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voestalpine AG

Automotive

The international premium automotive industry relies on voestalpine’s high-quality products—from autobodies, to drives, all the way to safety components. Our experts are working on innovations in areas such as e-mobility and lightweight construction.

voestalpine and Automotive
A third of the products manufactured by technology group voestalpine are destined for the automotive industry. Even in times of change, it is clear that its innovations for drives, structures and safety are highly welcome elements in this mobility sector.
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The role of steel in electromobility
A study conducted by the Handelsblatt Research Institute on behalf of voestalpine provides answers to questions about safe and sustainable automobility in the future–and the role of steel with respect to the motor, car body, battery, and life cycle assessment.
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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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