Tine Hoffmeister

Governor Kay Ivey announced today that Germany-based Heiche Surface Technologies plans a substantial investment to open an advanced metals coating facility in Jasper, creating at least 73 jobs and expanding Walker County’s footprint in Alabama’s auto industry. Heiche, whose customers include automakers and suppliers, will locate its manufacturing operation to a more than 100,000-square-foot speculative […]

Mercedes-Benz has announced that its Tuscaloosa County plant will begin producing electric SUVs in 2022. The plant, which has been in preparation for the move for the past three years, will produce the EQE SUV and EQS SUV on the same line with SUVs with conventional and plug-in hybrid drives. In an announcement from Germany,

Germany will start a hard lockdown on Wednesday as officials conceded that the coronavirus has spiraled out of control and previous attempts to contain the pandemic were inadequate. To check the rapid spread of the disease, non-essential stores will be shuttered, employers urged to close workplaces and school children encouraged to remain at home. The

Airbus announced Friday that it had delivered the 200th A320-family jetliner assembled in Mobile. The company made the announcement via social media. “Holidays are about Family – so we’ve delivered our 200th #A320Family member produced in #Mobile, Alabama to American Airlines!” said a Facebook post. “The #A321neo joins one of the youngest fleets in the

Merkel said the federal and state governments are preparing for the vaccination programme, and that the first vaccine approvals in the EU could happen at the end of December. With an eye on applications by BioNTech-Pfizer as well as Moderna for the use of their Covid-19 vaccines in Europe, Merkel said 70 million doses in

Airbus’ Mobile plant unveiled another milestone in its five years of producing airplanes in Alabama: The first delivery of the single-aisle jets called the A220 to Delta Air Lines. Airbus is targeting to build four A220-series airplanes per month by the middle of the decade. Read Mobile Real Time News full story.

Die Corona-Pandemie hat zu starken Einschränkungen auch von Geschäftsreisen in die USA geführt. Was viele Unternehmen nicht wissen: mittlerweile sind die Restriktionen deutlich gelockert worden und ein Visum ist für viele EU-Bürger grundsätzlich für die US-Einreise nicht erforderlich (Stand: Oktober 2020). Wie geschäftliche Reisen in die USA vorbereitet werden sollten, schildert Sebastian Meis. Als Rechtsanwalt und

The $53 million parts assembly and sequencing plant will locate on Will Walker Road and bring 373 new jobs to Tuscaloosa County. The project will help support Mercedes’ electric vehicle production, and the center’s primary purpose is serving as a storage and sequence facility for parts used in EVA production. The plant is expected to

MERCEDES HAS INVESTED OVER $ 1 BILLION IN ITS ALABAMA LOCATION The production site in Alabama has grown enormously in importance in the last 25 years, reports Christoph Dörr (European Office Director Alabama Department of Commerce) — and the manager knows this from his own experience having spent several years there, even building a die-casting foundry. The success

Join us for a conversation with Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany (consular district of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee):  Thursday, October 1, 202012:00 p.m. to 12:45 p.m. CSTZOOM Webinar Welcome remarks and introductions by AGP Chair, Bobby Ingram. Honorary Consul of Germany to the state of Alabama, Michael Johnson