2008
Siemens Energy secured an €818m order to build, service and maintain for 16 years a combined cycle power plant in Wales. They also won an €84m order to connect the world’s largest offshore wind farm off the East coast of England (Greater Gabbard) to the British power grid.
Siemens Hearing Instruments launched the ‘Pure’ hearing instrument which is just an eighth of the size of a conventional hearing aid.
A new digital mammography system was launched by Siemens Healthcare to improve the accuracy of breast examinations, and awarded a contract for nine units in eight hospitals across Scotland.
Siemens Industry now have a 10-year sole-supplier framework contract with Welsh Water for the supply of automation drives and related products.
Siemens VAI secured a €20m deal to build a blast furnace in India for Tata Steel.
50 HydraClam water quality monitoring devices were supplied to United Utilities by Siemens Water Technology, along with a 12-month service contract.
Automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras were installed and operated by Siemens Mobility as part of the London-wide Low Emission Zone (LEZ) to discourage the use of the most polluting lorries, coaches and buses. Edinburgh Council placed an order for trams, tracks and overhead wires to be supplied by Bilfi nger Berger Siemens as part of a €630m contract.
Siemens IT Solutions and Services act as the BBC's technology partner in developing and managing its Digital Media Initiative (DMI) technology project.
Siemens Financial Services was independently recognised as the largest provider of asset finance to the UK public sector – for the third year running.
Roke secured a €15m deal for Vigilance TM to Spanish company Indra Sistemas for Air Traffi c Management (ATM). It is the highest performance system of its kind in the world.
2007
Siemens Automation and Drives purchased UGS Corp, a leader in the development of product life cycle management (PLM) software, for $3.5 billion. PLM software is used by a range of companies to manage the way they design and develop products. Siemens will now be able to offer its worldwide customers the combination of leading know-how in industrial automation with advanced competence in digital factories.
Siemens Traffic Controls’ technology has been selected by Transport for London (TfL) for the world’s largest Low Emission Zone. This scheme, due to be launched in 2008, is the first of its kind in the UK and the largest in the world. It aims to discourage the use of the most polluting lorries, coaches and buses to improve air quality and health across the capital. Siemens will supply and operate the system, which involves installing Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras at 75 different sites around London to capture details of an estimated four million number plates every day.
National Grid has chosen a consortium of businesses including Siemens Transmission and Distribution as its preferred partner for a major investment programme to upgrade and refurbish electricity substations in northern England. The contract is worth around £400 million.
Siemens Medical Solutions has signed a 15-year Managed Equipment Service contract with the University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust in Stokeon-Trent. The £50 million contract will provide patients in North Staffordshire with 21st century imaging care at a single site for the first time. The new Siemens equipment will eliminate the need for patients to travel between sites for scanning and image diagnosis. As a result, patient throughput will increase and treatment be conducted more quickly.
Scottish Power awarded Siemens Power Generation a contract worth £235 million to provide 140 wind turbines for what will be the largest onshore wind farm in Europe – at Whitelee, near Glasgow. Once operational in 2009, the facility will generate 322MW of carbon-neutral electricity, enough to power 200,000 homes.
2006
January - March
Siemens Automation and Drives acquires Electrium, a leading supplier of electrical installation systems, bringing on board 700 additional employees in the UK.
The Department for Transport awards Siemens Transportation Systems a £70 million contract to build and maintain 17 additional four-carriage Desiro trains for the South West Trains network.
Siemens Communications signs its first contract with BT as part of the carrier company’s £10 billion 21st Century Network (21CN) programme to transform its infrastructure.
The BBC awards Siemens Business Services a multi-million pound deal to provide the technology for its new Scottish HQ, a state-of-the-art digital broadcast centre in Glasgow.
April - June
Siemens Medical Solutions secures a £300 million contract to supply and maintain medical equipment at the new Royal London and St Barts Hospitals for 35 years from 2009.
Scottish and Southern Energy asks Siemens Power Generation to help design an innovative clean-coal solution for its power station at Ferrybridge, in South Yorkshire.
Siemens Communications and Shape Technology, a joint venture business with Siemens VAI, win Queen's Awards for Enterprisein the innovation and international trade categories respectively.
Douglas Alexander, the Secretary of State for Transport, officially opens a £30 million traincare facility owned by Siemens Transportation Systems in Ardwick, Manchester. The depot will service a £200 million fleet of Desiro trains built by Siemens for the TransPennine Express network operated by FirstGroup.
2005
January - February
npower renewables places a £63 million order with Siemens Power Generation for 40 wind turbines for a new wind farm being built near Inverness, in Scotland.
Siemens Business Services announces it has signed a two-year extension to its business process outsourcing contract with Barclays, in a deal worth £45 million.
Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution wins a five-year contract from Scottish Power to refurbish around 50 of its electricity substations in Scotland, north Wales and north-west England.
March - May
The Highways Agency asks Siemens Traffic Controls to provide 750 motorway signs to replace existing matrix indicators warning motorists of advisory speed limits, fog and other restrictions ahead.
United Utilities awards Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution a £9 million contract to provide sophisticated electrical switchgear at a new substation in Greater Manchester
Transport for London places a £120 million contract with Siemens VDO Automotive and SiemensBusiness Services for a sophisticated bus information system for buses in the capital.
June - July
Siemens Transportation Systems wins a £50 million contract from Network Rail to provide replacement signalling, telecommunications and electrical supply works for the Portsmouth Area Infrastructure Project.
The global acquisition by Siemens of VA Technologie brings on board 1,200 employees for Siemens in the UK - including 750 people at Hebburn, near Newcastle, who join Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution.
Siemens Business Services is awarded an £18 million contract by the Office for National Statistics to digitise 250 million birth, marriage and death certificates from 1837 to the present day.
August - September
Siemens Logistics and Assembly Systems announces a five-year, £35 million deal with Sainsbury¿s to service two major food storage and distribution depots in London and the West Midlands.
Siemens Transportation Systems acquires Transmitton, a controls technology company, while Siemens Financial Services completes its £41.5 million takeover of Broadcastle plc, a specialist finance business.
Siemens Power Generation secures its first offshore wind farm contract in the UK ¿ a £61 million deal with SeaScape Energy to provide 25 wind turbines for a new plant in Liverpool Bay.
2004
January - March
Siemens Energy Services secures a five-year agreement worth £45 million to maintain gas and electricity meters for around 2.6 million British Gas customers in south-east England.
The National Assembly for Wales asks an alliance of companies led by Siemens Business Services to implement a major business change programme in a deal worth at least £200 million.
Siemens Healthcare Services wins a 33-year PFI deal worth £276 million to provide medical equipment and services for a new hospital being built in Romford, Essex.
April - June
The UK Passport Service awards Siemens Business Services a £6.3 million contract for an IT solution that will let people make passport applications online from 2005.
30 colour-coded car park guidance signs from Siemens Traffic Controls are switched on in Leicester, making it easier for motorists to find parking spaces at 10 car parks in the city centre.
Siemens VDO Automotive announces a £103 million deal from Powertrain to supply advanced fuel injection units and engine management systems for MG Rover's 25 and 45 series diesel cars.
July - August
Alliance Medical awards Siemens Medical Solutions a multi-million pound contract to supply 12 mobile MRI scanners as part of the government's drive to reduce patient waiting lists.
Global Crossing awards Siemens Communications a four-year contract worth £20 million to upgrade the UK government's communications system to a new IP-based network.
Three local authorities in Devon jointly award Siemens Traffic Controls a five-year contract to maintain traffic equipment at over 280 junctions and 230 pedestrian crossings across the county.
October - December
Siemens Business Services signs a 10-year IT outsourcing contract with the BBC, worth up to £2 billion. The deal includes the acquisition of BBC Technology and the transfer of 1,400 BBC employees to Siemens.
BAA signs a £70 million deal with Siemens Transportation Systems to extend its maintenance contract for trains operating on the Heathrow Express link for a further 19 years.
Siemens Building Technologies acquires Photo-Scan plc, a company specialising in CCTV and security solutions, resulting in the transfer of 160 employees to Siemens.
2003
January - March
Siemens Traffic Controls announces it is providing Transport for London with a real-time traffic management system to monitor routes approaching the capital's new congestion charging zone.
EPN Distribution awards Siemens Energy Services a contract extension worth £20 million for metering services for more than three million homes and businesses in East Anglia.
Siemens Transportation Systems is awarded a contract worth almost £8 million to produce around 1,700 digital GSM-R train cab radios for NS Reizigers, the main rail operator in the Netherlands.
April - May
Siemens Business Services secures a three-year contract worth around £10 million from Barclays to provide back office processing services for its Barclaycard credit card operations.
The global Siemens Power Generation Group announces its intention to acquire the worldwide industrial turbine business of Alstom - including a factory employing 2,000 people in Lincoln.
Network Rail awards a £50 million contract to Siemens Transportation Systems and Amec Spie for the upgrade of power supplies for a major section of the southern rail network.
June - July
National Grid places orders worth a total of £12.2 million with Siemens Power Transmission and Distribution for electricity transmission solutions in the West Midlands and Hertfordshire.
BAA places a contract with Siemens Transportation Systems to supply four new Desiro electric trains for a new stopping service between London Paddington Station and Heathrow Airport.
Siemens Healthcare Services secures a £45.5 million PFI contract from Consort Healthcare to provide medical equipment and services at a £125 million hospital being built in Blackburn.
August - September
FirstGroup asks Siemens Transportation Systems to supply and maintain a fleet of 56 new electric trains for the TransPennine network in a £350 million deal.
Siemens Power Generation secures a £45 million extension to its service contract with Seabank Power, meaning it will continue to maintain Seabank's power station near Bristol until at least 2009.
Siemens Dematic wins a multi-million pound contract from high street retailer Wilkinson to extend the logistics automation systems at its distribution centres in Nottinghamshire and South Wales.
October - December
British Gas awards Siemens Energy Services two three-year contracts worth a total of £50 million to read meters for 4.5 million of its customers in East Anglia and south-east England.
Siemens acquires Oxford Instruments' 49 per cent share of Oxford Magnet Technology, which sees it gain complete ownership of the business.
Siemens Business Services is awarded a three-year, £15 million contract by Lloyds TSB for IT support services at 2,800 high street branches.