Thyssenkrupp Steel Europe

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thyssenkrupp Steel Europe AG

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legal form Corporation
Seat Duisburg
management Premal Desai ( Spokesman for the Management Board )
Number of employees 27,601 (FY 2014/2015)
sales EUR 8.697 billion ( FY 2014/2015)
Branch Steel industry
Website https://www.thyssenkrupp-steel.com/de/
As of September 30, 2015

The ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG , based in Duisburg , is the parent company of the segment steel of ThyssenKrupp AG. The core business areas are steel production and the manufacture of flat products from quality steel , as well as the provision of services in the steel sector.

Structure and locations

The group is divided into the so-called business units Corporate, Steelmaking, Industry, Auto and Processing. The subsidiaries include the listed Eisen- und Hüttenwerke Aktiengesellschaft and Rasselstein GmbH in Andernach , and Eisenbahn und Häfen GmbH in Duisburg. The company also has a stake in Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann (3,300 employees) in Duisburg. Another location of the company is the Dortmund Surface Center on the site of the former Westfalenhütte . ThyssenKrupp's European steel division includes the steelworks in Duisburg-Bruckhausen with 14,000 employees (plus partners and external companies). With an area of ​​around 10 km², the steelworks is almost five times the size of Monaco. Another location is available in the south of Duisburg with the heavy plate rolling mill with almost 1,200 employees. Cold-rolled flat steel makes up 70% of ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe's product mix, and 57% of all products are used in vehicle construction (as of 2014).

In 2018 thyssenkrupp put a plant for the production of grain-oriented electrical steel into operation in Nashik, 160 km northeast of Mumbai .

Steel production at ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe

At ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG, steel is extracted using the classic blast furnace route. The company's blast furnaces are all located in the north of Duisburg in the Hamborn ( ThyssenKrupp-Stahlwerk Schwelgern ) and Bruckhausen districts . In February 2008, one of the most modern plants of this type was inaugurated in Hamborn with the striking red tones. The Duisburg location is thus one of the largest integrated steelworks in the world and one of the largest regional employers.

As part of a growth strategy, the company built a new steel mill in Brazil ( ThyssenKrupp CSA ) and a processing facility in Mobile (Alabama) . Both plants have made significant losses since they went into operation and were offered for sale in 2012. The steel mill in Alabama was acquired in November 2013 by a joint venture between competitors ArcelorMittal and Nippon Steel - Sumitomo Metal Industries . The steel mill in Brazil was initially spun off into the “ThyssenKrupp Steel Americas” business unit and taken over by the Argentine steel group Ternium at the beginning of 2017 for € 1.5 billion . ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe and ThyssenKrupp Steel Americas together produced 16.3 million tons of steel in 2014. The share produced in Germany (including HKM share) is 12.3 million tons of crude steel. To this end, around 60,000 tons of ore and coal are processed every day.

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Cloth filter system

On May 16, 2017, thyssenkrupp Steel Europe commissioned the world's largest cloth filter system for sinter production in Duisburg. Every hour, it dedusts up to 1.3 million cubic meters of exhaust air that is created during sintering - i.e. when fine-grain iron ores are mixed and caked with coke and other substances such as lime. More than 44,000 extremely fine filter bags and a 45,000 square meter cloth filter ensure that hardly any dust gets into the outside air. Thyssenkrupp Steel Europe has invested around 46 million euros in the new filter system. Another 19 million euros went into modernizing the sintering process. This is already the second fabric filter within the system, and a third is to be built by 2020.

Merger with Tata Steel

On September 20, 2017 thyssenkrupp AG announced that it wanted to merge its European steel activities with Tata Steel in a joint venture. After the merger, the group headquarters will be relocated to Amsterdam in the Netherlands and the future group name will be thyssenkrupp Tata Steel BV . On June 30, 2018 thyssenkrupp and Tata Steel signed a binding contract to create the new joint venture. On June 11, 2019, the EU Commission published its decision not to approve the planned merger due to competition concerns.

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Organization chart of Eisen- und Hüttenwerke Aktiengesellschaft, Andernach, in the ThyssenKrupp Group (PDF)
  2. Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated May 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Company presentation p. 54 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thyssenkrupp.com
  3. http://www.stahl-online.de/index.php/lösungen-tk-nnahm-produktionsanlage-fuer-elektroband-in-betrieb/
  4. Press release of November 29, 2013
  5. Another milestone reached in strategic development: thyssenkrupp sells Brazilian steelworks CSA to Ternium. Retrieved April 1, 2017 .
  6. Archived copy ( memento of the original from June 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.worldsteel.org
  7. https://www.n-tv.de/wirtschaft/der_boersen_tag/Thyssen-aendert-Logistik-nach-Rhein-Niedrigwasser-article20879437.html
  8. Common steel: Thyssen and Tata are close to it. In: FAZ.net , accessed on March 26, 2018.
  9. Tata Steel and thyssenkrupp sign a binding contract to create a new European steel champion
  10. http://europa.eu/newsroom/rapid-failover/ip-19-2948_de.pdf