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RUAG International has entered exclusive negotiations with Thales to sell all business activities in the field of Simulation & Training (RUAG S&T). Thales has the strong intention to take over the entire business activities as well as all 500 employees of RUAG S&T.

Zurich (CH) / Oberkochen (DE), December 2, 2024 - The acquisition of RUAG Interna-tional's Lithography Division by ZEISS SMT (Semiconductor Manufacturing Tech-nology), announced on September 5, 2024, has been successfully completed with the contractual closing. This milestone marks the transfer of more than 200 em-ployees at the sites in Zurich-Seebach (Switzerland) and Coswig (Germany) to ZEISS SMT. With the remaining divisions Launchers and Satellites, Beyond Gravity will focus entirely on the space business in the future.

Questions and Answers about the rebranding of RUAG Space (incl. RUAG Corporate Services) to Beyond Gravity.

Whilst working on their Bachelor or Master thesis study, students will get the opportunity to become acquainted with the daily business in our international technology environment, to establish potential contacts relevant to their future career and to make an important first step in direction of a career within RUAG.

RUAG provides students of universities and universities of applied science with various possibilities to complete their internship at one of its international locations.

RUAG International reported negative EBIT and declining sales in the first half of 2020, due in particular to the COVID-19 pandemic. Net sales decreased by 10.9 % to CHF 570 million (previous year’s period: CHF 640 million). EBIT fell to CHF -42 million (CHF -11 million).

The German family-owned company Mubea Group, with around 14,000 employees and 50 locations worldwide, is acquiring the Aerostructures Germany & Hungary unit from RUAG International. The new owner provides the ideal platform to further expand Aerostructures Germany & Hungary's aerostructures capabilities and to further strengthen its technology leadership, reliability and flexibility as the exclusive supplier for the Airbus A320 family.

For international technology group RUAG, the first half of 2019 was very much dominated by the process of unbundling and restructuring. As expected, this has a considerable impact on the half-year result. At CHF 19 million, the overall EBIT was lower than the previous year’s figure of CHF 41 million. The order book improved by 7.4% to CHF 1,819 million. Owing to exchange rate effects, net sales fell slightly by 1% year on year to CHF 944 million (previous year: CHF 954 million).