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The world steel industry peaked in 2007, just as the company spent $12 billion to build the two most modern mills in the world, in Alabama and Brazil. The worldwide Great Recession started in 2008. Heavy cutbacks in construction combined with sharply lowered demand, and prices fell 40%. thyssenkrupp lost $11 billion on its two new plants, which sold steel below the cost of production. thyssenkrupp's stainless steel division, Inoxum, including the stainless portion of the US plant, was sold to Finnish stainless steel company [[Outokumpu]] in 2012.<ref>{{cite news|title=New owners of ThyssenKrupp stainless steel division plan visit in June |work=Press-Register |date=May 31, 2012 |url=http://blog.al.com/press-register-business/2012/05/new_owners_of_thyssenkrupp_sta.html |accessdate=June 15, 2013}}</ref> Finally in 2013, thyssenkrupp offered the remaining portion of the plant for sale at under $4 billion.<ref>John W. Miller and Ike Henning, "Thiessen gets offers for mills: Final bids for steel complexes in Alabama, Brazil will likely fall short of the company's hopes", ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' March 1, 2013</ref> |
The world steel industry peaked in 2007, just as the company spent $12 billion to build the two most modern mills in the world, in Alabama and Brazil. The worldwide Great Recession started in 2008. Heavy cutbacks in construction combined with sharply lowered demand, and prices fell 40%. thyssenkrupp lost $11 billion on its two new plants, which sold steel below the cost of production. thyssenkrupp's stainless steel division, Inoxum, including the stainless portion of the US plant, was sold to Finnish stainless steel company [[Outokumpu]] in 2012.<ref>{{cite news|title=New owners of ThyssenKrupp stainless steel division plan visit in June |work=Press-Register |date=May 31, 2012 |url=http://blog.al.com/press-register-business/2012/05/new_owners_of_thyssenkrupp_sta.html |accessdate=June 15, 2013}}</ref> Finally in 2013, thyssenkrupp offered the remaining portion of the plant for sale at under $4 billion.<ref>John W. Miller and Ike Henning, "Thiessen gets offers for mills: Final bids for steel complexes in Alabama, Brazil will likely fall short of the company's hopes", ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' March 1, 2013</ref> |
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On 26 February 2014 thyssenkrupp sold their Calvert carbon steel facility to [[ArcelorMittal]] and [[Nippon Steel]] for $1.55 billion.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.japantoday.com/category/business/view/arcelormittal-nippon-steel-buy-thyssenkrupps-u-s-factory|title=ArcelorMittal, Nippon Steel buy ThyssenKrupp's U.S. factory|accessdate=1 December 2013|publisher=Japan Today}}</ref> |
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In April 2015, thyssenkrupp announced it would be investing more than €800 million in the [[North American]] region by 2020 to take advantage of the economy’s reindustrialization.<ref>{{cite web|author= Georgina Prodhan|url= https://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/24/us-thyssenkrupp-northamerica-idUSKBN0NF1DT20150424 |title= ThyssenKrupp to invest $866 million in North America |publisher=Reuters |date=24 April 2015 |accessdate=29 April 2015}}</ref> |
In April 2015, thyssenkrupp announced it would be investing more than €800 million in the [[North American]] region by 2020 to take advantage of the economy’s reindustrialization.<ref>{{cite web|author= Georgina Prodhan|url= https://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/24/us-thyssenkrupp-northamerica-idUSKBN0NF1DT20150424 |title= ThyssenKrupp to invest $866 million in North America |publisher=Reuters |date=24 April 2015 |accessdate=29 April 2015}}</ref> |
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Company type | Aktiengesellschaft |
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FWB: TKA, LSE: 0O1C | |
ISIN | DE0007500001 |
Industry | Conglomerate |
Predecessor | Thyssen AG, Krupp |
Founded | 17 March 1999 |
Headquarters | , Germany |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Heinrich Hiesinger[2] (CEO and Chairman of the executive board), Ulrich Lehner (Chairman of the supervisory board) |
Products | Steel, stainless products, automotive technologies, plant technologies, elevator systems, marine systems, shipbuilding, services |
Revenue | €41.447 billion (2017)[3] |
€1.722 billion (2017)[3] | |
€271 million (2017)[3] | |
Total assets | €35.048 billion (2017)[3] |
Total equity | €3.404 billion (2017)[3] |
Owner | As of September 2016:[4]
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Number of employees | 158,739 (2017)[3] |
Website | www |
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thyssenkrupp AG /ˈtɪsɛn.krʊp/ is a German multinational conglomerate with focus on industrial engineering and steel production. The company is based in Duisburg and Essen and divided into 670 subsidiaries worldwide. It is one of the world's largest steel producers; it was ranked tenth-largest worldwide by revenue in 2015.[5] The company is the result of the 1999 merger of Thyssen AG and Krupp, and now has its operational headquarters in Essen. The largest shareholder is the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation, a major German philanthropic foundation, created by and named in honour of Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, former owner and head of the Krupp company, once the largest company in Europe.[6]
In addition to steel production, thyssenkrupp's products range from machines and industrial services to high-speed trains, elevators and shipbuilding. The subsidiary thyssenkrupp Marine Systems manufactures frigates, corvettes and submarines for German and foreign navies.
Construction of the corporate headquarters began in 2007. The first buildings were complete in 2010; the second phase of building was completed in June 2015. Situated in the west of Essen, the corporate campus was designed by Chaix & Morel et associeés (Paris) and JSWD Architekten (Cologne). Their design was selected for construction in an architectural design competition[7] in 2006. Thyssenkrupp Access, the global manufacturer of home elevators, wheelchair lifts and stair lifts, has tied up with Chennai-based Elite Elevators[8] to launch high-end elevators in India.[9]
History
thyssenkrupp is the result of a merger of two German steel companies, Thyssen AG founded in 1891 under the name Gewerkschaft Deutscher Kaiser and Krupp founded in 1811. As early as the 1980s, the companies began negotiations on a merger and began closely cooperating in some business areas. In 1997, the companies combined their flat steel activities, with a full merger completed in March 1999.[10]
Beginnings (1811–1891)
Krupp
- 1811: Friedrich Carl Krupp establishes a cast steel factory in Essen, Germany.
- 1826: After Friedrich Krupp's death in 1826, his widow Therese Krupp runs the company together with other relatives and her eldest son Alfred, who was 14 years old at the time.
- 1833: Krupp manufactures complete rolling machines.
- 1847: Expansion of the railroads increases demand for durable cast steel, triggering the company’s first surge of growth. Supplies include axles, springs and the seamless tires that can withstand increasing speed without cracking.
- 1859: The Prussian military orders 300 gun barrels, marking development of the company's second major production segment; shortly after Krupp begins producing complete artillery.
- 1862: Construction of the first Bessemer steel plant on the continent for mass production of rails and steel sheet.
- 1864–1872: The company purchases various iron ore mines to avoid dependency on external suppliers. In 1873, Krupp establishes his own shipping company in Rotterdam to transport ore from the Spanish company Orconera Iron Ore Co., in which he owns shares.
- 1872: Alfred Krupp issues a "General Directive" establishing company hierarchy from foreman to management. Included in the directive are regulations concerning company welfare programs, including the pension fund, sickness and death benefit insurance, company bakery and retail store, worker housing estates and health care, all of which were slowly introduced beginning in 1836.
Thyssen
- 1867: Establishment of Thyssen, Fossoul & Co. a company making hoop iron for barrels, crates, baling etc.
- 1871: Establishment of Thyssen & Co. in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
- 1891: August Thyssen becomes owner of the Gewerkschaft Deutscher Kaiser coal mine in Hamborn near Duisburg. One year earlier, the Thyssen company constructed a steel mill directly adjacent to one of the pits, thus Thyssen grows into an iron and steel mill with its own coal base.
Wilhelminian period (1892–1917)
Krupp
- 1893: Following the death of Alfred Krupp in 1887, Friedrich Alfred Krupp expands his father's enterprise with takeovers of additional steel mills and shipyards and construction of diesel engines in collaboration with Rudolf Diesel.
- 1899: With the acquisition of and/or increased investment in various coal mines (Hannibal colliery near Bochum and the Emscher-Lippe coal mine near Datteln) business development concentrates on vertical structures with expansion of a coal base.
- 1903: Friedrich Alfred Krupp dies suddenly in 1902 at the age of 48 and his eldest daughter Bertha Krupp inherits the company. The company is converted into a stock corporation by will of the late owner; Bertha retains all the stock. As she is still a minor, her mother Margarethe Krupp as guardian and proprietor takes over as the head of the company, managed by a board of directors.
- 1906: Bertha Krupp marries Gustav von Bohlen und Halbach who adds the Krupp name as a prefix to his own family name. He is appointed vice chairman of the board and serves as chairman through 1943.
- 1912: Development of stainless, acid-resistant steels quickly finds application in the chemical and food processing industries, medicine and building. The spire of New York's Chrysler Building is clad in the new stainless steel panels.
- 1917: The "Paris Gun" is developed with a range of 130 km.
Thyssen
- 1895: Thyssen sets up integrated iron and steel mill with the construction of a blast furnace plant at the Gewerkschaft Deutscher Kaiser. Subsequent expansion is focused on vertical integration of the group.
- 1906: Intra-company trading and shipping organizations are established to facilitate transport of iron ore to the blast furnace plants. In 1910, the N.V. Handels- en Transport Maatschappij Vulcaan ocean shipping company is establishment in Rotterdam to keep the Thyssen group independent of the international freight market.
- 1910: Expansion with mills in the Lorraine and Normandy.
- 1912: Various branches are set up in the Mediterranean area (Algiers, Port Said, Suez, Oran, Naples, Bona, Bizerte, Tangier and Genoa) so that freighters can store coal en route to Russian or Indian ore mines besides delivery of coal or freight for third parties.
- 1913: Attention is paid to Latin America with the founding of the Deutsch-Überseeische Handelsgesellschaft (German Overseas Trading Company). Thyssen constructs extensive housing estates and related infrastructure to attract workers to the western Ruhr area. By the end of 1913 Thyssen owns 8,750 housing units for 15,500 employees and 850 civil servants: housing for 44,000 people.
- 1914: Gewerkschaft Deutscher Kaiser begins producing armaments for the First World War. To compensate for labor shortages, women, civilians from Belgium and prisoners of war work for the company.
Weimar Republic (1918–1933)
Krupp
- 1919: Following the Treaty of Versailles, Krupp reverts to peace-time production focusing on manufacture of locomotives, trucks, agricultural machinery and excavators. The post-war circumstances of inflation, occupation, and dismantling the company's industrial infrastructure led to a financial crisis in 1924/25. The company stabilizes by, among other measures, streamlining processing operations and expanding stainless steel production.
- 1926: Sintered tungsten carbide was developed by Osram as a material for machining metal. In 1925, Krupp buys the licence and launches sintered carbide onto the market, exploiting its exceptional hardness and wear resistance, which represent a breakthrough in tool engineering.
- 1929: A 15,000-ton forging press goes into operation in Essen-Borbeck. It is at the time the largest worldwide.
Thyssen
- 1919: The company is renamed from Gewerkschaft Deutscher Kaiser to August Thyssen-Hütte; Gewerkschaft and mining operations are transferred to an independent company, Gewerkschaft Friedrich Thyssen. The company's foreign interests in the Allied and Soviet countries are expropriated.
- 1926: Major parts of the Thyssen group are transferred to a newly merged group, Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG, bringing together several coal and steel companies in the Ruhr area to solve cost and production problems of excess capacities. August Thyssen dies at Schloss Landsberg near Essen. His sons Fritz Thyssen and Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza inherit the industrial enterprises. His other two children, Hedwig and August Jr., are compensated differently.
Third Reich (1933–1945)
Krupp
- 1937: As dictated by the state’s Four-Year Plan, production of locomotives, trucks and ships is expanded and armaments production is resumed.
- 1941: Krupp Germania shipyard is extended with acquisition of Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau AG "Deschimag" to include larger ships and submarines. Krupp takes advantage of foreign labourers, slave labourers and prisoners of war to compensate for labour shortages.
Thyssen
- 1934: The company August Thyssen-Hütte AG is spun off the Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG as a so-called operating company.
- 1939: Fritz Thyssen, Chairman of the Board of Vereingte Stahlwerke AG, flees to Switzerland after the invasion of Poland. Vichy France hands over Thyssen and his wife to the German Reich at the end of 1940.
- 1940: A rearmament policy is introduced in the mid-1930s and with the outbreak of war labor is conscripted and supplemented by foreign workers, forced laborers and prisoners of war.
- 1945: Thyssenhütte mill in Hamborn occupied by US troops.
Mergers and acquisitions
During a period of expansion in 1978, Thyssen AG entered the North American automotive industry with the acquisition of Budd's automotive operations,[11] which became the automotive division of Thyssen and operated in North America as Budd Thyssen, later thyssenkrupp Budd Co. In October 2006 thyssenkrupp sold thyssenkrupp Budd's North American body and chassis operations to Martinrea International Inc.[12]
In 1988, thyssenkrupp acquired German shock absorber manufacturer Bilstein, where it became a division until 2005, where it became a wholly owned subsidiary.[13]
In 1999, Thyssen (one of the companies of the merger to form thyssenkrupp Elevator) acquired the elevator division of American-based conglomerate Dover Corporation. Four years later thyssenkrupp acquired the Korean-based Dongyang Elevator.
In 2005 thyssenkrupp acquired Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (HDW) in Kiel from One Equity Partners. thyssenkrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) is now the most important European group of shipbuilders. In addition to HDW Blohm + Voss in Hamburg, as well as Nordseewerke at Emden, also are subsidiaries of TKMS. One Equity Partners holds 25% of the TKMS shares.
In December 2005 thyssenkrupp acquired 60% of Atlas Elektronik from BAE Systems, with EADS acquiring the remaining 40%.
In August 2007 thyssenkrupp Materials North America acquired OnlineMetals.com, a small-quantity distributor of semi-finished metals and plastics based in Seattle, Washington.[14]
In early 2008 thyssenkrupp Aerospace acquired Apollo Metals and Aviation Metals, both suppliers to aerospace and defence based in Kent, Washington.
In June 2012 thyssenkrupp sold thyssenkrupp Waupaca to KPS Capital Partners. thyssenkrupp Waupaca is tier two supplier to the automotive industry, located in Waupaca, Wisconsin.
In April 2014, thyssenkrupp announced it was in talks to sell its Swedish maritime defence unit to Saab after failing to agree deals with the Swedish government for a new generation of submarines.[15]
US subsidiaries
On 11 May 2007, thyssenkrupp AG announced an investment of €3.1 billion for a project consisting of building new carbon steel and stainless steel processing facilities in southern Alabama that would employ 2,700 people when fully operational. The project, along with a multibillion-dollar greenfield steelmaking facility in Brazil, is a cornerstone of thyssenkrupp's new global expansion strategy into the North American and NAFTA high-value carbon steel markets. The company announced that the investment was increased to $4.6 billion in 2010. As of the date of the announcement, the investment was the largest private economic development investment in Alabama's history and the largest by a German company in the U.S.[16] The site selection announcement came after several months of competition involving several southeastern sites which was eventually narrowed between a site on the Mississippi River in Convent, Louisiana, and a site on the Tombigbee River, in Calvert, Alabama in north Mobile County, about 40 miles north of Mobile. The site in Alabama was eventually chosen. Groundbreaking on the Calvert facilities was held in November 2007. The carbon steel and stainless steel companies are independent and operate under different management teams. Co-locating both facilities on the same site enabled the company to optimize the investment in infrastructure and in some shared processing.
The carbon steel company, thyssenkrupp Steel USA, which represented seventy percent of the overall project investment and hiring, consists of a state-of-the-art hot strip mill, cold rolling mill, and four hot dip galvanizing lines. The hot strip mill began operations in July 2010, the cold roll mill in September 2010, and the first of the hot dip galvanizing lines in March 2011. The company projects to be fully operational in late 2011 and employ approximately 1,800 people at that time. thyssenkrupp Stainless USA projects to employ approximately 900 people when fully operational in late 2012. At full production, thyssenkrupp Steel USA will have the capacity to produce 4 million metric tons of carbon steel for NAFTA customers in the automotive, construction, appliance, pipe and tube, and service center industries. In July 2011, the carbon steel project was awarded "Best Greenfield Technology" by American Metal Market, considered to be the longest continuously published newspaper in the metals industry.[17] thyssenkrupp Stainless USA built a cold roll mill and is in the process of building a meltshop.
Additionally, the Alabama State Port Authority invested over $100 million to build a state-of-the-art transloading slab terminal on the southern tip of Pinto Island in Mobile Bay to service the inbound raw material slabs for the upriver carbon steel facility. Raw material slabs shipped to the Alabama facility from thyssenkrupp CSA are transloaded from Panamax ships at the terminal onto shallow draft barges for transport upriver to the facility. The terminal is equipped with three wide-span gantry cranes with state-of-the-art magnetic lifting gear designed by thyssenkrupp, and it utilizes RFID technology to read identifiers on each slab and provide up-to-date inventory records that include each slab's location and weight. The same magnetic technology is also used at thyssenkrupp's Calvert facility. The terminal was necessary to Alabama's award of the project since the Tombigbee River depth and lack of turning basins prohibit deep draft ship navigation to the site in Calvert.[18]
The world steel industry peaked in 2007, just as the company spent $12 billion to build the two most modern mills in the world, in Alabama and Brazil. The worldwide Great Recession started in 2008. Heavy cutbacks in construction combined with sharply lowered demand, and prices fell 40%. thyssenkrupp lost $11 billion on its two new plants, which sold steel below the cost of production. thyssenkrupp's stainless steel division, Inoxum, including the stainless portion of the US plant, was sold to Finnish stainless steel company Outokumpu in 2012.[19] Finally in 2013, thyssenkrupp offered the remaining portion of the plant for sale at under $4 billion.[20]
On 26 February 2014 thyssenkrupp sold their Calvert carbon steel facility to ArcelorMittal and Nippon Steel for $1.55 billion.[21]
In April 2015, thyssenkrupp announced it would be investing more than €800 million in the North American region by 2020 to take advantage of the economy’s reindustrialization.[22]
Sale of Tailored Blanks
In September 2012 thyssenkrupp agreed to sell the automotive components manufacturer Tailored Blanks to the China-based Wuhan Iron and Steel Corporation for an undisclosed price.[23] At the time of the agreement Tailored Blanks had annual sales of around 700 million euros and a global market share of about 40 percent in automotive laser-welded blanks.[23]
In September 2017, thyssenkrupp in Germany and Tata Steel in India announced plans to combine their European steelmaking businesses. The deal will structure the European assets as thyssenkrupp Tata Steel, a 50-50 joint venture. The announcement estimated that the company would be Europe’s second-largest steelmaker.[24]
Products and sales
thyssenkrupp generates 33% of its consolidated sales in its home market. The rest of the EU (European Union) (28%) and the NAFTA region (21%) are the key trading partners for business and exports outside Germany. thyssenkrupp companies hold leading positions with their products in numerous international markets. thyssenkrupp is the world's leading producer of tailored blank steel.[25] Tailored blanks weld steel materials of differing thicknesses.
Business areas
The operations are organized in six business areas:[26]
- Components Technology
- Elevator Technology
- Industrial Solutions
- Materials Services
- Steel Europe
- Steel Americas
Controversies
Price fixing
In November 2006, five elevator manufacturers, including thyssenkrupp, were found guilty of price fixing by the EU, over nine years,[27] along with competitors Otis Elevator Co., Schindler Group, Kone and Mitsubishi Elevator Europe. A few months later on 21 February 2007, thyssenkrupp was fined €479 million by the EU (Otis was fined $US295 million).[27] The EU Competition Commission reported that the companies had worked to rig bids for procurement contracts, share markets, and fix prices between at least 1995 and 2004.[27] The Commission reported that the companies "did not contest the facts" found by EU regulators, noting none of the accused requested a hearing to answer the allegations. The fines totaled US$1.3 billion.[27]
In July 2012 the German Bundeskartellamt served fines totalling €124.5million on thyssenkrupp GfT Gleistechnik GmbH, Essen (€103m), Stahlberg Roensch GmbH, Seevetal, which since 2010 belongs to the Vossloh group (€13m), TSTG Schienen Technik GmbH & Co. KG, Duisburg, a subsidiary of the Voestalpine group (€4.5m) and Voestalpine BWG GmbH & Co. KG, Butzbach, another Voestalpine subsidiary (€4m) for price fixing of steel railway lines and points blades supplied to Deutsche Bahn, the German state railway. According to Andreas Mundt, president of the Bundeskartellamt, "For many years the rail suppliers have guaranteed each other virtually constant shares of Deutsche Bahn's contract volume. The cartel members monitored compliance with the contract volume quotas, assigned each other projects and set protective prices in order to steer the contract award process.” The proceedings had been triggered by an application for leniency filed by the Austrian company Voestalpine AG. Investigations into further companies are ongoing.
Turin plant fire and trial
On the early morning of 6 December 2007, an accident on the annealing and pickling line of the thyssenkrupp plant in Turin, Italy caused the death of seven steelworkers.[28]
The accident happened between 00:45 and 00:48, when the eight workers that were then on duty attempted to extinguish a localized small pool fire with CO2 fire extinguishers and a fire hydrant, without success. Roughly 400L of hydraulic oil escaped during the rupture of a hydraulic circuit that caused a violent jet fire and engulfed the workers that were fighting the fire.[29]
Technical consultants of the public prosecutor, concluded: "The dynamics of the accident was established after the exam of many source of evidences and cross correlations between witnesses formal declarations, data from the control system, design data, damages surveys. To this aim, a multidisciplinary approach involving engineers, informatics, public officers, firemen, work inspectors was followed. The enquiry showed how the jet fire that hit the eight workers killing seven of them originated by the rupture of an hydraulic circuit initially involved in a localized small pool fire. This case demonstrated how the fire risk associated with hydraulic circuits has been seriously underestimated."[30]
CEO Espenhahn has been charged by the State prosecutor of Turin with "voluntary multiple murder with eventual malice" ("omicidio volontario multiplo con dolo eventuale"), while five other managers and executives have been charged with "culpable murder with conscious guilt".[31] On Friday 15 April 2011, Espenhahn and all the other indictees were pronounced guilty of all charges; Espenhahn has been sentenced to 16 years and 6 months in jail and to a lifelong ban from holding public offices. Prior to the court case, Espenhahn was transferred from Italy and is now believed to reside in Brazil. On 23 February 2013, the Appellate Court changed the sentence for Espenhahn to culpable murder, not recognizing the voluntary murder, thus reducing the conviction. Convictions for the other managers were reduced as well.[citation needed]
In May 2016 the appeal court has reduced the sentences for Espenhahn down to 9 years and 8 months, the other 5 managers (4 Italians and 1 German) between 6 and 7 years. Priegnitz the German manager, was sentenced to 6 years and 3 months.[32] According to the bilateral laws between Germany and Italy, the convicted can serve the term in his home country and with accordance to this countries' laws. Since accounts of first-degree murder have been appealed down to aggravated negligent manslaughter, the German convicts are expecting further reductions that would eventually not exceed 5 years.[32]
Incidents
Thyssenkrupp has been the victim of major, organised hacking attacks on several occasions, targeting the company's trade secrets.
On 8 December 2016 it emerged that the company was attacked in February of that year. Internally uncovered in April 2016, it took their IT team around half a year to fix. The hack is thought to have originated from South-East Asia and was successful in retrieving information from various departments, including the plant engineering division.[33]
This is not the first time the company fell victim to hacks. In 2012, thyssenkrupp and other European companies have been attacked by Chinese sources.[34]
Mobile, AL Elevator Free-fall
On 17 May 2018 Elevator 7 at the Mobile Government Plaza was accidentally put into free-fall during operation, injuring 3 people. It was discovered that the car was above its capacity during the incident. [35]
See also
- List of steel producers
- List of conglomerates
- List of elevator manufacturers
- Transrapid
- Shanghai Maglev Train
- South African Arms Deal
- Dolphin-class submarine
- Eclipse (yacht)
References
- James, Harold. Krupp: A History of the Legendary German Firm. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012. ISBN 9780691153407.
Notes
- ^ "Press release - Press releases - ThyssenKrupp AG". thyssenkrupp.com. 3 December 2014.
- ^ "Dr.-Ing. Heinrich Hiesinger". thyssenkrupp.com. 26 August 2014.
- ^ a b c d e f "ThyssenKrupp Annual Report 2016-2017" (PDF).
- ^ "The world's largest steel companies in 2015, based on revenue" Statista
- ^ "Consolidated statement of financial position - Consolidated Financial Statements - ThyssenKrupp Online Annual Report 2010/2011". thyssenkrupp.com. 6 December 2011. Archived from the original on 30 June 2013.
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- ^ "Krupp - Lead up to the merger with Thyssen". thyssenkrupp.com. 30 September 2013. Archived from the original on 28 September 2011.
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- ^ "The Story of OnlineMetals.com". onlinemetals.com.
- ^ Mia Shanley; Bjorn Rundstrom (15 April 2014). "ThyssenKrupp in talks to sell Swedish naval shipyard to Saab". Reuters.
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- ^ Wilson, A. J. The Pick and the Pen. London: Mining Journal Books Limited, 1979. ISBN 9780900117169. OCLC 5818544.
- ^ http://www.asdd.com/pdf/news_05152007.pdf
- ^ "New owners of ThyssenKrupp stainless steel division plan visit in June". Press-Register. May 31, 2012. Retrieved June 15, 2013.
- ^ John W. Miller and Ike Henning, "Thiessen gets offers for mills: Final bids for steel complexes in Alabama, Brazil will likely fall short of the company's hopes", The Wall Street Journal March 1, 2013
- ^ "ArcelorMittal, Nippon Steel buy ThyssenKrupp's U.S. factory". Japan Today. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
- ^ Georgina Prodhan (24 April 2015). "ThyssenKrupp to invest $866 million in North America". Reuters. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
- ^ a b "ThyssenKrupp to sell Tailored Blanks to WISCO". Reuters. 28 September 2012. Retrieved 30 September 2012.
- ^ Turner, Zeke; Patterson, Scott (September 20, 2017). "Thyssenkrupp, Tata Seal Long-Awaited European Steel Deal". The Wall Street Journal. New York City, New York, United States. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
- ^ [1] Archived 2011-01-07 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Business Areas". thyssenkrupp.com. 20 November 2014.
- ^ a b c d "Elevator makers fined $1.3B for price-fixing" (news), Purchasing.com - Reed Business Information, Feb. 2007, webpage: Purchcom-8053.
- ^ The Thyssen Krupp Accident in Torino: Investigation Methods, Accident Dynamics and Lesson Learned 2012, p 615-620
- ^ The Thyssen Krupp Accident in Torino: Investigation Methods, Accident Dynamics and Lesson Learned 2012, p 615-620
- ^ The Thyssen Krupp Accident in Torino: Investigation Methods, Accident Dynamics and Lesson Learned 2012, p 615-620
- ^ "Thyssen, a processo i sei imputati, "Fu omicidio volontario"". Corriere.it (in Italian). 17 November 2008. Retrieved 6 May 2009.
- ^ a b "Tödlicher Brand bei Thyssenkrupp: Italiener wollen Deutsche in Haft sehen". n-tv.de. 2017-10-15. Retrieved 2017-11-29.
- ^ "Trade secrets stolen from ThyssenKrupp in major hack". The Stack. 2016-12-08. Retrieved 2016-12-08.
- ^ "EADS, ThyssenKrupp attacked by Chinese hackers: report". Reuters. 2017-02-24. Retrieved 2016-12-08.
- ^ http://mynbc15.com/news/local/government-plaza-employees-react-to-elevator-free-fall
External links
- Conglomerate companies of Germany
- Multinational companies headquartered in Germany
- Krupp
- Thyssen AG
- Defence companies of Germany
- Elevator manufacturers
- Escalator manufacturers
- Military vehicle manufacturers
- Shipbuilding companies of Germany
- Steel companies of Germany
- Manufacturing companies based in Duisburg
- Companies based in Essen
- Conglomerate companies established in 1999
- Manufacturing companies established in 1999
- Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1999
- 1999 establishments in Germany
- German brands
- Price fixing convictions