SSAB

SSAB AB
Publicly traded Aktiebolag (Nasdaq Stockholm: SSAB A)
Industry Steel
Founded 1978 (1978)
Headquarters Stockholm, Sweden
Key people
 Bengt Kjell (Chairman), Martin Lindqvist (President and CEO)
Revenue SEK 66.06 billion (2017)[1]
SEK 3.84 billion (2017)[1]
SEK 286 billion (2017)[1]
Total assets SEK 87.5 billion (end 2017)[1]
Total equity SEK 53.3 billion (end 2017)[1]
Number of employees
 15,000 (average, 2017)[1]
Website www.ssab.com

SSAB AB, earlier Svenskt Stål AB (English: Swedish Steel), (Nasdaq Stockholm: SSAB A) is a Swedish-Finnish company, formed in 1978 and specialised in processing raw material to steel. The largest shareholders are Aktiebolag Industrivärden and the Government of Finland.

History

The headquarters is in central Stockholm.[2] SSAB initially saw losses during the years 1978 to 1981, and became profitable in 1982. It is involved in the production of steel and steel products,[3] both standardized and specialized for various fields and uses.[4] In addition to steel production, the company also partners with design firms during their execution of architectural projects.[5] Its R&D department works with customers in order to provide custom solutions for new projects.[6] In 2014 SSAB became a member of the four year pilot program organization “Steel Eco-System” sponsored by the Swedish government.[7] In November 2017 the company has a market cap of $35.55 billion, and is traded on the Stockholm NASDAQ exchange.[8] The company is also the sponsor of the SSAB’s Swedish Steel Prize.[9] SSAB's operations[10] which include the SSAB Special Steels, SSAB Europe, and SSAB Americas, and its subsidiaries Ruukki Construction and Tibnor.[11] SSAB’s offering includes such brands as SSAB Domex, Hardox, Docol, Greencoat, Armox and Toolox.[12]

Swedish operations

The production is located at Lulea, Borlänge, Oxelösund and Finspång.[13] SSAB is the largest steel sheet manufacturer in Scandinavia, with its blast furnace, coking plant, and steelworks located in Lulea and its rolling mills and coating plants in Borlänge—the initial product is sent from one location to the other via train. The division also has a coil coating line, lamination line, and special steels production. SSAB Special Steels in Oxelösund is the only steelworks in Sweden to have its entire vertical production base in one place, from raw material handling to its rolling plates. Ninety percent of its production is exported, with its chief export partner being Germany.[13] SSAB produces nearly all of the steel plates created in Sweden.[14] The company also has operations in China.[15]

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;[16][17] the company would later be purchased by SSAB, and is the origin of SSAB’s operations in the region. All SSAB operations in North America are now operated as SSAB Americas.[18]

As of 2000, IPSCO had used mini mills to produce flat-rolled steel for 40 years.[19] Late in 2001, the company officially opened an Axis, Alabama mill (in the Mobile area), with a capacity of 1,250,000 tonnes,. The $US425 million rolling mill,[17] with mill stand housings believed to be the largest one-piece cast mill housings in the world at 350 tons each,[19] 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.[20][21] On October 21, 2008, SSAB announced a $US460 million expansion of the Axis mill to be completed in 2011. The mill already had 400 employees and 350 contractors.[22]

In May 2007, a deal to acquire IPSCO for $US7.7 billion was announced.[18] At the time, IPSCO's annual production was 4.3 million tonnes, with four steel mills and eleven pipe mills.[23] 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.[24]

On 17 March 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 $US4.3 billion after steel prices rose and the dollar fell. Evraz also planned to sell some of the American assets for $US1.7 billion to OAO TMK.[25] IPSCO had 4300 employees, with 70% of its operation in the United States and 30% in Canada.[26]

After the sale, SSAB changed the name of its North American operation to SSAB North American Division (NAD), then later to SSAB Americas; headquarters stayed in Lisle, Illinois, USA. Included in this division were steel operations in Mobile and Montpelier, and cut-to-length lines in St. Paul, Minnesota and Houston, Texas, USA; 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.[27] In 2018 the SSAB Americas division will relocated its headquarters to Mobile, Alabama.[28]

Expanding to Finland

On January 22, 2014 it was announced that SSAB is to purchase Finnish steel manufacturer Rautaruukki for 1.1 bn euro.[29] The headquarters for SSAB Europe are located in Hämeenlinna, Finland.[30]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Annual Results 2010" (PDF). SSAB. Retrieved 12 February 2011.
  2. ↑ C. D. Skillings (1986). "SSAB News". 75. Skillings' Mining Review. p. 48.
  3. ↑ Privatization and changing ownership in the steel industry. United Nations. Economic Commission for Europe. 1996. p. 19.
  4. ↑ Gadde, Lars-Erik; Håkansson, Håkan; Persson, Göran (19 January 2018). "Supply Network Strategies". John Wiley & Sons – via Google Books.
  5. ↑ "Skýli mountain shelter is designed to withstand extreme weather conditions". 15 November 2017.
  6. ↑ Thompson, Mark; Tracy, Brian (19 January 2018). "Now, Build a Great Business!: 7 Ways to Maximize Your Profits in Any Market". AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn – via Google Books.
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  9. ↑ "Wabash named finalist for SSAB Swedish Steel Prize - Today's Trucking".
  10. ↑ "Swedish steel company SSAB in $1.6 billion bid to merge with Finland's Rautaruukki".
  11. ↑ "SSAB in brief". SSAB.
  12. ↑ https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/companyProfile/SSABb.ST
  13. 1 2 "BAT examples from the Nordic iron and steel industry". Nordic Council of Ministers. 1 March 2006 – via Google Books.
  14. ↑ "Carbon Steel Products from Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom, Volume 1 Determination and Volume 2 Information, Invs. AA1921-1". DIANE Publishing – via Google Books.
  15. ↑ "Carbon Steel Products from Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom, Volume 1 Determination and Volume 2 Information, Invs. AA1921-1". DIANE Publishing – via Google Books.
  16. ↑ "Company Profile -IPSCO". LinkedIn. Retrieved 2010-05-25.
  17. 1 2 "IPSCO Steel Officially Opens $425 Million Alabama Mini-Mill". siteselection.com. 2001-12-10.
  18. 1 2 "Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods from China, Invs. 701-TA-463 and 731-TA-1156-1159 (Preliminary)". DIANE Publishing – via Google Books.
  19. 1 2 "IPSCO Steel (Alabama) Construction Proceeds on Schedule; World's Largest Mill Stands Set in Place". Business Wire. 2000-05-08. Retrieved 2010-05-25.
  20. ↑ "IPSCO Inc. - Subsidiary Selects Site for State-of-the-Art Steelworks". Business Wire. 1998-12-22. Retrieved 2010-05-25.
  21. ↑ "IPSCO plans multi-million dollar plant". Muscatine Journal. 2008-04-08. Retrieved 2010-05-25.
  22. ↑ Amy, Jeff (2008-10-22). "SSAB steel mill in Axis, Ala., to expand by $460m". Press-Register. Archived from the original on 2011-06-08. Retrieved 2010-06-29.
  23. ↑ "Sweden's SSAB wants to sell Ipsco tube unit". Reuters. 2007-05-30. Retrieved 2010-05-25.
  24. ↑ "SSAB Successfully Completes Acquisition of IPSCO". ThomasNet. 2007-07-17. Retrieved 2010-05-25.
  25. ↑ "Evraz Agrees to Buy SSAB Units for $4.03 Billion". AllBiz. 2008-03-17. Retrieved 2010-05-25.
  26. ↑ "Russian steel maker Evraz grows in North America". USA Today. 2008-03-14. Retrieved 2010-05-25.
  27. ↑ "SSAB Rolls out New Name, New Leadership for North American Operations". steelnews.com. 2008-06-16. Retrieved 2010-05-16.
  28. ↑ Lane, Keith. "SSAB steel company to relocate head office to Mobile".
  29. ↑ "Steelmaker SSAB to buy Nordic rival Rautaruukki for $1.6 billion". Reuters. 2014-01-22.
  30. ↑ "40 vuotta maalipinnoitusta SSAB:n Hämeenlinnan tehtaalla". News Powered by Cision.
  • (SSAB Annual Report 2014, February 18, 2015, Swedbank Handelsbanken PWC) Net-Sales-USA 2013/2014 2.793.358.400 US-Dollar
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