SSAB

SSAB AB

Type	Publicly traded Aktiebolag (OMX: SSAB A)
Industry	Steel
Founded	1978 (1978)
Headquarters	Stockholm, Sweden
Key people	Sverker Martin-Löf (Chairman), Martin Lindqvist (President and CEO)
Revenue	SEK 39.88 billion (2010)[1]
Operating income	SEK 1.08 billion (2010)[1]
Profit	SEK 552 million (2010)[1]
Total assets	SEK 61.05 billion (end 2010)[1]
Total equity	SEK 30.08 billion (end 2010)[1]
Number of employees	8,480 (average, 2010)[1]
Website	www.ssab.com

SSAB AB, earlier Svenskt Stål AB (English: Swedish Steel), (OMX: SSAB A) is a Swedish-Finnishcompany, formed in 1978 and specialised in processing raw material to steel. Industrivärden is the largest shareholder.

Swedish operations

The headquarters is in central Stockholm. The production is located at Luleå, Borlänge, Oxelösund and Finspång. SSAB Sweden produces 3.9 million tonnes of steel.

North American operations

IPSCO Inc. began as Prairie Pipe Manufacturing Co., Ltd. in Regina, Saskatchewan in 1956, changing its name to Interprovincial Steel and Pipe Corporation, Ltd. in 1960 and IPSCO, Inc. in 1984.^[2][3]

As of 2000, IPSCO had used mini mills to produce flat-rolled steel for 40 years.^[4] Late in 2001, the company officially opened an Axis, Alabama mill (in the Mobile area), with a capacity of 1,250,000 tons. The $425 million rolling mill,^[3] with mill stand housings believed to be the largest one-piece cast mill housings in the world at 350 tons each,^[4] uses scrap steel to produce discrete plate and coiled hot rolled plate. Montpelier, Iowa had a similar facility which began operations in 1997, but this one would serve the Gulf coast.^[5][6] On October 21, 2008, SSAB announced a $460 million expansion of the Axis mill to be completed in 2011. The mill already had 400 employees and 350 contractors.^[7]

In May 2007, a deal to acquire IPSCO for $7.7 billion was announced. At the time, IPSCO's annual production was 4.3 million tons, with four steel mills and eleven pipe mills.^[8] On July 17, 2008, SSAB announced the completion of the deal. John Tulloch succeeded the retiring David Sutherland as IPSCO president and became an executive vice president of SSAB.^[9]

On March 17, 2008, Evraz Group SA announced it would buy SSAB's Canada pipe and plate business and the steel tube business of the American IPSCO unit for $4.3 billion after steel prices rose and the dollar fell. Evraz also planned to sell some of the American assets for $1.7 billion to OAO TMK.^[10] IPSCO had 4300 employees, with 70 percent of its operation in the United States and 30 percent in Canada.^[11]

After the sale, SSAB changed the name of its North American operation to SSAB North American Division (NAD); headquarters stayed in Lisle, Illinois. Included in this division were steel operations in Mobile and Montpelier, and cut-to-length lines in St. Paul, Minnesota; Houston, Texas; and Toronto, Ontario, Canada. David Britten succeeded Tulloch as president. Paul Wilson, with 36 years of industry experience, ten of those with SSAB including management of Mobile's steel operation, became the vice president in charge of the American steel operations.^[12]

Expanding to Finland

On January 22, 2014 it was announced that SSAB is to purchase Finnish steel manufacturer Rautaruukki for 1.1 bn euro.^[13]

See also

• List of Swedish companies

References

• (SSAB Annual Report 2014, Febr.18 2015, Swedbank Handelsbanken PWC) Net-Sales-USA 2013/2014 2.793.358.400 US-Dollar

External links

• Official website

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