New decoiling line for Tata Steel plant in Maastricht

Tata Steel Nederland announces the inauguration of a new decoiling line at its Feijen steel service centre location in Maastricht.

This is the largest investment ever made by Feijen, involving a sum of 20 million euros. With the state-of-the-art processing line, Tata Steel Nederland can deliver faster and higher quality steel to its customers in the machine building and industry sectors.

The new line involves a so-called decoiler and an automated sheet packaging line at the Feijen location in Maastricht. Hot-rolled steel coils from Tata Steel in IJmuiden are processed into steel sheets. In close corporation with the IJmuiden steel mill colleagues, Feijen focusses on customers in Europe as well as in other parts of the world. These customers are active in markets such as agricultural and earthmoving machinery, trailers, cranes, and shipbuilding.

Tata Steel Nederland consists of two business units: Business Unit Tata Steel IJmuiden (TSIJ) and Business Unit Tata Steel Downstream Europe (TSDE). Service Centre Maastricht is part of TSDE and consists of two locations: Multisteel and Feijen. Multisteel processes steel coils in the thinner segment, such as cold-rolled and galvanized steel. Feijen processes hot-rolled steel coils. Both sites predominantly process steel coils from TSIJ. Some major end customers supplied from Maastricht include JCB, John Deere, CNH, and Volvo Construction Equipment.

In line with Tata Steel Nederland’s broader vision of sustainability, Service Centre Maastricht announces today its carbon neutrality for Scope 1 and 2 emissions. This initiative underscores Tata Steel Nederland’s commitment to reducing its environmental footprint and aligns with its long-term strategy of achieving carbon neutrality across its Downstream operations. Scope 1 concerns direct CO2 emissions caused by sources within the organization itself. Scope 2 concerns indirect emissions created by the production of the electricity or heat that an organization buys.

Downstream Europe processes steel from IJmuiden for high-grade applications in specific market segments, such as construction (metal roofs and wall cladding), the mobility sector and the energy sector (batteries). With 19 production sites in ten countries, TSDE supplies to customers located mainly in Europe and partly in the United States. TSDE is divided into five business units: Building Systems, Colors, Distribution, Plating and Tubes.

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Tata Steel Nederland adds sampling line

Tata Steel Nederland has expanded its hot strip mill in IJmuiden with a sampling line, Kallanish has learned. The line enables rapid testing of steel properties, as well as the inspection and certification of each steel coil.

According to the company, this shortens lead times in both the development of new steel grades and the delivery of steel to customers. The expansion is the latest in a series of investments and strengthens the company’s position in the market for thicker, stronger and more abrasion-resistant steel, Tata notes.

“Tata Steel is one of the best steel producers in the world, and thanks to our investment programme, we continue to play in the Champions League of the steel industry,” said Tom Eussen, member of the Board of Management of Tata Steel Nederland and Managing Director of Tata Steel IJmuiden. “The new sampling line is a significant investment that allows us to assess the quality of our steel more quickly and deliver to our customers faster.”

“Investments like these enable us to develop new steel grades, such as abrasion-resistant steel, ultra-high-strength steel and linepipe steel,” Eussen continued. “Combined with the opportunity for customers to reduce their scope 3 emissions through Zeremis Carbon Lite and Zeremis Delivered, we continue to strengthen our position in a highly competitive steel market.”

These steels are is used in applications such as trucks and trailers, excavators, cranes, mining, and in pipelines for transporting gas, water and hydrogen.

The sampling line can automatically sample the entire production spectrum, from normal to ultra-high-strength steel, with steel thicknesses of up to 25 millimetres that can be cut. Samples are taken hot, and the capacity of the number of coils that can be sampled has thus substantially increased, Tata says.

Christian Koehl Germany

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