LRT - Kompetenzzentrum Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik Sachsen
LRT Sachsen Thüringen e.V.
Cluster description
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
Number of companies
200
Number of research institutes
43
Number of employees of all aerospace actors
12.000
Organizational form
Registered association
Financing
Member fees
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
Lightweight construction, Composite Production, Material research and testing, Component Production, Electronics, Sensor Technologies, Freighter Conversion,
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
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