Products

InCar

The InCar project, linking the automotive capabilities of the Business Areas Steel Europe, Plant Technology und Components Technology, represents a new stage in our research and development activities for innovations in auto manufacturing. The project is conceived as a solution and ideas pool for the body, powertrain and chassis areas.

With InCar, ThyssenKrupp is both a supplier of ideas for alternative lightweight steel designs and a development partner

Newly developed solutions are assessed and validated in terms of structural mechanics and manufacturability. One of the tools used in this is a manufacturer-independent benchmark structure representing the current state of the art. All innovations are manufactured and tested as prototypes under realistic production conditions.

Hot-dip galvanizing of multiphase steels

An innovative process for the hot-dip galvanizing of multiphase steels was developed in close cooperation between developers and production experts at our DOC® surface engineering center. The so-called oxidation/reduction technology creates the conditions for applying high-quality coatings to the surfaces of high-strength multiphase steels in a continuous coil coating process. Modern steel materials can also be coated with zinc using this technology. The multiphase steels coated by the new process have major market potential in lowering automobile weight and reducing CO₂ emissions.

Tailored products

Crash safety and weight reduction are at the center of a cross-segment project by Steel and Stainless. Our developers have succeeded in combining stainless steel and carbon steel in one tailored strip to exploit the benefits of both materials. Products like these are laser-welded together from steels of different grade, thickness and coating to produce tailored strips, blanks or tubes whose structure exactly matches the stresses prevailing in the finished part. Youngest member of the product family are Tailored Orbitals consisting of laser welded tubular segments.

TWIN

Our Elevator segment launched a new era in elevator technology with the TWIN elevator. More and more building owners and architects are turning to the innovative concept for passenger transportation in tall buildings in which two cabs travel independently of one another in the same shaft. This permits optimum capacity utilization: In existing buildings, transportation capacity is significantly increased with the same number of shafts. In the new installations area, the number of shafts can be reduced by a third and useful space increased compared with conventional elevators – an increasingly important argument against the background of high rents. A single installation can provide a noticeable gain in efficiency and convenience in tall buildings.

Panoramic version of the TWIN in the Main Triangel building in Frankfurt am Main

Optimized rail transportation

The NFF New Slab Track System from the Services segment is an innovative alternative for building new rail tracks on difficult ground. Unlike conventional slab tracks where the concrete or asphalt slabs lie flat on the sub-base, the New Slab Track rests on a bridge-like substructure in which pairs of concrete piles are driven into the ground and connected by cross members. The concrete slabs are laid on this, and on them the rails. The loads from train operation are transferred directly into deep and stable ground layers.