ORLANDO, FL -- Wegmann USA Inc., Lynchburg, Virginia, a 100% subsidiary of Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW), Munich, Germany, opens a new office in Orlando, Florida, for the military and civil training and simulation line of business.

The new location will concentrate on the support of the US armed forces and other government offices, as well as industry. Expansion is planned. With this new line of business, Wegmann USA intend to enter the American market for military and civil training and simulation.

In Wegmann USA Inc., Krauss-Maffei Wegmann GmbH has an important channel of access to the US market. Based in Lynchburg, Virginia, the approved supplier Wegmann USA manufactures and markets a large number of armoured components for products of the American armed forces.

Krauss-Maffei Wegmann GmbH & Co. KG leads the European market for armoured wheeled and tracked vehicles. At locations in Germany, Greece, the Netherlands and the USA, some 3200 employees manufacture and support a product portfolio ranging from air-transportable, heavily armoured wheeled vehicles through reconnaissance, anti-aircraft and artillery systems to heavy battle tanks, armoured personnel carriers and bridge-laying systems.

In addition, KMW has wide-ranging system competence in the area of civil and military simulation, as well as in command and information systems and remote-controlled gun-carriages with reconnaissance and observation equipment for day and night missions. The armed forces of more than 30 nations worldwide rely on the operational systems by KMW.

KMW
24.10.2008