Liberty Speciality Steels

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Stocksbridge Liberty Speciality Steels is a key division of Liberty Steel; a fully-integrated Re-melting steel manufacturer and distributor within the global metal trading and Primary Rolling industrials group, , a member of the GFG Alliance. Finishing Testing The division’s capabilities range from liquid steel production through to high-value precision-engineered products, sold around the world. All of this is underpinned by the Liberty House Group’s GREENSTEEL vision for Narrow Strip competitive, low-carbon and sustainable production. The Speciality Steels division is focused on offering alloy and stainless steel grades for use in demanding sectors such as Aerospace, Oil and Gas, Bolton Industrial Engineering and Bearings, and in the manufacture of Bright Bar, Aerospace Narrow Strip and niche engineering applications for customers around Service Centre the world. Speciality employs around 1,700 of the Liberty House Group’s total 4,500 staff and has major production centres in , , Rotherham Brinsworth and Wednesbury along with dedicated distribution and service Steelmaking centres in Bolton (UK), Nagpur (India), Suzhou and Xi’an (China) and & Casting Wednesbury Chicago (USA). Liberty House Group has a presence in over 30 countries. Secondary Rolling Bar Processing Bar Processing Advanced Machining Centre

2 3 Liberty Speciality Steels Worldwide Presence

Germany Sales Hub

Los Angeles Sales Hub Chicago Sales Hub Suzhou France Aerospace Sales Hub Service Centre

Xian Middle East Aerospace Sales Hub Mumbai Service Centre Sales Hub

Nagpur Aerospace Service Centre

4 5 Speciality Steels

Our strength in Speciality Steels lies in our fully-integrated production capability, which includes Electric Arc Steelmaking, Vacuum Induction Melting (VIM), mill processing capabilities and dedicated service centres. We supply ingots, blooms, billets, bars, slabs and narrow strip; in cast, rolled, drawn, peeled, heat-treated or re-melted condition, in exactly the quantities required by customers.

More than 100 component and original equipment increasingly demanding markets with increasingly manufacturers, end-users, third parties and national sophisticated products. Most recently our commitment bodies have validated our quality management has included investment of more than £20 million in systems. Our UK-based facilities cover the entire two additional Vacuum Arc Remelting (VAR) furnaces manufacturing process, from the initial melting of and a Vacuum Induction Melting (VIM) facility at scrap, through rolling, to inspection and despatch of Stocksbridge, an Advanced Machining Centre in the final product. Rotherham and a new distribution centre in India. We see ourselves as part of the long and proud In conjunction with our primary production capabilities steelmaking tradition of the area and we are in the UK, our service centres around the globe service investing substantially in our people and equipment customer supply chains with bespoke combinations of to build further upon that reputation by serving added-value processing and just-in-time delivery.

The History of Speciality Steels 1999 2005 1983 Corus Group is formed ESR 2 and VAR 5, 6, 7 commissioned at Stocksbridge 1955 First VAR from the merger of British when primiary steelmaking ceased. Site clearance for Brinsworth commissioned Steel PLC and Koninklijke Small Bloom Caster commissioned at Aldwarke. Narrow Strip Mill at Stocksbridge Hoogovens N.V. Coil Line commissioned at Thrybergh Bar Mill VOD Vacuum Oxygen Decarburization 2009 1957 1972 1981 Improved ingot facilities 2014 VIM furnace installation ESR Electro-Slag Remelting/Remelted First slab rolled on ‘T’ furnace Scarfer installed in commissioned at Aldwarke. Service Centre Opens in begins at Stocksbridge VAR Vacuum Arc Remelted Brinsworth Narrow Strip Mill installed at Billet Mill Aldwarke Suzhou, China 2017 VIM Vacuum Induction Melting 1976 Liberty acquisition of Tata Steel 1961 Thrybergh Bar 1988 2010 Tata Steel Speciality Steels is launched. Speciality Steels business EAF Electric Arc Furnace Digital control on 42” mill Mill opened Large Bloom Caster and two commissioned at Stocksbridge. Ladle Furnaces commissioned Capital spend for VAR 8 & 9 at Site clearance at Aldwarke at Aldwarke Stocksbridge is approved 2015 1967 2004 2012 VIM furnace begins production, Service Centre in Nationalisation results in the formation 1992 Acquired Bright Bar VOD capacity installed Dedicated Service Centre Nagpur, India opens and the Advanced Machining of the British Steel Corporation Wednesbury at Aldwarke opens in Xi’an, China Centre, Rotherham opens

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1935 1954 1959 1964 1975 1993 2001 2007 2013 Silver Fox Stainless Steel 70T EAF First training First EAF casts First ESR ‘N’ Furnace installed Eagle project increases Tata Steel acquires Investment in the Billet Mill at Stocksbridge saw introduced introduced at workshops at Aldwarke commissioned at Aldwarke rolling capability at Corus Group. two new profile gauges installed in the finishing line. Stocksbridge opened at Stocksbridge Brinsworth Narrow New scrap bay “Scrap Shredder” - Hammer Mill installed at Aldwarke 1939 Strip Mill commissioned at (takes scrap from Jaguar Land Rover at Hailwood) 10T EAF introduced at Aldwarke 6 Stocksbridge 7 Aerospace

Engineered for the Highest Performance

We have an outstanding reputation for supplying high-integrity alloys to major commercial and military aerospace programmes worldwide, using tailored supply-chain solutions. Key end-users and customers include Airbus, Boeing and Bell Helicopters.

Meeting the highest performance demands individual country and global OEM requirements via worldwide specialist manufacturing facilities for the production of Vacuum Induction Melting (VIM) alloys alongside Aerospace is a high-value and technically demanding Vacuum Arc Re-melted (VAR) and Electro-Slag industry, in which the supply chains are global, Re-melted (ESR) steel, combined with our unique requiring stringent approvals and participation in long integrated mill and service centre offering. term supply agreements. We take pride in satisfying

Customer Approvals

Airbus FAG Aerospace Liebherr Aerospace Safran Helicopter Engines Alenia Finmeccanica Lockheed Martin Safran Landing Systems APPH General Dynamics Microturbo Safran Nacelles Avio Aero (GE) GE S-400 Moog Safran Transmission Systems BAE Systems Hamilton Sundstrand NSK Schaeffler Bell Helicopter Textron Hawker Beechcraft Pratt & Whitney Sikorsky Boeing Commercial Airplane Hispano Suiza Ratier Figeac SKF Bombardier ITP Rolls-Royce Timken Cessna Aircraft Leonardo Safran Aircraft Engines UTC Aerospace Systems

Accreditations Nadcap Environmental Approval BS EN ISO 9001 Heat Treatment ISO 14001 BS EN 9100 Non-Destructive Testing BS EN ISO 17025 (testing) Material Testing Laboratories

8 9 Oil & Gas

Engineered for Extreme Environments

Exploration and extraction activities bring with them unique challenges that require advanced steels with strength, toughness and resistance to corrosion. We supply the Oil & Gas sector with bespoke high-performance alloys, specifically designed to withstand harsh, corrosive environments characterised by big pressure changes and wide temperature fluctuations.

Total reliability both on and off-shore Optimising and building efficiencies Our diverse steel portfolio ranges from alloys to By using a combination of our own internal capabilities corrosion-resistant stainless steels. These products and building external partnerships with renowned enable our oil and gas customers to improve reliability stakeholders in the supply chain, we can deliver our and durability and extend component operating life, steels with the widest possible range of mechanical thereby lowering the total cost of ownership. Our properties globally to support our customers’ needs. steels are ideal for both on and off-shore extraction activities which require high strength steels for drill- strings or specialised completion tools are used in shale extractions.

Accreditations Customer Approvals Third Party Approvals

BS EN ISO 9001 Baker Hughes Germanischer Lloyd BS EN 9100 Cameron Lloyds BS EN ISO 17025 (testing) Halliburton PED National Oilwell Varco (NOV) Nadcap Smith International Heat Treatment Weatherford Non-Destructive Testing Material Testing Laboratories Environmental Approval ISO 14001

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Engineered for Efficiency

For many years Liberty Speciality Steels has been a major supplier to the Industrial Engineering market with products and processes approved by major manufacturers across the world. As a proven and long-standing supplier, we understand the technical challenges facing this market. Our steels meet the demanding requirements for cleanness, high-strength and wear-resistance in even the most challenging environments.

Unparalleled range of applications Applying expertise across the supply chain Our products are manufactured into gears, shafts, Our dedicated specialists offer technical support and bearings and many other components for the expertise throughout the supply chain. We recognise most cost-effective and environmentally-efficient the extent of steel technology expertise within the transmission of power. They are found in mining sector and work closely with supply-chain partners to equipment, machine tools, renewable and fossil fuel develop and improve materials and processes to deliver power-generation, paper mills, material conveying, optimised performance. general heavy manufacturing and many other specialised applications.

Customer Approvals Accreditations Environmental

Alstom Siemens BS EN ISO 9001 Approval Caterpillar SKF BS EN 9100 ISO 14001 Joy Mining Timken BS EN ISO 17025 (testing) Schaeffler Nadcap Heat Treatment Non-Destructive Testing Material Testing Laboratories

12 13 Narrow Strip

Engineered for Precision Applications

Liberty Speciality Steels has a reputation for providing hot rolled narrow strip that can be tailored to meet the specific needs of our customers in many markets. We also offer a hire rolling service for a wide range of ferrous and non-ferrous alloys, special metals and stainless steel grades.

Tailored, global reach Uncompromising expertise Our range of high quality strip steel includes stainless, The quality of our products, wide technical high alloy, high carbon, free-cutting and boron steel. knowledge, specialist logistics expertise and precision Our Narrow Strip material is tailor-made to order to manufacturing enables us to service a growing global suit a variety of end applications such as; saw blades, network of demanding customers. Our integrated keys, razors, industrial needles and across a variety of supply chain allows us to react quickly to projects sectors from General Engineering to Automotive and with precision products, short lead times and in small Agriculture. quantities.

Accreditations Typical End Customers

ISO 9001 Amada Haier ISO 14001 Bichamp Hitachi Gillette Samsung Environmental Elac Approval ISO 14001

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Engineered for Challenging Standards

Liberty Speciality Steels has a long track record of supplying top quality bar into many different supply chains from high volume to niche applications, which is testimony to our high levels of quality and service.

High quality bar for all applications Designed for consistency and reliability Our comprehensive product offering encompasses For applications which must combine consistency and a broad range of steel grades available as hot rolled, reliability with lowering total cost of ownership, our heat-treated and cold-finished bars in both metric and through-process technical expertise enables customers imperial sizes; supplied to national and international to continually develop tailored solutions for their needs. standards. We supply bar for machining and forging This is all underpinned by an integrated supply chain applications to make both couplings and engine and encompassing steel-making through to bar production, power-train components such as gears, connecting which delivers full traceability and continuity of supply. rods, crankshafts and camshafts.

Typical End Customers Accreditations Environmental

Autoliv GKN AMS 2750 NADCAP Approval Bright Bar Delphi JCB BS EN ISO 9001 ISO 14001 Caterpillar Renault BS EN 9100 Citroën and Peugeot ZF BS EN ISO 17025 (testing) Ford ISO/ TS 16949 SAE AS 9100

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Engineered from Concept to Complex Component

Our mill-backed, state-of-the-art machine tool capability can deliver projects from initial concept, right through to complex finished component for key clients serving industries such as Aerospace, Automotive and Energy Supply.

Cutting-edge steel Capability scope The Advanced Machining Centre (AMC) specialises in • Complex component geometry up to 658mm prototyping and producing small volume production diameter and 1.5m length . runs to support innovative product development. At our • Latest on-board CMM and comparator checking . cutting-edge machining facilities we provide: • Mill-backed manufacture and multi-metal capability • Turning including carbon, alloy, stainless steel, nickel and • Milling titanium alloys . • Grinding We can provide state-of-the-art machining from Mazak, Studer and Fanuc.

18 19 Motorsport

Engineered for Excellence

The motorsport arena is second nature for us. It is rigorous, demanding and competitive - a natural fit for our products and services.

Steels that deliver performance Modelled on aerospace excellence With comprehensive in-house steelmaking, rolling Our motorsport services and processes have been and finishing facilities, we offer everything from Single modelled on our aerospace operations to guarantee Air Melt and Vacuum Induction Melted products, to performance and quality. Components created from Vacuum Arc Remelted and Electro-Slag Remelted our steel include: double or triple melted steels. These are available in a • Bearings full range of heat-treated, bright or black bar. • Camshafts • Conrods • Crankshafts • Differentials • Driveshafts • Gears.

20 21 Product Range

We manufacture an extensive range of products in different forms, sizes and heat-treated conditions to suit customers specific requirements.

The available product forms are: • Hot rolled narrow strip • Hot rolled slabs • As-cast ingots and continuous-cast bloom • Bright/cold finished bars • VAR/ESR re-melted ingots • Hot rolled bars The outline sizes for each product form are given below:

Rolled Form Form Min (mm) Max (mm) Min (inch) Max (inch) Blooms 211 457 8¼ 18 Billets 50 211 2 8¼ 7 5 Slabs Width 100 500 3¼8 19¼8 7 Thickness 50 330 2 12¼8 Rounds Rolled 25 381 1 15 3 Bright Bar Round 10 230 ¼8 90½ 3 Hexagon 10 76 ¼8 3 5 Narrow Strip Width 26 500 1 19½8

Thickness 1.6 14 ¼16 ¼16 As Cast Form Airmelt Top (mm) Bottom (mm) Length (mm) Weight (tonne) Top (inch) Bottom (inch) Length (inch) Weight (short tonne) Large Bloom 560 400 2200 - 5700 4 - 10 22¼16 22¼16 87 - 225 n/a 3 5 Ingot (Square) 653 490 2310 4.4 25¼ 19¼16 91 5.9 3 11 Ingot (Square) 721 550 2285 6.6 28¼8 21 ¼64 90 7.3 3 9 Ingot (Round - Multi fluted) 619 598 3000 6.1 24¼8 23¼16 118 6.7 7 9 Ingot (Round - Multi fluted) 722 700 3000 8.3 28¼16 27¼16 118 9.2 7 Ingot (Round - Multi fluted) 860 845 3220 12.8 33¼8 33¼ 127 14.1 19 Ingot (Polygon - 12 sided) 1125 940 3320 13.0 44 ¼64 37¼64 131 14.3

Remelt Top (mm) Bottom (mm) Length (mm) Weight (tonne) Top (inch) Bottom (inch) Length (inch) Weight (short tonne) VAR Round 660 660 1750 4.3 26 26 69 4.7 VAR Round 760 760 1900 5.9 30 30 75 6.5 VAR Round 915 915 2200 8.2 36½ 36½ 87 9 ESR Round 635 635 1950 4.3 25 25 77 4.7 ESR Round 700 700 1850 4.3 27½ 27½ 73 4.7

VIM Product Range Form Min (mm) Max (mm) Min (inch) Max (inch) Rounds Rolled 25 381 1 15 2 Bright Bar Round 10 230 ¼5 9 Forger Bar Sizes on request

22 23 Process flow

Our integrated production facilities along with in-house finishing and testing capabilities help us meet the specific requirements of our customers’ supply chain.

As a producer of high-quality speciality steels, we are The recent investment in Vacuum Induction Melting continually investing in our facilities to improve our (VIM) expands our offering to include the highest product range and service offering. grades of steel alloys.

SPECIAL MELTING REMELTING PROCESSING FINISHING

Heat Treatment Vacuum Arc Remelting

Vacuum Induction Melting Peeling/Turning Electro Slag Remelting Forging*

Bright Drawing Despatch

Rolling Ladle Arc Furnace Ingot Cutting Electric Arc Furnace Vacuum Concast Degassing Inspection PRIMARY MELTING SECONDARY CASTING * External process STEELMAKING

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Sustainability drives everything we do

This is not just about addressing the challenges of today but also about the quality of life for future generations. Through our GREENSTEEL strategy we aim to balance economic prosperity and social equality with looking after planet Earth.

We are committed to the design of more sustainable We operate in a way that is safe for our people and products that contribute to solutions that are lighter, respectful to the environment and behave responsibly last longer and use fewer resources to produce. Our and with care towards the communities surrounding steel is used in creating the world’s most sustainable and impacted by our operations. buildings and transport infrastructure, and supporting Balancing economic prosperity, environmental the performance of the most efficient vehicles on responsibility and societal benefit, Liberty aims to the road. address the bigger global challenges primarily through Steel is a uniquely sustainable material because it is its advanced steel products and efficient production not consumed, but is used again and again without processes. any loss of quality or strength. Our GREENSTEEL vision Moreover, as a good corporate citizen, the company involves not only recycling and upcycling steel but also invests in research and development of technologies to using renewable energy sources wherever possible, to produce steel that has less impact on the environment further reduce impact on our planet. and processes that are more resource efficient.

26 27 Liberty House Group Divisions

Liberty Commodities Liberty Metals Recycling Liberty Aluminium Liberty Steel Liberty Engineering

Liberty Commodities is a Liberty Metals Recycling is Liberty Aluminium owns and Liberty Steel is a fully-integrated Liberty Engineering specialises global solutions provider to the developing a network of advanced operates the only remaining steel manufacturer and distributor in the manufacture of a wide international steel and non-ferrous collection and processing facilities aluminium smelter in the UK – with capabilities ranging from liquid portfolio of steel products as well metal industries. for both ferrous and non-ferrous Liberty British Aluminium. steel production through to high- as advanced engineering solutions metals across the UK, USA and value precision-engineered products, using steel, aluminium, composite With a presence in 30 countries across Based at Fort William in the Scottish continental Europe. sold around the globe. materials and exotic metals. five continents, the division has many Highlands, the smelting facilities long-standing relationships with clients, The UK metal recycling business are powered by two neighbouring It consists of seven specialist businesses The division combines many decades some established for over a quarter of will supply Liberty’s fast-growing hydro-electric stations and a complex manufacturing products such as ingots, of expertise within 20 specialist units, a century. Its ferrous material portfolio integrated steel business in the UK, of on-site bio-diesel units, owned and billets, blooms, slabs, bars and narrow providing customers in a variety of includes iron ore, scrap, coking-coal which will be based increasingly on managed by Liberty’s sister company strip, as well as hot rolled coil, pipes sectors with value-added products for a and coke, direct reduced iron and hot domestic scrap, melted in electric SIMEC. This combination of renewable and tubes, structural hollow sections, wide range of applications. briquetted iron, slabs, hot rolled coil, arc furnaces, powered by renewable energy sources makes the site one of plates, de-bar, wire, rod, wind towers cold rolled coil, galvanized iron, pre- energy. Liberty’s strategy is to build the greenest metal production plants and T-pylons. These products are Grouped into seven main subdivisions, painted galvanized iron, billets, de-bar, five million tonnes a year melting in the country. manufactured in a variety of steel these companies focus on the wire rod and merchant bar. capacity in the UK alone over the next manufacture and distribution of In addition to serving the international grades, complying with national and five years. engineered products and services, In addition it supplies nickel, copper, market with semi-finished aluminium, international quality-certified standards ranging from drive-by-wire solutions zinc and tin as a part of its non-ferrous The division’s UK scrap-assembly Liberty is investing £120m to upgrade as well as meeting stringent customer and racing grade performance brakes, offering. The division’s supply-chain and processing operations will be the smelter and add value through specifications. to super-lightweight tubular assemblies solutions cover corporate logistics, strategically placed across the country, the development of downstream Located across the UK, Europe, India, for aircraft engines, anti-vibration cargo handling, inland movement in regions of high scrap generation manufacturing based on the liquid China and the USA, the division’s mounts for defence applications, pressed of cargo, container handling and and close to Liberty’s melting, rolling aluminium produced on site. furnaces, mills, service centres and components for the automotive and stuffing, storage at warehouses and and engineering facilities. These The Group is already working on distribution sites serve demanding energy markets, and carbon composite ports, chartering of vessels, breaking include South Wales, the West the creation of an adjacent plant to sectors such as automotive, aerospace, parts. bulk, inspection, insurance, and inland Midlands, and Scotland. manufacture alloy wheels and a range oil and gas, ship building, construction, distribution of material at destination. Liberty Metals Recycling also has a of other components for the UK and on and off-shore power generation, The Liberty Engineering companies scrap collection and trans-shipment European automotive industry. Value-added services also include yellow goods, pipeline, mining, operate from locations across the operation in Gdansk, Poland. financial solutions, such as pre- machinery, highways and materials UK, Poland, Dubai and the USA, and payments, inventory finance, tolling handling. serve customers in over 50 countries finance, and open credit, as well as worldwide. price risk management, service centres, and partnerships.

28 29 Liberty House Group global footprint

= Global Hubs

= Local Offices

= Speciality Steels Offices Germany Poland

France Romania New Jersey Austria EMPLOYEES Switzerland Turkey South Korea ian 4,500 Worlwide Chicago Los Angeles Shanghai Hong Kong Suzhou Saudi Arabia Nagpur Thailand Dubai Mumbai India Vietnam Ghana Sri Lanka Nigeria Singapore GLOBAL TRADING Indonesia 70+ Countries

South Africa Australia

GLOBAL HUBS London • Dubai PRESENCE Global turnover US$ 9.4bn Singapore • Hong Kong in 30 countries Net assets US$ 1.4bn

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UK Global

Speciality Steels Headquarters Regional Market Development 7 Fox Valley Way, Stocksbridge One Forbes, 3rd Floor, Dr V B Gandhi Marg Fort, Sheffield, S36 2JA, Mumbai, 400001, India T: +44 (0) 114 288 2361 E: [email protected] T +91 (0) 22 6749 4662

Sales Hub Chicago Advanced Machining Centre 475 N Martingdale Road, Suite 400 Bessemer Way, Rotherham, S60 1FB, United Kingdom Schaumburg, IL 60173, USA T: +44 (0) 1709 724 260 E: [email protected] T +1847 619 0400 F +1847 619 0468

Aerospace Service Centre Sales Hub France Union Road, The Valley, Bolton, BL2 2HS, United Kingdom 3 Allée des Barbanniers, 92230 Gennevilliers, France +33 (0) 1 41 47 33 25 +33 (0) 1 40 85 11 49 T: +44 (0) 1204 394 474 E: [email protected] T F Sales Hub Germany Bar Am Trippelsberg 48, 40589 Düsseldorf, Germany Doncaster Road, Rotherham, S65 3ES, United Kingdom T +49 (0) 211 4926 0 F +49 (0) 211 4926 282 T: +44 (0) 1709 371 324 E: [email protected] Sales Hub Middle East PO Box 18294, Jebel Ali Free Zone, Dubai Bright Bar Wednesbury United Arab Emirates All Saints Road, Wednesbury, WS10 9LL, United Kingdom T +971 4 887 32 32 F +971 4 887 39 66 T: +44 (0) 121 568 4400 E: [email protected] Service Centre Suzhou Unit A Building, No 5 West Side, No1 Qiming Road Suzhou Industrial Park, Suzhou 215021, China T +86 512 8666 8177 F +86 512 8666 8179

Service Centre Xi’an A2-1 Xi’an Comprehensive Bonded Zone, No.88 Gangwu Avenue, Xi’an International Trade & Logistics Park Xi’an, Shaanxi, China, 710026 T +86 29 8333 5566 F +86 29 8359 6062

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