London –At the end of 2019 Baosteel commissioned an integrated control enter (ICC) for the CC3 two-strand continuous caster. The work was carried out in collaboration with Primetals at the company's Steelworks No. 1 in Shanghai.
Berlin/Düsseldorf – Federal Minister of Economics Peter Altmaier is working on a concept to revive the German economy after the acute crisis. This concept is not limited to economic stimulus programs but is intended to improve the competitiveness of the domestic economy.
Munich – Dr. Frank Stieler will resign from his office as CEO of KraussMaffei Group GmbH on March 31, 2020 and Dr. Michael Ruf, present COO of the company, will take over the position from April 1, 2020. The COO position will not be taken again.
Taipei - Taiwan's exports in 2019 were $ 3.064 billion, of which approximately $ 2.538 billion were for machine tools and $ 52.6 million for metal-forming machine tools.
Stuttgart – Bosch Healthcare Solutions is currently working on the development of a COVID-19 rapid testing kit for the Vivalytic platform and will launch this in April 2020. The Vivalytic VRI test (Viral Respiratory Tract Infections) checks the patient’s sample for the SARS CoV-2 virus.