- CEO
- Guido Kerkhoff
- Full Time Employees
- 6,451
- Sector
- Basic Materials
- Industry
- Steel
- Address
- Am Silberpalais 1 Duisburg Germany 47057
- IPO Date
- Aug 17, 2012
- Business
- Klöckner & Co SE, founded in 1906 and headquartered in Duisburg, Germany, operates as one of the world's largest producer-independent metal processors and leading steel service center companies, distributing and processing steel and metal products through a network of approximately 120 warehouse and processing locations primarily in Europe, North America, and select international markets. The company serves over 60,000 customers, including small and medium-sized enterprises as well as large international corporations in sectors such as construction, mechanical and plant engineering, automotive, shipbuilding, and consumer goods; its core product portfolio encompasses flat steel products including thin sheet, strip, and thick sheet; long steel products such as merchant bars, sectional steel, and beams; tubes and hollow sections comprising structural hollow sections, precision tubes, and seamless heavy-wall pipes; stainless and high-grade steel in sheet, profiles, and tubes (V2A and V4A grades); aluminum profiles, sheet, strip, and plate; and CO2-reduced steel, stainless steel, and aluminum products under the Nexigen brand. It provides comprehensive value-added services including warehousing, logistics, materials management, just-in-time delivery, coil processing, forming and pressed parts manufacturing, CNC turning and milling, 2D/3D laser tube cutting, laser and water jet cutting, thermal cutting, surface treatment via shot blasting and primer painting, and sawing, drilling, and bending. Recent strategic developments include the September 2025 announcement to sell eight U.S. distribution sites to sharpen focus on higher value-added service center operations; the 2025 acquisition by Kloeckner Metals Germany GmbH of Ambo-Stahl-Gesellschaft, a specialist in wear-resistant and high-strength fine-grained structural steels for defense, construction machinery, and infrastructure sectors; and a November 2024 investment in a new aluminum flat-rolled processing facility on the campus of Aluminum Dynamics LLC in Mississippi to bolster automotive and industrial growth in the U.S. and Mexico, building on prior acquisitions of National Material of Mexico and Industrial Manufacturing Services. The group, structured into Kloeckner Metals Europe and Kloeckner Metals Americas segments with around 6,500 employees, reported sales of approximately EUR 6.6 billion in fiscal year 2024 and continues to advance digitalization, sustainability initiatives, and expansion of its higher-margin processing capabilities.