Small and Medium Size Enterprises

A lot of medium-sized companies and very much family-owned enterprises are estabished in the destrict 1850. Here you can see some very successful examples for companies in 1850:

• The chocolate company „Hachez“ in Bremen
• The breweries Becks´s in Bremen and Jever Pils from the small town frisian town Jever
• Enercon, one of the most successful companies in producing wind-turbines in Germany. In 2002 they erected in Germany the world-wide largest wind-turbine with the power of 4.5 MW.
• Or the potential seller of advanced bowling systems – the Eurobowl company of our team leader Gerhard Lorch in Scheessel

Large-Scale Enterprises

But you can also find some branches of great and international well-known companies like

• the automobile manufactorers Daimler-Chrysler in Bremen and Volkswagen in Emden
• the Karmann company, an automobile manufactorer, specialized on the production of cabriolets, settle down in Osnabrück
• Luxury cruise liners are manufactured by the Meyer-Werft in Papenburg
• In a spezial testing area in the emsland you can test the high-speed train „Transrapid“ which connects the township of Shanghai with it´s airport over a distance of nearly 20 miles with a speed of nearly 200 miles per hour.
• The airoplane manufactorer „Airbus“ produces parts for it´s airoplanes in 1850. Airbus was in the last year the most successful airoplane company in Europe. It was the first time they have been more succesful in Europe than Boeing. The south african airlines bought in these days 41 special airoplanes for flights over very long distances. They especially will be used for flights to europe.
• But there is also the copper company KME in Osnabrück, where – for example - the coins of our new currency, the „Euro“, are produced. Our team member Michael is working there as engineer
• or a few parts of the food-company Kraft, for example the coffee-roaster Jacobs is settled down in Bremen. Together with the Beck´s brewery they took care for a smell of coffee and beer about Bremen.

Together all these companies are responsible for the economical development in the region of the destrict 1850.

Fishing

A very important branch for the region is also the fishing industry. About 167 companies at the north-sea coast fished in the last year over 35000 tons of fish. A lot of jobs in the region depends on the fishing industry. But they are not only working as fishermen on fishing boats. A lot of people are working in connection with the fishermen. They are manufacturing the fish to further products or bring the fishes to wholesalers which sells the fishes to partners all over the world.

But in our region at the coast you can buy the fish directly from the fishermen. Especially shrimps you can buy from the fisher boat. It´s a real pleasure to eat this fresh fish – like you can see on these pictures.

Alternative energy

Alternative energies got in the last years a great importance for the region of 1850. In a first step a lot of farmers erected a wind turbine on their fields. So you can imagine that the view over the country became more and more affected by these single wind turbines. But the people learned very soon. Now the most wind turbines are erected in special wind parks where from 20 to 150 wind turbines are build up on a spezial area. In this way a lot of wind parks has been grown up in the last years all over the region of 1850. In these days the first projects have been started to build up off-shoe-wind parks in the north-sea.

In the areas near the north coast it´s a normal development because of the weather with wind at every days. But this development is also promoted by the enercon company in Aurich. Enercon manufactures wind turbines and erect them all over the world. They build up from 1985 to 2002 nearly 6.000 wind turbines all over the world. These wind turbines has produced 4.5 GW in 2002 – you can compare this output with the power of 4 middle-sized nuclear power stations. In Germany in these days 12 nuclear power stations are in operation. Without alternative energy from the wind turbines we need some more of them.

Ports

Another important branch for 1850 are the ports at the north sea coast. You can find ports in Bremen, Wilhelmshaven and Emden. The Port in Bremen is after Hamburg the second-largest port in Germany. In Europe it´s on the fourth place. At this time the ports in Emden and Wilhelmshaven are clearly smaller. But especially the port in Wilhelmshaven will grow up in the next years. In this time it will be developed to an tide-independant port directly at the north sea coats, the Jade-Weser port. In cooperation with Bremen it will become the largest port in Germany and perhaps the largest port in Europe. A very good development for the region. Additionally to the port the infrastructure in the region is growing up. Because of this a lot of new jobs develop in the surroundings of Wilhelmshaven.