Thyssenkrupp Schulte and Tubos Reunidos partner for Europe’s sustainable steel transition
Spanish seamless steel tube producer Tubos Reunidos has announced a strategic partnership with German steelmaker Thyssenkrupp’s materials distribution and service provider subsidiary Thyssenkrupp Schulte to expand the reach of O-Next® sustainable steel across Europe.
The collaboration aims to decarbonize supply chains while meeting the stringent performance and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) requirements of industrial customers.
Partnership for sustainable growth
The declaration of intent makes Thyssenkrupp Schulte the exclusive distribution ally for O-Next®. This ensures that a wide network of European manufacturers, infrastructure developers, and energy companies can now access ultra-low-emission tubular steel solutions.
Thyssenkrupp Schulte strengthens its sustainability agenda through this partnership, having already cut 75,000 mt of carbon (Scope 1 and 2) from its operations.
O-Next®: redefining steelmaking standards
Tubos Reunidos has shifted away from traditional blast furnace methods toward electric arc furnaces powered by renewable energy. O-Next® achieves groundbreaking emissions reductions with:
- Scope 1 & 2 emissions: 0.045 metric ton of carbon per metric ton of steel
- Total including Scope 3: 0.4 metric ton of carbon per metric ton of steel
By comparison, conventional steelmaking typically generates more than 1.8 metric ton carbon per metric ton of steel.
Thanks to this partnership, customers across Europe can now access a broad range of carbon reduced steel tube solutions, including cold-drawn precision tubes, hydraulic line tubes, hot rolled tubes in C-grades and high-alloy and stainless steel tubes.
Thyssenkrupp Schulte appoints new chief executive
Effective 1 July, Astrid Meicherczyk has taken over as chief executive of thyssenkrupp Schulte, the German stockholding distribution subsidiary of thyssenkrupp Materials Services.
She succeeds Detlef Schotten, who has now assumed responsibility for the pan-European materials distribution and trading business of tk Materials Services.
Meicherczyk has extensive international general management and sales experience spanning over 25 years in leading industry positions. Most recently, she headed the European plastics distribution business of tk Materials Services. Before joining thyssenkrupp, the industrial engineer spent many years at Bertelsmann, in leading positions in Germany and abroad.
In April, thyssenkrupp Schulte announced a structural transformation of its business model, which involves the cutback of 450 jobs and the closure of locations. The company’s aim is to sustainably improve competitiveness and profitability, and meet changing customer needs by focusing on the material-related services business.
Christian Koehl Germany
