Weimar –The Legefeld business park has seen the laying of the foundation stone for the new building of Antennentechnik Bad Blankenburg GmbH. The move to Weimar was necessary because of the lack of expansion area at the old site. At the new 1.9-hectare site, with its excellent autobahn access, a sum of €4.1 million is being invested in a production building along with a two-story edifice for administration, R&D and staff facilities. The production building is being erected by the Thuringian Industry Leasing (ThIV) and leased to Antennentechnik, leaving the company with more financial resources available for R&D, marketing and other investment. It is also planned to expand the workforce. The product range comprises multiband antennas for trucks, buses and specialpurpose vehicles. Besides the new mobile telephony generation, a future division will be devoted to the technology and software behind the antennas. Customers include the Daimler truck division, MAN, Scania and John Deere. (maa)
Langewiesen – A new, bigger headquarters building, but still located near to Ilmenau University of Technology (TUI) – these were important criteria for senTech Elektronik GmbH’s new building. Created in 1999 as a spin-off from TUI, the company develops solutions and complex systems for measuring temperatures in inaccessible places using radio transmission. It also develops microprocessor modules, and is playing a pioneering role since 2008 in the field of radio sensor networks. For example, every new vehicle undergoing preproduction testing throughout the world is equipped with senTech sensors for measuring the brake disk temperatures. (maa)
