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Automotive Electronics
In March 2010, Bosch opened a new wafer fab for eight-inch wafers in Reutlingen, Germany. In the
future, the plant will manufacture semiconductors and micromechanical components. With a total
volume of 600 million euros, the new wafer fab is the largest single investment in the history of
the Bosch Group. When construction is completed (scheduled for 2016), as many as one million
microchips will be made every day. By this time, approximately 800 people will be employed in the
new factory.
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Under laboratory conditions in
our corporate sector Research
and Advance Engineering, we
are improving materials and
processes in order to make
MEMS sensors for cars even
smaller and more robust. This
will provide the basis for control
processes that further reduce
fuel consumption.
Automotive Aftermarket
With its exchange program, Bosch is the world’s leading supplier of remanufactured parts.
Remanufactured parts mean that auto parts dealers and vehicles repair garages can offer their
customers an economical alternative – with the same guarantee as for new parts. Apart from
economic aspects, remanufactured parts have the benefit of being eco-friendly. The exchange
program, with its Bosch Exchange and HC-Parts brands, currently comprises some 9,000 parts
from 27 product groups.
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Visual inspection of the
slip-ring end-frames from
dismantled alternators at the
Bosch plant in Göttingen,
Germany.
At Bosch in Reutlingen,
Germany, an associate charges
a cleansing station for silicon
wafers.
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An associate repairing an
alternator at the Bosch plant in
Göttingen, Germany.
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At a measuring instrument, a
Bosch associate in Reutlingen,
Germany, examines the layers
deposited on the wafers.
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Bosch associates assemble
remanufactured starters at the
Göttingen plant in Germany.
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