The Salzgitter AG Magazine
Major renovations: Steel countering Germany's standstill
Modular principle
Setting the course to the future in Lower Saxony

Major renovations: Steel countering Germany's standstill

A total of 500 billion euros for a stable future: How we are leveraging the government special fund to upgrade our infrastructure and operate in a more climate-friendly way. And what role steel is playing in all this.

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Modular principle

Cutting, rolling, welding: Salzgitter AG is expanding its defense business with a modular system and a new, group-wide sales organization.

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Setting the course to the future in Lower Saxony

Why Benedikt Hüppe, Managing Director of the Unternehmerverbände Niedersachsen (UVN) (Lower Saxony Business Associations), is strongly convinced of the adaptability, flexibility and sustainable future viability of Lower Saxony as a business location. And what he is demanding from policy makers.

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Steel Society

04/10/2026 | Article

Employment, training, future – how Salzgitter AG is strengthening the region

Salzgitter AG is creating perspectives and opportunities – for a sustainable steel industry as well as for skilled and junior employees. How the Group attracts young people through targeted promotion, regional roots and transformation.

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Back to black: Salzgitter Group stabilizes earnings
Management Performance

03/23/2026 | Interview

Back to black: Salzgitter Group stabilizes earnings

A weak economy, high energy prices, and global overcapacity: In this interview, CFO Birgit Potrafki explains how Salzgitter AG overcame adverse conditions to deliver stable earnings in 2025, the role played by the P28 earnings improvement program and the exchangeable bond, and why she is cautiously optimistic about the new financial year.

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Two AI geniuses monitoring steel quality
Digitalization Steel Technology

03/18/2026 | Article

Two AI geniuses monitoring steel quality

Whether surface defects or metallurgical properties: The Salzgitter Group puts artificial intelligence (AI) to work in order to inspect steel even more accurately – resulting in less waste and even higher quality levels in steel production.

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Steel Technology

03/03/2026 | Article

High-tech research exploring steel’s innermost core

Uncovering the secrets of steel on a daily basis: in Salzgitter and Duisburg, the experts at Salzgitter Mannesmann Forschung GmbH (SZMF) analyze the microstructure of the material.

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Steel Technology

03/03/2026 | Article

Complex steel for a stable crumple zone

Salzgitter AG has launched a new grade of complex phase steel, paving the way for safe and sustainable automotive design.

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Management Performance

03/03/2026 | Article

"You can always do just a little bit better"

Optimizing in-house processes, scaling solutions and listening as closely as possible to customers: How the new "Operational Excellence" unit at subsidiary Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH is driving Salzgitter AG's performance forward.

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Mannesmann line pipes for Germany’s hydrogen core network and green steel
Energygreen steelMannesmann
02.03.26 | Salzgitter AG
Mannesmann line pipes for Germany’s hydrogen core network and green steel

Leipzig-based ONTRAS Gastransport GmbH has awarded major contracts to two line pipe member companies of the Salzgitter Group.

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