autoregion international - Ausgabe 1/2021

Germany as a business location must become as good as our companies By Hildegard Müller, President of the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) 03 E-mobility: Are the dice cast? By Armin Gehl, Managing Director of autoregion e.V., Saarbrücken 08 Important milestones for new growth By Dr. Carsten Meier, Managing Director of the IHK Saarland and member of the board of autoregion 06 autoregion international Greater Region Mobility Innovation Table of contents Germany as a business 03 location must become as good as our companies By Hildegard Müller, President of the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) Important milestones 06 for new growth By Dr. Carsten Meier, Managing Director of the IHK Saarland and member of the board of autoregion E-mobility: 08 Are the dice cast? By Armin Gehl, Managing Director of autoregion e.V., Saarbrücken LUXEMBOURG 10 AUTOMOBILITY CLUSTER Seizing new opportunities By Luxinnovation Towards the next 12 generation of public transport systems By Francesco Viti, Associate Professor, MobiLab Transport Re- search Group Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine UNIVERSITÉ DU LUXEMBOURG NTC NANO TECH 14 COATINGS GmbH Protect and improve metal surfaces Interview with Authorised Officer Jennifer Forster-Weis of NTC Nano Tech Coatings GmbH Innovation and 18 environmental protection for the mobility of tomorrow From a delicate seedling 22 to a magnificent plant Interview with Dr Bernd Welzel, Managing Director of SERO GmbH