Online versionANNUAL REPORT 2024 / 2025
We are putting thyssenkrupp back on the road to success and transforming our Group step by step. Our vision is clear: a lean financial holding company at the top with strong independent companies underneath. This will strengthen responsibility, efficiency and value creation - for our customers, employees and owners.
We are an international industrial and technology group
With more than 93,000 employees in 48 countries, the company generated sales of around €33 billion in the fiscal year 2024/2025.
Our business activities are bundled in five segments: Automotive Technology, Decarbon Technologies, Materials Services, Steel Europe and Marine Systems. With extensive technological know-how, outstanding engineering competence and a high level of innovative strength, the group is a technology leader in many of its markets, developing solutions for the challenges of the future.
We are pursuing ambitious climate protection targets and actively optimizing our own energy and climate efficiency. At the same time, we are supporting our customers and industry partners to help in achieving their climate targets, thus playing a key role in advancing the green transformation.
Our segments
Automotive Technology
Automotive Technology is one of the larger German suppliers and engineering partners to the international automotive industry. Its product and service portfolio comprises high-tech components, systems and automation solutions for vehicle manufacturing, as well as mechatronic solutions based on electronics and internally and externally developed software. We also produce forged components and systems for a wide range of customer applications in the construction machinery and mobility sectors.
Decarbon Technologies
Through its Rothe Erde, Uhde and Polysius businesses as well as the majority investment thyssenkrupp nucera, Decarbon Technologies delivers innovative, cutting-edge technologies for the transition to a climate-neutral industrial economy. Rothe Erde is a leading provider of bearings and solutions that play a key role in wind, solar and tidal power plants, among other things. With its solutions for decarbonization, defossilization and the circular economy, Uhde is a technology and implementation provider of large-scale plants for the chemical industry. Polysius supplies green technologies for the cement and lime industry, digital automation solutions, and on-site and remote maintenance services. thyssenkrupp nucera is a global supplier of electrolysis technology for the industrial-scale production of clean hydrogen.
Materials Services
Materials Services is one of the world’s leading materials distributors and service providers. In this segment, we offer our customers not only a wide range of materials and raw materials but also the associated services – ranging from processing options and supply chain management to warehousing and logistics. Thanks to our extensive network of sites, we are present where our customers need us. Our core markets are North America and Europe. The customers of the Materials Services segment are found in manufacturing sectors such as aerospace, infrastructure, automotive, machinery and metal processing, as well as in trading and data centers.
Steel Europe
Steel Europe is Germany’s largest steel producer, focusing on the manufacture of high-quality flat carbon steel. Its product portfolio comprises hot-rolled coil, sheet steel, premium cut-to-length sheets, coated products, tinplate, medium coil and both grain-oriented and non-oriented electrical steel in a wide range of grades – available in all cases as both conventional and CO2-reduced products. The main purchasers of the products are the automotive and engineering sectors, the energy sector, the metal processing industry and the construction industry. We see our strengths in the development of customized solutions and in our technical know-how, which is based on many years of experience.
Marine Systems
Marine Systems is one of the world’s leading suppliers of system solutions for maritime defense applications. As a fully integrated system supplier, the segment develops and builds conventional submarines and naval vessels at its three shipyard sites in Kiel, Wismar and Itajaí (Brazil). It also produces unmanned systems, sensors, sonar systems, effectors, software solutions and maritime guidance systems at sites in Germany and the United Kingdom, for example.
The new and independent TKMS brand will propose holistic solutions from a single source, ensuring our customers’ defense capability through the interaction of surface and submarine solutions and comprehensive service that spans the product life cycle.