- CEO
- Guido Kerkhoff
- Full Time Employees
- 6,500
- Sector
- Non-energy minerals
- Industry
- Steel
- Address
- Peter-Müller-Straße 24 Düsseldorf NW Germany 40468
- IPO Date
- Jun 28, 2006
- Business
- Klöckner & Co SE, founded in 1906 and headquartered in Duisburg, Germany, is one of the largest producer-independent metal processors and leading steel service center companies, distributing steel and metal products to over 60,000 customers primarily in Europe and North America through a network of around 120 locations. The company offers an extensive portfolio of more than 165,000 products including flat steel products such as thin sheet, strip and thick sheet; long steel products such as merchant bars, sectional steel and beams; tubes and hollow sections such as structural hollow sections, precision tubes and seamless heavy-wall pipes; stainless and high-grade steel such as sheet, profiles and tubes in V2A and V4A grades; aluminum profiles, sheet, strip and plate; and CO2-reduced steel, stainless steel and aluminum products under the Nexigen brand; complemented by comprehensive processing services including coil processing such as cutting and splitting of steel strip, forming and pressed parts manufacturing, CNC turning and milling, 2D/3D tube laser cutting, laser and water jet cutting, thermal cutting via plasma and oxy-fuel, surface treatment with shot blasting and primer painting, and sawing, drilling and bending, as well as warehousing, logistics and just-in-time delivery. Klöckner & Co operates through segments including Kloeckner Metals Europe and Kloeckner Metals Americas, serving industries such as construction, machinery and mechanical engineering, transportation and other metalworking sectors with approximately 6,500 employees and 2024 sales of €6.6 billion. Recent strategic changes include the September 2025 agreement to sell eight U.S. distribution sites to Russel Metals for approximately USD 119 million to sharpen focus on higher value-added service center and processing business; the May 2025 acquisition by Kloeckner Metals Germany of Ambo-Stahl-Gesellschaft, a specialist in wear-resistant and high-strength fine-grained structural steels for defense, construction machinery and infrastructure customers; and ongoing expansion of CO2-reduced solutions under Nexigen to support sustainable supply chains.