D\u00fcssel\u00addorf \u2014 A naval power\u00adhouse in Germany: D\u00fcssel\u00addorf-based tech\u00adno\u00adlogy group Rhein\u00adme\u00adtall has reached an agree\u00adment with the L\u00fcrs\u00adsen Group on the acqui\u00adsi\u00adtion of Naval Vessels L\u00fcrs\u00adsen (NVL B.V. & Co. KG, Bremen-Vege\u00adsack) and all its subsi\u00addia\u00adries, the mili\u00adtary divi\u00adsion of the long-estab\u00adlished shipy\u00adard group. Subject to appr\u00adoval by the rele\u00advant anti\u00adtrust autho\u00adri\u00adties, the parties are aiming to complete the acqui\u00adsi\u00adtion at the begin\u00adning of 2026. With this signi\u00adfi\u00adcant stra\u00adte\u00adgic acqui\u00adsi\u00adtion, Rhein\u00adme\u00adtall is expan\u00adding its port\u00adfo\u00adlio to include naval ship\u00adbuil\u00adding and streng\u00adthening its posi\u00adtion as a leading supplier of defense tech\u00adno\u00adlogy in Germany and Europe. <\/p>\n
Both parties have agreed not to disc\u00adlose the purchase price.<\/p>\n
Armin Papper\u00adger, CEO of Rhein\u00adme\u00adtall AG<\/strong>: \u201cIn the future, we will be a rele\u00advant player on land, at sea, in the air and in space. Rhein\u00adme\u00adtall is thus deve\u00adlo\u00adping into a cross-domain systems house.\u201d<\/p>\n Fried\u00adrich L\u00fcr\u00dfen, Mana\u00adging Part\u00adner of L\u00fcrs\u00adsen Mari\u00adtime Betei\u00adli\u00adgun\u00adgen GmbH & Co. KG: \u201cWe are deligh\u00adted to have found a trust\u00adwor\u00adthy and strong part\u00adner in Rhein\u00adme\u00adtall, who can secure a successful future for NVL and its Guns\u00admith sets sail<\/strong><\/p>\n To date, the D\u00fcssel\u00addorf-based company has not manu\u00adfac\u00adtu\u00adred ships, but prima\u00adrily arma\u00adments for land forces, such as tanks, artil\u00adlery and air defense systems. As a supplier, the company is also invol\u00adved in the produc\u00adtion of the US F35 figh\u00adter jet, and the arms manu\u00adfac\u00adtu\u00adrer also produ\u00adces drones and soon mili\u00adtary satel\u00adli\u00adtes. Now the arma\u00adments group, which is on a steep growth trajec\u00adtory in the face of the war in Ukraine and is rushing from one record turno\u00adver and order back\u00adlog to the next, is setting sail, so to speak. <\/p>\n For deca\u00addes, Rhein\u00adme\u00adtall has made a name for itself world\u00adwide as a renow\u00adned supplier of mili\u00adtary tech\u00adno\u00adlogy, but has also been a proven part\u00adner to the navies of nume\u00adrous count\u00adries in the mari\u00adtime sector for many years. Rhein\u00adme\u00adtall alre\u00adady offers a selec\u00adted range of modern system compon\u00adents for mari\u00adtime appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons and is a leading global supplier of simu\u00adla\u00adtion solu\u00adti\u00adons and mari\u00adtime protec\u00adtion systems in particular. <\/p>\n Armin Papper\u00adger: \u201cWith the now agreed acqui\u00adsi\u00adtion, we are decisi\u00advely advan\u00adcing the conso\u00adli\u00adda\u00adtion of the defense indus\u00adtry in Germany and Europe. In combi\u00adna\u00adtion with Rhein\u00adme\u00adtal\u00adl\u2019s compe\u00adten\u00adcies, we are crea\u00adting a vital German power\u00adhouse for state-of-the-art surface ships. The combi\u00adned capa\u00adbi\u00adli\u00adties of Rhein\u00adme\u00adtall and NVL gene\u00adrate joint growth and enable a strong posi\u00adtio\u00adning of our Group in the mari\u00adtime domain. At the same time, we are making a substan\u00adtial contri\u00adbu\u00adtion to streng\u00adthening the maritime The current conflict situa\u00adtion shows that military NVL<\/strong> is a priva\u00adtely mana\u00adged shipy\u00adard group with four shipy\u00adards in nort\u00adhern Germany (Peene-Werft \/ Rhein\u00adme\u00adtall wants to offer complete system solutions A key success factor for Rhein\u00adme\u00adtall is that the Group alre\u00adady has excel\u00adlent market access as a NVL\u2019s shipy\u00adards offer the oppor\u00adtu\u00adnity to utilize the exis\u00adting heavy infra\u00adstruc\u00adture, employee exper\u00adtise and equip\u00adment capa\u00adbi\u00adli\u00adties to streng\u00adthen Vehicle Systems\u2019 produc\u00adtion and create capa\u00adcity reser\u00adves in the vehicle sector for the future. This enables Rhein\u00adme\u00adtall to avoid exces\u00adsive infra\u00adstruc\u00adture invest\u00adments or exten\u00adsive conver\u00adsi\u00adons of other produc\u00adtion facilities. <\/p>\n www.rheinmetall.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" D\u00fcssel\u00addorf \u2014 A naval power\u00adhouse in Germany: D\u00fcssel\u00ad\u00addorf-based tech\u00adno\u00adlogy group Rhein\u00adme\u00adtall has reached an agree\u00adment with the L\u00fcrs\u00adsen Group on the acqui\u00adsi\u00adtion of Naval Vessels L\u00fcrs\u00adsen (NVL B.V. & Co. KG, Bremen-Vege\u00ad\u00adsack) and all its subsi\u00addia\u00adries, the mili\u00adtary divi\u00adsion of the long-estab\u00ad\u00adlished shipy\u00adard group. Subject to appr\u00adoval by the rele\u00advant anti\u00adtrust autho\u00adri\u00adties, the parties are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1366],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nemployees.\u201d<\/p>\n
\ndefense capa\u00adbi\u00adli\u00adties of Germany and NATO part\u00adner nations.\u201d <\/p>\n
\nasser\u00adti\u00adve\u00adness is also beco\u00adming incre\u00adasingly important in the mari\u00adtime sector. Rhein\u00adme\u00adtall aims to meet the massi\u00advely incre\u00adasing requi\u00adre\u00adments of naval forces and the
\nrising budgets for procu\u00adre\u00adment with high-perfor\u00admance system solutions
\nthat have a state-of-the-art digi\u00adtal infra\u00adstruc\u00adture and cover the entire
\nspec\u00adtrum \u2014 from the plat\u00adform and elec\u00adtro\u00adnics to the sensors and effectors. <\/p>\n
\nWolgast, Blohm+Voss and Norderwerft\/ Hamburg, Neue Jadewerft\/ Wilhelms\u00adha\u00adven) and
\ninter\u00adna\u00adtio\u00adnal loca\u00adti\u00adons. It employs a good 2,100 people world\u00adwide, gene\u00adra\u00adted sales of around EUR 1 billion in the
\n2024 finan\u00adcial year and is conside\u00adred a pioneer in the rese\u00adarch and
\ndeve\u00adlo\u00adp\u00adment of auto\u00adno\u00admous mari\u00adtime surface systems. Since its begin\u00adnings around 150 years ago,
\nNVL has built around 1,000 ships at its shipy\u00adards and deli\u00advered them to over fifty diffe\u00adrent navies and
\ncoast guards, and is an estab\u00adlished player both in mili\u00adtary ship\u00adbuil\u00adding and
\nin ship main\u00adten\u00adance and repair. Previously known as L\u00fcrs\u00adsen Defence, NVL was sepa\u00adra\u00adted from the
\nYachts divi\u00adsion in 2021 and contin\u00adued as an inde\u00adpen\u00addent company within the family-run
\nL\u00fcrs\u00adsen Group. NVL looks after fleets throug\u00adhout their entire life cycle
\nand thus helps to keep the German Navy and Navies ready for action world\u00adwide at all times<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>
\n Armin Papper\u00adger: \u201cThe acqui\u00adsi\u00adtion will not only turn us into a produ\u00adcer of floa\u00adting platforms
\n. As an inte\u00adgra\u00adted naval power\u00adhouse, we want to offer complete system solu\u00adti\u00adons. We will be able to offer our custo\u00admers all
\nvaluable compon\u00adents in future programs from our partner
\nnetwork as an inte\u00adgra\u00adted solu\u00adtion from a single source: Naval missiles and launchers,
\nmain and secon\u00addary naval guns, missile defence, sensors and other electronics.
\nFor the battle manage\u00adment system, we want to enable the inte\u00adgra\u00adtion and
\nGerma\u00adniza\u00adtion of exis\u00adting solu\u00adti\u00adons from our part\u00adner network.\u201d <\/p>\n
\nsupplier in the global naval busi\u00adness, has a presence in the
\ninter\u00adna\u00adtio\u00adnal markets and enjoys the corre\u00adspon\u00adding trust of its customers.
\nAnother advan\u00adtage for Rhein\u00adme\u00adtall is the expan\u00adsion of produc\u00adtion capa\u00adci\u00adties and
\nthe expan\u00adsion of the Group\u2019s indus\u00adtrial base in nort\u00adhern Germany. In parti\u00adcu\u00adlar with the
\nvehicle produc\u00adtion of Rhein\u00adme\u00adtal\u00adl\u2019s Vehicle Systems divi\u00adsion \u2014 which operates
\nsites in Kiel and Flens\u00adburg, among others \u2014 synergy effects can be expec\u00adted on the basis of shared mate\u00adrial and tech\u00adno\u00adlogy expertise
\n. <\/p>\n