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, Sweden and New Castle, IN, in the US.
Products and production
Avesta is a world-class supplier to the process industry of two-metre-wide, thick cold rolled and white hot rolled products and 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 are:
- 500 000 tonnes for melting with the current mix
- 450 000 tonnes for hot rolling (current manned capacity)
- 250 000 tonnes of finished products
Avesta supplies the Nyby and Kloster cold rolling mills with black hot band material. Slabs and steckel hot rolled plate are supplied to hot rolled plate operations.
Outokumpu is the market leader with a 20% global market share in hot rolled plate (quarto plates). 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, and in chemical tankers. Outokumpu produces quarto plates at Degerfors, Sweden and in New Castle, IN, in the US. Production capacity of quarto plates at Degerfors is 110 000 tonnes, at New Castle it is 70 000 tonnes. The Group's plate service centres in Europe complement these facilities.
In accordance with Outokumpu strategy, the product mix at both Avesta and Degerfors, and quarto plate production at New Castle, is being shifted from standard grades towards increased production of value-added, tailor-made special grades – especially duplex – to offer end user and project customers the Group's full product range.