Markets
The markets are on the move: Our world is changing – and with it the demands made on materials, products and partnerships. New markets are emerging, the boundaries between sectors are blurring and the expectations of customers and capital markets are becoming increasingly complex. We are keeping pace with these dynamics: by combining industrial strength with sustainability, while shaping and designing future-proof value chains. Find out how we are opening up markets, strengthening business areas and creating long-term, sustainable value.
"Who is managing the last mile?"
For a long time, steel trading amounted to one thing above all else, namely the interface between factories and customers. In a challenging market environment, however, trading it is becoming a key area. Dr. Sebastian Bross is familiar with both sides of the coin - and explains why trading is now crucial for the Group's competitive capabilities.
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Data Overview: Steel and Infrastructure
Steel supports our roads, railways, and wind turbines—and packs a surprising amount of weight. Here are some figures that set the standard. And a look at a microstructure that looks like snow.
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"Who is managing the last mile?"
For a long time, steel trading amounted to one thing above all else, namely the interface between factories and customers. In a challenging market environment, however, trading it is becoming a key area. Dr. Sebastian Bross is familiar with both sides of the coin - and explains why trading is now crucial for the Group's competitive capabilities.
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Data Overview: Steel and Infrastructure
Steel supports our roads, railways, and wind turbines—and packs a surprising amount of weight. Here are some figures that set the standard. And a look at a microstructure that looks like snow.
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Data Overview: Steel in the Construction Sector
Steel is one of the most recycled materials in the world—and continues to set records as a building material. A look at some surprising statistics. And at a medieval hardening method that still fascinates scientists today.
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Between climate protection and competitive fears: EU emissions trading under the microscope
New timeline, laxer rules, dissatisfied pioneers: What companies need to know.
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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
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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The invisible grid of the energy transition
A significant share of Germany's ongoing industrial transformation is taking place underground: The conversion, expansion and new construction of the pipeline networks for thermal energy, water and hydrogen is the largest and probably most diffuse construction site in the entire country. A Herculean task in which steel pipes are putting down the technological foundation.
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Built to last: Pioneering bridges made of steel
The oldest steel bridges in the world were built for horse-drawn carriages, yet they are so sturdy that they are still suitable for modern road and rail traffic.
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Steel bridges: faster construction, longer service life
Germany's bridges are dilapidated and run down, while renovation is stalling. But solutions are at hand: Find out how steel is combining speed with cost efficiency and stability in bridge construction.
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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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Strengthening Germany's sovereignty
Our future as an industrial nation is on the line. A call to action from Gunnar Groebler, CEO of Salzgitter AG.
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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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