On 17 January 2012, the representatives of the group of Climate-Protection Companies, among them Hans-Jochen Beilke, Chairman of the Board of Managing Directors of the ebm-papst Group, met Dr. Philipp Rösler, German Federal Minister of Economics and Technology, and Prof. Hans Heinrich Driftmann, President of the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce (DIHK), at the "Haus der Deutschen Wirtschaft" in Berlin.