Diehl Defence & TAUBER Holding Establish JV to Help in Ammunition Stockpiling

Diehl Defence and TAUBER Holding have set up a 50:50 joint venture ‚ ‘TD Services GmbH‘ to serve the expansion of capacities in the fields of ammunition disposal, logistics and inventory management in Germany.

While Diehl Defence is a leading supplier of air defence systems, missiles and various other military effectors, TAUBER offers a whole range of capabilities including explosive ordnance detection, ordnance removing and deactivation as well as the storage and disposal of explosive ordnance.

Helmut Rauch, CEO Diehl Defence, explains: "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.”

Counting more than 600 employees, TAUBER is internationally active and represented with numerous locations in Germany. "We have both professional overlaps and also a lot in common in terms of economic thinking as family-owned companies. We can therefore expand capacities together in many areas and tackle new aspects innovatively", Jan-Bernd Kappelhoff, CEO of the TAUBER Group, says.

The strategic partnership between Diehl Defence and TAUBER strengthens the industrial basis for the realization 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.