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German defence manufacturer Diehl Defence has set up TD Services GmbH, a joint venture with German ordnance clearance and system civil engineering company TAUBER.
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Both shareholders hold a 50 per cent share of the company while TAUBER assumes the industrial lead, according to a company statement published on 29 August.
The joint venture of both shareholders will serve, among other things, the expansion of capacities of the companies in the fields of ammunition disposal, logistics and inventory management.
“We have both professional overlaps and also a lot in common in terms of economic thinking as family-owned companies,” TAUBER Group chief executive Jan-Bernd Kappelhoff said.
“We can therefore expand capacities together in many areas and tackle new aspects innovatively.”
Diehl Defence currently acts as a defence supplier of air defence systems, missiles and various other military effectors, while TAUBER is a specialist for explosive ordnance clearance.
TAUBER offers a range of capabilities from aerial photo analysis to explosive ordnance disposal as well as explosive ordnance detection, ordnance removing and deactivation as well as the storage and disposal of explosive ordnance.
TAUBER, with more than 600 employees, is internationally active and represented with numerous locations in Germany.
“With the set-up of the joint venture ‚TD Services, between Diehl Defence and TAUBER, we create an ideal complement between our specialist knowledge gained over decades in the ammunition manufacturing and TAUBER’s extensive experience in the disposal and logistics of ammunition,” Diehl Defence chief executive Helmut Rauch said.
“In this way, the new joint venture will make a significant contribution to the urgently needed stockpiling of ammunition and thus to the defence capability of the Federal Republic of Germany.”
The strategic partnership between Diehl Defence and TAUBER strengthens the industrial basis for the realisation of the intended production expansion, for example through the acquisition of warehouse, logistics and delaboration capacities.
In addition, the joint venture enables Diehl Defence to offer its customers an overall range of capabilities along the value chain.
