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A joint partnership between the Carbon Trust and Siemens to provide UK businesses with green equipment finance worth up to £550 million over the next three years has been announced today.

Stand GLS, Excel, London, 10-12th March, 2011

The new 2011 Business Superbrand list, published today, confirms Siemens as the UK’s number one Industrial Engineering brand for the second year in a row.

Siemens in Lincoln heralds a great start in quarter one with news of significant investments, record orders and the announcement that it is to be made the global Centre of Competence for packaging for its small gas turbine range. This week’s news comes on the back of last year’s success in recording its highest ever orders for its gas turbine manufacturing and service businesses in Lincoln.

Siemens, the global engineering company and a major investor in skills and training in the UK, welcomes the start of this year’s National Apprenticeship Week (7-11 February). Apprenticeships bring considerable value to organisations, employers, individuals and the economy, by developing a highly skilled workforce, boosting productivity and promoting staff retention. The week is designed to celebrate and promote apprenticeships as an optimal training route to create the skills required for the future.

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields announced today that it has signed up the engineering powerhouse, Siemens, as its Principal Sponsor. In a significant development for the internationally renowned chamber orchestra, and in spite of the recession, Siemens has committed to a three-year partnership that starts today, 7 September, with the orchestra’s opening concert of the 2010/11 season.

2011 will bring about the fourth annual Stroke for Stroke Week – January 24th to 31st – as organised by the partnership between Siemens plc and The Stroke Association.

The Royle Family actress and comedienne Caroline Aherne officially opened the new MAGNETOM® Aera 1.5 Tesla MRI system at Wythenshawe Hospital recently. The hospital, part of the University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust (UHSM), has become the first in the UK to install the new system from Siemens Healthcare, designed to increase imaging efficiency and enhance patient care.

New factories in china and the U.S. secure strong footprint in the most important wind markets

Fifteen newly qualified apprentices from Siemens were today presented with certificates to mark the successful completion of their apprenticeship. The scheme was undertaken in conjunction with Tyne Metropolitan College, Siemens chosen partner for the programme. Richard Hogarth, who joined Siemens Energy Service as a craft apprentice in 2007, was named Apprentice of the Year and presented with the Münstermann Cup. David Mullen, one of the Siemens Transmission and Distribution apprentices, received the Stephen Kirkup Memorial Shield for Best Improver.

Following the successful award by Ofgem of £24.26m to UK Power Networks as part of the Low Carbon network funding, industry leaders Siemens, theglobal engineering and technology company has announced a strategic collaboration with UK Power Networks to develop a programme – Low Carbon London, to help the capital meet its low carbon targets.