“The work we’re doing with Webasto sets a new benchmark for how a company can use AI effectively to improve processes and products,” says Dr “We’ve worked with them every step of the way to identify use cases prepare data and train the in-house test and domain experts to get the most out of the Monolith platform.” The initial focus of the partnership will be on battery pack screw tightening a critical factor in battery performance and longevity Each battery module contains at least 300 screws with torque monitoring for tightening generating significant amounts of data we found Monolith to be an excellent option for scaling AI across our R&D,” says Markus Meiler “The Monolith platform demonstrated the potential benefits of using our test data with AI and guided us through a workshop to identify the best potential use cases becoming more than a tech supplier but an engineering partner.” This partnership highlights the growing importance of AI in automotive engineering particularly in the rapidly evolving field of EV battery development As the industry continues to push for more efficient and higher-performing electric vehicles collaborations like this may become increasingly common The functional shoe and clothing specialist Haix has taken over Gustav Wahler KG was founded in 1930 and is one of the leading manufacturers of uniforms service and protective clothing in Germany the family company is heavily active in the official environment and in the project business and supplies customers such as Deutsche Bahn The portfolio includes individual clothing concepts for companies and authorities as well as weather and high-visibility clothing as well as special clothing for industrial climbers The Gustav Wahler KG location in Hengersberg will continue to operate with all 33 employees The company premises cover 1.500 square meters and include offices Production takes place externally with long-standing partners in Eastern Europe Haix is ​​a specialist in functional footwear and clothing with a worldwide reputation the company has special departments for research and development as well as design and marketing Haix operates factories in Germany and Croatia where the company has built one of the most modern shoe manufacturing facilities in the world The Haix Group employs around 1.700 people worldwide the company produced more than 1,4 million pairs of shoes and achieved sales of 147 million euros We always keep you up to date: with our free newsletter SHOEZ compact You will regularly receive all information from the shoe industry in a clear form when a new magazine is published Over 80 shoe manufacturers write joint letter Running shoe brand grows by 28 percent in Germany Olivier van den Bossche leaves after less than two years at the helm CEO Gulden sees price increases in the US as inevitable Creditors' meeting decides against P&C's takeover offer Sanela Krisat becomes International Sales Director Canadian outdoor brand aims to accelerate growth in mountaineering boots Sandra Luxem-Bremen will head the DACH region in the future New brand identity and store concept in Rödental sales representatives and business partners throughout the DACH association Telephone: +49 (0) 6 41 / 7 95 08 – 0Fax: +49 (0) 6 41 / 7 95 08 – 15Email: info@shoez.biz Designed by willsch-media.de New webinar! Driving the future: EV trends transforming the global and European market Sign up Global automotive industry supplier Webasto has started the production of batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) in Germany The manufacture of battery packs for a European bus maker has already commenced at the company’s Schierling site and the company will start to produce its self-developed standard battery system for commercial vehicles there from early 2020 Webasto has invested €11 million in a multi-product line and a further €18 million to establish a prototype construction and validation centre at its Hengersberg site Webasto took the decision not only to further expand its core business in the area of roofs and heaters but also to develop additional fields of business in the area of electromobility with charging solutions and battery systems ′We have successfully entered this market with our innovative future mobility products and the first buses with Webasto batteries will shortly take to the streets of major European cities With the commencement of our in-house battery production activities we are opening a completely new chapter in our almost 120-year corporate history This is a great team effort by our many expert colleagues of which we can be very proud.' says Dr Holger Engelmann Chairman of the Management Board of Webasto SE As it established the development and production of its battery systems Webasto benefited from the competencies within its core business able to draw on its thermos-management know how its in-house electronics manufacturing and its experience in the installation of complex systems into vehicles Webasto has also brought more electromobility experts into the company over the past three years Webasto is leveraging its established production network in order to manufacture battery systems for the European market Roof systems have been produced in Schierling for over 30 years and the group's competence centre for lightweight construction technologies is also located at the site Webasto has also developed its Hengersberg site with a view to producing innovative solutions for the field of electromobility The competence centre for convertible roofs has been expanded with a state-of-the-art testing and prototype construction facility for batteries Employees at Hengersberg also manufacture aluminium boxes for battery systems which are subsequently sent to the Schierling production facility The cells for the Webasto standard battery are sourced from Samsung SDI which has been a Webasto partner in the field of battery systems since 2018 Webasto is also planning to enter the Chinese market The development and manufacture of battery systems will take place at a new Webasto plant in Jiaxing that is scheduled to open at the beginning of 2020 your new go-to podcast to spice up your weekday mornings with relevant news and behind-the-scenes from Brussels and beyond From the economy to the climate and the EU's role in world affairs this talk show sheds light on European affairs and the issues that impact on our daily lives as Europeans Tune in to understand the ins and outs of European politics Dare to imagine the future with business and tech visionaries Deep dive conversations with business leaders Euronews Tech Talks goes beyond discussions to explore the impact of new technologies on our lives the podcast provides valuable insights into the intersection of technology and society Europe's water is under increasing pressure floods are taking their toll on our drinking water Join us on a journey around Europe to see why protecting ecosystems matters and to discover some of the best water solutions an animated explainer series and live debate - find out why Water Matters We give you the latest climate facts from the world’s leading source analyse the trends and explain how our planet is changing We meet the experts on the front line of climate change who explore new strategies to mitigate and adapt This is the only food Karl Bretzendorfer remembers taking up to the attic where he spent 13 days trapped with his wife Irina as the waters rose around them in what Chancellor Angela Merkel called “the flood of the century” in Bavaria Karl, 73, and his wife refused to be evacuated from their home because they were told they would not be able to take their four cats with them. They had lived through plenty of floods and thought this one would be no different we did have drinking water stored upstairs,” he adds They spent almost two weeks up there without power in which they invested every cent they had They were only able to rebuild thanks to financial support from the regional government of Bavaria But those funds won’t be available if the river overflows again In June 2013, after four days of heavy rainfall, the Elbe and the Danube overflowed The previous month had been the second wettest May on record in Germany Half of Germany’s 16 states were badly hit – 21 people were killed and losses amounted to €11.6 billion “The region north of the Alps is highly susceptible to floods because air masses get stuck there,” explains Günter Blöschl professor of Hydrology and Water Resources at the Technical University in Vienna Some cities in Bavaria are “historically built in a way that makes it very hard now to take precautions against floods,” he adds This is the case with Passau, proudly known as the city of the three rivers - the Danube, the Inn and the Ilz converge on its territory - but less honoured to be a drainage destination for most of southern Germany not all parts of town can be protected from flooding,” said Jürgen Dupper Karl lived through his first flood as a child in 1954 built on a plain where the Danube and Isaar rivers meet “The name Fischerdorf literally means ‘village of the fishermen’,” says Georg Kestel head of the environmental NGO BUND Naturschutz “People from here used to know where to build and if they built in a wet area it took them one flood to learn and rebuild somewhere else.” The water had never before risen above knee-level and the damage had always been limited water started to flood from the street gullies Fischerdorf’s dam burst and the water level eventually rose to eight metres Karl and his wife watched the waters rise around their home “The effects of the flood in 2013 were dramatic,” says Mayor Dupper “We had a power outage and a shortage of potable water which brought catastrophe management to its limits.” He estimates the damage done amounted to €250 million in Passau alone some 600 houses had to be rebuilt and more than 200 were demolished The damage was not caused by water alone - the flood water became contaminated by heating oil leaking from damaged tanks Iris Hirshauer recalls: “We would wake up in the night asking ourselves where will we go if there’s oil in the house?” she was living with her family in Niederalteich a village on the Danube 11 kilometres south of Fischerdorf They thought they would be displaced for one night and it ended up being two months during which the question of whether they would survive the flood financially kept them awake just 21 per cent of people had their houses insured in 2013 Home insurance is not compulsory when buying or renting a house in Germany Iris says insurance fees were simply unaffordable in her area However the Bavarian government came to their aid funding 80 per cent of rebuilding for uninsured homeowners the wait was longer and hampered by bureaucracy who travelled to Fischerdorf to volunteer after the flood helping affected homeowners clean up and then rebuild He said divisions arose between those who received state aid to rebuild and those who received only a sum for renovation: “The people who rebuilt received big sums of money They say 120 per cent instead of the promised 80 per cent “The people who renovated their old houses instead really only received money for the renovation There were actual fights in Fischerdorf over the money situation In March 2017 the Council of Ministers - comprised of the heads of government of each German state - voted to issue a recommendation to end financial support for victims of natural disasters who had not previously taken out home insurance The Bavarian ministry of finance told Euronews that despite these guidelines being adopted they would be applied according to individual economic circumstances and exceptions could still be made Karl hopes that if a flood hits again in the future The thought of the bureaucracy involved in proving that he was unable to afford insurance and the fact that there could be nothing at the end of it he would have to pay €1,000 for insurance per year – a figure 10 times higher than the average price of household insurance in Germany according to the General Association of the German Insurance Industry (GDV) said the figure Karl was quoted was "very expensive" but Brother Vinzenz Proß is the treasurer of a monastery in Niederalteich he called an insurance agent to get a quote evaluating and assessing,” Brother Vinzenz says “After a month his proposal finally arrived and I thought that’s not affordable for us right now.” The monastery is still rebuilding after the damage from the 2013 flood Dupper said he asked insurance companies what the yearly rate for a house in the old town of Passau would be That sum makes you realise it’s easier to just save some money yourself for the eventual flood damage.” He believes the structure of Passau’s old town and inner city would be completely destroyed if there was to be a new flood and this time no state aid to fall back on we must prepare for an increase in extreme weather and natural disasters.” These are the words of a government campaign to encourage Bavarians to take out private home insurance But when it comes to those who can’t afford to do so or have tried and failed due to living in a high-risk zone Bavarian Green MP Jürgen Mistol says he doesn’t know of any state-funded aid programmes available "I believe it is necessary to support those who have tried unsuccessfully to obtain insurance cover for extreme storm damage,” he says the number of insured households in Bavaria has increased to 41 per cent since the floods of 2013 but that still leaves more than half of residents facing a future in which the only certainty is more flooding A 2019 study led by professor Günter Blöschl found that increasing autumn and winter rainfall has resulted in a rise of about 11 per cent per decade of flooding in northwestern Europe contains more humidity which leads to increased rainfall climate change is also causing a reduction in floods in other parts of Europe - a decline of 23 per cent per decade in southern Europe “This is connected to cyclones moving over the Atlantic from North America to Europe and arriving in the northern part now,” explains Blöschl “We believe that nature will take what it wants Maybe it won’t happen the exact same way in Niederalteich next time She recalls the flood as a highly traumatic experience from the evacuation to the long wait to come back home thinks the vast majority of the inhabitants stayed because they were “well taken care of” - meaning “I believe that if people hadn’t received those 80 per cent state funds they would have all left Fischerdorf,” he adds Brother Vincenz has asked himself many times what he would do in another flood he was unable to eat for months and had recurring nightmares “Would I stay or would I panic and just leave He says next time there is a flood he and his wife will take their cats and leave the house - but only until the waters recede But he says he doesn’t have the strength to rebuild his house again if it is damaged the way it was in 2013 This article was part of a series originally published in March 2020 Additional sources • Text editor: Lindsey Johnstone one of the most well-known automotive suppliers recently expanded into the electric vehicle battery business taking advantage of its competencies in the core business of thermo management "Three years ago Webasto took the decision not only in future to further expand its core business in the area of roofs and heaters with charging solutions and battery systems." Through an investment of €11 million in a multi-product line Webasto has started production of battery packs for an undisclosed European bus maker at its Schierling site in Germany battery packs for electric commercial vehicles will be produced from 2020 at Hengersberg site in Germany The start from the bus and commercial vehicles sounds reasonable as passenger car manufacturers are already implementing high-volume models and many are keeping their battery tech in-house Lithium-ion cells for the packs are supplied by Samsung SDI "The manufacture of battery packs for a European bus maker has already commenced at the company's Schierling site in the district of Regensburg From the beginning of 2020 the company will furthermore manufacture its self-developed standard battery system for commercial vehicles there Webasto has invested eleven million euro in a multi-product line A further 18 million euro flowed into the establishment of a prototype construction and validation center at its Hengersberg site in the district of Deggendorf." "Competencies in-place at existing production sites form the basisAs it established the development and production of its battery systems able to draw on its thermo management know how its in-house electronics manufacturing and its experience in the installation of complex systems into vehicles – all of which are key success factors for the new field of business Webasto has also brought further electromobility experts into the company over the past three years Webasto is leveraging its established production network in order to manufacture battery systems for the European market: Roof systems have been produced in Schierling for over 30 years the group’s competence center for lightweight construction technologies is also located at this site Webasto is now manufacturing battery systems at the same plant The competence center for convertible roofs has been expanded with a state-of-the-art testing and prototype construction facility for batteries Employees at Hengersberg furthermore manufacture aluminum boxes for battery systems which are subsequently sent to the production location at Schierling The cells for the Webasto standard battery are sourced from Samsung SDI – a Webasto partner in the field of battery systems since 2018." which is now prepared to enter into the Chinese market in 2020: "Entry into the Chinese market is in preparation The development and manufacture of battery systems will – together with a roof production facility – be located at the new Webasto site in Jiaxing It is planned to open this plant at the beginning of 2020 Chairman of the Management Board of Webasto SE emphasizes:  "We have successfully entered this market with our innovative future mobility products and the first buses with Webasto batteries will shortly take to the streets of major European cities Why The Slate Truck Doesn’t Use LFP Batteries Lynk & Co Z20: A Better Volvo EX30 That's Ready To Take On Europe Ford Develops Breakthrough Battery Chemistry After ‘Intense Research’ This Affordable EV From Skoda Is A Rising Star Already Stellantis Validates Game-Changing Solid-State Battery After 'Production Hell' Waymo Robotaxis Are Better Than Human Drivers CATL’s Sodium-Ion EV Battery Loves The Cold  Webasto announced it has started the production of batteries for electric vehicles in Germany A supply agreement with a «European bus maker» (not specified) is already underway Cells for Webasto batteries come from Samsung SDI The same provider that has been recently involved in an extension of the supply agreement with Akasol Cells for Webasto batteries come from Samsung SDI, as announced in 2018. The same provider that has been recently involved in an extension of the supply agreement with Akasol the other German player in battery production Webasto is producing batteries for European market But the entry into the Chinese market is in preparation from the beginning of 2020 Webasto will furthermore manufacture its self-developed standard battery system for commercial vehicles company’s Schierling site in the district of Regensburg flowed into the establishment of a prototype construction and validation center at its Hengersberg site in the district of Deggendorf Three years ago Webasto took the decision to develop additional fields of business in the area of electromobility This offer is an addition to the previous Webasto core business in the area of roofs and heaters Of course the experience gained so far made easier for Webasto to start activities in a new branch able to draw on its thermo management know-how Webasto is leveraging its established production network in order to manufacture battery systems for the European market: roof systems have been produced in Schierling for over 30 years a Webasto partner in the field of battery systems since 2018 “We have successfully entered this market with our innovative future mobility products and the first buses with Webasto batteries will shortly take to the streets of major European cities © Copyright 2012 - 2025 | Vado e Torno Edizioni | All rights reserved | P.I