News Archiv 2009

REACH stands for the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization of Chemicals. The aim is to establish uniform European chemical legislation. Against this backdrop, project teams concerned with the REACh regulation are being formed both on the Group level (Salzgitter AG) as well as on the level of Salzgitter Flachstahl.

Salzgitter Flachstahl actively supports its customers in selecting materials, also in the course of the early development process. Due to the fact that dynamically oscillating forces underly most components made of steel sheet, it is also necessary to determine characteristics for describing the load-bearing capacity under these forces and to describe the material's performance.

Demands for lightweight construction and cost reductions and competition with other construction materials have prompted increased development of new grades of steel in recent years. 
Increased strengths and improved forming characteristics, utilization characteristics and processing characteristics distinguish the latest steel innovations.

Electrolytic galvanizing of steel strip involves using a direct current to deposit a zinc coating on the strip. In the course of our continuous improvement activities, two sub-areas in electrolytic galvanizing have been optimized.