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3 3 AUGUST Expansion of Heraeus Medical activities in Wehrheim Heraeus Medical is investing around €17 million in the renovation and construction of production facilities at its Wehrheim location. The site offers ideal conditions for the company’s global activities. SEPTEMBER 30 years of Heraeus in Singapore Singapore gained its independence 50 years ago. Heraeus began its activities there 30 years ago with about ten employees. Today there are about 650 Heraeus employees at five sites in the small city-state. The company focuses its activities in Singapore on the areas of electronics, hard drives, semiconductors, medical technology, and photovoltaics. OCTOBER Factory opens in Romania In Timis ¸oara, Heraeus has chosen an ideal location for its new production facilities in Romania. The region has good infrastructure and short transit routes. The factory produces solder pastes, powders and other contact agents, mostly for automotive suppliers. OCTOBER Heraeus and Northam Platinum enter long-term partnership for precious metals refining and marketing Heraeus and Northam Platinum, Ltd., a South African manufacturer of platinum group metals (PGM) announce the expansion of their existing long-term partnership. According to the agreement, which has a term of 20 years, Heraeus will refine all of Northam’s PGM ore concentrates. In addition, Heraeus acquires up to 40 percent of these refined precious metals, thereby securing a reliable supply of platinum group metals for its customers. NOVEMBER Heraeus joint venture in China celebrates 20-year anniversary and opens new production facility The 20-year anniversary of Heraeus (Zhaoyuan) Precious Metal Materials (HZPM) and the opening of a new production facility for the joint venture give Heraeus two reasons to celebrate. This was the first joint venture between a Chinese company and a foreign company in the gold-processing industry. At the new production site, state-of-the-art production facilities, high operating standards and intelligent information manage- ment systems can improve productivity and product quality and strengthen the electronics and semiconductor industry in Greater China. NOVEMBER 2015 Heraeus Innovation Awards With the Heraeus Innovation Award, given each year since 2003, the company pays tribute to in-house research and development teams for their outstanding ideas and achievements. We showcase this year’s winning teams on page 26 of this magazine. DECEMBER Presentation of the HPS Awards Top performance in the further development of our production and the introduction of the Heraeus Production System (HPS) led us to honor three teams – a first – with our in-house HPS Award. At the second annual HPS event, the prizes were awarded to the winning teams from Bitterfeld, Kleinostheim and Yverdon-les-Bains. Awards Wit give com res the ach yea this

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