Tesla boss Elon Musk's flying visit to vaccine manufacturer Curevac sparked wild speculation about takeover.
Curevac main owner Dietmar Hopp makes a clear announcement.
Tesla
boss
Elon Musk
is on tour in Germany.
His visit to the vaccine manufacturer
Curevac sparked
speculation about a possible takeover offer.
Curevac main owner
Dietmar Hop
p speaks a word of power to Merkur.de.
Munich - The main owner of the vaccine
manufacturer Curevac
,
Dietmar Hopp
, has
commented
positively on a possible collaboration between the Tübingen company and
Elon
Musk
.
"For Curevac, I can say that you see a great deal of potential in the collaboration with Mr. Musk and that a collaboration that goes far beyond vaccines is judged extremely positively," Hopp told Merkur.de on Tuesday.
Speculations about the US entrepreneur's possible entry into
Curevac
,
on the other hand, were decidedly rejected by
the co-founder of the software giant
SAP
.
Corresponding considerations are "pure fantasy".
Curevac
has only been on the stock exchange for three weeks, "with great success so far" and "well financed".
In addition, "my promise that Curevac is and will remain a German company" still applies, "Hopp told Merkur.de.
Hopp
holds
around 49 percent of the Curevac shares
through its subsidiary
dievini Hopp Biotech
.
In June the federal government announced that it would acquire around 23 percent of the company through KfW for EUR 300 million.
Curevac
also
countered
speculation on Wednesday about a possible entry by Musk.
It was said that there was “no question” of this during Musk's visit on Tuesday.
It was a working visit.
The meeting was only about a long-standing cooperation between Curevac and the
Tesla
subsidiary Grohmann.
The company from Prüm in the Eifel builds portable printers on behalf of Curevac with which mRNA messenger molecules can be produced.
Similar to the Mainz biotech company
Biontech
,
Curevac
also relies on so-called mRNA technology for vaccine development.
A genetic blueprint for modified virus components is injected into the body.
Corresponding proteins are then produced in the body's own cells, which trigger the body's defense reaction.
#ElonMusk arrives at #cducsu event in Berlin.
Asked if the cameras in his car livestream to the US, Musk laughs and says: “It's not true” #tesla pic.twitter.com/jtZQZ0b99V
- Arne Delfs (@ArneDelfs) September 2, 2020
After his meeting in Tübingen, Musk traveled on to
Berlin
, where he took part in the retreat of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group on Wednesday afternoon.
According to reports, talks with Economics Minister Peter Altmaier, Health Minister Jens Spahn and Union parliamentary group leader Ralph Brinkhaus were also planned on the sidelines of the meeting.
Tesla
is building a new plant in Grünheide near Berlin.
The tapes should start running there as early as next summer.
According to its own information, the e-car pioneer wants to invest around one billion euros in the new location in Brandenburg.
