Flat-rolled steel producer with focus on green transformation and process digitalization
Salzgitter Flachstahl is Germany's largest flat-rolled steel manufacturer, operating a 5,000+ employee production complex across hot-rolled, cold-rolled, and surface-finished product lines. The tech stack—SAP S/4HANA, Siemens TIA, WinCC, PROFINET, Power BI—reflects a manufacturing-heavy automation footprint optimized for process control and ERP integration. Active projects center on green steel transition (SALCOS hydrogen pilot, CO2-neutral steelmaking), blast furnace optimization, and department-level digitalization, suggesting a parallel effort to modernize legacy production workflows while meeting decarbonization targets.
Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH, founded in 2001 and headquartered in Salzgitter, Germany, is the largest subsidiary of the Salzgitter Group. The company manufactures hot-rolled wide strip, cold-rolled sheet, strip plate, and surface-finished steel products, serving automotive, construction, and appliance industries. Product portfolio includes specialty grades such as mangan-boron steels, fire-galvanized products, and multi-phase steels. Operations span continuous casting, blast furnace processing, rolling mills, and finishing lines. The organization is mid-scale by headcount (5,001–10,000 employees) but capital- and process-intensive, requiring high availability across distributed manufacturing sites and external logistics partners.
SAP S/4HANA for ERP, Siemens TIA and WinCC for process automation and control, PROFINET for industrial networking, Power BI and Grafana for analytics and monitoring, Microsoft Office for collaboration.
Green steel transformation (SALCOS hydrogen pilot, CO2-neutral steelmaking), blast furnace and continuous casting process optimization, department digitalization, spare parts inventory management, and facility safety planning.
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