With its water electrolysis technology for the production of green hydrogen, thyssenkrupp offers an innovative industrial-scale solution for green value chains and an industry powered by clean energy - an important step towards climate neutrality.

Hydrogen is produced by splitting water into its components oxygen and hydrogen using electricity. Until now, the electricity for this has come mainly from fossil raw materials. The thyssenkrupp plants use electricity from renewable sources. They are specially designed for the conditions of renewables and can cope, for example, with the changing energy supply, which depends on the sun and wind.

The innovative plants achieve system efficiencies of up to 80 percent. This means that 80 percent of the energy supplied during electrolysis is converted into hydrogen. The plants are thus designed for large-scale and particularly efficient production of hydrogen. Added to this is their modular design, which makes them easier to expand as required than traditional plants.

Nitrous oxide, or more commonly known as laughing gas (N₂O), is about 265 times more harmful than CO₂ due to its longevity in the earth's atmosphere and its property of absorbing infrared radiation. Among other things, it is produced during the production of nitric acid. Nitric acid is used, for example, in the production of ammonium nitrate for fertilizers or in the production of plastics and dyes.

The EnviNOx® technology uses highly active zeolite catalysts that have a long service life and contain no toxic components. The process is a so-called end-of-pipe technology that can be easily integrated into existing plants. EnviNOx® removes about 99 percent of the N₂O from plant emissions.

DESCA (Digital Extended Supply Chain Accelerator) shortens order lead times in materials trading and at the same time paves the way for new types of supply chain services - including, for example, real-time information on delivery status which customers can call up via app. At the same time, the system creates the conditions for machine learning. To this end, DESCA brings together all data from procurement, logistics and sales in a pool. There, they are processed by "alfred". This AI (artificial intelligence) system, which was introduced at the beginning of 2019, processes information in a matter of seconds and derives recommendations for process optimization. With the introduction of AI we are further raising our service level in materials trading.

CarValoo is a new, data-based service that provides a complete assessment of the use of a car. The new development is aimed at fleet operators such as car sharing providers, car rental companies and leasing companies. Particularly in the case of cars with many changing drivers, damage often occurs that cannot be assigned to a specific user in retrospect. carValoo has sensors that record the accelerations and movements of the vehicle in every spatial direction. For evaluation, carValoo sends all the data to a cloud platform. There, an algorithm trained according to the principle of machine learning evaluates the information and analyzes driving style and damage situations.

The automotive industry is on the move. New technologies and business models are emerging at ever shorter intervals. For suppliers, this means that they must be able to develop a wide range of technical solutions and provide them at short notice. You need fast, agile methods to develop new solutions. The Modular Research Platform MRP is a fast, agile method for developing new solutions, especially in the areas of chassis and steering. The test and development vehicle, which is made up of numerous individual components, makes it possible to test and compare innovative components, systems and functions under real conditions at a very early stage of development.  A complex sensor system and a high-performance on-board computer supply and process the relevant data. This means that the time and costs previously required to test an innovative component in a specially developed prototype of a new vehicle are significantly reduced.

Hybrid and electric motors require special steels known as electrical steel. The efficiency of our innovative electrical steel is almost 30 percent higher than that of today's standard grades. This makes the new grades perfect for hybrid and electric car engines with their high speeds and frequencies of over 400 hertz.

Electrical steel is a soft magnetic material. In such materials, an externally acting magnetic field is amplified. This property is crucial for the torque of an electric motor. Another criterion that is decisive for the performance of electric drives is that as little energy as possible is lost as heat.