Experience the ArcelorMittal Difference

With six global R&D sites and about 600 researchers dedicated to automotive, our commitment to cutting-edge technology and innovation is weaved throughout the story behind our steel. We invest around $100 million annually in research and development efforts specific to automotive and mobility.

In North America, ArcelorMittal operates an R&D center in East Chicago, Indiana and one in Hamilton, Ontario employing approximately 230 professionals devoted to research on flat and long products, primarily automotive. East Chicago played a major role in the development and promotion of 3rd generation advanced high strength steels, now a worldwide focus for light-weighting and safety enhancement in the auto industry.

ArcelorMittal explores and capitalizes on the unique properties of steels in the most profound ways. We embed engineers in customers’ design and engineering facilities to help study automaker challenges and create customer-focused solutions. We are pioneers and world leaders in press-hardened steels. And we are proud that leading automakers keep inviting us to help them create the safest, lightest, and most environmentally friendly vehicles of tomorrow.

Steel has remained the material of choice for the last 75 years as it has the most opportunity to keep reinventing itself. At ArcelorMittal, we challenge ourselves to continuously discover new and breakthrough ways to use this unrivaled material in the automotive and mobility space. Whether it’s hitting weight targets, crash optimization, premium finishes or reducing costs and carbon footprints— we can do it with our incredibly talented team of researchers, scientists and engineers and our leading technical advances in steel.

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ArcelorMittal’s automotive steel product portfolio is the most extensive in the industry. Automakers that work with us are part of the story behind our steel products and solutions.

Over two-thirds of a car is typically made of steel. Whatever part or vehicle automakers and their suppliers are building, ArcelorMittal works alongside them to design and deliver cutting-edge, lightweight, efficient, safe and easy to implement steel solutions. These deeply engrained partnerships with our clients, paired with the industry’s largest R&D team in North America, contribute to an extensive and unmatched automotive product portfolio.

And it’s not just the quantity of product, it’s the quality. For example, while most auto standards require 1200 MPa tensile strength in Multi Phase Grades, ArcelorMittal has achieved 1500 MPa, while also delivering on customer requirements for formidability and flatness.

In a rapidly evolving automotive industry, flexibility wins. That’s why ArcelorMittal’s Multi Part Integration^® (MPI) process is becoming an increasingly bigger part of our story. Our automotive partners benefit from the power of less - less parts, less process, less floor space, less time, less materials, less CO₂ and less assembly cost.

ArcelorMittal’s MPI process is becoming an increasingly bigger part of our story. Our automotive partners benefit from a more efficient, sustainable and simplified manufacturing.