Innovation
Ideas that are shaping the future: For us, innovation means more than just technical novelties – it is an attitude with which we are shaping the world of tomorrow: through new materials and digital production processes, and by advancing bold pilot projects and sustainable business models. Find out how we are driving progress where it really counts – and how initial impulses are becoming concrete, hands-on solutions.
Close-up: My house made of steel
Going for a walk, seeing a model home, making a decision: How an employee of Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH is building his own home out of low CO₂ steel.
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"Innovations don't happen in the conference room"
How Benedikt Ritterbach, Managing Director of Salzgitter Mannesmann Forschung GmbH (SZMF), is aligning Salzgitter research to support the transformation to low-CO₂ steel production.
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Close-up: My house made of steel
Going for a walk, seeing a model home, making a decision: How an employee of Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH is building his own home out of low CO₂ steel.
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"Innovations don't happen in the conference room"
How Benedikt Ritterbach, Managing Director of Salzgitter Mannesmann Forschung GmbH (SZMF), is aligning Salzgitter research to support the transformation to low-CO₂ steel production.
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From pneumatic tubes to a 5G campus
Salzgitter Digital Solutions GmbH is setting up the Salzgitter Group’s own 5G campus networks. It is digitalizing industrial buildings, cranes, and entire plants. And soon, an inland port as well.
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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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Sourcing raw materials from rusty car bodies
A climate-friendly cycle: Engaging in the Car2Car funding project, industry and science worked together on new solutions geared to achieving a genuine circular economy in automotive engineering – under the auspices of the BMW Group. Salzgitter Mannesmann Forschung was also involved and researched how to return steel to the cycle even more efficiently – thereby reducing CO₂ emissions in the process.
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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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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 at home in residential construction
Fast, sustainable, and cost-effective: from modular developments combatting the housing shortage to affordable single-family homes for every stage of life – groundbreaking projects showcase the future of building with steel.
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