Today, sustainable material concepts play a key role in the success of cutting-edge products – from high-performance fuel cells and efficient electric motors to high-strength vehicle components
Our interconnected society is increasingly defining global business requirements at high speed and with great complexity. As a result, priorities and risks are being reassessed, needs are changing, and new responsibilities are emerging. It is not uncommon for new, innovative products to be called for in order to make our lives more sustainable in the context of these changes.
When it comes to responding adequately to change, this poses new challenges to many industries’ value chains. In particular, the dynamic change processes in sectors such as theautomotive industryand theenergy sector, but also in numerousindustrial areas of applicationrequire intelligent material concepts for groundbreaking products.
For example,efficient electrical steel sheetsfrom Waelzholz are required for high-performancerotor and stator components in electric motors and generators– both for the generation of renewable energy and for the most economical use of electricity possible.
Power generation in the context of hydrogen-based drive concepts also places high demands on innovative steel strip materials. In this case, ourstainless precision steel stripserves as the foundation for producingbipolar plates for fuel cell stacksin which electricity is generated by the electrochemical reaction of hydrogen and oxygen.
In the field of automotive engineering, reducing the weight of highly stressed components also plays a key role. For this purpose, Waelzholz offershigh-strength, micro-alloyed fine-grain steel gradesthat are used, for example, in the production of safety-relevantvehicle components such as seat tracks.
