Tag: suppliers
Eprimo and Co .: energy suppliers suspend new customer contracts
Expensive power consumption Consumers shouldn’t expect relief anytime soon. (Photo: dpa-tmn) Dusseldorf Various German electricity and gas suppliers are currently not accepting any new customers. For example, the Eon subsidiary…
Industry outlook: Auto suppliers are becoming a two-tier society
Düsseldorf, Stuttgart At the start of the world’s largest electronics trade fair, CES, ZF board member Martin Fischer summed up where the trend in the automotive supplier industry is headed…
Car manufacturers’ situation worsens for the fifth month in a row
Production of an electric SUV A Volkswagen employee assembles the side door of a VW ID.4. (Photo: dpa) Munich According to the Ifo Institute, the situation in the German auto…
Car manufacturers’ situation worsens for the fifth month in a row
Production of an electric SUV A Volkswagen employee assembles the side door of a VW ID.4. (Photo: dpa) Munich According to the Ifo Institute, the situation in the German auto…
E-fuels instead of mass layoffs: Suppliers are sounding the alarm
Worker at ZF Combustion engines and transmissions will hardly be needed in the future if cars are purely electric. (Photo: dpa) Brussels In Brussels there is often talk of a…
Companies shy away from taking steps
Indian textile factory The supply chain law aims to improve working conditions. (Photo: obs) Berlin It is an unusual dispute: members of the Alliance for Sustainable Textiles have publicly attacked…
Schaeffler cashes in annual forecast due to chip crisis
Schaeffler headquarters in Herzogenaurach The company lowered its sales forecast for the full year due to production downtimes in the auto industry. (Photo: imago images / isslerimages) Munich The chip…
Schaeffler cashes in annual forecast due to chip crisis
Schaeffler headquarters in Herzogenaurach The company lowered its sales forecast for the full year due to production downtimes in the auto industry. (Photo: imago images / isslerimages) Munich The chip…
Medium-sized auto suppliers in existential need
Munich, Düsseldorf The American supplier Henniges Automotive has been active in Germany for 70 years. In the small town of Rehburg-Loccum in Lower Saxony, the company produces various seals for…
Interview with Apple sustainability boss Lisa Jackson
The newly acquired suppliers have undertaken to ensure that a total of nine gigawatts of new production capacity for renewable energies is created, according to the group. In an interview…
Hackers paralyze the automotive supplier’s IT systems
Eberspächer in Esslingen The exhaust manufacturer fell victim to a cyber attack. The IT systems and telephone connections are impaired. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf The Baden-Württemberg auto supplier Eberspächer fell victim…
The chip crisis has a greater impact on car suppliers than car manufacturers
Suppliers in crisis The mixture of transformation, missing chips and rising raw material prices is particularly affecting automotive suppliers. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf For many automotive suppliers in Germany, it is…
So much German technology is in Tesla
Tesla Model 3 Around a third of the around 3,000 parts and components come from German companies. (Photo: AP) Dusseldorf Last year, Dirk Howe received an inquiry that surprised him…
Plug-in hybrids are a mistake – carmakers should draw conclusions
The plug-in hybrid can definitely be seen as a symbol of the failure of the established automotive industry, which has denied reality for far too long. When the corporations were…
Important decision from Apple and Tesla suppliers!
Apple and Tesla suppliers a few of them operate some of their facilities in the country to comply with China’s stricter energy consumption policy. Production from Sunday announced that they…