Innovative solutions for the key challenges of the future

We have the experience and the technical know-how to shape the future. Our innovations focus on technologies for coping with climate change and the energy transition, for digitizing the industry and for the mobility of the future.

Research and development
Research and development

We work continuously to ensure that thyssenkrupp offers its customers products and services of the highest technological quality, because we have an expertise in innovations. That's why we also pay particular attention to our research & development:

Our global research and development network comprises 75 locations with a total of around 3,600 employees. In addition, we cooperate with external partners such as universities and research institutes as well as other industrial companies.

In the last fiscal year we filed around 1,500 new patent and utility model applications - so the patent portfolio of our Group currently comprises around 17,370 patents and utility models, and in the trademark area around 9,860 property rights.

The thyssenkrupp Group's expenditure on research and development totaled €624 million.

Climate protection and energy transformation

CO2 reduced Steel

Steel production at thyssenkrupp is to be CO2-free by 2045. Achieving climate-neutral steel production will require fundamental technological changes. thyssenkrupp Steel is pursuing an open-technology approach and is focusing on two paths: The decisive step is the avoidance of CO2 through the use of hydrogen ("Carbon Direct Avoidance", CDA). This is supplemented by the use of CO2 ("Carbon Capture and Usage", CCU).

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"Carbon Direct Avoidance", CDA

The CDA path, the project is called tkH2Steel, envisages using green hydrogen instead of coal for steel production. In this process, the raw material iron ore is to be processed in so-called direct reduction plants rather than in blast furnaces as in the past. The resulting solid iron sponge is then melted into liquid steel in so-called melters. Instead of CO2, this production route produces only water vapor.



"Carbon Capture and Usage", CCU

The CCU project, called Carbon2Chem, uses CO2, which can also be produced in other industrial plants during steel production, as a raw material for chemical products such as fertilizers or fuel. Currently, fossil fuels such as crude oil or natural gas are primarily used for their production. In the CCU pathway, the CO2 contained in industrial emissions becomes usable because it is broken down into its constituent oxygen and carbon using green hydrogen. Carbon is a foundation of all life on earth and an indispensable basic material for organic chemistry.

"Carbon Direct Avoidance", CDA

The CDA path, the project is called tkH2Steel, envisages using green hydrogen instead of coal for steel production. In this process, the raw material iron ore is to be processed in so-called direct reduction plants rather than in blast furnaces as in the past. The resulting solid iron sponge is then melted into liquid steel in so-called melters. Instead of CO2, this production route produces only water vapor.

"Carbon Capture and Usage", CCU

The CCU project, called Carbon2Chem, uses CO2, which can also be produced in other industrial plants during steel production, as a raw material for chemical products such as fertilizers or fuel. Currently, fossil fuels such as crude oil or natural gas are primarily used for their production. In the CCU pathway, the CO2 contained in industrial emissions becomes usable because it is broken down into its constituent oxygen and carbon using green hydrogen. Carbon is a foundation of all life on earth and an indispensable basic material for organic chemistry.

CO2 reduced Steel news

Green steel: Review of phase 1 of the injection trials

Hydrogen instead of carbon. Just over a year has passed since the world premiere of the use of hydrogen in ongoing blast furnace operations. What has happened in this first phase of the trials? We provide an overview.

Carbon2Chem: when emissions become valuable substances

With our innovative technology Carbon2Chem we convert climate-damaging CO2 into valuable raw materials.

Renewable energies as an enabler

We are already working on promising technologies to make steel production sustainable.

How we recycle our blast furnace gases

With our innovative technology Carbon2Chem, we convert climate-damaging CO2 into valuable resources. This way we are gradually making our steel production climate-neutral.

Climate-neutral steel production in the Ruhr region

Climate neutral by 2045 - Steel production of the future

Direct Reduction – tkH2Steel

The green transformation of the steel industry

Our colleagues at thyssenkrupp Steel are working continuously to make steel production climate-neutral by 2045. An ambitious goal because the transformation is a major challenge.

Green hydrogen

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.

Green hydrogen news

Hydrogen - colorless, but colorful.

Gray, blue or green hydrogen? We explain what's behind the colorful terms - and which color mix we're using at thyssenkrupp to take off towards green transformation.