Brandenburg is among one of the German regions where industrial productivity in industry businesses has experienced the strongest growth since the reunification: between 1991 and 2017, the gross value added creation in production companies increased by nearly 862 percent. The improved productivity is mainly the result of modernisation investments. Today, Brandenburg-based companies can rely on use state-of-the-art production tools.
In 2017, Brandenburg-based businesses invested around € 1.2 billion in new plants, machines and buildings. The production facilities have achieved an unprecedented modernisation since German reunification.