ZF is on the way to becoming an electrical supplier
ZF CEO Wolf-Henning Scheider: Germany’s large transmission specialist must switch to electromobility.
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The southern German automotive supplier ZF Friedrichshafen is accelerating the farewell to the combustion engine and wants to turn to electromobility more quickly. “We are in talks about the production of high-quality electrical components in our transmission plant in Saarland,” said ZF CEO Wolf-Henning Scheider on Wednesday at the CAR symposium in Bochum.
With around 9,000 employees, the factory in Saarbrücken is the largest and most important location in the entire ZF Group. The transition from the internal combustion engine to the electric drive is a sometimes painful process, especially for the automotive suppliers, in which jobs are repeatedly lost.
For its largest factory in Saarland, ZF has to develop a viable future concept for the time without combustion engines. The statement by CEO Scheider is a first concrete indication that the supplier group will definitely stick to this location and manufacture drive components there in the long term.
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