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ThyssenKrupp Nirosta Consolidates Stainless Steel Service Center Operations
Aug. 31, 2010 ThyssenKrupp Nirosta plans to consolidate all its stainless steel service center operations in a single unit. In addition to the Nirosta Service Center (NSC) based in Wilnsdorf (near Siegen), it will include EBOR Edelstahl GmbH (Sachsenheim near Stuttgart) and smb Chromstahl GmbH (Langenhagen near Hannover). They will operate as service centers under the name ThyssenKrupp Nirosta.
The new structure will come into effect at the start of the new fiscal year on October 1, 2010.
“With this step we can make it clearer to our customers that the service centers are extended workbenches of our production plants,” Karsten Lork, Head of Sales at ThyssenKrupp Nirosta, explained.
ThyssenKrupp Nirosta already provides primary processing services, including slitting of coils from surplus production and specifically ordered starting material, marketing of these products as premium quality slit strip, and sale of material from the Krefeld, Benrath and Dillenburg cold-rolling mills.
These services will now be extended to include the production and marketing of unfinished sheet and finished sheet and strip (brushing, grinding, painting, high-gloss polishing) within a single NSC unit. ThyssenKrupp Nirosta will then supply its products and services along the value chain from a single source.
The company notes that the restructuring of the service center operations will not involve workforce reductions for the locations in Wilnsdorf (98 employees), EBOR (100), and smb (33).
ThyssenKrupp Nirosta is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of stainless flat products with a range of stainless steel grades, sizes, and finishes. The company has several sites in Germany and employs around 4200 people.