Partnership That Supports SSAB's Operations

SHARING SUCCESS

Partnership that supports SSAB’s operations

SSAB is a globally significant steel manufacturer. Several decades of close partnership between SSAB and Pöyry have provided SSAB with quick, flexible and reliable design processes, serving any changes in its business operations.

BACKGROUND Success factors Global changes in the steel market and The partnership originating in Raahe has ”For us, our long-term cooperation rapid technological development within led to Pöyry participating in a number signifies a trustworthy partnership the field have set challenges for the of construction projects for SSAB’s where we together develop operating business operations and production of production plants in other locations. methods and solutions that support SSAB (formerly Ruukki/Rautaruukki). our business operations. This has The Raahe steel mill has seen constant Diverse expertise for the benefit of produced good business results in all developments in order to maintain the customer phases. Pöyry has proven that it has an competitive and profitable production From its origins of productive excellent understanding of our business in Finland. “We have been a partner of cooperation in a structural design pro- field. Their specialists have given us SSAB ever since the Raahe steel mill was cess, the partnership has expanded to full access to their diverse expertise. completed in 1962,” says Reijo Pasma, other areas of design, such as building Over the years, Pöyry has become an M.Sc. (Eng.) and a senior consultant at engineering and plant design. Over the important and trusted partner,” Pöyry, who has worked closely with SSAB decades, the partners have completed a says Ville Lahtinen, design manager at since the late 1970s. He continues: “Our number of individual projects. SSAB close partnership has ensured that we have been able to continuously develop In the new millennium, development solutions that support our customer’s activities based on the needs of both business operations as well as our own partners have mainly focused on project operations in order to better serve our operations, 3D design and occupational customer’s needs.” safety. Massive PCI project Key details In spring 2014, a massive PCI project production-related impact of each Cooperation at SSAB’s Raahe mill started to modernise blast furnaces began in project. Through close cooperation in 1962, with Pöyry being responsible for Raahe to replace the previous oil spanning decades, SSAB and Pöyry several planning projects, big and small. injection with pulverized coal injection. have built an open and confidential Recent key projects have included the Pöyry had also been involved in the atmosphere between them, where the following: pre-planning phase in 2010–2013. The two have developed operating methods • PCI project 2014–2015 (pre-planning 2010-2013) objective of the project was to improve to flexibly serve SSAB’s business needs. • Secondary dedusting system of steel the production capacity of blast plant 2012- 2013 furnaces. SSAB invested a total of EUR The partnership has covered a number • Modernisation of blast furnaces 1 & 2 65 million in the two-year project. of projects in recent years: a coking plant • Direct granulating plants for blast expansion, the direct granulating plants furnaces 1 and 2, 2008–2010 The PCI project emphasised Pöyry’s of blast furnaces, changes to continuous ability to offer multi-disciplinary casting machines 4 and 5, walking beam Services expertise. Pöyry was responsible not furnaces 4 and 5, the modernisation of • Structural design only for the structural design and a cold leveller and secondary dedusting • Geotechnical design building engineering, but also for the system of steel plant. • Plant design piping and geotechnical design, and it • Piping design acted as the head designer as referred Modernisation projects for blast • Building services engineering to in the Finnish Land Use and Building furnaces 1 and 2 have been among • Project management Act. At its peak, the project employed 30 the largest and most challenging ones, specialists from Pöyry. For SSAB, Pöyry emphasising expertise, flexibility and has, in practice, been a one stop shop, project management. Repairs have been Any issues requiring further development which has made the customer’s work performed during a mill outage, and have been presented at separate easier. The fewer contracting parties outages are always planned to be as short development meetings where they there are, the less time the customer as possible. have been discussed in great detail. A needs to spend on coordination and common understanding of development organisation. The customer needed to In addition, there have been a significant needs, quick reactions to customer allocate fewer project resources and was number of minor investments and needs and open discussion have been able to focus on its key operations. maintenance tasks, with the annual the cornerstones of the productive workload varying around ten person- partnership. The design of the PCI project was largely work years. In recent years, SSAB and based on 3D modelling. This shortened Pöyry have also signed three-year service the design schedule and ensured that agreements with the aim of estimating plans from other parties were included future resource needs. in the designs at an early stage. Mutual development of operations Working together Cooperation is assessed in annual service In many SSAB projects, Pöyry has already evaluations. At these meetings, both been involved in the pre-analysis phase. parties evaluate how the cooperation As a result, it has been able to help SSAB has evolved, what the service level has in the budgeting and resourcing process, been and how the partnership could be and business managers have been able developed further. to estimate the financial and

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