Herten’s business development specifically supports the Ewald project, hydrogen technology development, and the Last Mile Logistics project.
The Ewald Project is considered one of the region’s outstanding future-oriented locations which covers around 50 hectares and features an excellent infrastructure with direct access to the A2 (Antwerp – Ruhr – Berlin - Warsaw), A42 and A43 autobahns. The project’s special focus centres on the H2 Herten Hydrogen Centre of Excellence, together with the new technologies sector. Excellent urban development and landscape architecture concepts have been developed under the headings of ‘Land Strata’ and ‘New Horizons’, which make the Ewald Project a future-oriented location on a European level. The Ewald Project office supplies on-site information about the project as a whole, advisory services for interested companies, supporting them in approval procedures and until they have settled at the site.

Its H2 Herten Hydrogen Centre of Excellence has ensured Herten’s international position in one of the central future-oriented sectors, establishing the town as a technology location on a supraregional level. Herten has participated in the European HyChain-Minitrans project, a pilot project launched by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Transport and Energy with the aim of proving the suitability for daily use of vehicles with fuel cells.
Together with the towns of Gelsenkirchen and Herne, Herten is also a member of the intermunicipal logistics initiative, last mile logistik netzwerk GmbH. An area of 170 hectares is being developed to attract logistics companies which specialise in the regional, national and international dispersion of commodities. The town of Herten has available an excellently situated 40-hectare site, the only one with its own railway link.