Annual Report 2010 - Outokumpu

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Special Coil and Plate
Special Coil and Plate offers a wide range of special grades and products in a variety of dimensions.
Production facilities
Special Coil and Plate consists of the integrated Avesta production facility (coil and continuously-produced plate) and Hot
Rolled Plate (quarto plate) production in Degerfors in Sweden and New Castle in the US.
As of 1 March 2011, Special Coil and Plate as well as Thin Strip are reorganised into Special Coil and Special Plate.
Special Coil comprises the flat products' production unit in Avesta, Sweden and the former Thin Strip unit in Nyby,
Sweden. Special Plate comprises the quarto plate production units in Degerfors, Sweden, and New Castle, USA, the
Nordic plate service centre in Degerfors as well as the unit in Willich, Germany.
Products and production
Avesta is a world-class supplier to the process industry of thick, two-metre-wide cold rolled and white hot rolled products
as well as continuously-produced plate. The integrated Avesta production facility covers the entire production chain from
melt shop through hot rolling to cold rolling. Approximate annual operational production capacities at Avesta total:
500 000 tonnes for melting with the current mix
450 000 tonnes hot rolling (at current manned capacity)
250 000 tonnes of finished products
Avesta supplies the Nyby and Kloster cold rolling mills with black hot band and white hot strip material. Slabs and hot
rolled plate are supplied to heavy plate operations (quarto plate). Outokumpu is the market leader in heavy plate with a
more than 30% market share in Europe and a 10% market share in North America. Thick, wide, and individually rolled
quarto plates are used in demanding applications in the pulp and paper, oil and gas, power plant and desalination
segments, as well as in chemical tankers. Outokumpu produces quarto plates at Degerfors, Sweden and in New Castle,
in the US. Annual production capacity in quarto plates is currently 110 000 tonnes at Degerfors and 70 000 tonnes at
New Castle. The Group's plate service centres in Europe complement these facilities. To expand Outokumpu's ability to
broaden its product mix and produce more special grades, a decision to invest EUR 104 million at Degerfors in Sweden
was made in 2010. By 2014, production capacity at this site will have increased by 40 000 tonnes to an annual level of
150 000 tonnes and the Group's annual quarto plate production capacity will have correspondingly expanded to a total of
220 000 tonnes.
In accordance with Outokumpu strategy, the product mix at Avesta and quarto plate production at both Degerfors and
New Castle are being shifted from standard grades towards the increased production of value-added, customised special
grades – especially duplex grades – to ensure that end-user and project customers can be offered the Group's entire
product range.
Outokumpu Annual Report 2010 – Business – Special Coil and Plate