For the first time, Benteler is delivering welded CliMore® pipes in the category Ambition to a customer – the Stabilus Group, a global leader in supplying motion control solutions – for the production of pneumatic springs. The division Benteler Steel/Tube presented the new brand for sustainable steel pipes in autumn 2023. Already towards the end of last year, the first quantities of seamless pipes were able to be introduced successfully to European trading partners. This is now followed with a premier delivery of welded pipes made from carbon-reduced steel from the Benteler electric steel mill in Lingen, without an intermediary distributor.
“The climate change and its need for decarbonisation of the industry, especially the steel industry, are among the most important challenges of our time. The joint alliance of Benteler and Stabilus demonstrates our strong commitment to sustainable business and our contribution to reducing our carbon footprint”, says Ralph Mathis, Chief Sales Officer Benteler Steel/Tube. “We are very happy, that our long-term business partner Stabilus has become our first customer to directly receive our welded pipes of our newly created brand CliMore®.”
Benteler continues working on reducing their carbon footprint and has modified its own product - and service portfolio according to the ecological interests of customers. In September 2023, the Division Steel/Tube presented the new product brand CliMore® to the public. The brand covers all carbon-reduced steels and steel pipe products of the division, which include three separate categories of sustainability: Advantage, Ambition and Excellence. These indicate how the steel was produced and which source of energy was used to do so.
In all three stages, an electric arc furnace produces low-emission steel from scrap metal – this act of recycling alone already reduces carbon emissions by up to 75 percent compared to new steel from a classic blast furnaces using iron ore. At the Ambition stage, the electric arc furnace and the pipe factories also run with green electricity. This adds up to reducing carbon emissions by 85 percent. At the highest stage, Excellence, in the future the plants will also either be electrified, or green hydrogen will be used as a source for the process energy needed to produce steel and manufacture steel pipes.
