Ulrich Ehmes

Leica Camera AG develops, manufactures, and markets cameras as well as sport optics products. Its photography products include medium format, mirrorless system, rangefinder, and compact cameras, including lenses. The firm's sport optics products include riflescopes, binoculars, spotting scopes, rangefinders, and accessories. The company was founded by Carl Kellner in 1849 and is headquartered in Wetzlar, Germany.

Groz-Beckert KG engages in the development, production, and sale of industrial needles, precision components, fine tools, and systems. Its products include knitting-machine needles, warp-knitting-machine needles, system parts, cylinders, dials, cylinder-exchange systems, drop wires, machines for weaving preparation, carpet-machine needles, knives, reed fingers, sewing-machine needles, and needle-holding system. The company was founded in 1852 and is headquartered in Albstadt, Germany.

Battrion AG is a private company based in Dübendorf, Switzerland that was founded in 2015 as an ETH Zurich spin-off. The Swiss company operates a research lab and production facility where it develops its Aligned Graphite® technology, a fabrication technology for lithium-ion batteries that improves the microstructure of negative electrodes. This technology significantly increases the charge- and discharge performance of lithium-ion batteries and is particularly suited for EV and high-power applications. The technology is compatible with mixed silicon/graphite materials, and Battrion offers it on a license basis. The CEO is Thomas Gebauer.

Theion GmbH develops technologies for solid-state batteries. The company is based in Berlin, Germany. Ulrich Ehmes has been the CEO of the German company since 2022.