ZF is also in crisis: the group has thoroughly overstretched itself with takeovers, is burdened by a mountain of debt totalling ten billion euros and has to pay over half a billion euros in interest every year. In the summer, there was already news that ZF will cut 11,000 to 14,000 jobs in Germany by 2028. This week it was also announced that the construction of the planned semiconductor factory of the US company Wolfspeed together with ZF in Saarland has been put on hold. This project was also intended to drive forward ZF's transformation towards electromobility, as electric vehicles require a particularly large number of semiconductors.