Products and solutions Aug 30, 2010 4:22 PM
Extended workbench: ThyssenKrupp Nirosta consolidates stainless steel service center operations
ThyssenKrupp Nirosta already provides a number of primary processing services. These include: 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. With the measure now introduced, these services will 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”. “In addition to this benefit for our customers, the established advantages of a service center will be retained in full – such as flexibility, delivery performance, batch sizes in line with requirements, and further increased involvement in the development work and product services of ThyssenKrupp Nirosta,” says Lork.
Apart from these advantages on the operating side, the reorganization will permit cost savings in particular in the administrative area. The restructuring of the service center operations will not involve workforce reductions for the locations in Wilnsdorf (98 employees), EBOR in Sachsenheim (100) and smb in Langenhagen (33).