As of last October, the operating businesses thyssenkrupp Materials UK and thyssenkrupp Aerospace UK are merging into a joint company under the name thyssenkrupp Materials UK, with the goal of delivering positive value added to the aerospace supply chains remaining unchanged. The operating strategy however, has been redefined to extend the company’s “Materials-as-a-Service” proposition and apply it across all of the market sectors by digital synergies and streamline of operational and logistic roles. Working stronger together, as a combined business, will ensure that thyssenkrupp Materials UK can provide the best possible service to customers, creating more shared expertise and know-how and building a faster and more flexible way of working, which will result in a more secure future for the thyssenkrupp teams. The merger is already proving to be a successful strategic decision, as the company is witnessing benefits across operational efficiency, organisational structure and customer relations.

Billy Kingsbury, COO of thyssenkrupp Materials UK, commented: “With a more flexible, stronger logistics and administration proposition, we will be able to focus our combined talent to its full extent towards the “Materials-as-a-Service” strategy, across a wider range of market sectors. We look at this merger as an opportunity to learn from each other and share our capability, knowledge and resources to offer materials and services as efficiently across all sectors. The merger will also provide us with the ability to pursue 4PL opportunities with our existing customer base and digital custom-tailored solutions to expand to other customers as well.”

Shortly after the merger, thyssenkrupp Materials UK was awarded with a new contract for the supply of defence armour and commercial grade raw materials as part of the Ajax armoured vehicle programme. Ajax is the British Army’s new multi-role, fully-digitised armoured fighting vehicle, offering versatility and agility, being delivered through the biggest single order of armoured vehicles in a generation. thyssenkrupp Materials UK was able to win this contract based on the strategic utilisation of their existing business units across both aerospace and materials.

As part of shaping the Materials-as-a-Service proposition across all sectors, thyssenkrupp Materials UK has launched #strongertogether campaign, with the key objective to enable its new, inclusive teams to exchange knowledge more effectively, so that the increased customer demands can be met in a quicker and flexible way in the current challenging environment.

www.thyssenkrupp-materials.co.uk/company/stronger-together