Thyssenkrupp : Manufacturing Strategy, Fulvio Federico, CTO

9. Manufacturing Strategy

Fulvio Federico

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Evolution to a product-based business to most efficiently serve growing global demand

Project business	Technology provider and product business
Full customization per project	thyssenkrupp nucera green hydrogen business
		prepared for being highly standardized with
		20 MW module

>20 MW water

electrolysis plant

Standardized

20 MW module

Key benefits

Standardization and serial production

1 to achieve GW scale ensuring quality, schedule and cost optimization

2	Establish thyssenkrupp nucera as a
	key technology provider

3	Reduction of complexity and risks by
	standardization

thyssenkrupp nucera business in transition from a classical project business to a future AWE product-based business

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thyssenkrupp nucera provides meaningful value-add across each step of the manufacturing process

thyssenkrupp nucera	+
A cell design

Fabrication of skid-	=	20 MW module
B mounted process units	C assembly

CathodeAnode

thyssenkrupp nucera supply chain of cell components:

• Half shells manufacturing according to thyssenkrupp nucera's IP design (De Nora)
• Electro-catalyticcoating and production techniques
  (De Nora)
• Other cell components

thyssenkrupp nucera supply chain of process & plant equipment:

• Tanks, pumps, filters
• Piping, valves & heat exchangers
• Electrical, instrumentation and control
• Power electronics

Single element

thyssenkrupp nucera assembly:

• Assembly of cells at customers' site or at thyssenkrupp nucera workshop
• Assembly of process units at customers' site

(e.g. separator / diaphragm, gasket frames and sealing, bolted flange, insert and distribution pipes, fittings and hoses for connection to the headers)

thyssenkrupp nucera's AWE business follows a holistic serial fabrication concept to capture demand

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1. thyssenkrupp nucera and De Nora already set up today to deliver 1 GW p.a.

Half shells production

Rodenbach

	Further capacity expansion into other
thyssenkrupp	regions are planned
nucera supply chain	Customer site or
of cell components
module yard

thyssenkrupp nucera supply chain for cell components fully established & synchronized with De Nora to deliver 1 GW of electrolyzer p.a.

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Video | How to achieve the energy transformation?

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