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example , throughout 2023 , there has been significant progress with our very own Nexigen ® umbrella brand for transparent , CO 2
-reduced solutions for steel and metal materials , operations and logistics that help our customers establish sustainable value chains while accelerating their green transformation : Acting as a connecting link between steel producers
and consumers with a global network in 13 countries , we at Kloeckner provide our more than 90,000 customers local access to some 160 distribution and service center locations .
Moving ahead with Nexigen ®: Two milestone projects for green buildings
The launch of Nexigen ® not only underlines our ambition as a pioneer of a sustainable steel industry and more precisely steel distribution , but its introduction has also taken the next step by premiering a clearly defined set of categorizations for steel , stainless steel and aluminum products based on the product ’ s actual carbon footprint from raw material extraction to production and transport emissions from our warehouse to the customer ’ s factory gate .
Let us look at two of our most recent milestone projects - both will make commercial and public buildings greener by leveraging the advantages of our CO 2
-reduced steel solutions . These two examples illustrate the overall state of green steel affairs in Europe .
The first project entails commercial building spaces : In the summer of 2023 , our holding company , Klöckner & Co , signed an agreement for the supply of CO 2
-reduced steel under the Nexigen ® umbrella brand to the Italian steel tubes producer Acciaitubi - and the first partial delivery has already been carried out by our sister company Becker Stahl- Service GmbH .
One of the landmark projects is the construction of Germany ’ s first modular building using CO 2 -reduced material , the Heisenberg Gymnasium , a high school building currently being realized by ALHO Systembau GmbH , in Dortmund . Photo : ALHO Systembau GmbH
Acciaitubi aims to become one of the first manufacturers in Europe to be able to offer its customers high-quality steel
20 Green Steel World | Issue 10 | February 2024