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Bosch Group opens new Headquater in Singapore

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The Bosch Group has opened a new $ 92,000,000 expensive South East Asian headquarters in Singapore.

Located in Bishan Street 21 features, the new facility has almost 21,000 square feet of floor space and can accommodate at least 1,000 employees This ends the logistical problems that the 500 employees of Bosch in 6 locations in Singapore have been distributed.

"As you can see, we have room for growth ... and we are ready for this growth," said Franz Fehrenbach, chairman of the Bosch board of management in his speech to the opening on Wednesday.

Singapore is the regional hub for Bosch Security Systems and Automative Aftermarket divisions, as well as the first Asian location for Bosch Solar Energy. The focus of the research center here is organic photovoltaics, which can generate electricity from solar radiation energy.

Unlike their inorganic cousins, uses organic photovoltaics carbon compounds instead of silicon, resulting in lower material costs and lower energy consumption during manufacturing. Bosch has found Nanyang Technological University as a partner for this research. A PV system costing more than € 300,000 is installed on the Bosch building roof, with an area of more than 700 square meters and consists of three different types of solar cells.

Produced by Bosch Solar Energy Division, the various systems for research and test purposes are used, but they also generate about 140 megawatt hours of electricity per year.

This, together with other green features, similar to that of the Bosch-building consumes about 32 percent less energy than an average-building industry, so that it is a showcase for the considerable efforts in green building technology, "Fehrenbach said.

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