What sets a family business apart is that it thinks in terms of generations. This is why the responsible use of resources and regional roots are so important to us.
Steel is the critical factor in our business model and key to the industry's solution when it comes to sustainability:
As traditional steel production using blast furnaces produces a particularly large amount of greenhouse gases and therefore accounts for the majority of emissions from our products, we are already focusing on steel with reduced carbon emissions. In the medium term, we want to use carbon-neutral steel.
We work with suppliers who all reduce emissions. We see ourselves as pioneers by proactively offering CO2-reduced steel in a wide range of categories, in order to achieve a sustainable reduction in carbon emissions together with our customers and enable rapid availability.
We cut the steel strips from our suppliers into the appropriate width and shape them into the desired cross-section using the roll forming process. This process takes place at normal room temperature without additional energy input. Further processing steps such as punching or welding are integrated into the production process. This allows us to minimize the necessary process steps in the production of our profiles and assemblies.
We are driving forward the decarbonization of our production processes primarily by phasing out fossil fuels, starting with the switch to green electricity and in-house generation with photovoltaic systems as well as the switch to renewable energy sources. Further details on the areas of action we have defined as part of our sustainability strategy, such as sustainable procurement, resource-conserving production and the circular economy, can be found in our sustainability report which is available for download.
The term "green steel" covers both carbon-neutral steel (no CO2 emissions) and CO2-reduced steel (significantly reduced CO2 emissions). Green steel has the same properties as conventional steel.
Green steel is produced using alternative production processes. Scrap is either used or combined with ferrous materials. In the actual production of steel in the smelting process, energy sources such as electricity from renewable energy or green hydrogen are used, which is also produced with the help of renewable energies. In contrast, conventional steel is produced using the classic blast furnace route, which uses fossil fuels such as coke and natural gas.
