to the UK Investor Magazine email newsletter Register for our free email newsletter and receive the latest investment news © UK Investor Group UK Investor and UK Investor Magazine are registered trademarks of UK Investor Group Ltd (09932115) | All rights reserved CA Immo exits non-core market Serbia with the sale of the 19,600 sqm office building Sava Business Center in Belgrade Both the sales price and the buyer are subject to confidentiality As the PBSA sector finally takes off in Poland it is now increasingly attracting international operators and investors Eurobuild CEE spoke to Xior's investment manager about why it has such confidence in the Polish market Residential developer Develia has signed a preliminary agreement to acquire all the shares in Bouygues Immobilier Polska the Polish subsidiary of Bouygues Immobilier ESA logistika has leased 15,000 sqm in Prologis Park Piotrków GLP has completed the development of its Wrocław V Logistics Centre and has received a BREEAM rating of Outstanding Panattoni has secured EUR 40 mln in financing from BNP Paribas for the development of Panattoni Park Sosnowiec IV Newgate Investment (NGI) and Redkom Development are developing a large retail park in Bydgoszcz Deutsche Hypo – NORD/LB Real Estate Finance has provided a five-year green loan to Olivia Seven for the refinancing of the Olivia Prime A office building in Gdańsk-Oliwa communications and security company Motorola Solutions has signed a five-year lease renewal 18,000 sqm at the Green Office complex in Kraków’s Podgórze district Falling interest rates and easing monetary policy across the eurozone and CEEi are boosting investor confidence in the region’s commercial real estate market reveals Colliers in its ‘Beyond Real Estate | Economy’ report Panattoni is to build the Panattoni Park Mainz Süd in Erbes-Büdesheim bei Alzey Axi Immo has presented its latest report “Warsaw Office Market – Q1 2025 The market opened in 2025 on a steady footing with a notable increase in leasing activity and a modest decline in vacancy landlords continue to focus on upgrading existing assets and prioritizing quality over quantity Convenience store chain Żabka has officially opened a new logistics centre in Kąty Wrocławskie The first stage of the development will serve 1,500 stores in the Wrocław area Romanian Post has leased over 5,000 sqm of logistics space in CTPark Bucharest to serve as its temporary regional courier and logistics hub for Bucharest JLL has announced the sale and leaseback of two properties by a manufacturing company in a deal worth over PLN 1 bln Warehouse developer CTP is adding 2,000 sqm to its Clubco coworking development in Brno pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank has extended an investment facility to PineBridge Benson Elliot for the Diuna Office Park in Warsaw The hotel market in Bucharest continued its recovery in 2024 while the ADR has finally surpassed the milestone of EUR 100 Torus has announced its All.inn students’ residence concept that is soon to appear on ul which specialises in temperature-controlled goods is to enlarge its freezer warehouse in Radomsko by an additional 4,800 sqm it will be the company's largest distribution centre in Poland Footwear retailer Deichmann has prolonged its lease of 21,000 sqm in Prologis Park Wrocław III The company has been in the park since 2011 The grand opening of DPD's 18,000 sqm logistics hub at Segro Logistics Park Stryków took place on 14 April 2025 The courier company currently leases a total of more than 35,000 sqm across Segro's portfolio in Poland The largest Polish ice cube manufacturer has increased the space it leases at the MLP Pruszków II warehouse complex to 7,200 sqm an Oligocene well has been drilled to meet the tenant's needs Peakside Capital Advisors and Partners Group have laid the cornerstone for the City Point Okęcie logistics centre Panattoni has completed the expansion of Panattoni Park Koluszki in Central Poland and obtained an occupancy permit Axi Immo has presented its latest market analysis in the special publication "Central Poland Industrial Snapshot" the region recorded a historic high in industrial and logistics leasing activity A 15,300 sqm hi-tech production hall has opened in Debrecen developed by Panattoni Hungary and the OTP Real Estate Investment Fund a company that specialises in LED light therapy and pharmaceuticals distributor Avenier have both signed leases for space in CTPark Plzeň Kasárny Mito Light is to take up 556 sqm while Avenier has leased 588 sqm with the handover planned for the autumn of 2025 With warehouse and industrial stock of nearly 35 mln sqm Poland’s market has stabilised at a healthy level Logistics operator DB Schenker has leased an additional 9,800 sqm in the Hillwood Rawicz logistics centre The tenant has been operating from the centre since the autumn of last year when it opened a service centre with an area of over 17,000 sqm for a manufacturer of optical products More than 2.6 mln sqm of industrial and logistics space was delivered across Poland in 2024 according to BNP Paribas Real Estate Poland’s latest report "At a Glance While this was below the new supply levels recorded in previous years Spring has very much sprung and everywhere is bathed in the first warm sunshine of the year I have in the back of my mind the terrifying fo .. 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Viterra has moved into its new 1,500 sqm offices in Olivia Prime part of the Olivia Centre business complex in Gdańsk Panattoni has acquired two properties near Gothenburg The brownfield sites will be replaced by a modern 43,000 sqm facility Contemporary cities are grappling with the challenge of fostering dynamic growth while alleviating environmental pressures Colliers has taken over the management of the Studio B office building located in the Warsaw Wola district The property is owned by Stena Real Estate .. The University of Warsaw has signed a contract with the general contractor for a project at ul The new building will house the faculti .. Velis Real Estate Tech is officially changing its name to Singu adopting the title of its property management product the construction of the Panattoni Park Unterfranken has officially started CHEManager Innovation Pitch supports innovation in the chemistry and life sciences start-up scene and start-ups to present their companies to the industry Are you ready to elevate your pharmaceutical operations Download our exclusive whitepaper and discover how compliance with Good Distribution Practice (GDP) is essential for the safety and integrity of pharmaceuticals With an overall surface area of 11 square kilometers CHEMPARK is one of the largest chemical parks in Europe Dormagen and Krefeld-Uerdingen boast an impressive vertical and horizontal range of production The portfolio extends from the production of basic and fine chemicals through to the manufacture and processing of polymers, active ingredients and other chemical products. Around one third of total chemical production in North-Rhine Westphalia takes place here. Furthermore, CHEMPARK is home to global players in the Life Sciences agricultural chemistry and materials sectors More than 48,000 people from 50 countries work at the three sites in over 70 companies development and production companies in the chemical industry and associated sectors resident here can focus on their core operations the chemical park companies can draw on a comprehensive portfolio of around 1,000 professional services all three sites have outstanding transport connections CHEMPARK gives investors access to exclusive networks This makes it possible to harness synergies optimize process chains and reduce costs e.g CHEMPARK offers investors a wide range of about 10,000 basic materials and products for further processing and creating added value The focus is on organic and inorganic basic chemicals petrochemical basic materials and polymers A network of utility pipelines with a total length of around 1,300 kilometers and an 800-kilometer network of product pipelines provide companies at CHEMPARK with an uninterrupted safe and reliable supply of utilities in the quantities and qualities required the three chemical sites managed by CURRENTA are connected to the European pipeline system for naphtha around 350 million consumers can be reached within one day´s journey by truck railways and freeways and is within easy reach of the international airports of Cologne-Bonn and Dusseldorf the CHEMPARK sites offer exceptional opportunities for other branches The combination of a very safe production environment and highly skilled services and workers makes it also very attractive for investors coming from sectors such as alternative energies structural materials and water technologies The CHEMPARK structure was created systematically with a view to generating synergy effects The task now is to further develop the network to make it future-proof and enable other companies to share in its benefits Stamina and a good eye for suitable services and companies are the key to making CHEMPARK Europe’s most attractive investment location for the chemical industry and its associated sectors It was at today’s CHEMPARK sites that some of the global players in life sciences agricultural chemistry and material sectors took their first steps For example innovative materials connect the three CHEMPARK sites in the Rhineland polyurethanes and butyl rubbers were invented here CHEMPARK is still home to facilities and know-how enabling their further development production and accompanying analysis – activities that make up a core area of its expertise Another of CHEMPARK’s strengths is the manufacture of silicones and pigments Trends und Innovationen der Branche informiert Mit Klick auf „Newsletter abonnieren“ erkläre ich mich mit der Verarbeitung und Nutzung meiner Daten gemäß Einwilligungserklärung (bitte unten aufklappen für Details) einverstanden. 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