The automotive supplier Wagon Automotive Nagold GmbH and Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU). The Baden-Württemberg-based company will in future use CO2-reduced steel from the SALCOS® route when producing complex body modules in order to make its own production more sustainable.
Hydrogen-based steel production
With the transformation program SALCOS® - Salzgitter Low CO2 Steelmaking, the Salzgitter Group will gradually convert its steel production to hydrogen-based processes for almost CO2-free production from 2033. The classic blast furnace route is to be replaced by a production route using direct reduction and electric arc furnaces. Salzgitter Flachstahl can already supply its customers with CO2-reduced steel via the so-called Peiner Route. There the slabs are produced from scrap using the electric arc furnace.
“Our aim is to produce products that exceed our customers’ expectations. And with the “green” steel from Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH, we will be able to provide our customers with exactly these products in the future,” explains Rolf Gaßner, Managing Director of Wagon Automotive.
Wagon Automotive is a long-standing partner of Salzgitter Flachstahl. The collaboration takes place both in direct business and through resale programs. In Germany, the Wagon Automotive location in Nagold is primarily supplied with surface-finished flat steel products.
“We are very pleased that we were also able to convince Wagon Automotive Nagold GmbH of our SALCOS® project. We think that if everyone works together, the “green” transformation can be successful,” says Phillip Meiser, Sales Director at Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH.
