How We Innovate
How we innovate

AS TECHNOLOGICAL PIONEERS, THE FUTURE IS OUR FRONTIER

What is the future of the metals industry? Which technologies will define progress and sustainability?

At Primetals Technologies, we challenge ourselves to anticipate the needs of our customers and provide long-lasting solutions for a sustainable metals industry. Short-term innovations are part of immediate solutions for many of our partners and customers in the industry. Still, long-term cutting-edge developments are part of a “green” revolution in the metals industry. As pioneers, Primetals Technologies sets the standard in all areas along the entire metals production chain by creating distinctive solutions for our customers. Our portfolio provides unique answers to challenges regarding environmental pressures and cost-competitiveness, as well as flexibility regarding production routes, steel grades, raw-material availability, quality, and processing.

 

SUSTAINABLE METALS PRODUCTION

Environmental solutions are a matter of profitability and choosing the right partner makes a difference.

Increasingly stringent environmental regulations and pressures to increase production while reducing one’s environmental impact are some of the challenges facing the metals industry. At Primetals Technologies, we keep our fingers on the pulse of the industry. For us, green steel is an approach to revolutionary, cutting-edge technology to define a new standard for eco-friendly metals production. With green steel end products in mind, we aim to make the entire metals production process carbon-neutral, environmentally friendlier, cleaner, and safer. ...

INNOVATION AT WORK

Our portfolio is continuously enhanced by innovative solutions thanks to our passionate R&D activities.

At Primetals Technologies, innovation is part of our DNA. Our groundbreaking, innovative heritage fuels a passion for pioneering new solutions in metals production. The extensive portfolio offered by Primetals Technologies is constantly refined and expanded with innovations along the entire value chain. These solutions include technologies developed for new plants and “brownfield” optimization projects, which help customers with existing plants increase productivity, broaden their scope of products, and meet environmental targets. Primetals Technologies also provides business models to its customers, offering a unique opportunity to analyze the feasibility of new products and investments. ...

 

THE RIGHT PEOPLE

When it comes to pioneering innovation, it is always about the people: their creativity, commitment, and passion.

Primetals Technologies is an international community of metals engineers and specialists. With an established network of Key Experts, these 60 select and outstanding specialists—out of a total R&D staff of approximately 300—help maintain the leading position in the most crucial technological fields. Our Key Experts contribute significantly to innovations, share their expertise, and represent Primetals Technologies within the industry community and at international events and conferences. Our technologists are part of a portfolio with 4,500 existing patents. Moreover, employees worldwide are encouraged to submit their ideas to improve products, solutions, and processes.

 

COLLABORATION, COMMITMENT, COOPERATION

Collaboration, commitment, and cooperation are fundamental to our organization.

Proud of our diverse workforce, we recognize that our multifaceted network is part of a global community of scientists, engineers, and technologists worldwide. Thus, our specialists and experts have worked closely with scientific and industrial partners for many years. Our commitment to innovation lies in our cooperation with more than 40 universities, scientific institutions, and research institutes, drawing on the expertise of highly qualified scientists and technologists from various fields. Primetals Technologies also maintains a global network with start-ups to include them in our R&D activities with access to state-of-the-art testing facilities, covering all steps of the production process.