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Patricia Nilsson

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Patricia Nilsson writes about German industry for the FT. She was previously a consumer industries reporter covering a broad range of business including retail, media, tobacco and cannabis. Her podcast Hot Money delves into the murky business of online porn and is the FT's first ever investigative audio series.

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  • Monday, 26 February, 2024
    Aerospace & Defence
    Israel-Hamas war boosts German investor interest in defence sector, says Renk chief

    Capital markets adjusting to ‘new world order, not just a single event of Russian aggression against Ukraine’

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    Staff check a Marder tank gear transmission in Renk’s factory in Augsburg, Germany in May 2023
  • Sunday, 25 February, 2024
    The Big Read
    How Germany’s steelmakers plan to go green

    Europe’s biggest producer is moving away from carbon-intensive blast furnaces and towards hydrogen-powered processing

    An employee in fireproof protective clothing is silhouetted against the fire of the blast furnace
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    BASF SE
    BASF extends cost cuts by €1bn as demand for chemicals falls

    Chemicals maker intensifies downsizing at home site as it battles high energy prices and sinking demand

    The BASF plant at Ludwigshafen
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    News in-depthEU defence
    The companies benefiting from Europe’s defence revival

    Weapons makers are boosting production after decades of under-investment

    Graph of missiles, shells and aircraft
  • Monday, 19 February, 2024
    News in-depthGerman economy
    German companies flock to US with record pledges of capital investment

    Strong American economy and tax incentives lure investors as Berlin frets over deindustrialisation

  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    Inside BusinessChinese business & finance
    The German business dilemma in China

    VW and BASF show the difficulty of straddling the growing rift between values of investors and Beijing’s policies

    The Volkswagen logo
  • Wednesday, 14 February, 2024
    Volkswagen AG
    US Porsche, Bentley and Audi imports held up over banned Chinese part

    Thousands of cars impounded after supplier discovers subcomponent from ‘western China’

    Montage of Porsche, Bentley and Audi logos
  • Wednesday, 14 February, 2024
    Volkswagen AG
    Volkswagen to discuss future of Xinjiang operations with Chinese JV partner

    Statement comes after allegations that forced labour was used at a test track

    People look at a Volkswagen car in Shanghai, China
  • Wednesday, 14 February, 2024
    Thyssenkrupp AG
    Thyssenkrupp cuts full-year sales and profit guidance

    German industrial conglomerate writes down value of its steel business for second time in three months

    A steel worker stands amid sparks from a blast furnace at a Thyssenkrupp factory in Duisbery, Germany
  • Sunday, 11 February, 2024
    MBA
    How an MBA helped save a china dynasty

    Study story: Leo Lu was drifting when he answered the call to tackle a crisis in his family’s porcelain business

    Leo Lu, at a library, standing beside a porcelain vase
  • Friday, 9 February, 2024
    BASF SE
    BASF to sell holdings in two Xinjiang chemical plants

    German group’s move follows media reports in home country alleging human rights abuses by staff of local partner in China

    Chemical giant BASF’s headquarters at Ludwigshafen in Germany
  • Wednesday, 7 February, 2024
    Robert Bosch GmbH
    Bosch warns government cuts and populism are threat to plans to decarbonise

    Car supplier hit by slower than expected adoption of climate-friendlier new technologies, says head Hartung

    Bosch installation at a car show
  • Monday, 5 February, 2024
    IPOs
    German defence contractor Renk revives IPO plans

    Trading of company’s shares expected to commence in Frankfurt this week

    Renk chief executive Susanne Wiegand
  • Monday, 29 January, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast12 min listen
    The challenges to a ceasefire in Gaza

    The White House says that three US service members were killed by Iran-backed militants in a drone attack

  • Tuesday, 23 January, 2024
    Aurubis AG
    Aurubis sacks top executives after metal thefts

    German copper producer dismisses CEO and two others following independent review

    The Aurubis copper smelting refinery in Hamburg, Germany
  • Sunday, 21 January, 2024
    German politics
    Large protests in Germany against far-right political party

    Hundreds of thousands demonstrate against Alternative for Germany

    Demonstrators in Frankfurt on Saturday
  • Sunday, 21 January, 2024
    Electric vehicles
    German car suppliers struggle to adjust to EV shift

    Companies squeezed from two sides as investments in both electric and combustion engine vehicles erode margins

    BMW AG’s iX electric sport utility vehicles
  • Friday, 19 January, 2024
    BASF SE
    BASF earnings fall on higher costs and slowing demand

    World’s biggest chemicals group misses forecasts as high energy prices drag sales and profits

    BASF logo on plant near Basel
  • Thursday, 18 January, 2024
    Industrial goods
    German car parts suppliers plan job cuts amid costly EV transition

    Bosch to axe 1,200 roles by the end of 2026, while ZF is reviewing staff levels

    Bosch workers assemble fuel cell drive systems
  • Thursday, 18 January, 2024
    Transport
    EU lawmakers agree deal to curb diesel truck pollution

    Law will in effect ban sales of almost all new diesel trucks in the bloc by 2040

    Trucks stuck in a traffic jam
  • Thursday, 18 January, 2024
    Waste management & recycling
    Fraud rocks global recycling and metals industry

    Germany’s Aurubis fears organised criminals have infiltrated group in multimillion-dollar thefts

    Piles of discarded electronic equipment
  • Tuesday, 9 January, 2024
    Volkswagen AG
    Volkswagen fails to win ground in China

    Company spent €5bn last year to defend its position in the world’s biggest car market

    Volkswagen ID.3 electric car at the National Exhibition and Convention Center in Shanghai
  • Thursday, 4 January, 2024
    German economy
    German emissions fall by a fifth amid stagnant industrial output

    Companies respond to higher energy prices by cutting back domestic production

    A power station operated by RWE in Germany
  • Tuesday, 26 December, 2023
    Porsche AG
    Porsche reckons with history of forgotten Jewish co-founder

    Relative driving recognition campaign says legacy of industrialist Holocaust survivors should be revisited

  • Friday, 22 December, 2023
    Schaeffler AG
    Schaeffler CEO warns of concerns beyond Germany over Berlin pulling green funding

    Head of car component maker points to international customers ‘unease’ amid EV transition

    Klaus Rosenfeld
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