Thailand

ThyssenKrupp's relations with Thailand date back to the year 1872 when the Krupp representative Henry Haass in France offered field and mountain guns to the Siamese Consul Amedée Grehan in Paris.

In 1886, Princes Bhanurangsi and Chira visit the Krupp Works in Essen and Villa Hügel. In 1897, 1901 and 1902 several princes and King Chulalongkorn visit the cast steel factory and Villa Hügel.

On the Thyssen side, the company Henschel was among the group of traditional locomotive suppliers. Back in 1909, Henschel exported the first locomotives to the Siam State Railway. Locomotives were supplied to Thailand until 1980.

The major transactions in the 1980s on the Thyssen side were the consulting for a shipyard, the supply of a frigate and the wire ropes for a suspension bridge in Bangkok. On the Krupp side, business with Thailand focused on cement plants, coaling and crushing plants as well as bucket wheel excavators for brown coal mining.

Today, our plant technology generates the largest share of business. The distribution of stainless steel, unalloyed steel and related products is a further focus of sales in Thailand. Currently ThyssenKrupp employs more than 610 people in local companies.

All details relate to the 2010/2011 fiscal year, Annual Report, as of September 30, 2011.

For further information please contact our Group Representative for Thailand: