Strong Industry Sectors - Strong Saxony

"AUTOLAND SAXONY"

With five production sites of BMW, Porsche, and Volkswagen as well as approximately 780 suppliers, equipment and service providers of the industry sector, “Autoland Saxony” is one of the top locations in Germany. The automobile industry with its more than 95,000 employees is Saxony’s branch with the highest turnover. It contributes over one quarter of the industrial turnover and more than one third of foreign sales.

"SILICON SAXONY"

“Silicon Saxony” is Europe’s largest microelectronics / ICT cluster and the fifth largest of its kind around the globe. Every third chip produced in Europe bears the label of origin “Made in Saxony.”

About 2,400 companies with a total of 64,000 employees are active along all steps of the ICT value creation chain.

THE CRADLE OF GERMAN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Saxony is considered to be the cradle of German machine construction. For about 200 years now, such globally coveted mechanical engineering products as, for example, textile, tool, and printing machines have been coming from Saxony. With about 45,000 employees in approx. 1,000 firms, mechanical engineering is one of the most important industry sectors in Saxony.

NATURE'S FRIENDS

In Saxony, the environmental and energy technology branch is an important economic factor. Saxony’s enterprises assume a leading position, above all, in such key markets as, for example, power generation and energy storage as well as recycling management. The industry sector benefits from Saxony’s long tradition as an industrial venue specifically for machine and plant construction. Saxony’s mountains had also been important mining centers for many centuries – during the Middle Ages, silver and other „precious“ raw materials were extracted; later, the focus was more on lignite and uranium. 

LIFE SCIENCES HOTSPOT

Saxony is one of Germany’s most dynamic life science regions today. About 300 companies committed towards biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and medical technology successfully cooperate with well-known research institutions. They focus on the fields of regenerative medicine (e.g. tissue engineering), diagnostics, molecular bioengineering, bioinformatics, lon-term monitoring as well as implants and prostheses.