Outokumpu – an international stainless steel company

Outokumpu is a global leader in stainless steel with the vision to be the undisputed number one. Customers in a wide range of industries use our stainless steel and services worldwide. Being fully recyclable, maintenance-free, as well as very strong and durable material, stainless steel is one of the key building blocks for sustainable future. Outokumpu employs some 7 600 people in more than 30 countries. The Group's head office is located in Espoo, Finland. Outokumpu is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki.

Outokumpu

Main products	Cold and hot rolled stainless steel coil Sheet and plate Quarto plate Thin strip Tubular and long products
Grades	Full range of standard and high alloyed austenitic grades Duplex Ferritic Manganese grades
Dimensions	Cold rolled flat products in thickness range from 0.12 mm to 6.5 mm White hot strip and hot rolled plate in varying widths and thicknesses Full range of tubular products from small diameter tubes to heavy walled pipes
Customers	Distributors Re-rollers and further processors Tube makers End-user and project customers in various industrial segments
Typical customer industries using stainless steel	Architecture, building and construction Chemical, petrochemical and energy Transportation Catering and appliances Process industries and resources Various other industries and applications
Main production plants	Tornio (ferrochrome smelter, steel melting shops, hot and cold rolling mills) and Kemi (chromium mine) in Finland Avesta (steel melting shop, hot and cold rolling mills), Nyby, Långshyttan (cold rolling mills at both) and Degerfors (hot rolling mill) in Sweden Sheffield (steel melting shop) in the UK New Castle (hot rolling mill) in the US. Long products are manufactured in Sweden, the US and the UK, whereas welded tubes and tube components are produced in Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Canada and the US.
Sales companies and service centres	A comprehensice network of sales companies in some 30 countries and service centres in 12 countries

Our main products are hot and cold rolled stainless steel sheets, plates and strips that are used in numerous applications – such as the construction industry, the automotive industry and equipment for the process industry.

Wide and thick individually rolled quarto plates are used in the energy sector, to extract salt from seawater, to transport chemicals and they are widely used in the process industry in pressure cylinders, tanks, thick-walled tubes, bridge structures and process equipment. Our tubes are mainly used by the process industry, i.e. the oil refining industry and the pulp and paper industries; bars are so-called long products, from which i.e. wire and reinforcement bar are manufactured.

Our customers include the processing and construction industries, the energy sector the transport sector, the food and electronics industries, and the producers of household and industrial machinery around the world.

Good qualities of stainless steel

Fully recyclable	Hygienic
Corrosion resistant	Aesthetic
High-strenght	Low life-cycle costs