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Erfurt - Industrial companies in Thuringia exported more in 2014 - and made more money. Thuringian companies with 50 or more employees achieved an increase in turnover of EUR 540 m on the previous year, to take the total to EUR 28.5 bn. Exports were 7.7 percent up on 2013 at EUR 13.05 bn. The area in and around Gotha and Wartburg District benefited greatly from the large number of contracts under way in the automotive and automotive supplier sectors, which were the segments with the strongest turnover in Thuringia in 2014.
Erfurt - Thuringia’s Ministry of Economic Affairs will support the establishment of an Industry 4.0 Center of Competence. The center will function as a point of contact for questions about any aspect of the German government’s ‘Industrie 4.0’ initiative in the high-tech sector, from the technologies involved to data security to how it will affect workplaces in the future. The findings of research already being conducted in Thuringia will be incorporated in the digitalization strategy to be prepared for the state. Thuringia will also participate in a competition being run by the German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, which is to fund four or five such centers around the country.
