LRT - Kompetenzzentrum Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik Sachsen | EACP

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LRT Sachsen Thüringen e.V.

Cluster description

Role

Description of your aviation region

Saxony's aerospace industry is steeped in tradition, and today the Free State is one of the industry's key locations.

Vision/ Missons

Around 160 organisations, businesses and research institutions employ more than 7,000 people in this sector, generating sales of around €1.4 billion. The industry's core strengths are in aircraft equipment and modification, aircraft and spacecraft component manufacture, testing of aircraft and spacecraft structures, aerospace technology R&D projects, passenger aviation and aircraft servicing. External industrial research institutions, scientific and technical service providers and transfer, consultancy and other services complete the picture. This expertise is embedded in an outstanding research landscape which includes the Dresden and Chemnitz Universities of Applied Sciences and many applied research institutions.

Year of creation

2001

Region

Germany, Saxony and Thuringia

Facts & Figures of regional aerospace

Number of companies

200

Number of research institutes

Number of employees of all aerospace actors

12.000

Cluster Management

Organizational form

Registered association

Financing

Member fees

Main Actors

Main industry actors

Elbe Flugzeugwerke GmbH, Apparatebau Gauting GmbH, COTESA GmbH, Hutchinson Aerospace, Jena-Optronik GmbH, IABG, IMA Materialforschung und Anwendungstechnik GmbH

Main research institutes

Fraunhofer, Helmholtz, Leibniz, Technical University Dresden, Technical University Chemnitz

Cluster Competence and Strategy

Product worlds

Lightweight construction, Composite Production, Material research and testing, Component Production, Electronics, Sensor Technologies, Freighter Conversion,

Cluster management services for members

Location marketing, Representation of interests, Contacts and market access and business potential, Industry workshops, Joint stand on trade fairs, B2B meeting, Regularly Information, Communication platform

Contact Information Cluster Management

Director / President

Thomas Reppe

International relations

Thomas Reppe

LRT
Kompetenzzentrum Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik Sachsen/Thüringen e.V.

Wilhelmine-Reichard-Ring 4
01109 Dresden
Germany (GER)

infolrt-sachsen-thueringen.de

Presentation

LRT_Saxony_Thuringia_english.pdf2 MB

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