Thin Strip
The Group's Thin Strip operations consist of the cold rolling mills at Nyby and Kloster in Sweden. These mills have a combined annual delivery capacity of approximately 145 000 tonnes (Nyby some 100 000 tonnes and Kloster some 45 000 tonnes). Thin strip products are mainly used in plate heat exchangers, domestic heaters and heating elements, flexible tubes, automotive head gaskets.
In the first quarter 2009, the Thin Strip operations at Sheffield Special Strip, SSS, in the UK were closed.
At the beginning of October 2009, a new grinding line and with an automated storage and an entry section to the annealing and pickling line was taken into operation in Nyby. This investment is doubling the annual production capacity of special grades to over 70 000 tonnes.