Timed to coincide with the company’s 160th anniversary, Siemens is launching a long-term image campaign across all its Groups and Regions. The campaign will showcase the solutions competence Siemens has leveraged from the company’s inception to successfully answer the toughest questions of the times.

Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution (PTD) has secured an order to construct a roughly 88-km (53-mile) undersea high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission link between San Francisco´s City Center electrical power grid and a substation near Pittsburg, California.

The Siemens subsidiary, N.V. ADB S.A., Zaventem, Belgium, announced the introduction of a new airfield lighting control system (ALCS), “AGL-200”, which is the first of a new series of ALCS to offer comprehensive control and monitoring functions for airfield lighting.

Complete packages and modular automation solutions for printing machinery will take center-stage with Siemens Automation and Drives (A&D) at the IFRA 2007 in Vienna, Austria.

Siemens and the Russian businessman Alexey Mordashov have concluded an agreement on long-term strategic partnership for the modernization and further development of Power Machines. Both partners have also agreed on the principles relating to the management of Power Machines.

Siemens Transportation Systems (TS) has received an order for 44 Railjet trains from Austrian Federal Railways. The order value amounts to approximately 540 million euros.

The Munich District Court has imposed a fine of €201 million on Siemens, marking the end of the investigation by the Munich Office of Public Prosecution at the former Group Communications (Com) as it relates to Siemens AG. In addition, a final settlement has been reached with the German tax authorities.

Siemens’ Power Transmission and Distribution (PTD) Group has been awarded a contract by the Spanish network operator Red Eléctrica de España to connect the Balearic Islands to the Spanish mainland’s power network.

Siemens Automation and Drives (A&D) has expanded assembly capacity for large gears at its Friedrichsfeld site. The first expansion stage, the new hall M of the A&D Mechanical Drives (MD) Division, was officially opened on Friday.

Siemens Metals Technologies, a division of the Siemens Group Industrial Solutions and Services is merging its components business in the metallurgical plant building industry and has taken over the remaining 50 percent of the supplier, Shape Technology Ltd, Bournemouth/UK.

Mochida Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., and Siemens K.K. Japan have agreed to change the ownership interest both companies hold in their joint venture Mochida Siemens Medical Systems Co., Ltd. Today, Mochida Pharmaceutical transferred 16 percent of its outstanding shares to Siemens K.K., making Siemens K.K. a 51 percent equity stakeholder.

Beginning in October, residents of the North German city of Münster will be able to buy their bus and train tickets via mobile phone. This makes Münster the twelfth participant in the nationwide pilot project.