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Materials Services / tk accelisTailor-made material and supply chain solutions
The Materials Services segment, comprising tk accelis, ensures that customers can focus on what is important: their core business.
Key figures
(Fiscal Year 2024/25)
Materials as a Service – for customer success
As one of the world's leading materials distribution and service providers, the segment combines materials distribution with data-driven products and services in the area of supply chain management as part of the “Materials as a Service” strategy. There is hardly anything in our everyday lives that has not been supplied, processed, or moved bytk accelis. With products and services, the company ensures that cars roll off production lines, buildings are constructed, airplanes take off, and plants are manufactured – day after day.
Digital solutions ensure efficient, resilient and resource-efficient supply chains. As a crucial link between suppliers and manufacturing companies, thyssenkrupp Materials Services/tk accelis plays a key role in the world of logistics.
The operating business encompasses three areas:
Materials
ensures the availability of materials. A global supplier and warehousing network delivers what counts: a broad portfolio, reliable supply, and local availability - complemented by services that go beyond traditional warehousing. Materials does not only trade in commodities; the division also handles services ranging from manufacturing and processing operations such as drilling or cutting to customized finishing.
Processing
offers sophisticated and tailored processing solutions. The division comprises a network of service centers across Europe and North America with strong expertise in the processing of steel and aluminum. Processing delivers not just the tonnage, but also the accompanying data and services to create transparency and efficiency.
Solutions
keeps supply chains moving by precisely orchestrating parts, materials, and suppliers - from logistics to integrated supply chain management. Solutions helps customers navigate complex situations and maintain continuity, ensuring that every part and every item arrives where and when it is needed. Supported by a growing range of data-driven and digital solutions, Solutions is able to make supply chains more transparent, flexible, and resilient.
Capabilities of Materials Services / tk accelis
Supply Chain Management
tk accelis understands the demands of a globalized, deadline-driven business environment. The company offers management and IT solutions that enable customers to control their entire process chain. This allows customers to boost performance and efficiency across the full value chain — while focusing fully on their core business. Materials are delivered just-in-time. It's no surprise, then, that numerous companies in the aerospace industry rely on tk accelis' services, and that its companies have received multiple awards as a result.
Logistics and Warehousing
In an interconnected world, seamlessly managed flows of goods and information are a decisive success factor for companies. The tk accelis companies rank among the multiple award-winning providers of comprehensive logistics solutions, standing for reliable deliveries and forward-looking service offerings. This is made possible by a closely interlinked network of regional and central warehouse locations, ensuring the availability of ordered goods at all times.
Plastics
tk accelis offers far more than classic metallic materials: plastics are a firmly established part of the portfolio as well. The German national company alone distributes more than 40,000 plastics products from renowned international manufacturers as a wholesaler.
The range spans semi-finished plastics products such as sheets, films, pipes, and rods — tailored to the requirements of different industries, from construction to industry to visual communication. Customers from processing, trades, and specialized building supply retail benefit from products and services delivered from a single source.
This is made possible by sophisticated logistics spanning warehousing, distribution, and digital information management: we ensure that the required plastics products arrive on time and as needed, exactly where they're needed to bring projects to completion.
Processing
The wide-ranging processing program offered by Materials Services provides customers with added value. Products are precisely processed according to individual specifications — whether cut lengthwise or crosswise, sawed, laser-cut, plasma-cut, waterjet-cut, descaled, or primed. This ensures they are ready for immediate use for their intended purpose. This service is accompanied by comprehensive quality assurance and materials testing.
Production digitization with toii®
With toii®, tk accelis brings the digitization of industrial production to the point. The IIoT platform connects machines and equipment from a wide range of manufacturers - from simple calipers to multi-stage production systems. This gives tk accelis customers a unique entry point into smart, connected production, including solutions tailored to individual needs and personal support from initial consulting through ongoing operation.
Steel and Stainless Steel
Just-in-time and precisely tailored to individual requirements: In the segment of basic, quality, and stainless steel, tk accelis is a reliable partner. A sophisticated warehousing and logistics system ensures the broad portfolio is available at all times.
The range includes numerous steel grades — from general structural steels in various strength classes to quenched and tempered, case-hardening, and bright steels, as well as an extensive selection of stainless steel, supported by dedicated service centers across Western and Eastern Europe and North America. Central warehouses further ensure fast, regional delivery.
Products are available in a wide variety of dimensions to optimally meet diverse requirements. They are used across a broad range of industries, including automotive, construction and mechanical engineering, oil and gas, and the food industry.
Raw materials
As one of the leading trading houses for raw materials, tk accelis ensures the worldwide just-in-time supply of its customers. The product portfolio includes coal, coke, special ores, alloys, metals, minerals, as well as technical gases and energy services. Outstanding product and market expertise, combined with a close network of leading producers and suppliers around the world, further ensures security of supply. In addition, the full-service offering includes application and usage consulting as well as intensive quality management. As a service provider with specialized steel mill expertise in the metal-producing and metal-processing industry as well as other sectors with complex production processes, tk accelis offers high-quality plant and steel mill services. The portfolio spans the entire value chain of its customers — from slag management and in-plant transport logistics to production support, plant services and plant engineering, and packaging systems.
Global reach, serving customers large and small
With a strong market position in Europe and North America, Materials Services / tk accelis serves approximately 250,000 customers worldwide, ranging from large corporations to small businesses, particularly in high-growth industries such as aviation, data centers, industrial electrification, and defense. Trends such as nearshoring, outsourcing, and digitalization are specifically addressed to develop new business models and take advantage of growth opportunities. The goal is to contribute sustainably to the economy and society by providing smart, data-driven solutions and making the best possible use of resources – for a future-proof industry.