Sustainability product range expansion

thyssenkrupp Materials Services is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Heather Wijdekop as the new CEO of the Business Unit Processing, effective July 1st, 2025. In addition, Dr. Wijdekop will head the Operating Unit Processing North America as CEO. In both roles, she will succeed Norbert Goertz, who will remain interim CFO of the Business Unit Solutions and lead the Corporate Functions for the thyssenkrupp Materials North America headquarters in Southfield, Michigan.

Ilse Henne, CEO of thyssenkrupp Materials Services, comments: “We look forward to welcoming Dr. Heather Wijdekop to our Executive Leadership Team. Her extensive business experience, strong customer focus and intercultural leadership skills will help us to consistently implement our materials as a service strategy and further exploit our growth opportunities. At the same time, I would like to express my sincere thanks to Norbert Goertz for his leadership and continuing commitment. With his focus on the functions as CFO of the Business Unit Solutions and Head of the Corporate Functions in our North America headquarters, he will continue to play a key role in achieving our growth targets together with Dr. Wijdekop and the entire leadership team.”

• Hydnum Steel's plant in Puertollano will supply the global German company with 100,000 tons of decarbonized flat steel per year for an initial period of seven years.

• thyssenkrupp Materials Processing Europe has processing facilities and distribution centres across Europe and a wide range of customers in sectors including automotive, construction and household appliances.

 Hydnum Steel, the first clean steel plant in Southern Europe, and thyssenkrupp Materials Processing Europe, a European leader in steel and aluminum processing, are joining forces to drive the transition to a decarbonized steel industry. Hydnum Steel is building an innovative flat steel plant in Puertollano, Spain, to become one of the leading green steel producers in Europe. Under the terms of the strategic agreement signed by the two companies, Hydnum Steel will supply thyssenkrupp Materials Processing Europe with up to 100,000 tons of decarbonized flat steel per year for an initial period of seven years from the start of the plant's operations. This commitment underlines the growing interest of major industrial players in low environmental impact steel and reinforces both companies as leaders in terms of sustainability and advanced technology.

• thyssenkrupp Materials Services opens metal service center in Santa Teresa

• Strategic expansion in border region strengthens supply chain network in USA and Mexico

• Metal processing capabilities for customers in the energy distribution sector expanded

thyssenkrupp Materials Services is expanding its portfolio of metal and plastics service centers in North America with a new plant in Santa Teresa, New Mexico. The plant will focus on the processing and distribution of metals and serve customers in the United States and Mexico. The expansion is supported by the New Mexico Economic Development Department (EDD), which is providing economic incentives to promote job growth and workforce development in the region. Production will begin in the near term, creating approximately 90 new jobs in the U.S.-Mexico border region.

thyssenkrupp Aerospace, one of the world's leading supply chain management and third-party logistics service providers for the commercial Aerospace industry, and Novelis, a leading sustainable aluminum solutions provider and the world leader in aluminum rolling and recycling, have renewed their strategic partnership through a multi-year agreement.

Under the agreement, Novelis will supply specialized, aerospace-grade aluminum from its facilities in Koblenz, Germany, and Zhenjiang, China, to several thyssenkrupp Aerospace key markets in Europe and Asia. The contract provides for the ongoing supply of premium, aircraft-grade aluminum plates and sheets from Novelis to thyssenkrupp Aerospace, reinforcing Novelis' strategic importance as a supplier of innovative aluminum products for the aerospace sector.

thyssenkrupp AT.PRO tec, a subsidiary of thyssenkrupp Materials Services, in collaboration with consortium partners, has secured a €1.8 million research grant from the European Union's Research Fund for Coal and Steel (RFCS). This grant contributes to a €3.5 million project to develop an innovative process for direct hydrogen injection into blast furnaces.

thyssenkrupp Materials Services has announced the acquisition of WAVES, a leading provider of sustainability management platforms based in Luxembourg. This strategic acquisition is an important step in expanding the sustainability product suite of pacemaker, a corporate venture of thyssenkrupp Materials Services, and underscores the company's commitment to supporting its customers in their sustainability goals.

WAVES provides an award-winning Sustainability Management Platform (SMP) that helps companies calculate and manage their environmental, social and governance (ESG) indicators along the entire supply chain. Companies can use the platform to monitor their sustainability performance in real time and proactively take measures to minimize negative environmental impacts. With WAVES' SMP, pacemaker will enhance its proprietary carbon intelligence solution, which combines raw data, industry expertise, and machine learning algorithms to provide accurate emissions forecasts.