Sustainability at thyssenkrupp rothe erde

In addition to the numerous measures for the health and well-being of our employees, our products also play an important role in the healthcare sector. Our high-quality product components are essential for the functionality of MRI and CT scanners, which play a key role in medical diagnostics. These devices can be used to make life-saving diagnoses and detect diseases early, which improves healthcare worldwide.

Rothe Erde is aware of its role in society and wants to contribute. This also includes providing young people with a solid vocational or commercial education and a good start in their careers. To ensure the quality of the training, additional educational offers are made in the state-of-the-art training workshop with an attached training center in Germany. Rothe Erde has been one of the best training companies in the Lippe region for years, confirmed by the Hellweg-Sauerland Chamber of Industry and Commerce. Rothe Erde also supports academic education, for example with internships, thesis work, or in the context of practice-oriented student jobs.

The thyssenkrupp Group has been pursuing a corporate-wide strategy to promote diversity since 2013 and is actively committed to gender equality in the workplace. For the thyssenkrupp rothe erde Germany GmbH, target values have been defined for the proportion of women on the supervisory board, management board, and their two subsequent management levels.We value our employees regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion/belief, disability, age, or sexual orientation and identity. We speak out clearly against discrimination and for integration and tolerance, and we pursue a zero-tolerance policy in the event of non-compliance.

With our solutions, we create the basis for a sustainable transformation of global energy production towards energy from renewable sources. The products of Rothe Erde are central components in onshore and offshore wind turbines, solar panels, or tidal power plants. We have been a reliable partner of all major wind turbine manufacturers since the early days of the industry. With our decades of expertise, we support the growth of environmentally friendly energy. Through our broad production and dense sales network, we thus create the basis for CO2 reduction and decarbonization worldwide.

We offer all our employees at all locations a decent and ergonomically healthy workplace. In the strong association with thyssenkrupp, we also ensure our economic growth. In 2023, Rothe Erde was also assigned to the "Decarbon Technologies" segment, which deals with future-oriented solutions for CO2 reduction in general and decarbonization of industry in particular.

For over 160 years, Rothe Erde has been developing and producing innovative solutions in the industrial environment. In doing so, it has always been possible to provide the answers to the challenges of the current time worldwide: from seamless wheel rims for railways to slewing bearings in wind turbines. In our 10,700 m² large research and development center for slewing bearings, we test future-oriented developments and test all key components and materials to their limits on 20 test benches.

We create solutions for livable cities and landscapes of the future. Our solutions support, among other things, the climate-neutral transformation of energy generation or the CO2-neutral transformation of transport, and thus create the ecological change towards sustainable cities and communities. Our products also contribute to the sustainable transformation of our infrastructure systems, for example in tunnel boring machines, which are used in the expansion of both municipal and international rail traffic. Numerous public transport vehicles are also equipped with our products.

Worldwide, Rothe Erde pays attention to the efficient use of resources and energy. In production, the regulations for the use of hazardous substances according to REACH and RoHS are adhered to: no acutely toxic, organ-toxic, carcinogenic, or germ-cell mutagenic substances of category 1 or 2 are used. With a recycling rate of over 95%, Rothe Erde is well above the industry-wide standard. The installation of a PV and carbonization plant, as well as the project for CO2-neutral ring production at our German location, is bringing us closer to our CO2 reduction goals step by step. All environmental aspects are regularly evaluated.

Solutions from Rothe Erde are a central component in the efficient, reliable and safe generation of energy from renewable sources. The electricity generated can also be used to provide the energy required for the production of hydrogen or the climate-neutral energy supply of electric vehicles.

The solutions from Rothe Erde are largely customer-specific. We therefore have long-standing, close partnerships when it comes to product development. We develop the solutions of tomorrow together with our customers. We also work closely with universities. We use this network to further advance current sustainability issues. Last but not least, our reliable networks have made Rothe Erde one of the world's leading manufacturers of slewing bearings.