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Markus Kamieth

Member of the Board of Executive Directors BASF SE

“As the leading chemical supplier to the automotive industry, we see tremendous opportunities in operating an ecosystem based on standardized digital services and harmonized data models. This will strengthen supply chain resilience, improve transparency, and accelerate the transformation towards circularity and net zero carbon footprints across many material categories.”

Oliver Zipse

Vorsitzender des Vorstands BMW AG

“The challenges that industries across the globe are facing today can only be solved with a joint and holistic approach to enhance our entire value chains: making them more traceable, more sustainable, more resilient. Catena-X and Cofinity-X have the potential to be a game changer on this endeavor.”

Mark Dorn

Executive Vice President Adhesive Technologies and Member of the Board Henkel Adhesive Technologies

“The collaboration among OEMs, suppliers and partners is crucial to improve the much-needed transparency along the entire value chain. While Catena-X is pioneering the definition of the common standards in key areas such as circular economy, carbon footprint tracking and parts traceability in the automotive industry, we see the new joint venture (Cofinity-X) as a further driver of the digital transformation in the industry and Henkel is highly committed to be a part of it.”

Markus Schäfer

Member of the Board of Management, Chief Technology Officer, Development & Procurement Mercedes-Benz Group AG

“At Mercedes-Benz, we’re convinced that transparency, efficiency, and data sovereignty are the key levers for sustainable and data-driven value chains. Through the new Cofinity-X joint venture, we are bringing to life the Catena-X vision of an open ecosystem for secure and standardized data exchange along the entire value chain. The first solutions are almost ready and, thanks to Cofinity-X, every company in the automotive sector can shortly benefit from services and offers that use the results of Catena-X.”

Christian Klein

Chief Executive Officer SAP SE

“Catena-X aims to provide greater resiliency and transparency to the automotive value chain, improving its quality and efficiency for all companies involved. This open and collaborative data ecosystem perfectly reflects SAP’s vision to enable every organization to become a network of intelligent, sustainable enterprises and gives the companies leveraging the Catena-X automotive network access to a broad portfolio of SAP solutions, from enabling the traceability of products across multiple parties in the supply chain to tracking and calculating the Scope 3 emissions. Cofinity-X marks another important milestone in this pioneering project, and one to which we are excited to contribute.”

Klaus Rosenfeld

Chief Executive Officer Schaeffler AG

Nachhaltigkeit und Digitalisierung treiben die Transformation der heutigen Automobilindustrie voran. Dieser Wandel kann nur mit einem vertrauenswürdigen und sicheren Datenaustausch entlang der gesamten Wertschöpfungskette erfolgreich sein. Gefordert sind höchste Standards und damit eine enge Zusammenarbeit von starken Partnern. Als eines der Gründungsmitglieder von Cofinity-X ist Schaeffler stolz darauf, seinen Beitrag zu diesem wichtigen Ziel zu leisten.

Cedrik Neike

Siemens AG & CEO Digital Industries Siemens AG

„The joint venture helps us to achieve sustainability and efficiency goals in the automotive industry faster and more efficiently. This is only possible in a strong team at eye level between the automotive industry, suppliers, and equipment manufacturers. Siemens provides Catena-X applications that can be used by all participants in the automotive value chain, especially small and medium-sized enterprises.“

Timotheus Höttges

Chief Executive Officer Deutsche Telekom AG

“Deutsche Telekom is proud to be a Catena-X technology partner from the very beginning. With the founding of the first Catena-X operating company, we are now a big step closer to our common goal: To span a cloud-based data network for a digitalized European automotive industry. A network governed by data sovereignty, full GDPR compliance and highest security standards.”

Hauke Stars

Mitglied des Vorstands Volkswagen Group

“In Volkswagen Group’s New Auto strategy, digitalization plays a central role in making manufacturing more efficient and sustainable, improving our customer experience, and gearing our business model to the future. The prerequisite for this is connecting manufacturers, suppliers, and partners into a secure data ecosystem. Catena-X is the framework for such a collaborative, open platform along the entire value chain. With our joint venture Cofinity-X, we are now implementing this vision: with an open marketplace with applications and services that enable secure and standardized data exchange between all players. Cofinity-X customers can access applications and services to realize strategic use cases such as CO2 and ESG monitoring, component traceability, and circular economy. We want to make it easier for small and medium-sized companies in particular to participate in this data ecosystem on an equal footing. With this, we are taking the digitalization of the automotive industry to the next level.”

Dr. Holger Klein

Chief Executive Officer ZF Friedrichshafen AG

Catena-X bietet uns eine hohe Bandbreite für erforderliche und zukunftsorientierte Anwendungsfelder. Beispielsweise helfen sie den beteiligten Unternehmen dabei, die Materialversorgung sicherzustellen, die Digitalisierung ihrer Produktion über Unternehmensgrenzen hinweg voranzutreiben oder Sozial-, Klimaschutz- und Menschenrechtsstandards innerhalb der gesamten Wertschöpfungskette einzuhalten. Mit der neuen Betreibergesellschaft haben wir jetzt erstmalig die Möglichkeit, unternehmensübergreifende digitale Lösungen über einen offenen und frei zugänglichen Marktplatz anzubieten. Damit sichern wir uns einen wichtigen Wettbewerbsvorteil im internationalen Umfeld.

Oliver Ganser

Vorsitzender des Vorstands Vorstandsvorsitzender Catena-X Automotive Network e.V.

“Cofinity-X is pioneering the industrialization of Catena-X standards and software artifacts to offer an onboarding point for customers to the Catena-X data space. I am excited to see the first truly open and interoperable product and service portfolio come to live and derive value for all members.”