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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - A partnership with roots in luxury automobiles and moon rockets is thriving between Alabama and Germany, with ThyssenKrupp AG only the latest German company to locate in the state.
Once known overseas for farming, poverty and strained race relations, Alabama is now home to 50 German industries that state officials say employ upward of 12,000 people. Thousands more work in related companies.
ThyssenKrupp made a splash May 11 when it said it would build a mammoth, $3.7 billion steel plant near the Gulf of Mexico in Mobile County. But before it, there were other German companies in Alabama including BASF AG, Degussa AG and — the crown jewel of all — DaimlerChrysler AG's Mercedes-Benz.
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