R&D for Sustainable Products

A wide range of product innovations helps both voestalpine and its customers to achieve their respective sustainability targets. Among other things, our R&D work focuses on products that can be recycled in ever more environmentally friendly, effective, long-lasting, safer, and unproblematic ways. The following voestalpine products thus contribute to sustainable development:

  • High-quality rails resistant to wear and tear
  • Intelligent turnouts with diagnostic systems to ensure reliable track system availability
  • Ultra-high tensile steels for lightweight construction of autobodies
  • Electrical steel strip for highly efficient electric motors and for generators used in power generation
  • Components for wind turbines, whether on or offshore
  • Mounting systems for photovoltaic (PV) modules
  • Turbines for pumped storage hydroelectric power plants
  • Seamless tubes for transporting hydrogen
  • Ultra-pure alloys as pre-material for medical technology
  • Guard rails, safety belt tensioner tubes, high-tensile sections for driver’s cabs, and other products serving to enhance security