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White goods – innovative solutions for smart appliances
The household appliance sector is changing fundamentally. The trend domestically is towards efficient multifunctional appliances, while internationally further opportunities are opening up for white goods manufacturers.
The potential in the emerging economies is huge.
We at thyssenkrupp support our customers in meeting their growth targets. With passion, expertise, and innovation we accept the challenges posed by ever stricter environmental standards and rising customer expectations. Consumers demand high standards of design and functionality at an acceptable price. That’s the standard we aim to meet.
Our Steel Europe and Materials Services segments develop innovative materials and surfaces for the sector – and supply the starting material for white goods and furniture. Other household industries also choose our products.
Take galfan® for example. Zinc-aluminum coated galfan® sheet offers outstanding forming properties and is highly corrosion resistant. pladur® is a family of organic coated steels that offers a unique variety of colors and effects for domestic appliances. It also offers cost advantages by eliminating the need for expensive post-painting.
In addition to our broad product portfolio we offer customers a comprehensive range of services including custom sizes and just-in-time delivery. On request we can also handle complete outsourcing and supply chain management – enabling our customers to make full use of their opportunities worldwide.
PLADUR®, a special class of surface-refined products for the household appliance industry
As a leading raw materials trading company, thyssenkrupp ensures just-in-time supplies to its customers worldwide. The product range includes coal, coke, special ores, alloys, metals, minerals, and industrial gases, as well as energy services. Outstanding knowledge of products and markets and close ties to leading producers and suppliers ensure security of supply. Our full-service offering includes advice on applications, as well as comprehensive quality management.
As a leading materials distributor, thyssenkrupp offers its customers sophisticated warehousing and logistics services, including end-to-end inventory management and customized supply chain solutions.
As a service provider with special expertise in the metals producing and processing sector, as well as in other sectors with complex production processes, thyssenkrupp offers high-quality plant and steel mill services. Our capabilities extend from slag management to in-plant logistics, production support, plant maintenance, and packaging services.
In its worldwide service centers and branches, thyssenkrupp has extensive processing capabilities, including slitting, shearing, plasma and laser cutting, sawing, drilling, milling, and coating. Materials can also be supplied with TÜV certificates on request.
As a leading raw materials trading company, thyssenkrupp ensures just-in-time supplies to its customers worldwide. The product range includes coal, coke, special ores, alloys, metals, minerals, and industrial gases, as well as energy services. Outstanding knowledge of products and markets and close ties to leading producers and suppliers ensure security of supply. Our full-service offering includes advice on applications, as well as comprehensive quality management.
thyssenkrupp is not just a world-leading materials distributor, but it also offers tailored logistics solutions and custom processing services. The product range includes carbon steel, stainless steel, nonferrous metals, and plastics in virtually all shapes, grades, and sizes. In total around 150,000 articles are available. In addition to wide-ranging materials and services, thyssenkrupp offers end-to-end inventory management, as well as customized supply chain solutions.
thyssenkrupp is not just a world-leading materials distributor, but it also offers tailored logistics solutions and custom processing services. The product range includes carbon steel, stainless steel, nonferrous metals and plastics in virtually all shapes, grades, and sizes. In total around 150,000 articles are available. In addition to wide-ranging materials and services, thyssenkrupp offers end-to-end warehouse and inventory management solutions, as well as customized supply chain solutions.
With bondal®, thyssenkrupp's steel specialists combine different materials in a single product. The vibration-damping composite bondal® comprises a viscoelastic polymer sandwiched between two steel face sheets for excellent structure-borne and air-borne sound insulation.
The Steel division of thyssenkrupp is a global market leader in high-tech electrical steel, which is used throughout the entire value chain: from the generation, transmission and distribution to the consumption of electrical energy. The innovative powercore® electrical steel is a material for the highest levels of efficiency. powercore® Top Grades, the grain-oriented version, which is given its special grain structure through a complex manufacturing process, is used in transformers. powercore® Traction, on the other hand, as non-oriented electrical steel, is used in highly efficient and fast-rotating automotive traction motors.
Our hot strip portfolio extends from mild steels and structural steels to higher-strength micro-alloyed steels perform® for cold forming. Hot-rolled steel is available pickled and unpickled in a variety of dimensions. The wide range includes among others our high-strength hot-rolled multi-phase steels for chassis-parts, pipeline steel, or hardenable manganese-boron steels.
thyssenkrupp is a leading manufacturer of organic-coated sheet. Attractive and functional coatings from our pladur® ranges open up great creative scope for the design of multistory and industrial buildings, facades and roofing. Our coil-coated products offer premium quality, good formability and optimum corrosion protection.
Our premium cut-to-length sheet products perdur®, perform® and TBL® stand for our goal to provide holistic customer service: From materials consulting and innovation down to application and process optimization.
As an experienced materials technology partner, thyssenkrupp has always been a synonym for innovative, custom solutions – especially where cut-to-length sheet products are concerned. No matter how diverse, customer requirements are rapidly implemented down to a T. Our long-standing customer relationships play an important role in this regard.
We produce our cut-to-length sheets on our state-of-the-art cut-to-length line in Antwerp, right in the heart of Europe and ship them from there all over the world.
thyssenkrupp offers a broad spectrum of cold-rolled sheet and coated products. Our coatings range from hot-dip galvanized and galvannealed to our ZM Ecoprotect® coating and our aluminum-based aluminum-silicon and galfan® products. In addition we offer electrogalvanized sheet and special finishes such as primetex®, the perfect basis for an outstanding paint finish.