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CRONIMET and Outokumpu seal partnership to accelerate the circular economy

Karlsruhe, January 24, 2024

Finnish stainless steel producer Outokumpu has acquired a 10 percent minority stake in CRONIMET North-East GmbH.
CRONIMET retains full operational control over CRONIMET North-East GmbH companies.
Agreement on cooperation in innovation and research to reduce CO2 emissions.

CRONIMET, the global market leader in stainless steel recycling, and Finnish stainless steel producer Outokumpu have expanded their partnership as announced in November 2023. The acquisition of a 10 percent minority stake in CRONIMET North-East GmbH by Outokumpu has been completed after the customary closing conditions were met and all regulatory approvals were granted. As an intermediate holding company, CRONIMET North-East GmbH directly and indirectly holds the shares in the North-East European CRONIMET companies.

The transaction was carried out in the form of a share purchase. CRONIMET retains full operational control over the CRONIMET North-East GmbH companies involved. There are no plans to expand the shareholding in CRONIMET North-East or to acquire an interest in other companies of the CRONIMET Group.

With this partnership, CRONIMET and Outokumpu are intensifying their cooperation with the aim of optimizing the raw material cycle and using regionally processed scrap for the production of stainless steel in Europe.

"This partnership is a further step towards achieving the sustainable development goals of a low carbon footprint in the production of stainless steel through the use of regional scrap and shorter transportation routes to Outokumpu's stainless steel mills," says Jürgen Pilarsky, CEO of CRONIMET Holding GmbH. " I also see our collaboration as a chance to learn from each other and as a great opportunity to drive our CO2 reduction ambitions forward together, as we are both committed to the SBTi targets. And, moreover, this partnership is an excellent example of the implementation of the 17th UN goal, which promotes the formation of partnerships to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.”

Both companies have also agreed to work together on innovation and research. They want to work together on technologies that contribute to the decarbonization of stainless steel production. The partnership also focuses on reducing costs through better planning on both sides and reducing waste within the supply chain.

"By expanding our existing successful collaboration, we are ensuring that the recycled steel we purchase is of the best possible quality and is sourced as locally as possible, so that we can reduce the carbon footprint of our production. Our climate targets are ambitious and mean that we need to reduce emissions in our supply chain in particular. We can only achieve this in cooperation with our suppliers," says Marc-Simon Schaar, Chief Procurement Officer at Outokumpu.

About the CRONIMET Holding Group

The CRONIMET Holding Group, based in Karlsruhe, Germany, is a global specialist for stainless steel scrap and ferroalloys. The focus here is on returning metallic raw materials to the material cycle through recycling and processing, thus contributing to the safeguarding of raw materials and raw material efficiency. The company has been supplying raw materials to the stainless steel producing industry for more than four decades. The CRONIMET Holding Group was founded in 1980 and today has more than 1600 employees at 68 locations worldwide.

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CRONIMET strengthens its focus on the markets with the two new, market-savvy managing directors.

Karlsruhe, January 10, 2024

Marijo Zeljko is the new Chief Operating Officer (COO) of CRONIMET Holding GmbH.
Leandro Campos joins the management of CRONIMET Holding GmbH as Chief Technology Officer (CTO).
CRONIMET strengthens its focus on the markets with the two new, market-savvy managing directors.

In recent years, the CRONIMET Group has not only developed excellently in the traditional recycling business and consolidated or expanded its respective market position but has also placed a stronger focus on other product areas and regions in its own activities. The shareholders and management have therefore decided to expand the management team of CRONIMET Holding GmbH with two new colleagues, Marijo Zeljko and Leandro Campos, as of January 1, 2024. They will strengthen the focus on the markets and be responsible for future market development; to this end, each of them brings a wealth of expertise and many years of CRONIMET experience.

As Chief Operating Officer (COO) of CRONIMET Holding GmbH, Marijo Zeljko will be responsible for the Corporate Division "Recycling" of the CRONIMET Group with the exception of the USA. Most recently, Marijo Zeljko was responsible for the CRONIMET Group's European business as CEO and successfully promoted the further development and cooperation of the European locations. Until the end of August 2023, he was also Managing Director of CRONIMET Ferroleg. GmbH, the founding company and largest subsidiary of the CRONIMET Group, until the end of August 2023.

Leandro Campos, who has already been working for the Group for ten years as Managing Director of CRONIMET Brasil Ltda, will be responsible for the "Raw Materials" corporate division, which includes the processing activities, as Chief Technology Officer (CTO). He will contribute his many years of technical expertise in the processing of materials. He will also remain responsible for the Brazilian market. Leandro Campos can look back on 23 years of experience in the metals industry and can also draw on his knowledge from a post-graduate degree in Production & Metallurgy.

"I am delighted to have gained two highly competent and valued colleagues in Marijo Zeljko and Leandro Campos for the Management Board. Both have been working very successfully for CRONIMET for a long time and are role models for living our values. Together with Bernhard Kunsmann (CFO) and Annette Gartner (CIO), we have an outstanding management team that will lead CRONIMET safely through the current geopolitical uncertainties and at the same time continue to develop in our challenging markets," says Jürgen Pilarsky, CEO and majority shareholder of CRONIMET Holding GmbH.

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CRONIMET expands cooperation with Finnish stainless steel producer Outokumpu

Karlsruhe, November 7, 2023

Outokumpu acquires 10 percent minority stake in CRONIMET North-East GmbH
Strategic partnership to contribute to the decarbonization of stainless steel production
CRONIMET retains full operative control over North-East GmbH

CRONIMET, world’s market leader in stainless steel recycling, and Outokumpu, the world's leading supplier of sustainable stainless steel, are further expanding their strategic partnership. To this end, the Finnish stainless steel producer is acquiring a 10 percent stake in CRONIMET North-East GmbH, an intermediate holding company which directly and indirectly holds the shares in CRONIMET's northeastern European companies.

Outokumpu and CRONIMET are working together to optimize the raw material cycle: regionally processed scrap for the production and consumption of stainless steel in Europe.

“This partnership is another step towards achieving the sustainable development goals: a low carbon footprint in the production of stainless steel with regional scrap and through shorter transport routes to Outokumpu’s stainless steel mills,” says Jürgen Pilarsky, CEO of CRONIMET Holding GmbH.

In addition to supplying Outokumpu's European stainless steel mills with stainless steel scrap from CRONIMET's sites in northeastern Europe, the two companies have also agreed in this partnership to work together on innovation and research. Together they intend to work on technologies that contribute to the decarbonization of the stainless steel industry. The partnership also focuses on reducing costs through better planning on both sides and reducing waste within the supply chain.

"We are pleased to partner with CRONIMET as we share a common goal in terms of regional development - accelerating the circular economy in the Northeast European market area while paying attention to sustainability and CO2 reduction during transportation and stainless steel production," expressed Marc-Simon Schaar, Chief Procurement Officer at Outokumpu.

As a shareholder, Outokumpu acts as a strategic partner in CRONIMET's North-East Europe business, expanding the existing successful cooperation. CRONIMET retains full operational control over the participating companies of CRONIMET North-East GmbH. An expansion of the shareholding in CRONIMET North-East or an investment in other companies of the CRONIMET Group is not planned.

The completion of the transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals by the competition authorities.

About the CRONIMET Holding Group

The CRONIMET Holding Group, headquartered in Karlsruhe, Germany, is a global specialist for stainless steel scrap and ferroalloys. The focus here is on returning metallic raw materials to the materials cycle through recycling and processing, thus contributing to the securing of raw materials and raw material efficiency. For more than four decades, the company has been supplying raw materials to the stainless steel producing industry. The CRONIMET Holding Group was founded in 1980 and is now present worldwide with more than 1500 employees at about 70 locations.

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CRONIMET expands its machine park with the first electrically powered material handler from Solmec

Karlsruhe, September 27, 2023

CRONIMET is continuously working on the electrification of its machine park

CRONIMET relies on robust and reliable technology from Italy

The Karlsruhe-based stainless steel specialist CRONIMET Ferroleg. GmbH continues to work on converting its machinery to environmentally friendly machines. This week, the first material handler of the Italian company Solmec, type EXP 5020ZE, has been handed over.

CRONIMET already committed last year to the net zero target by 2050 and also joined the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) in 2023. An important building block on the way to this goal is the changeover of the machine fleet to environmentally friendly, electrically powered material handlers. Currently, CRONIMET Ferroleg. GmbH in Karlsruhe has nine material handlers in operation, which are used to return around 140,000 tons of stainless steel scrap and other alloyed scrap to the raw materials cycle every year. The Solmec EXP 5020ZE is the second fully electrically operating excavator in Karlsruhe. It can be used in sorting mode for up to ten hours before its battery needs to be recharged.

"I am pleased that we are driving forward the electrification of the machine fleet with the new material handler at the site of the largest subsidiary of the CRONIMET Group. We are currently planning to replace the old diesel-powered material handlers with new, environmentally friendly models at all European sites of the CRONIMET Group. I am very happy to have Team Technics at my side as a competence center for the procurement of the machines," says Marijo Zeljko, CEO of the European locations of the CRONIMET Group.

"With the Solmec material handler, we are relying on innovative and robust technology. It can be used cable-free, completely flexible, and is characterized by high reliability," says Marco Merico, who is responsible in Team Technics for technical consulting in the procurement of CRONIMET Group machines in Europe.

By using the Solmec EXP 5020ZE, approximately 30 tons of CO₂ can be saved per year compared to using a diesel-powered machine. The material handler has a 40 kW electric motor with a rotation speed of 2,300 rpm and a maximum rotation torque of 300 Nm. In its rear there are two lead-acid battery packs of 930A at 120V each, which can be exchanged for other batteries if necessary, so that the machine is basically able to work through without major delays. The battery packs are charged at two external chargers, of which each is fitted with a 63A CEE plug system and can thus be connected to conventional power sockets.

An energy recovery system increases the operating time of the Solmec EXP 5020ZE by recovering energy through brake regeneration when the slewing system brakes and storing it in the main battery. Likewise, the machine has a system to support the passive loads of the machine. It consists of the hydraulic cylinders directly connected to a hydropneumatic accumulator that guarantees an additional hydraulic power and speed.

BVG Baumaschinen GmbH from Dachwig in Thuringia, Germany will be the future contact for CRONIMET regarding the Solmec EXP 5020ZE. As the only general importer for Solmec in Germany, BVG has carried out the handover to CRONIMET and will in future take care of all maintenance and service work as well as necessary repairs on the new material handler at CRONIMET Ferroleg. GmbH in Karlsruhe.

About the CRONIMET Holding Group

The CRONIMET Holding Group, headquartered in Karlsruhe, Germany, is a global specialist for stainless steel scrap and ferroalloys. The focus here is on returning metallic raw materials to the materials cycle through recycling and processing, thus contributing to the securing of raw materials and raw material efficiency. For more than four decades, the company has been supplying raw materials to the stainless steel producing industry. The CRONIMET Holding Group was founded in 1980 and, today, has more than 1600 employees at 68 locations worldwide.

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CRONIMET Group generates record sales in 2022 and joins "Inner Circle" inititative of Outokumpu

Karlsruhe, August 15, 2023

Syndicated loan agreement extended ahead of schedule, by one year, to 2026
Strong sign of banks’ confidence in the strategy being pursued by CRONIMET Group
Half-year results for 2023 on target despite difficult market environment

The CRONIMET Holding Group, headquartered in Karlsruhe, Germany, has extended the syndicated loan agreement with its partner banks ahead of schedule, by one year. This secures the company’s financing, which is 100 percent family-owned, until September 2026.

The syndicated loan agreement with 13 German and European partner banks, which was renewed in 2022, also provides for a further one-year extension. “The early extension of the financing agreement with a volume of approximately EUR 660 million is a strong sign of the banks’ confidence in our strategy and our strengths,” says Bernhard Kunsmann, CFO CRONIMET Holding GmbH. “The banks are thus rewarding our good performance, even in difficult times.”

For the first half of 2023, the CRONIMET Group recorded a strong result and is thus in line with its planning, although sales are below those of the first half of 2022 and heightened interest rates have also triggered an additional burden. “It is currently difficult to assess market developments,” says Jürgen Pilarsky, CEO and majority shareholder of CRONIMET Holding GmbH. “Demand in the market is on the decline, after we experienced two unusually strong years in 2021 and 2022. This affects the European market and – with some delay – now also the US market, in particular, which is important for us. We expect the market environment to remain challenging in the third quarter of 2023.”

CRONIMET is well-prepared for the upcoming months characterized by low demand. The organizational structure has been the subject of continuous development, and new business approaches are constantly being sought into which existing competencies and networks can be integrated. Particularly positive prospects are seen here in the newest business area – battery recycling. “Our broad positioning with the end users of our products across a diverse range of industries and regions, as well as the financing now secured for another three years, will certainly get us through the next, few difficult months to come,” says CEO Jürgen Pilarsky.

About the CRONIMET Holding Group

The CRONIMET Holding Group, headquartered in Karlsruhe, Germany, is a global specialist for stainless steel scrap and ferroalloys. The focus here is on returning metallic raw materials to the materials cycle through recycling and processing, thus contributing to the securing of raw materials and raw material efficiency. For more than four decades, the company has been supplying raw materials to the stainless steel producing industry. The CRONIMET Holding Group was founded in 1980 and, today, has more than 1600 employees at 68 locations worldwide.

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CRONIMET Group generates record sales in 2022 and joins "Inner Circle" inititative of Outokumpu

Karlsruhe, June 06, 2023

Strong result in a difficult operating environment
CRONIMET joins the initiative for a circular economy
CRONIMET Group receives bronze medal in EcoVadis sustainability rating

The CRONIMET Group, headquartered in Karlsruhe, Germany, is reporting record sales of EUR 4.1 billion for the fiscal year 2022, and has also once again exceeded its operating profit from 2021 by approximately 10%. The 100 percent family-owned company was thus able to successfully defy the major geopolitical challenges of 2022.

Following extremely robust sales in the first half of 2022, there was a significant drop in demand from key customers in the stainless steel industry in the summer. This decline was due, in particular, to price increases on the energy markets and high-level inflation, which led to a fall in demand for products from the stainless steel mills. The resulting lower scrap demand from stainless steel mills only recovered in the fourth quarter, with the result that sales volumes in the stainless steel and special alloys business were only just below the record level of 2021 and at the same level as 2020.

The CRONIMET Group was able to close the 2022 fiscal year with an operating result of more than EUR 77 million. “With such a success, we have clearly exceeded all the requirements set by lending institutions and secured our corporate financing, even in these challenging times and for the years to come,” said Bernhard Kunsmann, CFO of the CRONIMET Group.

“The market environment remains difficult as a result of the terrible war in Europe and inflation in key markets,” says Jürgen Pilarsky, CEO and majority shareholder of CRONIMET Holding GmbH. “The primary reasons for the positive annual result were the flexibility of our employees, who adapted their work accordingly and immediately to the new prevailing situation, and our unchanged spirit of cooperation rooted in partnership with our customers and suppliers.”

CRONIMET is the first signatory of Outokumpu’s “Inner Circle” initiative

CRONIMET is thus also intensifying its long-standing partnership with Outokumpu and joined the stainless steel producer’s “Inner Circle” initiative at the end of May. “In doing so, we are setting an example for a sustainable and efficient circular economy in the stainless steel industry,” explains Jürgen Pilarsky.

Outokumpu’s “Inner Circle” initiative aims to connect stainless steel processors, recyclers and steel mills more directly, thereby rendering supply chains more transparent, faster and more efficient. Outokumpu presented the initiative at the World Circular Economy Forum on June 1, 2023. “The level of cooperation between CRONIMET and Outokumpu was excellent during the joining phase of the “Inner Circle”. The main reasons for this were our long-standing partnership, the shared values of fairness and openness, and the common goal of promoting a sustainable circular economy for stainless steel,” says Marijo Zeljko, CEO Europe of CRONIMET Holding GmbH.

CRONIMET’s recycling activities make a significant contribution to promoting a circular economy in the stainless steel industry. The use of secondary raw materials processed by CRONIMET conserves resources and saves at least 4.3 tons of CO2 per ton of stainless steel in subsequent steel production compared with the use of primary raw materials.

“With our expertise and our measures for sustainable scrap processing, we see ourselves as an enabler of a true circular economy in the stainless steel sector,” Marijo Zeljko continues. Joining the “Inner Circle” as part of the common goal of resource-efficient steel production is a further step towards CRONIMET’s vision of a holistically sustainable society.

Systematic further development of sustainability management

Thus, CRONIMET has also invested in the further development of sustainability management in 2022. In April 2023, the CRONIMET Group received the Bronze Medal from EcoVadis. The leading international sustainability rating evaluates – according to 21 criteria – across four core topics: Environment, Labor and Human Rights, Ethics and Sustainable Procurement. Especially in the area of Environment, CRONIMET delivered a top performance with 70 out of 100 possible points, and is thus clearly above the industry average of the recycling industry.

“The EcoVadis award shows that we are on the right track with our sustainability management. We want to make our entire business sustainable,” says Bernhard Kunsmann, who is also responsible for sustainability management.

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CRONIMET Group commits to the climate protection targets of the Science Based Targets initiative

Karlsruhe, January 24, 2023

Globally active company commits to target net-zero standard by 2050
Commitment is part of the Group’s sustainability strategy
CRONIMET is a member of the “Business Ambition for 1.5°C” campaign

The globally active CRONIMET Group is setting an example and taking the next step with its climate strategy. The Germany-based company is now joining the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) to combat climate change. In doing so, CRONIMET commits itself to the climate protection goals of the international initiative and at the same time lines up with the “Business Ambition for 1.5 °C" campaign of the UN Global Compact.

With its commitment to the SBTi, CRONIMET has agreed that the entire Group set short- and long-term targets for company-wide emission reductions to comply in line with the science-based net-zero standards of the SBTi. “Joining the SBTi represents another consistent step in our CSR strategy. Of course, the goals we have set are high. As a company in the circular economy, we acknowledge our responsibility and want to contribute to a sustainable future. The fight against climate change is part of this and requires the quickest of action from all of us,” says CRONIMET CEO Jürgen Pilarsky.

To achieve its goals, CRONIMET focuses on avoiding emissions by using renewable energies, electrifying the machinery and vehicle fleet, and by the reduction of emissions through efficiency measures. “In our climate strategy, we have developed concrete measures for those responsible on site to plan and implement their specific reduction targets,” explains Head of CSR Management Konstantin Müller.

The CRONIMET Group will report regularly on its progress in a standardized and transparent manner in its CSR Report and via SBTi.

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CRONIMET Holding Group and partner banks extend cooperation ahead of schedule

Karlsruhe, September 30, 2022

Bank consortium increases loan volume to 700 million Euros
Financing of business operations secured until at least 2025 in difficult market environment

A banking consortium consisting of 13 German and European banks and CRONIMET Holding GmbH have extended the existing syndicated loan agreement until 2025 and increased the loan volume by more than 100 million Euros to approximately 700 million Euros. This secures the financing of the family-owned company based in Karlsruhe until September 2025. The partners also concluded extension options for a further two years.

“The early extension and the increase in the credit volume are a strong sign from the banking market and give us financing security for the upcoming years, which are likely to be rather difficult in view of the current geopolitical and economic environment,” explains Bernhard Kunsmann, CFO CRONIMET Holding GmbH. For the first time, the financing package also includes a credit line that allows CRONIMET to respond more flexibly to the market environment and, in particular, to volatilities in the raw materials markets.

The banking syndicate, with Commerzbank, Deutsche Bank and HSBC as the lead banks (mandated lead arranger and bookrunner), was also expanded and diversified to include several regional and also international banks. “The banks are not only rewarding our good corporate development in recent years, but also our sustainable business model,” says Bernhard Kunsmann. As the world’s leading company in stainless steel recycling, CRONIMET stands for resource conservation and raw material security in equal measure. In 2022, the CRONIMET Holding Group submitted its first sustainability report in accordance with the internationally recognized framework of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and is consistently working on the implementation of its sustainability strategy, in particular the goal of working CO2 neutral in by 2030.

In the first two quarters of 2022, the CRONIMET Holding Group generated very good earnings. Since the beginning of the third quarter, the outlook has clouded over, and forecasts are difficult to make. Jürgen Pilarsky, CEO and majority shareholder of CRONIMET Holding GmbH, is nevertheless optimistic. “Currently, it is difficult to predict how market demand will develop in view of rising energy prices and the associated decline in stainless steel production. Thanks to the very good earnings performance to date, I am nevertheless very confident that we will achieve our target result for 2022 in the Group.”

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CRONIMET commissions first battery-powered excavator SENNEBOGEN 825 Electro Battery in operation

Karlsruhe, September 13, 2022

Significant contribution to reducing CO2 emissions in the recycling process
Innovation project sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection

The Karlsruhe-based stainless-steel recycling specialist CRONIMET Ferroleg. GmbH has put the first SENNEBOGEN 825 Electro Battery battery-powered excavator into operation. It was developed as an innovation project of the company SENNEBOGEN Maschinenfabrik GmbH with the cooperation of CRONIMET.

The aim of the innovation project was to significantly reduce CO2 emissions in the recycling process. The new battery-powered excavator combines the flexibility of traditional diesel-powered excavators with the benefits of a zero-emission electric excavator that also has lower maintenance and energy costs. The battery-powered 30 t electric excavator 825 Electro Battery enables completely emission-free work and thus makes a significant contribution to reducing CO2 emissions at CRONIMET. “With this innovation project, we are taking a decisive step on the road to CO2 neutrality,” says Marijo Zeljko, Managing Director of CRONIMET Ferroleg. GmbH. “Electrification of our machinery is a key component of our climate strategy.”

The companies of the CRONIMET Group have committed to operate in a CO2-neutral manner by 2030. “As CRONIMET Ferroleg. we are ready to invest in innovation and move forward in the industry. That’s why we are very pleased that the project has been funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection,” says Marijo Zeljko.

Currently nine excavators are in operation at CRONIMET Ferroleg. GmbH in Karlsruhe, returning around 140,000 tons of stainless-steel scrap and other alloyed scrap to the raw material cycle every year. Initially, CRONIMET will use the battery-powered excavator for feeding the scrap press, preparing material for the press, and for sorting work in the incoming goods department. The battery-powered excavator runs on 100 percent certified green electricity and saves up to 125 metric tons of CO2 emissions per year in two-shift operation compared with the previous solution – and with the same freedom of movement.

CRONIMET supported the product development with important practical know-how and actively participated in the prototype status of the machine. The battery-powered electric excavator developed in the innovation project is thus optimally geared to the requirements of demanding metal recycling.

The SENNEBOGEN 825 Electro Battery is based on the SENNEBOGEN 825 E with 110 kilowatt electric motor. The operating weight of approx. 30 tons and the range of 14 meters are unchanged. Its power storage unit, a lithium-ion battery pack with 378 kilowatt hours of storage capacity installed at the rear of the machine in place of the counterweight, enables the excavator to operate flexibly for up to 8 hours without intermediate charging. When used stationary by cable, it can work and charge at the same time. Thanks to the onboard charger and the 63A CEE plug system used, the electric excavator can be connected to conventional power sockets, so there is no need for additional investment in charging columns.

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CRONIMET Group presents its first sustainability report

Karlsruhe, August 15, 2022

Sustainability report follows internationally recognized GRI framework
Emphasis on CO2 neutrality

Holding GmbH has published its first group-wide sustainability report. The Germany based company follows the internationally recognized standard of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), option: core. “With standard-compliant reporting, we want to report comprehensively and transparently on our sustainability commitment in all dimensions,” explains Bernhard Kunsmann, CFO of CRONIMET Holding GmbH.

As a globally active company with around 70 locations on six continents, CRONIMET is committed to its responsibility for the environment and society. A project team has been preparing the Group-wide report and strategy for the past two years. This has laid the foundations for further developing the strategy in close collaboration with stakeholders and defining additional, concrete goals in the areas of environment, social affairs, and governance. A key goal: CRONIMET aims to reduce directly caused CO₂ emissions across the Group by 2030 and become CO2 neutral in Scope 1 and 2, as well as achieve the Net Zero standard of the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) by 2050.

“This is a very ambitious goal that we are pursuing with vigor and strategy because we are convinced that, as a company in the circular economy, we can also make our contribution here,” explains CFO Bernhard Kunsmann. CRONIMET is currently preparing to join the SBTi. “We embody sustainability in our business model and in the way we see ourselves,” emphasizes majority shareholder and CEO Jürgen Pilarsky. “But it is not enough for us, as the world market leader in stainless steel recycling, to make a significant contribution to resource efficiency by returning valuable raw materials to the materials cycle. We want to go beyond this and make our corporate practices even more sustainable at every point: for the environment, our employees, our company and for society.”

The GRI Report and the accompanying sustainability magazine are published on the website of CRONIMET Holding GmbH.

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CRONIMET Group successfully concludes anniversary year 2021 – Changes in the management board

Karlsruhe, February 16, 2022

World market leader in stainless steel recycling consolidates its position
Oliver Kleinhempel retires from the management board and will will focus even more on the operating business in the future

The CRONIMET Group, world market leader in the recycling of stainless steel scrap with headquarters in Karlsruhe, has concluded its 40th anniversary year very successfully. Despite the increasingly difficult global trade relations, some restructuring within the industry and, of course, the still ongoing pandemic: the world market leader has come through the turbulent times very well and was able to further consolidate its position as number one in the industry. This is also reflected in the economic success. For the first time in more than ten years, the operating result before interest and depreciation has risen to over 100 million euros.

The CRONIMET Group has not only grown in its core business. Rather, the Karlsruhe-based family business has once again done what it has excelled at over the past 40 years: Recognizing and seizing opportunities. For some years now, CRONIMET has been working new business areas which – docked to the core business of metal recycling – are intended to further broaden the company's business base. In addition to the processing of metal sludges by the subsidiary CRONIMET Envirotec in Bitterfeld near Leipzig or the processing of a tungsten stockpile with approximately 12 million tons of tungsten ore tailings from a closed mine in Australia, another field of activity has been added in 2021 with the recycling of materials (cobalt and nickel) for the production of batteries for electric vehicles.

"What has always distinguished us have been our employees, their expertise and their flexibility. That and our partnership-based relationships within our industry, which have grown after more than 40 years, have also enabled us in this case and continue to enable us to recognize such opportunities as they arise and then to take advantage of them to secure the future of our company," says Jürgen Pilarsky, CEO of CRONIMET Holding GmbH.

Despite all economic success, the shareholders and management of the CRONIMET Group are also aware of their social responsibility. Thus, in 2021, the "Corporate Social Responsibility" area was expanded in terms of personnel as well as investments were made at many subsidiaries, for example, in solar energy and e-mobility, not only in the vehicle fleet, but also on the sites themselves. "We are convinced that the topic of sustainability has become second nature to all our employees, so we are very confident that we will also achieve our goal of being climate-neutral in 2030," says CFO Bernhard Kunsmann, who is responsible for CSR on the Executive Board.

CRONIMET also wants to be among the pioneers when it comes to women in management positions. "Even though there are currently no legal regulations for companies of our size, we have signed a voluntary commitment according to which there should always be at least one woman on our holding company's management board," says Annette Gartner, the managing director responsible for human resources, among other things. Majority shareholder and CEO Jürgen Pilarsky would even like to see equal representation on the management board in the future.

Oliver Kleinhempel focuses even more on operational business

In addition to the operative business, CRONIMET has also set the course for the future in terms of personnel. After Jürgen Pilarsky, son of the company founder Günter Pilarsky and CEO of CRONIMET Holding GmbH, took over the majority share in the family-owned company in 2021, another restructuring at the highest management level will follow early in 2022.

Oliver Kleinhempel has left the management of CRONIMET Holding GmbH for personal reasons on February 1, 2022. Kleinhempel will remain with the company and in the future will devote himself even more strongly and operationally to his previous areas of responsibility of Raw Materials, Processing and Business Development as well as our businesses in Asia and Australia. This move will enable him to focus even more intensively on the opportunities available to CRONIMET in the raw materials markets in the future.

"We respect Oliver Kleinhempel's decision and are also very pleased that he will remain with the CRONIMET Group. I know that he will continue to bring the same high level of commitment to his areas of responsibility and I look forward to a continued very successful collaboration," says Jürgen Pilarsky, to whom Kleinhempel will report directly in the future. As Oliver Kleinhempel will continue to perform his operational duties in the future, there are no plans to fill his position within the management of CRONIMET Holding.

Outlook 2022

For the 1st quarter in the new fiscal year, CRONIMET expects a continuation of the good development of 2021. Also for the 2nd quarter of 2022 a high utilization of the customers' capacities is emerging, so that the management assumes that the planning for the entire year will be achieved.

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Expert opinion confirms: No abnormalities in water quality in the Voghji River in Armenia

Karlsruhe, August 6, 2021

The CRONIMET group of companies has been facing allegations of environmental pollution in Armenia and Azerbaijan for several weeks. More specifically, the Voghji River, which flows from Armenian territory into Azerbaijan, is said to be heavily polluted. The allegations relate to the Armenian ZCMC mine, in which CRONIMET held shares until 2019.

CRONIMET comprehensively and transparently supports clarification of the reasons behind these allegations. Therefore, CRONIMET has informed the Armenian ZCMC copper-molybdenum mine, which has been named as the culprit, about the allegations and asked for a statement. ZCMC subsequently provided a water analysis, which CRONIMET had reviewed by a recognized, independent soil and water analysis expert based in Germany.

Allegations that the water ZCMC used in mining and subsequently returned to a nearby river after treatment was highly contaminated were clearly refuted by the expert report. According to the independent expert's analysis of ZCMC's documents, the report does not give any indication that the river has been polluted by ZCMC.

On the contrary, it shows that the measured values for water quality do not exhibit any significant anomalies. Only the pH value is slightly elevated, as well as the manganese value.

In detail: In the Drinking Water Ordinance of the Federal Republic of Germany, a guideline range of 6.5 to 9.5 is specified for the pH value. According to the expert opinion, the average pH value for the water discharged into the Armenian River is 10.375. With this slightly increased value, it can be assumed that after a short flow distance there is no longer any negative influence on the pH value of the river.

In the Drinking Water Ordinance of the Federal Republic of Germany a limit value of 0.05 mg/l is specified for manganese. Here, the value for the discharged water is 0.068 mg/l. For manganese, too, it can be assumed that even after a short flow distance there is no longer any negative influence on the water quality of the river, especially since the manganese concentration recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) is 0.4 mg/l and thus far above the values mentioned.

Those responsible for the CRONIMET group of companies are surprised by the accusations against the company. Not only because CRONIMET has not held any shares in ZCMC since 2019. But also because numerous steps were taken to improve water quality and over 60 million dollars were invested in environmental protection measures during the period in which the group of companies was the majority shareholder of the mine (until 2019).

About the CRONIMET Holding Group
The CRONIMET Holding Group, headquartered in Karlsruhe, Germany, is a global specialist for stainless steel scrap, ferroalloys and primary metals. For four decades, the company has been supplying raw materials to the stainless steel producing industry. The focus is on trading & sales, recycling and production & services. The CRONIMET Holding Group was founded in 1980 and today has a global presence with more than 1500 employees at over 70 locations.

Contact person:
CRONIMET Holding GmbH
Stavros Georgiou
Press spokesperson
Südbeckenstraße 22
76189 Karlsruhe, Germany
public-relations@cronimet.de
cronimet.com

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Information on data protection

We appreciate your interest in our company. CRONIMET Holding Group takes the protection of your personal data very seriously. In the following, we inform you which personal data we collect and for which purposes it is processed.

Data protection law information on the website

Data protection law information for the website

Dear Sir/Madam,

we inform you with the following data protection information about the processing of your personal data in the context of the use of our website.

A. The party responsible for data processing

CRONIMET Holding GmbH
Südbeckenstr. 22
76189 Karlsruhe
Telefon +49 721 95225-0
mail@cronimet.de

B. Data protection officer

CRONIMET Holding GmbH
Datenschutzbeauftragter
Südbeckenstr. 22
76189 Karlsruhe
Telefon +49 721 95225-0
datenschutz@cronimet.de

C. Purposes and legal basis of processing, data categories

1. Website access

If you only use our website for informational purposes, for instance if you do not register on the website or provide us with any information in some other manner (for instance via e-mail or using a contact form), we collect the following technical information (log file data):

operating system of the device you use to visit our website
browser (type, version & language settings)
accessed quantity of data
current IP address of the device you use to visit our website
date and time of the access
URL of the last visited website (referrer)
URL of the (sub-)page you access on the website
Internet service provider for the accessing system.

This data must be collected for technical reasons, in order to display our website and ensure it remains stable and secure. We (and our service providers) do not typically know who is using which IP address. We do not combine this data with any other data.

The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6 para. 1 sent. 1 lit. f GDPR. Since we must collect this data to provide our website and we must store it in log files to operate our page and protect ourselves from misuse, our legitimate interest in data processing outweighs any user rights.

2. Contact by e-mail or contact form

When you contact us via e-mail or using a contact form, we store the data you provide (your e-mail address, and your name and telephone number if provided) to answer your questions and process your inquiry. The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6 para. 1 sent. 1 lit. f GDPR.

If we request information through our contact form and this information is not necessary to contact you, it will always be marked as optional. We use this information to better understand your inquiry and process your question. Such information is provided on a solely voluntary basis, and with your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 sent. 1 lit. a GDPR). Insofar as this includes information on communication channels (e.g. e-mail address, telephone number), you also agree that we may contact you via this communication channel in order to answer your inquiry. Of course, you can revoke this consent at any time with future effect.

Any data we collect in order to contact you is deleted once we no longer need it for this purpose, once we have processed your inquiry in full and we no longer need to communicate with you, or once you request that we stop communication. As a controller under data protection law, our company has implemented many different technical and organisational measures to ensure the most seamless protection possible for the personal data we process via our website. However, web-based data transmissions may always be subject to gaps in security. It is not possible to guarantee absolute protection. Non-encrypted e-mails are never entirely secure. Because of this, we request that you never send sensitive data in a non-encrypted e-mail. Instead, either use encrypted communication channels (e.g. our contact form) or send us your data by post.

3. Applications

You can apply online via our application portal at https://cronimet.softgarden.io/de/vacancies. Your online application will be forwarded there directly to the HR department via an encrypted connection and will of course be treated confidentially.

You can also apply to our company electronically, e.g. via e-mail or web form. Please note that e-mails sent unencrypted will not be protected against unauthorized access.

Your data will be used for the processing of your application and the decision on the establishment of an employment relationship. The legal basis is § 26 para. 1 in conjunction with para. 8 sent. 2 Federal Data Protection Act (“BDSG”). Furthermore, your personal data may be processed insofar as this should be necessary for the defense of asserted legal claims against us arising from the application process. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 sent. 1 lit. f GDPR. The stated purposes also constitute the legitimate interest in the processing.

If an employment relationship is formed between you and us, we may, in accordance with § 26 para. 1 BDSG, further process the personal data already received from you for the purposes of the employment relationship if this is necessary for the performance or termination of the employment relationship or for the exercise or fulfillment of the rights and obligations of the employee representative body resulting from a law or a collective agreement, a works agreement or a service agreement.

Your application data will not be processed beyond the described use.

Your personal data will be deleted after completion of the application process after 6 months at the latest, provided that no other legitimate interests on our part oppose deletion or you have not given us consent for longer storage. Other legitimate interest in this sense is, for example, a duty to provide evidence in proceedings under the General Equal Treatment Act (“AGG”).

4. Friendly Captcha

We use the “Friendly Captcha” service of Friendly Captcha GmbH, Am Anger 3–5, 82237 Woerthsee on our websites. We use Friendly Captcha to protect our website from spam and bots. In order to find out whether entries on the website are made by a human or automatically by a programme, Friendly Captcha analyses various information:

the request headers user-agent, origin and referrer
the puzzle itself, which contains information about the account and the website key to which the puzzle relates
the version of the widget
a timestamp.

An anonymised counter per IP address is stored to dynamically scale the puzzle difficulty on the edge network. The IP address is anonymised and the information is stored separately from the other personal data.

We use Friendly Captcha to ensure the security of our website and therefore base the data processing on Art. 6 para. 1 sent. 1 lit. f GDPR. You can find further information under https://friendlycaptcha.com/de/legal/privacy-end-users/

5. Cookies

Cookies are data that are stored on your computer by a website you visit and allow your browser to be reassigned. Cookies transmit information to the entity that sets the cookie. Cookies can store various information, such as your language preference, the duration of your visit to our website or the entries you have made there. Cookies cannot execute programs or transfer viruses to your computer. They serve to make the internet more user-friendly and effective.

There are different types of cookies: session cookies are sets of data that are only temporarily held in memory and are deleted when you close your browser. Permanent or persistent cookies ae automatically deleted after a specified duration, which may vary depending on the cookie. The information can also be stored in text files on your computer with this type of cookie. However, you can also delete these cookies at any time via your browser settings.

The legal basis for possible processing of personal data by means of cookies and their storage period may vary. Insofar as you have given us your consent, the legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sent. 1 lit. a GDPR. Insofar as the data processing is based on our overriding legitimate interests, the legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sent. 1 lit. f GDPR. The stated purpose them corresponds to our legitimate interest./p>

We use cookies to ensure the proper operation of the website and to provide basic functionality.

You can delete cookies already stored on your end device at any time. If you want to prevent cookies from being stored, you can do this via the settings in your internet browser. You can find instructions for common browsers here: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Google Chrome mobile, Microsoft Edge Browser, Safari, Safari mobile. Alternatively, you can also install ad blockers. Please note that individual functions of our website may not work if you have disabled the use of cookies.

6. Social Bookmarks

Social bookmarks of the following providers are integrated on our website:

Facebook (provider: Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA), https://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php
Xing (provider: New Work SE, Dammtorstraße 30, 20354 Hamburg, Germany), https://privacy.xing.com/de/datenschutzerklaerung
LinkedIn (provider: LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland), https://de.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
Instagram (provider: Instagram LLC., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA), https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875/?maybe_redirect_pol=0

Social bookmarks are Internet bookmarks that allow users of such a service to collect links and news reports. These are only integrated on our website as a link to the corresponding services. These plugins usually collect data from you by default and transmit it to the servers of the respective provider. To ensure the protection of your privacy, we have taken technical measures to ensure that your data cannot be collected by the providers of the respective plugin without your consent. When you call up a page on which the plugins are integrated, they are initially deactivated. Only by clicking on the respective icon are the plugins activated and you thereby give your consent for your data to be transferred to the respective provider.

The legal basis for the use of the plugins is Art. 6 para. 1 sent. 1 lit. a GDPR. For information on the handling of your personal data when using these websites, please refer to the respective privacy policies of the providers.

D. Recipients or categories of recipients of personal data

As a matter of principle, your personal data will not be transferred to third parties unless we are legally obliged to do so, or the transfer of data is necessary for the performance of the contractual relationship, or you have previously expressly consented to the transfer of your data.

External service providers and partner companies, such as a shipping company commissioned with the delivery, only receive your data insofar as this is necessary to process your order/your request. In these cases, however, the scope of the transmitted data is limited to the necessary minimum. Insofar as our service providers process your personal data on our behalf, we ensure within the scope of processing pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR that they comply with the provisions of the data protection laws in the same manner. Please also note the data protection information of the respective providers. The respective service provider is responsible for the content of third-party services, whereby we check the services for compliance with the legal requirements within the scope of reasonableness.

We value the fact that your personal data is processed within the EU/EEA. However, we may use service providers who process data outside the EU/EEA. In these cases, we ensure that an adequate level of data protection comparable to the standards within the EU is established at the recipient before transferring your personal data. This can be achieved, for example, via EU standard contract clauses, Binding Corporate Rules, or special agreements to whose regulations the company can submit.

E. Duration of storage

Personal data is generally deleted after expiry of the legal (primarily trade and tax law) retention periods. If personal data is not affected by legal retention obligations, it will be deleted when it is no longer required for the purposes described in section C. above. A different retention period may apply if you consented when the data was collected.

F. Rights of data subjects

You have the right to receive information about your personal data we have saved, the right to arrange for incorrectly saved personal data to be corrected or – if relevant – to change or revoke your consent to data processing at any time, including without providing a reason with future effect, the right to restrict the processing of your personal data with future effect, to revoke the processing of your personal data with future effect or to demand the deletion of your personal data. Under the conditions set out in Art. 20 GDPR, you have the right to receive the personal data concerning you, which has been saved, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and the right to transmit that data to another responsible party without hindrance on our part.

To exercise your rights, you may contact our data protection officer mentioned in section B above. In order to avoid possible cases of misuse, we may require that inquiries be accompanied by a handwritten signature or that the inquirer otherwise legitimize himself.

Furthermore, without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, every data subject shall have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of his or her habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement, if the data subject considers that the processing of personal data relating to him or her infringes the GDPR.

G. Changes to this privacy policy

Constant technological development, changes to our services or the legal situation and other reasons may require adjustments to our data protection notice. We therefore reserve the right to change this privacy policy at any time with effect for the future. The current version is available on our website. Please visit our website regularly and inform yourself about the applicable data protection provisions.

Data protection law information for business partners and prospective business partners

Dear Sir/Madam,

we inform you with the following data protection information about the processing of your personal data in the context of the contractual relationship or contract initiation.

A. The party responsible for data processing and contact details of the data protection officer

CRONIMET Holding GmbH
Südbeckenstr. 22
76189 Karlsruhe
Telefon +49 721 95225-0
mail@cronimet.de

CRONIMET Holding GmbH
Data protection officer
Südbeckenstr. 22
76189 Karlsruhe
Telefon +49 721 95225-0
datenschutz@cronimet.de

B. Following CRONIMET subsidiaries come also into question as a party responsible for data processing

CRONIMET Ferroleg. GmbH Südbeckenstr. 22 76189 Karlsruhe Telefon +49 721 95 225-0	CRONIMET Dortmund GmbH Kipperstr. 11 44147 Dortmund Telefon +49 231 879050
CRONIMET Raw Materials GmbH Südbeckenstraße 22 76189 Karlsruhe Telefon +49 721 95225-0	Metalloy Metalle-Legierungen GmbH Oststraße 134 22844 Norderstedt Telefon +49 405 26780
CRONIMET Services GmbH Südbeckenstr. 22 76189 Karlsruhe Telefon +49 721 95 225-0	CRONIMET ALFA Ferrolegierungen Handels GmbH Rupert Bodner Str. 25 81245 München Telefon +49 89 8649500
ERG-Edelstahl Recycling GmbH Limesstr. 20 63741 Aschaffenburg Telefon +49 6021 44260	CRONIMET CREMETAL GmbH Rheinhafenstr. 12 76189 Karlsruhe Telefon +49 721 16131-0

You can reach the data protection officer by post at the above address by stating “Data protection officer” or by email via: datenschutz@cronimet.de.

C. Data categories, purposes and legal basis of processing

We process your personal data which we receive from you within the scope of the business relationships or contract initiation. This is generally contact data (name, address, telephone number and email address) and, if required as part of the business transaction, bank and payment (transaction) data (bank, account details, reference, and credit card information if applicable), information from publicly available sources, information databases and credit check agencies (e.g. Internet, trade register, credit agencies) as well as other data, which you voluntarily provide us with within the scope of processing a project or a contractual relationship within the scope of contract negotiations (e.g. business cards). We process your personal data exclusively within the scope of the legal terms, particularly under consideration of the regulations of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the Federal Data Protection Act (“BDSG”). We process your personal data on the basis of the following described legal bases and for the purposes of

contract negotiation, contract implementation and termination of the contractual relationship (Art. 6 para. 1 sent. 1 lit. b GDPR) e.g. fulfilment of a contract (e.g. delivery or performance of a service and payment transaction), general communication with business partners e.g. answering enquiries about products and services, contract negotiations etc.;
based on consent given (Art. 6 para. 1 sent. 1 lit. a GDPR) e.g. despatch of newsletters or information correspondence, participation in marketing campaigns or surveys etc.;
based on legal stipulations (Art. 6 para. 1 sent. 1 lit. c GDPR), e.g. to fulfil trade law or tax law retention obligations, to fulfil reporting or information obligations towards authorities, etc.;
based on a legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 sent. 1 lit. f GDPR); e.g. measures for IT security or measures to ensure proper business operations, to protect the company code, for the protection of property and the investigation of criminal offences, to enforce legal claims or defend legal disputes, to ensure compliance requirements, etc.

As we also use the contact data of the person you have nominated to us as a contact partner, we ask you to pass on this information to the affected employees within your company.

D. Recipients or categories of recipients of personal data

We transmit your personal data to authorities/public bodies if required due to primary legal regulations. If necessary, we transmit your personal data to companies within our company group if required to fulfil the purposes stated above in section C. We employ external service providers for various business transactions as assignment processors in terms of Art. 28 GDPR. We have concluded order data processing contracts with these service providers to ensure that your personal data is protected. The above described recipients may also be located in countries outside of the European Economic Area (“third countries”). Third countries may not have the same level of data protection as in the European Economic Area. If data transmission takes place in a third country, we ensure that this transmission only takes place according to the terms of the legal regulations (chapter V GDPR).

E. Duration of storage

F. Rights of data subjects

In addition, you may contact our data protection officer mentioned in section B. above. In order to avoid possible cases of misuse, we may require that inquiries be accompanied by a handwritten signature or that the inquirer otherwise legitimize himself.

Data protection law information for video conferences

Dear Sir/Madam,

we inform you with the following data protection information about the processing of your personal data in the context of the participation in video conferences.

A. The party responsible for data processing and contact details of the data protection officer

CRONIMET Holding GmbH
Südbeckenstr. 22
76189 Karlsruhe
Telefon +49 721 95225-0
mail@cronimet.de

CRONIMET Holding GmbH
Data protection officer
Südbeckenstr. 22
76189 Karlsruhe
Telefon +49 721 95225-0
datenschutz@cronimet.de

B. Following CRONIMET subsidiaries come also into question as a party responsible for data processing

CRONIMET Ferroleg. GmbH Südbeckenstr. 22 76189 Karlsruhe Telefon +49 721 95 225-0	CRONIMET Dortmund GmbH Kipperstr. 11 44147 Dortmund Telefon +49 231 879050
CRONIMET Raw Materials GmbH Südbeckenstraße 22 76189 Karlsruhe Telefon +49 721 95225-0	Metalloy Metalle-Legierungen GmbH Oststraße 134 22844 Norderstedt Telefon +49 405 26780
CRONIMET Services GmbH Südbeckenstr. 22 76189 Karlsruhe Telefon +49 721 95 225-0	CRONIMET ALFA Ferrolegierungen Handels GmbH Rupert Bodner Str. 25 81245 München Telefon +49 89 8649500
ERG-Edelstahl Recycling GmbH Limesstr. 20 63741 Aschaffenburg Telefon +49 6021 44260	CRONIMET CREMETAL GmbH Rheinhafenstr. 12 76189 Karlsruhe Telefon +49 721 16131-0

You can reach the data protection officer by post at the above address by stating “Data protection officer” or by email via: datenschutz@cronimet.de.

C. Purposes and legal basis of processing, data categories

We process your personal data that we receive from you in the course of using the video conferencing systems (in particular “Skype for Business”).

The following personal data are subject to processing:

User details: First name, last name, phone (optional), email address, password (if “single sign-on” is not used), profile picture (optional), department (optional).
Meeting metadata: Topic, description (optional), attendee IP addresses, device/hardware information.
If recording (optional): MP4 file of all video, audio and presentation recordings.
When dialling in with the telephone: information about the incoming and outgoing phone number, country name, start and end time. If necessary, further connection data such as the IP address of the device can be stored.
Text, audio and video data: You may have the opportunity to use the chat, question or survey functions in an “online meeting”. To this extent, the text entries you make are processed in order to display them in the “online meeting” and, if necessary, to log them. To enable the display of video and the playback of audio, the data from the microphone of your terminal device and from any video camera of the terminal device will be processed accordingly for the duration of the meeting. You can turn off or mute the camera or microphone yourself at any time via the “Skype” applications.

To participate in an “online meeting” or to enter the “meeting room”, you must at least provide information about your name.

Scope of processing:

We use in particular “Skype for Business” to conduct “online meetings”. If we want to record “online meetings”, we will transparently communicate this to you in advance and – if necessary – ask for consent (Art. 6 para. 1 sent. 1 lit. a GDPR). The fact of the recording will also be displayed to you in the “Skype for Business” app.

In detail, your personal data will be processed for the following purposes and on the basis of the following legal grounds:

Art. 6 para. 1 sent. 1 lit. f GDPR: Our legitimate interest in these cases is the effective implementation of “online meetings”.
Art. 6 para. 1 sent. 1 lit. b GDPR: Insofar as the “online meetings” take place in the context of contract initiation, contract execution and termination of contractual relationships, e.g. fulfilment of a contract (such as delivery or provision of a service and payment processing) or general communication with business partners (such as answering inquiries about products and services, contract negotiations, etc.).
Art. 6 para. 1 sent. 1 lit. a GDPR: Giving consent when recording the video conference.

D. Recipients or categories of recipients of the personal data

The names of all participants are transferred to all participants by the software; if necessary, the software offers the separate option of entering the participant data. If the data subject has activated their camera and microphone, data is transferred to all other participants.

Personal data processed in connection with participation in “online meetings” will generally not be disclosed to third parties unless it is specifically intended for disclosure. Please note that, as in the case of face-to-face meetings, content from “online meetings” is often used precisely to communicate information with customers, interested parties or third parties and is therefore intended to be passed on.

In addition, your personal data will be transferred to the processors commissioned to carry out the video conferences and, if applicable, to their subcontractors. Insofar as our service providers process your personal data on our behalf, we ensure within the scope of processing pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR that they comply with the provisions of the data protection laws in the same manner. Please also note the data protection information of the respective providers. The respective service provider is responsible for the content of third-party services, whereby we check the services for compliance with the legal requirements within the scope of reasonableness.

E. Duration of the storage of personal data

Your personal data will be processed for the duration of the fulfilment of the purposes set out in section C. above; the data processing is necessary for the duration of the video conference, for example. Personal data is generally deleted after expiry of the legal (primarily trade and tax law) retention periods. If personal data is not affected by legal retention obligations, it will be deleted when it is no longer required for the purposes described in section C. above. A different retention period may apply if you consented when the data was collected.

F. Rights of data subjects

G. Changes to this privacy policy

Data protection law information for social media channels

Dear Sir/Madam,

we inform you with the following data protection information about the processing of your personal data in the context of our social media channels. If you have any further questions regarding the handling of your personal data, please do not hesitate to contact our data protection officer.

A. The party responsible for data processing

CRONIMET Holding GmbH
Südbeckenstr. 22
76189 Karlsruhe
Telefon +49 721 95225-0
mail@cronimet.de

B. Data protection officer

CRONIMET Holding GmbH
Data protection officer
Südbeckenstr. 22
76189 Karlsruhe
Telefon +49 721 95225-0
datenschutz@cronimet.de

C. Social media channels

We operate the following social media websites to draw attention to ourselves:

LinkedIn
Instagram
TikTok
Facebook
YouTube
Xing
Kununu.

The operators of the following social media channels share responsibility with us:

LinkedIn
Instagram
TikTok
Facebook
YouTube
Xing
Kununu.

Where our influence on data processing ends, the limit of our responsibility is reached. At these points, it is not possible for us to influence the data processing by the operator of the social media channel. We are therefore unable to provide any information about what personal data is processed by them. For further information on the processing of the collected personal data and the possibilities to object, we refer to the corresponding data protection declarations of the channel operators.

D. Data processing by us

Submitted data such as comments, videos, pictures, likes, public messages that you leave on our social media channels may be published by the social media platforms. These will only be used or processed by us for the following purposes.

Personal data transmitted to us via social media by private message, such as documents or communication data, will not be published by us, but it cannot be ruled out that the social media operator will process or publish this data.

We would like to point out that we do not wish to receive applications via messengers, such as Facebook Messenger, as these cannot guarantee the protection of your personal data to the extent that is required and desired on our part.

We also reserve the right to delete content should this be necessary. We may share your content on our site if this is a function of the social media platform and permissible and communicate with you via the social media platform.

The legal basis for our data processing within the framework of the social media channels is Art. 6 para. 1 sent. 1 lit. f GDPR. The data processing is carried out in the interest of our public relations work and timely communication.

The social media providers are partly located in the USA and other countries outside the EU and the EEA. The data may therefore also be processed by the provider of the respective platform in countries outside the EU and EEA. Please note that companies in these countries may be subject to data protection laws that do not offer the same level of protection for your personal data as is the case in the member states of the EU.

We would also like to point out that we have no influence on the scope, type and purpose of the data processing by the provider of the social media platform. You can find more information about the processing of your data by the social media providers in the privacy policy of the respective platform provider.

E. Data processing by social media channels

On our website, you will find links to other company websites on social media platforms. You can recognise links to the websites of the social media services by the respective company logo, for example. If you follow these links, you will reach our corporate presence on the respective social media platform. When you click on a link to such a platform, a connection to the platform's servers is established. This transmits to the servers of the platform that you have visited our website.

In addition, further data is transmitted to the provider of the platform. This may include the following data:

address of the website on which the activated link is located
date and time the website was accessed or the link was activated
information on the browser and operating system used
IP address.

We expressly draw your attention to the fact that the social media provider stores the data (e.g. IP address, preferences and personal interests, behavior on the platform, any personal information stored on the platform, etc.) of users and uses it for business purposes.

We would like to point out that the respective operator of the social media platform uses web tracking methods. We would also like to point out that web tracking could also take place regardless of whether you are logged in and/or registered with the social media platform. It is not possible for us to influence the web tracking methods of the platforms. If, for example, you would like to switch off the web tracking, you must arrange this on the respective website of the operator.

If you are a member of the social media channels and are logged into your user account, the social media provider can associate your visit to our page with your user account. If you would like to prevent the provider from linking data about your visit to our fan page with your membership data stored with the platform, you must

log out of the social media platform before each visit to our fan page,
delete the cookies stored on your device and
close and restart your browser.

In this way, according to the social media providers, all information through which you can be identified by social media providers is deleted.

It cannot be ruled out that the provider of the social media platform uses your data to create a profile about you, for example, and thus generates tailored advertising for you.

For more information on data processing by the provider of the social media platform and further objection options, you can view the privacy statements of the respective operators here:

In cases where we are jointly responsible for processing with the operator, you will find the main content of the joint processing of your data here:

Instagram, TikTok, YouTube (Google), Xing and Kununu unfortunately do not currently provide an addendum or similar.

F. LinkedIn

We operate our LinkedIn company page to inform you and to communicate with you as a user, interested party or potential employee/applicant.

The provider of the platform is LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland.

In accordance with LinkedIn's terms of use, which each user must agree to when creating a LinkedIn profile, we may identify subscribers to our site and view their profiles or other shared information. For example, your LinkedIn name and profile picture are visible to us (and other LinkedIn users) when you visit our company page or comment on our posts. We therefore only collect personal data that has become an obvious part of our LinkedIn company page through your participation.

LinkedIn uses small text files that are stored on the various end devices of the users (cookies) to store and further process this information. According to LinkedIn, the cookies used by LinkedIn are for authentication, security, settings, personalised advertising features and services, and analysis and research. You can view details of the cookies used by LinkedIn here: https://de.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy

The operation of the LinkedIn company page, including the processing of users' personal data, is legal based on Art. 6 para. 1 sent. 1 lit. f GDPR in order to safeguard our legitimate interests in providing information and interaction opportunities via LinkedIn for and with our users and visitors. For the LinkedIn retargeting cookie and applications via our LinkedIn company page, your consent serves as the legal basis, Art. 6 para. 1 sent. 1 lit. a GDPR. Further legal bases for data processing may arise in individual cases from Art. 6 para. 1 sent. 1 lit. b GDPR. We delete personal data as soon as the purpose of the data processing has been achieved and there are no further legal grounds against the deletion of the data. In the case of data transfers outside the EU or EEA, LinkedIn states that it guarantees an adequate standard of protection as defined in Art. 44 etc seq. GDPR. This is implemented in particular by concluding standard contractual clauses.

Further information on data processing can be found in LinkedIn's privacy policy here: https://de.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

G. Instagram

We operate our Instagram company page to inform you and to communicate with you as a user, interested party, business partner or potential employee/applicant.

The platform provider is Instagram LLC, 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA.

When calling up Instagram profiles, personal data (e.g. IP address or information on the end device) may already be collected by Instagram. If you carry out an action on our Instagram company website (e.g. comments, posts, likes, etc.), it may be that you make personal data (e.g. clear name or photo of your user profile) public. Every user is free to publish personal data through activities. The user information is used, among other things, to provide us as operators of the company pages with statistical information about the use of the pages. However, since we generally or to a large extent have no influence on the processing of your personal data by Instagram, we cannot make any binding statements about the purpose and scope of the processing of your data.

The legal basis for the operation of our Instagram company page and the associated data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 sent. 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest is the interaction or communication with our users and visitors. The use of tracking and analysis tools by Instagram is based on Art. 6 para. 1 sent. 1 lit. a GDPR. To ensure appropriate safeguards for the protection of the transfer and processing of personal data outside the EU or EEA, the transfer of data to and processing of data by Instagram is based on appropriate safeguards pursuant to Art. 44 et seq. GDPR, in particular by concluding so-called standard data protection clauses pursuant to Art. 46 para. 2 lit. c GDPR.

Further information on data processing can be found in Instagram's privacy policy here: https://privacycenter.instagram.com/policy/?entry_point=ig_help_center_data_policy_redirect

H. TikTok

We operate our TikTok company website to inform you and communicate with you as a user, interested party, business partner or potential employee/applicant.

The provider of the platform is TikTok Technology Limited, 10 Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin, D02 T380, Ireland.

TikTok may collect data when you visit our company website. In the context of interactive functions (e.g. commenting, sharing, rating), personal data is also processed by TikTok. Based on the processed user data, TikTok provides us with statistical evaluations and analyses. TikTok does not disclose full information about the processing of user data for its own purposes. Therefore, it is not possible for us to provide binding information on the processing of user data by TikTok.

Further information on data processing can be found in TikTok's privacy policy here: https://www.tiktok.com/legal/page/eea/privacy-policy/de-DE and https://www.tiktok.com/legal/tiktok-website-cookies-policy?lang=de-DE

I. Facebook

We operate our Facebook company page to inform you and to communicate with you as a user, interested party, business partner or potential employee/applicant.

The platform provider is Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland.

Via the so-called “Insights” of the Facebook page, statistical data of different categories are available to us. These statistics are generated and provided by Facebook. As the operator of the company page, we have no influence on the generation and presentation of these statistics. We cannot disable this function or prevent the generation and processing of the data.

For a selectable period of time and for the categories “fans”, “subscribers”, “reached persons” and “interacting persons”, the following data is provided by Facebook in relation to our Facebook company page:

Total number of page views, likes, page activity, post interactions, reach, video views, post reach, comments, shared content, replies, proportion of men and women, country and city origin, language, clicks on route planners, clicks on telephone numbers.
Data on the Facebook groups linked to our Facebook company page are also provided in this way.

We use this data, which is available in aggregated form, to make our posts and activities on our Facebook page more attractive to users. In this context, we receive anonymised data on the users of our Facebook fan page. It is therefore not possible for us to draw any conclusions about your person. For example, we use the distribution according to age and gender for an adapted approach and the preferred visiting times of the users for a time-optimised planning of our posts. Information about the type of end devices used by visitors helps us to adapt the visual design of the posts accordingly. In accordance with the Facebook terms of use, which each user has agreed to when creating a Facebook profile, we can identify the subscribers and fans of the page and view their profiles as well as other information shared by them.

Further information on data processing can be found in Facebook's privacy policy here: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/?entry_point=facebook_page_footer

J. YouTube

We operate our YouTube company page to inform you and to communicate with you as a user, interested party, business partner or potential employee/applicant.

The platform provider is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

By using Google, your personal data will be collected, transferred, stored, disclosed and used by Google and transferred to, and stored and used in, the United States, Ireland and any other country in which Google does business, regardless of your country of residence. There is a transfer to Google-affiliated companies as well as to other trustworthy companies or persons who process them on behalf of Google. On the one hand, Google processes your voluntarily entered data such as name and user name, email address or telephone number. Google also processes the content that you create, upload or receive from others when using the services. This includes, for example, photos and videos that you save, documents and spreadsheets that you create, and comments that you write on YouTube videos. On the other hand, Google also evaluates the content you share to determine what topics you are interested in, stores and processes confidential messages that you send directly to other users, and can determine your location using GPS data, wireless network information or your IP address in order to send you advertising or other content. Google may use analysis tools such as Google Analytics for evaluation purposes. We have no influence on the use of such tools by Google and have not been informed about such potential use. If tools of this type are used by Google for our company page on YouTube, we have neither commissioned this nor supported it in any other way. Nor will the data obtained during the analysis be made available. Only certain data of the subscribers' profiles are visible to us via our account. Moreover, we have no possibility to prevent or turn off the use of such tools on our YouTube channel. Finally, Google also receives information when you view content, for example, even if you have not created an account. This so-called “log data” may be the IP address, browser type, operating system, information about the website you visited previously and the pages you viewed, your location, your mobile provider, the terminal device you use (including device ID and application ID) as well as the search terms you used and cookie information.

We have embedded YouTube videos in our newsroom on the website, which are stored on http://www.YouTube.com and can be played directly from our website. In principle, when you call up a page with embedded videos, your IP address is already sent to YouTube/Google and cookies are installed on your computer. However, we have embedded our videos in “extended data protection mode”, i.e. no data about you as a user is transmitted to YouTube/Google if you do not play the videos. Only when you click on the video to play it will the following data be transmitted: IP address, date and time of the request, time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), content of the request (specific page), access status/HTTP status code, amount of data transmitted, website from which the request came, browser, operating system and its interface, language and version of the browser software, hardware used (PC, smartphone, etc.), location (if Google Maps is activated). We have no influence on this data transmission. By visiting our website and playing the videos, YouTube/Google receives the information that you have accessed the corresponding sub-page of our website. If you are logged in to Google, this data is directly assigned to your account. If you do not wish this to be associated with your YouTube profile, you must log out before activating the button. We have no influence on the type and scope of the data processed by Google, the type of processing and use or the transfer of this data to third parties. We also have no effective control options in this respect.

You have options to restrict the processing of your data in the general settings of your Google account. In addition to these tools, Google also offers specific privacy settings on YouTube. For more information on data processing, please see the Google and YouTube privacy policy here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de&gl=de#infocollect and https://policies.google.com/technologies/product-privacy?hl=de&gl=de and https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de&gl=de#infochoices

K. Xing

We operate our Xing company page to inform you and to communicate with you as a user, interested party or potential employee/applicant.

The platform provider is Xing SE, Dammtorstraße 30, 20354 Hamburg, Germany.

While you are using Xing, user data is automatically processed by the provider. Through interactions on the platform (commenting, sharing content, etc.), further data processing may occur. We would like to point out that we, as the provider of our company website, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Xing. We have no influence on the scope of the data that Xing collects.

The processing of your data when contacting or interacting with our company website or its content is carried out by us on the legal basis of Art. 6 para. 1 sent. 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest is the interaction or communication with our users and visitors. Further legal bases for data processing may arise in individual cases from Art. 6 para. 1 sent. 1 lit. b GDPR. If data is collected by Xing for the purpose of measuring and optimising advertising, the legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. We delete personal data as soon as the purpose of the data processing has been achieved and there are no further legal grounds against the deletion of the data. Should data transfers to third countries outside the EU or EEA occur, Xing guarantees an adequate standard of protection within the meaning of Art. 44 et seq. GDPR.

Further information on data processing can be found in Xing's privacy policy here: https://privacy.xing.com/de/datenschutzerklaerung

L. Kununu

We operate our Kununu company page to inform you and to communicate with you as a user, interested party or potential employee/applicant.

The provider of the platform is New Work SE, Am Strandkai 1, 20457 Hamburg, Germany.

While you are using Kununu, the provider automatically processes user data. Through interactions on the platform (commenting, sharing content, etc.), further data processing may occur. According to Kununu, personal data is only collected, processed and/or used if the users have consented or if this is permitted by law. We would like to point out that we, as the provider of our company website, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Kununu. We have no influence on the scope of the data that Kununu collects.

The processing of your data when contacting or interacting with our company website or its content is carried out by us on the legal basis of Art. 6 para. 1 sent. 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest is the interaction or communication with our users and visitors. Further legal bases for data processing may arise in individual cases from Art. 6 para. 1 sent. 1 lit. b GDPR. If data is collected by Kununu for the purpose of measuring and optimising advertising, the legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sent. 1 lit. a GDPR. We delete personal data as soon as the purpose of the data processing has been achieved and there are no further legal grounds against the deletion of the data. Should data transfers to third countries outside the EU or EEA occur, Kununu (Xing) guarantees an adequate standard of protection within the meaning of Art. 44 et seq. GDPR.

For more information on data processing, please see Kununu's privacy policy here: https://www.kununu.com/de/info/agb and https://privacy.xing.com/de/datenschutzerklaerung

M. Rights of data subjects

N. Changes to this privacy policy

Data protection law information for career websites karriere.cronimet.de and ausbildung.cronimet.de

Data protection law information for the career website

Dear Sir/Madam,

we inform you with the following data protection information about how we collect personal data as part of your application process and for what purpose the data is processed.

A. The party responsible for data processing and contact details of the data protection officer

This data protection law information applies to the career website and the applicant management system of

CRONIMET Holding GmbH
Südbeckenstr. 22
76189 Karlsruhe
Telefon +49 721 95 225-0
mail@cronimet.de

CRONIMET Holding GmbH
Data protection officer
Südbeckenstr. 22
76189 Karlsruhe
Telefon +49 721 95225-0
datenschutz@cronimet.de

Following CRONIMET subsidiaries come also into question as a party responsible for data processing

CRONIMET Ferroleg. GmbH Südbeckenstr. 22, 76189 Karlsruhe Telefon +49 (0) 721 95 225-0	CRONIMET Dortmund GmbH Kipperstr. 11 44147 Dortmund Telefon +49 231 879050
CRONIMET Raw Materials GmbH Südbeckenstr. 22 76189 Karlsruhe Telefon +49 721 95225-0	Metalloy Metalle-Legierungen GmbH Oststr. 134 22844 Norderstedt Telefon +49 405 26780
CRONIMET Services GmbH Südbeckenstr. 22 76189 Karlsruhe Telefon +49 721 95 225-0	CRONIMET Envirotec GmbH Säurestr. 3 06749 Bitterfeld-Wolfen Telefon +49 3493 27899-30
ERG-Edelstahl Recycling GmbH Limesstr. 20 63741 Aschaffenburg Telefon +49 6021 44260	CRONIMET CREMETAL GmbH Rheinhafenstr. 12 76189 Karlsruhe Telefon +49 721 16131-0

You can reach the data protection officer of CRONIMET Ferroleg., CRONIMET Raw Materials, ERG-Edelstahl Recycling, CRONIMET Dortmund and Metalloy Metalle-Legierungen by post at the above addresses by stating “Data protection officer” or by email via: datenschutz@cronimet.de.

You can reach the data protection officer of CRONIMET Envirotec by post at the above address by stating “Data protection officer” or by email via: email@iitr.de.

B. Purposes and legal basis of processing, data categories

1. Processing of personal data carried out on behalf of a controller

For the efficient implementation of application procedures, we use an applicant management system of softgarden e-Recruiting GmbH, Tauentzienstr. 14, 10789 Berlin, Germany (contact: datenschutz@softgarden.de), which operates the applicant management as an order processor within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 8 GDPR. A contract for order processing in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR has been concluded with the provider, which ensures compliance with the provisions of data protection law.

We remain your first point of contact for exercising your data protection rights and for handling the application process. You can contact us directly or, if indicated, confidentially contact the data protection officer under the details of the data controller given above.

2. Subject of data protection

The subject of data protection is the processing of personal data, in this case in the context of applicant management. According to Art. 4 No. 1 GDPR, this includes all information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (hereinafter “data subject”) that is required for the implementation of the application procedure as well as the initiation of an employment relationship, § 26 Federal Data Protection Act (“BDSG”).

In addition, within the scope of the use of the applicant management, data related to the use, so-called usage data, is also collected. Usage data is data that is required to operate our websites, such as information about the start, end and extent of use of our website, including login data. This processing is in accordance with the provisions of data protection and telemedia law.

In the context of the application process and/or the use of the system, processing activities may also take place that are either based on legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sent 1 lit. f GDPR or on the basis of your consent pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sent 1 lit. a GDPR. Processing activities that are subject to a legal obligation to process or a public interest, Art. 6 para. 1 sent 1 lit. c and lit. e GDPR, such as in the context of law enforcement or investigation of government agencies, also come into consideration.

Through individual settings in your web browser, the configuration of the corresponding cookie settings and their user behavior, you can determine and control the scope of processing yourself.

3. Visiting the career website

For operational and maintenance purposes and in accordance with the provisions of telemedia law, interaction is recorded (“system logs”), which are necessary for the operation of the website or processed for system security purposes, for example to analyze attack patterns or unlawful usage behavior (“evidence function”).

Your Internet browser automatically transmits the following data when you access the careers portal:

Date and time of access,
browser type and version,
operating system used,
amount of data sent,
IP address of the access.

This data is not used for direct assignment within the scope of applicant management and is deleted again promptly in accordance with the legitimate retention periods, unless longer retention is required for legal or factual reasons, such as for evidentiary purposes. In individual cases, storage for the above-mentioned purposes may be considered. The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sent 1 lit. f GDPR as well as telemedia law.

4. Session cookies

We store so-called “cookies” to provide you with an extensive range of functions and to make the use of our websites more comfortable. “Cookies” are small files that are stored on your computer with the help of your Internet browser. If you do not wish “cookies” to be used, you can prevent them from being stored on your computer by making the appropriate settings in your Internet browser. Please note that the functionality and scope of functions of our offer may be limited as a result.

We set the cookie JSESSIONID on the career website as a technically necessary session cookie. This stores a so-called session ID, with which various requests of your browser can be assigned to the common session. This allows your computer to be recognized when you return to our website. This session cookie is deleted when you log out or close the browser.

Optional cookies based on consent are only set after confirmation in the cookie banner. You can edit your cookie settings at any time by clicking on the lock icon at the bottom left of the career website.

5. Application process, transfer of data

As part of the application process, you can set up and manage an account in the career portal after configuring a user name and password. You can use further options in the softgarden applicant management system beyond the individual application and make your individual settings (e.g. inclusion in a talent pool).

For an efficient and promising application, you can provide the following information in particular as part of your application to us:

Contact details (address, phone number),
Curriculum vitae data, e.g. as follows
- School education
- Vocational training
- work experience
- Language skills
Profiles in social networks (e.g. XING, LinkedIn, Facebook),
Documents related to job applications (application photos, cover letter, references, work samples, etc.).

The legal basis for processing for the purposes of carrying out the application process and initiating an employment relationship is § 26 para. 1 BDSG. In addition, the use of the applicant management system by the controller is in the legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sent 1 lit. f GDPR. If consent within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 sent 1 lit. a GDPR is required for a specific processing activity, this will be obtained separately and transparently from you by the controller, unless this results from conclusive and voluntary behavior on your part in accordance with the transparency requirement, such as voluntary participation in a video interview.

Your data will not be passed on to unauthorized third parties as part of the applicant management process and will be processed for the purposes stated in this data protection declaration. Thus, the inspection by internal departments and specialist managers of the person responsible is in the legitimate interest, insofar as knowledge of the information from the application process is necessary and permissible for the selection of applicants or internal administrative purposes of the company. For this purpose, your details may be forwarded to third parties within the company by e-mail or within the management system. The legal basis may be § 26 para. 1 BDSG, Art. 6 para. 1 sent 1 lit. f as well as lit. a GDPR.

The transfer to third parties also takes place within the scope of commissioned processing pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR, i.e. within the scope of processing activities in which the controller has a legitimate interest in outsourcing processing activities that it is otherwise entitled to perform itself. For this purpose, the controller shall take the measures to ensure compliance with the data protection provisions.

In addition, disclosure to external third parties may take place for the defense of legal claims based on legitimate interest or in the context of the investigation of or disclosure to government agencies, to the extent required by law or if there is an obligation to disclose. The information obligations vis-à-vis data subjects within the meaning of Art. 13, 14 GDPR are ensured in advance of the relevant transfer, insofar as these are to be fulfilled separately.

6. Feedback module

Accompanying your application, we may ask you to submit your feedback after an interview and 3 months after you are hired. For this purpose, we will send you an invitation link that will lead you to the rating system to submit your feedback. The purpose of the processing is the further development and optimization of our recruiting and application processes as well as the corporate image.

For this purpose, the following data is processed automatically:

Contact details (name, email),
Position title of the job for which you have applied,
Location of the position,
Job category,
Applicant ID.

The feedback itself is stored anonymously in the database. A personal reference is not established. In addition to a star rating for individual questions, you have the option of leaving comments here. We expressly ask you not to leave any personal data in the comments. The information collected in this way may be displayed together with your feedback on our rating page or transmitted to external partners such as kununu.

Participation is purely voluntary and takes place only with your consent, without which the submission of feedback is not possible. The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sent 1 lit. a GDPR.

7. Salary statistics “Salary statistics” module

Softgarden will give you the opportunity to provide feedback about your salary expectations and salaries offered to you in different steps of the application process.

The information provided in this process will be processed anonymously and without any link to your name and contact details. Softgarden processes this data anonymously for its own purposes (statistics, analysis, studies) and is the controller for this processing within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 7 GDPR.

The processing only takes place with your consent through participation and on a purely voluntary basis. The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sent 1 lit. a GDPR.

8. Social share buttons

It is possible to share the job ads on different social networks. For this purpose, different buttons are offered per network. After clicking on one of these buttons, you will be referred to the respective networks and will be taken to their login pages. These buttons do not represent plug-ins and do not transmit any personal data directly to the operators of the social networks.

Currently, the job ads can be shared on the following social networks:

Facebook (https://de-de.facebook.com/privacy/explanation)
Twitter (https://twitter.com/de/privacy)
LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy?trk=uno-reg-join-privacy-policy)
Xing (https://privacy.xing.com/de/datenschutzerklaerung)

The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sent 1 lit. f GDPR for statistical analysis and coverage measurement of job ads.

Under the links provided, you can also find out how the aforementioned social networks process your personal data. We expressly state that we have no influence on the processing of your personal data by the social networks. Please also see the data protection law information on our social media channels.

9. Online surveys “Easyfeedback”

At the end of the application process you may be shown an invitation to a survey by softgarden via a link. The survey takes place via a service of easyfeedback GmbH, Ernst-Abbe-Str. 4, 56070 Koblenz, Germany (https://easy-feedback.com/) in order to query the application experience. Softgarden conducts this survey as controller within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 7 GDPR and, according to its own information, processes the collected data anonymously for its own purposes (statistics, analysis, studies) as well as for the further development of softgarden products.

Softgarden states that the collection of the survey data is secured by default via the SSL encryption process and that softgarden does not establish any personal reference within the scope of the evaluation. The survey can be cancelled at any time. The data processed up to the point of cancellation may be used by softgarden for the purposes stated.

Softgarden states that your participation in the survey is purely voluntary and that by participating you declare your consent, without which your participation is not possible, Art. 6 para. 1 sent 1 lit. a GDPR. According to softgarden, the data is processed anonymously for evaluation purposes.

You can find more information about the data protection of easyfeedback in the following notes: https://easy-feedback.com/privacy/data-protection/

10. Talentpool

As part of your application or via the “Get in touch” button, you have the opportunity to recommend yourself for our talent pool. This processing is necessary in order to be considered automatically for further job postings, i.e. for similar or otherwise suitable positions. If you register for the talent pool via the “Get in touch” button, the following information will be requested:

Salutation, academic title (optional),
First name, last name, email address,
Job fields of interest,
Current career level,
Preferred location(s),
XING profile or curriculum vitae.

Inclusion in the talent pool is purely voluntary with your consent as well as through the use of an opt-in link. The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sent 1 lit. a GDPR.

C. Automated decision making

Automated decision making does not take place. Should this be or become necessary, we will obtain transparent consent at the appropriate point in advance of processing.

D. Duration of storage and use of data

Your data will be stored for the duration of the application process and in accordance with legitimate retention periods after completion of the application process. In the event of a rejection, the data will be retained for a maximum of 6 months, provided that no other legitimate interests on our part oppose deletion or you have not given us consent for longer storage. Other legitimate interest in this sense is, for example, a duty to provide evidence in proceedings under the General Equal Treatment Act (AGG). After the retention period has expired, the data is completely anonymized. The processing of anonymized data records is not subject to the material scope of the data protection provisions, so that anonymized data may be processed for statistical and analytical purposes, for the preparation of market studies or for product development.

E. Rights of data subjects

To exercise your rights, you can contact the data controller or data protection officer mentioned in section A. In order to avoid possible cases of misuse, we may require that inquiries be accompanied by a handwritten signature or that the inquirer otherwise legitimize himself.

F. Right of withdrawal in the case of consent

If you agreed to the processing by making a corresponding declaration of consent, you can revoke your consent at any time for the future. The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of using and processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

G. Changes to this privacy policy

Data protection law information for the CRONnect-App

Dear Sir/Madam,

we inform you with the following data protection information about the processing of your personal data in the context of the use of our CRONnect-App.

A. Who is the party responsible for data processing and how can you contact us? What are the contact details of the data protection officer?

The party responsible for data processing is your CRONIMET contractual partner, i.e. the CRONIMET company of the CRONIMET Holding Group with which you are in business contact and whose employee contacted you for registration in the CRONnect-App and to whom you provided your data for the initial registration. The following CRONIMET companies come into question as a party responsible for data processing:

CRONIMET Ferroleg. GmbH Südbeckenstr. 22, 76189 Karlsruhe Telefon +49 (0) 721 95 225-0	CRONIMET Hispania S.A. Muelle AZ-2 del Dique de Zierbena nº 2 y 4, 48508, Zierbena, Telefon +34 (94) 4831728
CRONIMET Raw Materials GmbH Südbeckenstr. 22, 76189 Karlsruhe Telefon +49 (0) 721 95225-0	CRONIMET (Holland) b.v. Vlasweg 7, 4782 PW Moerdijk Telefon +31 168 382038
CRONIMET Dortmund GmbH Kipperstr. 11, 44147 Dortmund Telefon +49 (0) 231 879050	NICHEL LEGHE SpA Via M.L.King 12/14, 20010 Vittuone Telefon +39 (02) 90111 925
Metalloy Metalle-Legierungen GmbH Oststr. 134, 22844 Norderstedt Telefon +49 (0) 405 26780	CRONIMET PL Sp.z.o.o Klopot 10 A, 88 100, Inowroclaw Telefon +48 52 356 45 00
ERG-Edelstahl Recycling GmbH Limesstr. 20, 63741 Aschaffenburg Telefon +49 (0) 6021 44260	CRONIMET Ostrava s.r.o Polanecká 1217/55, 721 00, Ostrava Telefon +42 (0) 596 634 711
CRONIMET (Great Britain) Ltd. Unit 22, Cannock Wood Industrial Estate, Cannock Wood Street, Staffordshire WS120PL, Cannock, Telefon +44 (0) 1543 877337	CRONIMET Turkey Metal A.S. Suadiye Mah. Öncü Sokak. No.1 D.2, Kadıköy, 34740 Istanbul Telefon +90 216 403 10 23 24

You can reach the data protection officer for CRONIMET Ferroleg., CRONIMET Raw Materials, CRONIMET Dortmund, Metalloy Metalle-Legierungen and for ERG-Edelstahl Recyclingof by post at the above address by stating “Data protection officer” or by email via: datenschutz@cronimet.de.

B. What categories of data are processed? What are the purposes and legal bases of the processing?

We process personal data in our CRONnect-App that we receive from you in the context of business relationships or contract initiation. This is usually your username, password, email address, language, role in the company, assignment to one or more business partners and optionally your landline and/or mobile phone number. The mandatory information is marked accordingly.

The creation of the user in the CRONnect-App with the mandatory and, if applicable, optional information is carried out by a CRONIMET employee with your consent. As a user, you will then receive the user name for the initial registration in an email together with the link to the CRONnect-App and the link to the password assignment. When you register for the first time, you will generate a secret password. As a user of the CRONnect-App, you can manage the following data in the user management at any time: password, language setting, landline and/or mobile phone number, default currency and default weight unit.

We process your personal data exclusively within the scope of the legal terms, particularly under consideration of the regulations of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). We process your personal data in our CRONnect-App on the basis of the following described legal bases and for the purposes of

contract negotiation, contract implementation and termination of the contractual relationship (Art. 6 para. 1 sent. 1 lit. b GDPR) in particular fulfilment of a contract such as overview of contracts, viewing of delivery deadlines, current status of deliveries, preparation of findings or weighing processes; general communication with business partners e.g. answering enquiries about goods and services;
based on consent given (Art. 6 para. 1 sent. 1 lit. a GDPR), in particular to enter the above-mentioned mandatory information in the CRONnect-App for the registration and subsequent activation and use of the CRONnect-App;
based on a legitimate interest (Art. 6 para. 1 sent. 1 lit. f GDPR); e.g. measures for IT security.

C. Who receives your personal data? Will personal data be transferred to a third country?

We transmit your personal data:

if applicable, to the CRONIMET contact persons responsible for answering your enquiry,
if applicable, to companies of our CRONIMET Holding group, if this is necessary to fulfil the purposes mentioned in section B. above,
if applicable, to external service providers as processors within the meaning of Art. 28 GDPR in the context of the supply of the CRONnect-App. Data processing agreements have been concluded with these service providers to ensure the protection of your personal data.

The above described recipients may also be located in countries outside of the European Economic Area (“third countries”). Third countries may not have the same level of data protection as in the European Economic Area. If data transmission takes place in a third country, we ensure that this transmission only takes place according to the terms of the legal regulations (chapter V GDPR).

D. How long will your personal data be stored?

Personal data is generally deleted after expiry of the legal (primarily trade and tax law) retention periods. If personal data is not affected by legal retention obligations, it will be deleted when it is no longer required for the purposes described in section B. above. A different retention period may apply if you consented when the data was collected.

E. What are rights the of data subjects?

In addition, you may contact the party responsible or the data protection officer mentioned in section A. above. In order to avoid possible cases of misuse, we may require that inquiries be accompanied by a handwritten signature or that the inquirer otherwise legitimize himself.

F. What does the right of withdrawal mean?

G. Changes to this privacy policy

What can we
do for you?

If you have any questions, suggestions
or just need more information,
feel free to contact us!

CRONIMET Holding GmbH
Südbeckenstr. 22
76189 Karlsruhe

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CRONIMET and Outokumpu seal partnership to accelerate the circular economy

Karlsruhe, January 24, 2024

CRONIMET strengthens its focus on the markets with the two new, market-savvy managing directors.

Karlsruhe, January 10, 2024

CRONIMET expands cooperation with Finnish stainless steel producer Outokumpu

Karlsruhe, November 7, 2023

CRONIMET expands its machine park with the first electrically powered material handler from Solmec

Karlsruhe, September 27, 2023

CRONIMET Group generates record sales in 2022 and joins "Inner Circle" inititative of Outokumpu

Karlsruhe, August 15, 2023

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CRONIMET Group generates record sales in 2022 and joins "Inner Circle" inititative of Outokumpu

Karlsruhe, June 06, 2023

CRONIMET is the first signatory of Outokumpu’s “Inner Circle” initiative

Systematic further development of sustainability management

About the CRONIMET Holding Group

CRONIMET Group commits to the climate protection targets of the Science Based Targets initiative

Karlsruhe, January 24, 2023

CRONIMET Holding Group and partner banks extend cooperation ahead of schedule

Karlsruhe, September 30, 2022

CRONIMET commissions first battery-powered excavator SENNEBOGEN 825 Electro Battery in operation

Karlsruhe, September 13, 2022

CRONIMET Group presents its first sustainability report

Karlsruhe, August 15, 2022

CRONIMET Group successfully concludes anniversary year 2021 – Changes in the management board

Karlsruhe, February 16, 2022

Expert opinion confirms: No abnormalities in water quality in the Voghji River in Armenia

Karlsruhe, August 6, 2021

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