Annual Report 2010 - Outokumpu

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Outokumpu Stainless Tubular
Products (OSTP)
OSTP manufactures and markets welded stainless steel tubes and pipes as well as butt-welded and threaded fittings.
With a market share of almost 20% in the process-pipe segment, Outokumpu is one of Europe's largest producers of
stainless steel tubes. Tubular products are manufactured in Canada, Estonia, Finland, Sweden and the US. The Group's
main products – process pipes and fittings, heavy-wall pipes and heat-exchanger pipes – are used in most segments of
the process industries in the pulp and paper, oil and gas, chemical and petrochemical, automotive, and construction
sectors. Annual delivery capacity at OSTP totals some 100 000 tonnes.
As part of the restructuring of OSTP, the operation producing structural hollow sections in Jakobstad in Finland was sold
to Stalatube Oy in 2009. The OSTP site in Veteli in Finland was closed in the first quarter of 2010 and production was
moved to Jakobstad in Finland and Örnsköldsvik in Sweden.
In Saudi Arabia, the OSTP joint venture with Armetal, a tube manufacturer, is creating the largest local producer of
process pipe. Investments made during 2010 expanded the product range substantially.
Outokumpu Annual Report 2010 – Business – OSTP