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  • Ground-breaking ceremony for new production hall in Birr

    Ground-breaking ceremony for new production hall in Birr

    BRUGG Lifting, part of the BRUGG Group from Brugg AG, is starting the second expansion phase of its Industrial Park 2025 at the Birr site in January. The symbolic foundation stone for the new production hall 6 has now been laid with a ground-breaking ceremony in front of guests from local politics, business and the media. “With this project, we are sending out a strong signal of our innovative strength and our commitment to the region,” said CEO Markus Grüter in a press release.

    Production hall 6 will be equipped with two automated small parts racks and will also serve as a logistics centre. Three loading ramps will also be integrated. The investment totals 9.5 million Swiss francs. The construction work is expected to be completed in February 2026.

    In a first step, the new belt sheathing system – the production machine for the flat belts of the BRUbelt lift system – was built in the existing production hall. The costs for this totalled 3.5 million Swiss francs. At the same time, a new sliding rack was built to support production, providing storage space for over 1600 pallets for finished products, raw materials and semi-finished products. The lightweight hall was put into operation together with the mobile racking system on 6 December 2024.

    “The new production hall enables optimal integration of the new belt casing system and creates an efficient flow of goods with a modern logistics concept,” says Grüter. “The maintenance area will also be modernised to better integrate our apprentices.”

  • GETEC takes over Rhine Valley Life Science Park from Novartis

    GETEC takes over Rhine Valley Life Science Park from Novartis

    The pharmaceutical group Novartis is handing over the further development of the Rhine Valley Life Science Park in Stein to the energy service provider and industrial park operator GETEC, based in Muttenz BL. According to a Novartis media release, the aim is to maximise the economic potential of the park and develop it professionally. Financial details of this transaction were not disclosed. The transfer of all assets is expected to be completed by the end of 2023.

    Novartis will retain the site as its largest tenant and will continue to manufacture medicines and therapies there. The company operates a manufacturing plant in Stein for solid dosage forms and drugs for injection, cell and gene therapies, as well as a milling and mixing centre for chemical manufacturing.

    “After a detailed analysis, Novartis has come to the conclusion that transferring the management of the Rhine Valley Life Science Park to a professional industrial park operator can better maximise and develop the economic potential of the site and facilitate the settlement of new companies,” Steffen Lang, President Operations and member of the Novartis Executive Board, is quoted as saying. In return, Novartis can better focus on its core business.

    GETEC belongs to the GETEC Group, which is based in Magdeburg in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. The group is also active in the Netherlands and Italy. In Switzerland, it also operates the 50-hectare industrial site in Muttenz.

    The Canton of Aargau’s location promotion department welcomes the change of ownership in the Sisslerfeld area, a strategic development focus for the canton: “The Sisslerfeld has great potential for high value-added businesses and thus for significantly more jobs,” says the head of location promotion, Verena Rohrer. “The transfer to GETEC enables us to jointly attract further, innovative companies to the greater Sisslerfeld area that can cooperate with each other.”

  • Ina Invest takes over the implementation of Bredella in Pratteln

    Ina Invest takes over the implementation of Bredella in Pratteln

    Ina Invest will take over the majority of the CERES Group Holding AG, informs the real estate company based in Opfikon in a message . Further shares in the company of the Lucerne investor Hermann Alexander Beyeler go to Ina Invest investment partners not named in the communication.

    The Bredella development area in Pratteln is named as the heart of the new acquisition. The industrial and commercial park located here is to be replaced in the next 20 years by a city quarter with 70 percent living space and 30 percent commercial space.

    Ina Invest writes that the market value of the properties on the 82,600 square meter area at Pratteln train station will increase from around CHF 300 million today to over CHF 1 billion. The commercial space in Bredella currently generates around 8.6 million Swiss francs in rental income. HRS Real Estate AG and Implenia as general contractors are to take on the implementation of the project in equal parts.

    Ina Invest intends to pay part of the purchase price in the form of shares. Specifically, 10 percent of Ina Invest's share capital is to be transferred to Hermann Alexander Beyeler. Ina Invest intends to offer the current tenants on the site "in the course of the site development further suitable areas on the site".

    In the same communication, Ina Invest communicates the appointment of Daniel Baumann as CFO. The business economist who works at Implenia has "supported Ina Invest in all business matters" since the company was spun off from Implenia and the subsequent IPO in summer 2020. Baumann will take up his new office at the beginning of 2022.