Zurich – At the end of May, the final meeting of the "Horizon 2020" project "GasOn" with the EU Commission took place in Brussels. The aim of this EU project was the further development of gas engines for cars and vans.

Düsseldorf - Federal Association of German steel recycling and disposal companies e. V. (BDSV) calls now to take concrete measures to fairly distribute rising freight costs at low tide.

Essen – Sonaca Montreal, a leading company in the production of large  aircraft components made of aluminum, has opted for a long-term partnership with thyssenkrupp Aerospace and extended the contract, which has been in effect since 2016.

Düsseldorf - The IBU (German industry federation for sheetmetal forming) and the FVK (German professional association
cold rolling mills) demand an appropriate extension of the country-specific quotas laid down in the EU Safeguards for Steel. This applies in particular to steel categories 4B and 1.

Sao Paulo -Faced with the information released (this week) on the fact that China has withdrawn its claim against the European Union to be recognized as a market economy by the World Trade Organization (WTO) the latin American Steel Association (ALACERO) states that this fact is very important.

Frankfrurt - EMO Hannover 2019: Digital Pathways to Sustainable Cutting.

Puchheim - Scanlab presents new precSYS 515 micromachining subsystem for electronics fabrication.

Essen - The RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research is lowering its forecast for German economic growth slightly to 0.8 percent this year.

Essen – One of thyssenkrupp Aerospace's strength is customer proximity thereby offering individual material and supply chain solutions locally. For this reason, the aerospace specialists further expanded their global network last year and built a new location in Morocco.

Helsinki – Outokumpu is aiming to fully digitalize its biggest factory in Tornio, Finland, transforming it into the most digitalized and most cost-competitive stainless steel operation in the industry by 2020.

Essen – Premal Desai (50) becomes Chairman of the Executive Board of thyssenkrupp Steel Europe AG. In view of the cancellation of the joint venture, Andreas Goss (55) will resign from his position as CEO by mutual agreement as of June 15, 2019.