Group sister company and good customer: Salzgitter Europlatinen GmbH

Salzgitter Flachstahl accords high priority to smooth communication and close cooperation with sister companies. The cooperation with Salzgitter Europlatinen GmbH is a successful example of such productive relationships.
Since the founding of this Salzgitter AG sister company in the year 1998, Salzgitter Flachstahl has acted as a steel supplier and partnered closely with this firm that has enjoyed continuous growth to date. Recently, Salzgitter Europlatinen GmbH celebrated its 10th anniversary.

Top quality steel for top quality products
Hot-dip galvanized or thin-coated sheet produced by Salzgitter Flachstahl forms the primary material for the highly specialized products that Salzgitter Europlatinen GmbH manufactures for the European automotive industry and its suppliers: stamped blanks, patchwork blanks, and especially tailored blanks that are welded together in a computer monitored laser process involving blanks of different grades and thicknesses, in order to bundle the desired positive properties. Subsequently, automobile manufacturers and their suppliers form and process these blanks to make body components.

Bundled know-how
The European automotive industry trusts the Salzgitter Flachstahl product portfolio. The close cooperation with Salzgitter Europlatinen GmbH guarantees the high quality of blanks and strengthens the position of Salzgitter AG as system supplier to the automotive industry. In order to provide customers with the best possible offers, group sister companies engage in close coordination and cooperation. In addition to the concrete working meetings, members of both companies regularly meet for “technical-commercial discussion rounds“. Here, our professionals join forces to develop new solutions for customer requirements and exchange ideas about potential enhancements of technical quality, logistics and the materials employed. Both companies are certified to ISO/TS 16 949:2002, which extends national standards and manufacturer specifications by quality standards that are valid worldwide. Since August 18, 2008 Salzgitter Europlatinen GmbH has attained Q1-supplier status at Ford.

Everything from a single source
From enquiries through to offers, from the determination of requirements through to shipping, the information flow between group companies is rapid and uncomplicated. Customers benefit from this close cooperation by having a single company – namely Salzgitter Europlatinen GmbH - handling their assignments. At the same time, the respective experts at Salzgitter Flachstahl are also familiar with the relevant customers and can optimally adapt to their individual requirements. The close organizational and spatial vicinity of the companies involved ensures short paths and shared, smooth sequences – advantages that benefit our customers.