Franca Ruhwedel

National Bank AG provides commercial, investment, mortgage, and retail banking services. The firm offers a wide range of financing facilities including bank-to-bank facilities, export-project-financing, buyer's credits, guarantees, forfeiting and confirmations of Letters of Credit. The company was founded in 1921 and is headquartered in Essen, Germany.

VTG AG engages in the provision of rail freight transport and logistics services. It operates through the following segments: Railcar, Rail Logistics, and Tank Container Logistics. The Railcar segment refers to the leasing, management, technical servicing, administration, and maintenance of the company's external wagon fleets, which include tank, intermodal, standard freight, and sliding wall wagons. The Rail Logistics segment covers the rail forwarding services of the group, including the transport of mineral oil and chemical products, liquid gases, and general cargo. The Tank Container Logistics segment comprises operations for transport of chemical, mineral oil, and compressed gas products using tank containers. The company was founded in 1951 and is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany.

thyssenkrupp Steel Europe AG manufactures carbon steel, stainless steel, and special steel materials. Its products include hot and precision strips, heavy plates, sheet and coated products, organic coated strips and sheets, composite materials, electrical steel products, tinplates and black plates, and medium-wide strips. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Duisburg, Germany.