Used as a pre-material for transmission and engine components
Automotive industry
Sustainable solutions
for personal mobility – now and in the future
Together with our customers, we develop pioneering solutions for the automotive industry: from initial idea to primary material right through to ready-to-install components
Our steel is produced in electric arc furnaces and can be rolled, forged and, when required, further machined, for use in safety-critical mobility applications. Electric arc furnace production enables lower CO₂e emissions in crude steel production compared with the conventional blast furnace route. In mobility applications, our steel solutions can also support weight-optimized component designs while meeting demanding quality requirements. As an essential partner to the automotive industry, we supply solutions for both conventional and electric vehicles – from rolled steel bars as a primary material for the production of transmission and engine components such as connecting rods or rotor shafts, through to ready-to-install steering racks.
4 out of 5
vehicles made in Germany contain steel from GMH Gruppe.
Market trend: drivetrain electrification
Electric motors
Demand for electric cars continues to rise worldwide. Studies assume that around half of all vehicles sold in 2030 will be electric. The motors of these vehicles require highly resilient steel components. These include, for example, rotor shafts for electric motors, which are made from our steel.
Green Steel for the automotive market
Into the future with
low-CO₂e steel
Reducing CO2 emissions is vitally important to the automotive industry. Among other things,
manufacturers are focusing on more environmentally friendly production technologies, recycling raw materials and improving the life cycle impacts of their vehicles. This includes the production and sale of electric and hybrid vehicles. Together with car manufacturers and their suppliers, we are developing low- CO₂e steel products for various mobility applications. Our Green Steel is based on crude steel from the electric steelmaking route, whose production generates more than 80% less CO₂e in Scope 1 and 2 than primary steel production.
Product-specific CO₂e footprint for 1,000,000 product variants
We calculate CO₂e footprints for more than one million product- and order-specific combinations, based on the respective process, material and energy data. Our PCF calculation methodology is independently validated by TÜV SÜD.
As an automotive manufacturer or supplier, you can use this data as a reliable basis for your own CO₂e calculations and for tracking progress towards your climate targets.
What you can expect
Lightweight materials or weight-optimized components
Lightweight construction is becoming increasingly relevant, especially for drivetrain and chassis components in passenger cars and commercial vehicles. For this reason, our materials development department, working with other specialists in the “Lightweight Forging Initiative”, has developed almost 2,000 ideas – as our innovative 46MnVS5 steel, for example. This high-strength steel makes crack connecting rods ten percent lighter.
High-strength steels to increase safety
Working closely with our customers, we have developed two new types of steel: bainitic forged 16MnCrV7-7 steel, and 50CrMnB5-3 steel, which is induction-hardened following semi-hot forming.
Electric steel with lower CO₂e emissions
Alongside reducing CO₂e emissions during vehicle use, emissions from vehicle production are also becoming increasingly important.
Our crude steel production via the electric steelmaking route generates more than 80% less Scope 1 and 2 CO₂e emissions compared with conventional primary steel production.
In use
From product to application
Our high-quality steel products are used in many automotive applications. Here are a few examples.
Hot-Rolled Steel Bars
Steering component
In use as a steering component for passenger cars
Special profiles
Used as a connecting element between car door and vehicle
Bright steel
Used for gear shafts and the bottom brackets of e-bikes
Award-winning
Volkswagen Group Award 2023 – “Sustainability” category
Volkswagen Osnabrück supplies our Georgsmarienhütte steelworks with metal scrap generated during its production process. There, the scrap is used to produce new steel bars, which are then delivered to the Volkswagen plant in Baunatal for the production of transmission components.
Would you like to join us in
driving the decarbonization of steel production?
With us, you can choose low-CO₂e steel for your supply chain.