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Siemens has announced the signing of the UK’s largest order for direct drive wind turbines, with a new contract to supply 17 direct drive turbines for Eneco Wind UK, at Lochluichart Wind Farm in the Scottish Highlands. This 51MW project is the largest investment to date in the UK for Eneco Wind UK, a subsidiary of Eneco Wind in the Netherlands.

Siemens celebrates its success in the National Joint Council Engineering and Construction Safety award

Since 1995, Siemens has built and delivered 33,500 bogies for its customers worldwide

Siemens strengthens its leading position in the world's most important offshore wind market

Siemens and Cross London Trains (XLT) (a consortium consisting of finance partners Siemens Project Ventures GmbH, lnnisfree Limited and 3i Infrastructure plc), have been selected as preferred bidder for the UK Government’s Thameslink Rolling Stock Procurement Programme (TRSP), led by the Department for Transport.

Siemens met with business leaders and Defra to discuss energy in buildings at the latest Sustainable Business round table.

Siemens has announced the creation of a newly integrated Energy Service division for the UK, which brings together the businesses responsible for servicing conventional power plants and wind farms. The new division, Siemens Energy Service UK and Ireland, based in Newcastle, will offer significant benefits to customers, by creating an integrated business to meet all their long term service and maintenance needs.

Low weight design of SWT-6.0-120 will reduce costs for future offshore wind projects

The Siemens sector Healthcare has developed the consulting model “Act on Radiology” to help improve workflows in radiology departments. Based on models for industry processes, an expert team from Siemens evaluates the maturity level of clinical processes in a hospital radiology department or radiology practice. For example, the experts evaluate the efficiency of workflows from admissions to a completed patient report. With the help of a database containing international guidelines and the reference values from the world’s leading hospitals, the Siemens consultants then develop suitable measures for improvement.

Siemens Transmission and Distribution Ltd, based in Manchester, has announced that it will create up to 340 new jobs in its Projects business, focused on the design and build of transmission systems to connect countries’ power networks to new energy sources, especially offshore wind. The majority of these roles will be based at the brand new purpose built facility, currently under construction at Princess Park, Manchester. The new state-of-the-art building, which will be called The Renewable Energy Engineering Centre will house Siemens Global Centre of Competence for High Voltage Grid Connections (HVDC). The Centre will focus on design and build of HVDC transmission systems for the UK and North West Europe, in particular to meet the expanding needs of the Renewables market. This latest investment represents the ongoing commitment by Siemens to the UK and to North West England. The HVDC engineering centre will be the first of its kind outside Germany.

Siemens has announced the creation of a newly integrated Energy Service division for the UK, which brings together the businesses responsible for servicing conventional power plants and wind farms. The new division, Siemens Energy Service UK and Ireland, based in Newcastle, will offer significant benefits to customers, by creating an integrated business to meet all their long term service and maintenance needs.

The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields’ Principal Sponsor, Siemens, today welcomed the news of Joshua Bell’s appointment as Music Director of the Academy. Siemens announced a three year sponsorship for the internationally renowned chamber orchestra in early September 2010 with the aim of enabling the Academy of St Martin in the Fields to continue its long tradition of touring throughout the UK and worldwide every year.