Salzgitter AG is a German company, one of the largest steel producers in Europe with an annual output of around seven million tonnes.

The company was part in 1937 as Reichswerke Hermann Göring,[2][3][4][5][6][7] which went on to become the largest German economic enterprise in the Third Reich[2][3][8] along with I.G.

[9] In 2007, Salzgitter bought Kloeckner-Werke with its filling and packaging business KHS, as part of its strategy to enter into new industrial sectors.

[10] Salzgitter planned to commercialise the Plasmax technology to improve the barrier properties of PET bottles.

[citation needed] The key trends for Salzgitter AG are, as of each financial year:[12] The largest shareholders in December 2023 were:[13] In 2019, Germany’s Federal Cartel Office (BKartA) fined Salzgitter AG – alongside Thyssenkrupp and Voestalpine – and three individuals a combined €646 million ($712 million) for price fixing after establishing that they had agreed on certain surcharges for steel plates from 2002 to 2016.