German steel distribution group Heine + Beisswenger has opened a new base in Lemwerder near Bremen, northern Germany, Kallanish learns from the company.
It thereby aims to win new customers in the northern German industries of shipbuilding, hydraulics, fittings, and energy. This includes makers of wind power plants, pumps, or agricultural machinery.
For fittings, the location is offering high-wear steels such as P250GH+N, A105+N and TSTE355, the company notes. For typical products for the energy industry, like drills, pipes and valve housings, it offers P250GH+N, SA105 and corrosion resistant steels 1.4462, 1.4571 und 1.4404. For agricultural machinery, it is banking on S235 und S355 grades. For cranes and hydraulics, its portfolio covers creep resistant steel with extraordinary longevity, H+B says.
The group is headquartered in Fellbach, southwestern Germany, and operates seven more sites, most of them in the south, but also in North Rhine-Westphalia, near Berlin, and now near Bremen. It mostly handles long products and is mainly active in special bar qualities, with an annual throughput of 250,000 tonnes.
It recently carried out some consolidation on its home turf in the southwest by closing a site in Pforzheim. Customers in the region will now be served from Fellbach and Trossingen, where it recently started operating a new €7 million ($7.7m) logistics centre (see Kallanish 17 July).
Christian Koehl Germany