German steel service centre Bandstahl Hagen is planning a major enlargement of warehousing and processing capacities. Its parent, industrial group Niedax, has lined up a double-digit million euro investment for this purpose, Kallanish hears.
Bandstahl-Service-Hagen (BSH) is one of two steel service centres within the Niedax group, alongside Boecker Stahl-Service in Schwerte. The two sites process slit strip from hot-rolled wide strip, cold-rolled strip, hot-dip galvanized steel, and stainless steel. Annual volumes exceed 225,000 tonnes, with up to 130,000t of these sold in Hagen.
BSH’s 35,000-square-meter production and warehouse facilities are set to be expanded by 2030 with new, process-optimised production and warehouse facilities on a new 36,000m2 site. In addition to the construction of the new hall, the investment will also be used for automation and increased use of artificial intelligence to optimise existing production processes, the parent group notes.
“We have confidence in our steel service centres in the Ruhr region,” says Niedax chief executive Bruno Reufels. “By purchasing a new splitting machine and using AI-controlled technology, we aim to achieve significantly more efficient processes and double the volume processed.”
Both SSCs play a strategically important role within the company’s value chain. Their steel is not only supplied to industrial companies for further processing but used primarily for the manufacture of the company’s own cable trays, which is the core business of the Niedax Group.
Niedax is furthermore involved in a project to build a secure, high-performance glass fibre network in Germany using the cable management systems.
Christian Koehl Germany
