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Construction speed, cost efficiency, aesthetics, and sustainability – all can be achieved with ArcelorMittal’s products. We encourage you to familiarise yourself with our full range of flooring and roofing structure solutions paying special attention to:
- For the most responsive flooring - cellular beams, such as ACB® or Angelina®, to simplify service integration and avoid the issues related to any additional service zone below the beam level.
- For the beauty of facades - Granite® HDX for when colour stability and corrosion resistance is needed.
- For HVAC and interior - hot dip galvanised steel with a pure zinc coating which gives excellent corrosion resistance and very good formability; see also ArcelorMittal's range of Estetic® coatings, suitable for all contemporary interior decoration: ceiling panels, room dividers, decorative walls and lights, as well as for metal furniture, air conditioning units, and much more.
Our technical experts would be glad to assist in answering any of your questions, as well as presenting you with a complete offer to meet your expectations.
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Commitment to sustainability sees Bruynzeel Storage Systems aim for net-zero by 2045
10 July 2023Bruynzeel Storage Systems is a leading provider of made-to-measure storage solutions for archives, museums, retail, offices, libraries, smart warehouses, healthcare, and vertical farming. The company is a leader in sustainability, having already achieved climate neutral status in its own operations for Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions. The next step is to decarbonise the company’s operations fully by achieving net-zero indirect emissions. Bruynzeel has set itself the goal of achieving this target by 2045 at the latest. To help Bruynzeel on that journey, the company has begun to purchase ArcelorMittal steels with XCarb® green steel certificates.“At Bruynzeel Storage Systems, we want to be the leader in our sector when it comes to enhancing the sustainability of our business,” says Bart Sijben, Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the company. “With that in mind, we have already taken action to create a climate-neutral factory. That has reduced our Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions to zero. Now we are working to decarbonise our indirect – Scope 3 – emissions.”
Product newsMagnelis® receives Steel Construction Institute certification
22 June 2023The Steel Construction Institute (SCI) has awarded its ‘SCI Assessed’ quality mark to ArcelorMittal’s Magnelis® ZM120 coating for corrosion protection. Magnelis® is a ZM (zinc-aluminium-magnesium) coating in accordance with EN 10346:2015.
Product newsVELUX Group cooperates with ArcelorMittal on low carbon-emissions steel
20 April 2023The VELUX Group has kickstarted cooperation with ArcelorMittal, the world's leading steel and mining company, as part of its efforts to halve value chain emissions by 2030. The companies will now work together to lower the carbon footprint of the steels used in VELUX roof windows, aiming to reduce embedded CO2 by up to 70% (depending on the type of steel product used) compared with conventionally produced steel.
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Commitment to sustainability sees Bruynzeel Storage Systems aim for net-zero by 2045
Bruynzeel Storage Systems is a leading provider of made-to-measure storage solutions for archives, museums, retail, offices, libraries, smart warehouses, healthcare, and vertical farming. The company is a leader in sustainability, having already achieved climate neutral status in its own operations for Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions. The next step is to decarbonise the company’s operations fully by achieving net-zero indirect emissions. Bruynzeel has set itself the goal of achieving this target by 2045 at the latest. To help Bruynzeel on that journey, the company has begun to purchase ArcelorMittal steels with XCarb® green steel certificates.
“At Bruynzeel Storage Systems, we want to be the leader in our sector when it comes to enhancing the sustainability of our business,” says Bart Sijben, Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the company. “With that in mind, we have already taken action to create a climate-neutral factory. That has reduced our Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions to zero. Now we are working to decarbonise our indirect – Scope 3 – emissions.”
Steel's flexibility is key
Most of Bruynzeel’s storage solutions are made with steel due to the flexibility of the material. “Steel is easy to shape and form into the required dimensions and shapes, but it does have a big impact on the carbon footprint of the business,” notes Bart Sijben. “Our goal is to cut our Scope 3 emissions to zero by 2045. We believe that XCarb® green steel certificates are the best solution available today to help us achieve that goal.”
Ultimately the choice of steel is up to the final customer. “We mainly use unoiled cold rolled steel to create our storage solutions,” explains Bart Sijben. “We also use Magnelis®. It is the perfect choice for applications when we want to avoid pure-zinc coatings. Zinc is not the best corrosion protection solution in indoor projects for a range of sustainability, environmental, and recycling reasons.”
Giving customers the facts
To help customers make a choice, Bruynzeel can provide quotes which detail the environmental impact of the raw materials used in its products. “We can quote for solutions with and without XCarb® green steel certificates, but the quotes show the environmental impact of each option,” explains Marius Schlatmann, Group Marketing Manager for Bruynzeel.
Providing customers with fact-based, independently verified data is critical explains Marius Schlatmann: “We are careful to use the right protocols and reporting language in our communications, and we expect our suppliers to do the same. The fact that ArcelorMittal’s certificates are independently verified is very important to us. Our own Scope 1 and 2 reductions have been audited by Deloitte.”
Around two-thirds of the customers who opt for steel with XCarb® green steel certificates are organisations which rely partly or fully on public funding notes Bart Sijben: “Publicly funded organisations are taking the lead. The National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom is a good example. They now ask suppliers about their sustainability initiatives – and those of their suppliers. It is becoming increasingly important to all organisations, but particularly those that are active in the public sector.”
Supporting ArcelorMittal’s journey to net-zero
In the future, Bruynzeel wants to be the first customer to use ArcelorMittal steel produced with low-carbon technology. Until then they are supporting ArcelorMittal on its journey to zero emissions by buying XCarb® green steel certificates with their orders.
“While ArcelorMittal is developing its low-carbon technologies, we will continue to support the steelmaker on its own journey to net-zero,” says Bart Sijben. “ArcelorMittal is the market leader and produces high quality products. We also appreciate their excellent service and short lead-time offer. We feel closely linked. ArcelorMittal has the same culture as Bruynzeel despite ArcelorMittal being a large organisation.”
About Bruynzeel Storage Systems Systems BV
Bruynzeel was founded in 1897 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Initially, the company produced wooden shelving systems for a range of applications. In 1970, Bruynzeel produced its first mobile shelving systems made from steel. Today the company is the market leader in Europe for innovative and space creating solutions. Its mission is to help companies and institutions reduce their CO2 footprint by using Bruynzeel space creating solutions.
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VELUX Group cooperates with ArcelorMittal on low carbon-emissions steel
The VELUX Group has kickstarted cooperation with ArcelorMittal, the world's leading steel and mining company, as part of its efforts to halve value chain emissions by 2030. The companies will now work together to lower the carbon footprint of the steels used in VELUX roof windows, aiming to reduce embedded CO2 by up to 70% (depending on the type of steel product used) compared with conventionally produced steel.
Looking forward to the positive impact
The quality of steel is particularly crucial for ensuring optimal performance of the hinges used to operate VELUX roof windows and the brackets used to install them. The VELUX Group is working towards halving scope 3 emissions by 2030 and working with suppliers of materials for its products is essential to achieve this.
“This spring we are ordering the first delivery of low-carbon emissions steel from ArcelorMittal,” says Jesús Villalba, Senior Director, Direct Procurement at VELUX Group. “We are very excited about the journey that ArcelorMittal has started to move from emissions-intensive energy for steel production towards lower carbon steelmaking. Cooperations like these will enable decarbonisation of our products and we look forward to seeing the positive impact on our product and company carbon emissions.”
XCarb® recycled and renewably produced steel
ArcelorMittal’s XCarb® recycled and renewably produced flat steel is produced using a minimum of 75% scrap steel and 100% renewable electricity. It will now be tested in larger volumes in a VELUX factory in Gniezno, Poland to see how it performs in hinges and brackets. In parallel, VELUX and ArcelorMittal will work together to lower the carbon footprint of steel used in some other components for roof windows.
“Today’s announcement is the culmination of many months’ work with our colleagues at VELUX Group, as well as in our testing laboratories and production lines in Europe”, said Laurent Plasman, CMO Industry, ArcelorMittal Europe – Flat Products. “Thanks to the interest and support of our customers, we are able to manufacture XCarb® recycled and renewably produced steel for a growing number of applications, pushing the boundaries of what we thought was possible when we launched XCarb® two years ago. I would like to thank VELUX Group for its commitment to this project so far; while we are at the start of this journey, I look forward to seeing the results of this long-term cooperation to reduce the environmental impact of steel used in VELUX roof windows."
The collaboration between the two companies was announced at BAU – the world's leading trade fair for architecture, materials, and systems, in Munich on 19 April 2023.
About the VELUX Group
For more than 80 years, the VELUX Group has created better living environments for people around the world making the most of daylight and fresh air through the roof. Their product programme includes roof windows and modular skylights, decorative blinds, sun screening products, and roller shutters, as well as installation and smart home solutions. These products help to ensure a healthy and sustainable indoor climate for work and learning and for play and pleasure. The Group works globally – with sales and manufacturing operations in more than 38 countries and around 11 000 employees worldwide. The VELUX Group is owned by VKR Holding A/S, a limited company wholly owned by non-profit, charitable foundations (THE VELUX FOUNDATIONS) and family. In 2022, the VELUX Group had a total revenue of EUR 2.99 billion, VKR Holding had a total revenue of EUR 4.29 billion, and THE VELUX FOUNDATIONS donated EUR 181 million in charitable grants.
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