2005年7月14日
欧盟委员会已批准西门子'bid to take over Austria’sVA Technologie AG（VA Tech）. The decision was announced in Brussels today. This marks the conclusion of the antitrust review of the takeover offer made by Siemens AG Österreich in December 2004. When the deal is closed in a few days, Siemens will hold 97.15 percent of the VA Tech stock. The purchase price is approximately 1 billion euros. For competitive reasons, the European antitrust regulators did not approve a merger of the VA Tech hydropower activities with Siemens. As a result, Siemens will immediately initiate the sale of the VA Tech power generation unit.
冶金，电力传输和分销以及基础设施单位的销售，该单位现在将整合到西门子中，2004年总计超过30亿欧元。这三个业务部门在这三个业务中雇用了约13,000人。发电部门在2004年发布的销售额不到9亿欧元，约有3,000名员工。
在布鲁塞尔决定之后，西门子AG首席执行官克劳斯·克莱因菲尔德（Klaus Kleinfeld）博士说：“随着VA技术的收购，已经实现了总体战略目标。”“我们在这次收购上的重点是冶金和电力传输和分销业务。在这些领域，VA技术投资组合和区域业务非常适合我们的工业解决方案和服务（I＆S）以及电力传输和分销（PTD）小组，并支持其全球增长目标。此外，我们对基础设施活动的收购将大大加强西门子在奥地利的稳定市场地位，并推动我们业务的扩展，例如在东欧的动态市场。反托拉斯条件满足了我们的期望。”
西门子AgÖsterreich总经理艾伯特·霍希特纳（Albert Hochleitner）评论说：“委员会的决定标志着奥地利西门子集团以及该国整体工业景观的发展。”“西门子将成为奥地利最大的工业公司之一。因此，将近一年的收购手续即将结束各方的利益。现在，我们将努力尽快实施集成。”
VA Tech的基础设施单元（由VA Tech Elin EBG和AI Informatics组成）将与西门子Österreich合并。这种接管将大大加强和扩大西门子Österreich的整体投资组合，并增强VA Tech的基础设施业务。合并为工业，建筑和公共基础设施以及IT服务创建了最大的奥地利电气技术，系统和服务提供商。2020欧洲杯下注官网在2004财年，VA Tech的销售额销售近9亿欧元，该领域约有3,900名员工。有了这一合并业务，西门子Österreich可以在中欧和东南部采取更具积极的增长战略。
Siemens will fully integrate the metallurgy business of VA Tech – Voest Alpine Industrieanlagenbau (VAI) – into its Industrial Solutions and Services Group (I&S), headquartered in Erlangen, Germany. VAI, which had sales of roughly 1.2 billion euros in 2004 with about 3,400 employees, will operate as an I&S Group Company with headquarters in Linz, Austria, under the name Siemens VAI. Siemens and VAI will be one of the world’s leading providers for developing and constructing iron, steel and aluminum plants. While VAI previously focused above all on developing technical solutions for the mechanical side of plant construction, I&S concentrated on electrotechnical equipment. As a result of the merger, the mechanical and electrotechnical sides of the industry will be bundled for the first time in the hands of a single provider.
奥地利公司的电力传输和分销单元（T＆D）将被合并到总部位于德国埃尔兰根的西门子电力传输和分销组（PTD）中。这将使西门子能够进一步加强其作为该部门领先的国际公司之一的地位，并为持续增长提供稳固的基础。PTD将将VA Tech的整个T＆D业务与SwitchGear，Transformers和Automation Solutions合并为自己的高压，变压器，能源自动化和服务部门。VA Tech T＆D在2004财年的销售额为11亿欧元，约有5,400名员工。
Following the closing, it is intended to initiate a squeeze-out procedure in order to buy out the remaining owners of VA Tech shares in scattered holdings and to undertake a delisting of VA Tech.
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