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voestalpine AG
Inspiration & innovation from Brazil: our impact on the world
Villares Metals – our Brazilian company for special steels and alloys – has been offering customers the highest quality standards and the best services for 80 years and all over the globe. Today, Villares Metals is also demonstrating this commitment in the area of sustainability and presenting a pioneering model of the circular economy.
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Certified top quality: #FavoriteMoments by Michaela
Whether for a new car, hydroelectric turbines, or high-bay warehouses, each of our steels is individually produced and delivers exceptional performance. What they all have in common, however, is that they meet the highest global safety, quality, and environmental standards. Michaela is one of those who never lets up in her efforts to ensure that […]
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A look behind the scenes of the future world of work in green steel production – an Eldorado for AI systems engineers, engineers for AI systems, and data engineers.
Cars, machines, trains, and so much more: if we have our way, all these everyday items will be made from green steel in the future – from greentec steel. The new steel production process, which uses green electricity and a high proportion of scrap, will not only be clean and climate-conscious. It will also be […]
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greentec steel

H2FUTURE: Pilot plant becomes a research project
With H2FUTURE, we are researching the industrial production of green hydrogen, which is intended to replace fossil fuels such as coal and coke in steel production in the long term. The world’s longest-operating electrolysis plant at the Linz site provides important research results for our future steel production.
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Smart scrap sorting for green steel
Due to the switch to green steel production, significantly more scrap will be required in the future, so the sufficient availability of scrap will play an important role. For this reason, we are already conducting research in various projects into how high-quality steel grades can be produced from old scrap in the future.
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Innenansicht der modernen voestalpine Produktionshalle in Brasilien mit Maschinen, Anlagen, Werkstücken und Mitarbeitenden in Schutzkleidung während des laufenden Betriebs.
As a strong partner for the Brazilian and South American markets, we manufacture pipes and profiles in standard and special shapes and offer further processed, customer-specific solutions. This makes voestalpine Meincol an important driver of progress—for the automotive, agricultural, construction, solar energy, and wine industries in South America, as well as numerous other sectors.
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