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54 Industry
Industrial Solutions and Services (I&S)
I&S leverages Siemens products, systems and process technologies to
design, develop, modernize, operate and maintain plants and facilities for
customers in the metallurgy, oil and gas, water processing, road transport
and infrastructure logistics industries.
Our technologies are helping protect the environment. For example, we’ve developed a process for produc-
ing pig iron that consumes fewer resources and is more economical than conventional blast furnace meth-
ods. By dispensing with coke production, the sintering of fi ne ores and pelletizing, our innovative Finex
technology cuts raw material consumption, energy requirements and CO2 emissions by up to 30 percent. In
the area of transportation, we’ve installed monitoring equipment for London’s congestion charge scheme,
a plan to reduce traffi c volumes in the English metropolis by levying fees on motorists entering the city. To
date, the scheme has reduced traffi c fl ow 15 percent and delays due to traffi c jams 30 percent, cutting CO2
emissions by 150,000 tons a year. Systems, products and solutions that minimize environmental impact
and improve resource utilization in industrial processes and infrastructure applications already account
for one-fi fth of our total revenue. Standardization – which is part and parcel of the process of developing
new solutions – is promoting the rapid deployment of resource-saving process solutions all around the
world.
To increase market penetration, we’ve bundled our mining and steel activities in the Metal Technologies Di-
vision, which is headquartered in Linz, Austria. We’ve also transferred the headquarters of our Oil and Gas
Division to Oslo, Norway, where we maintain a global center of innovation and competence for offshore
systems construction.
To standardize solutions and leverage synergies, we combined our Airport Logistics and Postal Automation
divisions in a new Infrastructure Logistics Division on October 1, 2007.
New systems business, the growing demand for modernization worldwide and support services for plants
throughout their entire lifecycles will be our primary growth drivers in the future. We’re expanding our
process offerings by developing standard solutions that span a variety of different industries.
In Cracow, Poland,
we’ve built Europe’s
most advanced hot
rolling mill on a turn-
key basis for the
Arcelor Mittal Group.
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