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SSAB
Latest News
Metals Executive to Lead SSAB Special Steel Division
27 September 2018 - SSAB has named a new director for its special steel unit, hiring away the chief executive of tool steelmaker Uddeholm AB.
Name That Steel, and You Could Win This Valuable Prize
20 September 2018 - SSAB and Sandvik Materials Technology have asked for the research community’s help in developing a way to track steel products as they move through the value chain, from the mill to end product.
SSAB Sets Price Tag on Mill Fire at More Than US$10 Million
20 June 2018 - A transformer fire that damaged SSAB’s Hämeenlinna mill in Finland is expected to cost the company somewhere between SEK100 and SEK120 million (between US$11.2 million and US$13.5 million) in repairs and lost deliveries, the steelmaker said.
Transformer Fire Damages Finnish Mill
12 June 2018 - A transformer fire has knocked a portion of SSAB’s strip and tube mill in Hämeenlinna, Finland, offline, the company disclosed on Tuesday.
Trailer Manufacturer Claims Swedish Steel Prize
25 May 2018 - SSAB has awarded the 2018 Swedish Steel Prize to Italian trailer manufacturer Mantella for its innovative rear-tipping semi-truck trailer.
SSAB Floats Product Data into the Cloud
24 May 2018 - SSAB is rolling out a new service that provides customers with cloud-based traceability and documentation of the steel they buy.
SSAB Brings Third-Generation Automotive Steel to Market
08 May 2018 - Swedish steelmaker SSAB is rolling out a family of coated, third-generation advanced high-strength steels and has product ready for customer trials, the company announced Tuesday.
SSAB Converts Mill Furnace to LNG
28 November 2017 - SSAB will begin burning liquefied natural gas (LNG) instead of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in the walking beam furnace at its Raahe strip mill, the company said.
SSAB Introduces Water-Quenchable Steel Grade
22 November 2017 - Sweden’s SSAB has begun selling a new type of steel than can be quenched in water, but doesn’t need to be immediately tempered, it has announced.
SSAB Leaving the Rust Belt for the Sun Belt
19 October 2017 - Swedish steelmaker SSAB will move its North American headquarters from the U.S. state of Illinois to Mobile, Ala., bringing it closer to its plate mill there, the company announced Thursday.
Blast Furnace Research Company Names New Chief Executive
15 September 2017 - HYBRIT, a research joint venture among Sweden’s SSAB and two other companies, has hired a chief executive.
Swedish Government Allocates Funding to Carbon-Free Steelmaking Research
27 February 2017 - The Swedish Energy Agency has agreed to contribute an additional SEK56 million toward a four-year research initiative that will explore hydrogen’s potential as a carbon-free steelmaking input.
U.S. Commerce Department Affirms Hefty Duties on Chinese Plate
18 January 2017 - The U.S. Commerce Department has made its final determinations on a trade case on Chinese cut-to-length plate, setting anti-dumping and countervailing margins of more than 300 percent.
Sweden's SSAB Contracts for Automation System Upgrade
22 December 2016 - SSAB Europe has awarded a contract to Primetals Technologies for a new automation system at its mill in Raahe, Finland.
Commerce Department Sets Anti-Dumping Duties on Steel Plate
07 November 2016 - The U.S. Commerce Department has set preliminary anti-dumping duties on carbon and alloy cut-to-length plate from China and eight other Asian and European nations.
Commerce Department Proposes Big Countervailing Duty on Chinese-Made Plate
08 September 2016 - The U.S. Commerce Department has set preliminary countervailing duties of 210.5 percent on Chinese-made cut to length plate, ruling that producers there have been benefitting from unfair government subsidies.
SSAB Trims 183 Positions at Swedish Plate Mill
03 June 2016 - Sweden’s SSAB is cutting 183 jobs at its heavy plate mill in Oxelösund, the steelmaker has announced.
SSAB Trims Payroll In Sweden, Pares Office Jobs
02 May 2016 - Swedish steelmaker SSAB has concluded negotiations with employees over proposed layoffs and will cut 262 office jobs from its Nordic operations, the company has announced.
SSAB Revises Portfolio, Adds New Products
18 April 2016 - Sweden’s SSAB is revising its product portfolio, introducing new products and rolling out five new brand families that group products by their use.
Redesigned Forest Harvester Takes Home Swedish Steel Prize
20 November 2015 - Finnish forestry machine maker Ponsse and its next-generation Scorpion harvester have been awarded SSAB’s Swedish Steel Prize.
