looby_hitch Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 Hi swissheavy, I'm the Internal Communications Manager for the whole group, and have worked on the Sheffield site for over 2 years. On the Europa Link Site/Shepcote Lane, we have several different parts - A melt shop (SMACC) which is the building you see the steam coming from. A large yellow building - this is the Bar Finishing facility - here they do numerous things with stainless steel bar so that it can shipped to customers worldwide. Then there are 3 blue buildings by the M1, these are the Sales 'service centres', and they have processing machines in there which can do all manner of different things with stainless steel coils (like massive toliet rolls of steel) sheets like cutting, polishing etc etc. Then there's some office blocks dotted around too. The stuff you see on the trains are products melted at the melt shop. They could be going anywhere! The company as a group produces stainless steel. I hope this helps! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swissheavy Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 Thanks for both replies. Very informative and interesting to know what's actually being done there, it's puzzled me for many months! How many, roughly, now work for Outu Kumpu in Sheffield? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fitkenlike Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 There is a melting shop which melts to cast slabs these are then sent to either Sweden or Finland to be rolled and finished. The swedish and finish sites have ample melting capacity, so lets have a guess at the future for the sheffield melt shop mmmmm!!! none. the other ares just reclaim seconds etc. Outokumpu came, saw and conquered. Classic tale of under investment and short sighted management Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
looby_hitch Posted June 23, 2010 Share Posted June 23, 2010 Fitkenlike, just to clarify your point, the Sheffield meltshop casts material for rolling in Sweden and Sheffield. The meltshops in Sweden and Finland have enough capacity, but so does every other manufacturer in the world. The ability to use the Sheffield meltshop is unique as it supports the manufacture of long products - eg. rod coil and stainless rebar. These are made in Sheffield. If the future for Sheffield was 'none' as you so say, then that wouldn't explain why we have recently opened a new stainless bar finishing facility on the Europa Link site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fitkenlike Posted July 16, 2010 Share Posted July 16, 2010 Fitkenlike, just to clarify your point, the Sheffield meltshop casts material for rolling in Sweden and Sheffield. The meltshops in Sweden and Finland have enough capacity, but so does every other manufacturer in the world. The ability to use the Sheffield meltshop is unique as it supports the manufacture of long products - eg. rod coil and stainless rebar. These are made in Sheffield. If the future for Sheffield was 'none' as you so say, then that wouldn't explain why we have recently opened a new stainless bar finishing facility on the Europa Link site. So where do they roll in Sheffield and at what scale? the new facility is but a mere drop in the ocean compared to the production facilities that used to be on the site. Sheffield is not a major site for the group anymore as most of the equipment has now been sold to India and the new stuff is just a side show from the main production units. Worked there for 30 years sad but inevitable decline Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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