Salzgitter Flachstahl, together with Salzgitter Mannesmann International GmbH, intensifying sales activities in the international automotive business

Weight reductions, design diversity, as well as lower costs are challenges that are particularly helping to shape the material applications in the automotive industry. Increasingly, components are expected to handle additional jobs as the safety requirements increase. In this connection, the outstanding characteristics of the Robusal^®800 and SZBS800 steel grades are attracting special interest. They exhibit superior forming characteristics and improved weldability, and their high strength allows them to achieve material savings, and consequently reduce the component weight.

These outstanding properties are responsible for the success story of these steels. The combination of light weight construction and safety ensures that these steel types are being now increasingly demanded and delivered by automakers and their suppliers around the world.

Particularly for the steels mentioned above, but also for other grades where the partially critical forming requires especially stable technological characteristics throughout the entire production life cycle, Salzgitter Flachstahl is a dependable partner that, in cooperation with Salzgitter Mannesmann International GmbH Düsseldorf (SMID), also meets requirements around the world. Here, customers can count on SMID's entire sales network.

China and the Americas have emerged as sales markets with a special focus on the automotive sector. In these markets, the large suppliers and the automobile service centers are also actively supported, along with the automakers.

In customer support, great importance is attached to the direct local exchange through the international trade offices. The central coordination of inquiries and orders is managed via the Salzgitter Mannesmann Handel office in Düsseldorf. Trade activities are supported by means of regular business and technical visits that are accompanied by experts from Salzgitter Flachstahl.

The message to customers is clear:
"Salzgitter not only supplies special material around the world, it also guarantees the service that is highly appreciated in Germany and Europe in the strongly process-oriented automotive sector.”