RENK drive technology is used all over the world, although the company is based in Augsburg. At the main plant, around 1,100 employees develop and manufacture fully automatic powershift transmissions for tracked vehicles and special gear units for industrial plants and ships. The product range also includes test facilities for drive trains in wind turbines and customer-specific test systems for the development, production and quality assurance of products for the automotive, railway and aviation industries.

The KUKA Group is a global automation company with sales of around 3.5 billion euros and 14,200 employees. As one of the world’s leading suppliers of intelligent automation solutions, KUKA is a one-stop shop for customers in the automotive, electronics, consumer goods, metalworking, logistics/e-commerce, healthcare and service robotics industries, supplying everything from components and cells to fully automated systems. The group is based in Augsburg.

The Uhlmann Group is a global company with sales of 411 million euros and more than 2,200 employees worldwide. The company’s headquarters are in the Swabian town of Laupheim. As the best total solution provider and global market leader in pharmaceutical packaging, the company meets its customers high demands for maximum efficiency in all pharmaceutical packaging processes – along the entire value chain and throughout the whole product life cycle.

Enjoying the confidence of star architects and the world’s most innovative engineering firms, the seele Group creates architectural icons with perfect clarity, precision and lightness. As a leading international supplier of building envelopes and glass, steel, aluminium and membrane structures, the Augsburg-based company generates sales of around 250 million euros and has a workforce of over 1,000 employees across 14 locations worldwide.

The WALDNER Group is active on the global stage with sales of over 240 million euros and more than 1,350 employees worldwide. WALDNER Holding comprises three legally independent companies based at the headquarters in Wangen, Germany, and nine subsidiaries worldwide. WALDNER not only produces laboratory equipment for the whole world, but also manufactures packaging machines and containment systems and equips chemistry and physics labs for science lessons.