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voestalpine AG

Digitalization

We see digitalization as an opportunity to make our production processes more efficient through the use of big data, artificial intelligence and deep learning.

Testing center in Linz focusing on digitalization
The state-of-the-art cold-rolled strip testing center at the site in Linz has now been successfully operating for several months. It is now gradually increasing the level of automation and digitalization in its ongoing operations through to 2025.
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Project-team „Digital Products“
Steel with digital functions? Steel which monitors equipment conditions or sends weather reports? Innovative digital applications combined with advanced steel solutions—these are new areas of business for voestalpine. The Group’s “Digital Products” project closed with a meeting which brought together all sub-projects.
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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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