Achieving Visions Heavy Plate from Ilsenburg – the Highest Quality for Any Use Ilsenburger Grobblech // Produktspektrum // Einsatzgebiete

ACHIEVING VISIONS HEAVY PLATE FROM ILSENBURG – THE HIGHEST QUALITY FOR ANY USE ILSENBURGER GROBBLECH // PRODUKTSPEKTRUM // EINSATZGEBIETE

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OUR VISION

We are further establishing our national and international role as a premium manufac- turer and strengthening our position in the market for high quality grades of steel. We work continuously on improving ourselves in order to achieve this. We put great effort into maintaining a stable customer base and continuously optimize our already highly efﬁ cient processes. We take our responsibility on site as seriously as we take up the global challenges of the market. We shall remain one of the most important employers in the region, further increase the high degree of commitment of our employees to their company and secure the future of our Ilsenburg plant. ILSENBURG HEAVY PLATE // WHERE WE INTEND TO GO // OUR OBJECTIVE

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HOW DOES 10 CENTIMETER THICK HEAVY PLATE SUSTAININGLY PROTECT THE CLIMATE WORLDWIDE?

It is one of the most important materials in the construction, machinery construction, equipment construction and shipbuild- By building wind turbines with it. We have been supplying heavy ing industries. Heavy plate makes it possible to build bridges of plate for building on-shore and off-shore turbines since 1995. impressive length, giant containers, thousands of kilometers of This has meanwhile reached a total of more than 660,000 tons. oil and gas pipelines, the unsupported roofs of enormous portal Our customers, such as VESTAS Wind Systems A/S, Siemens buildings and aircraft tractors without drawbars. Windpower and SAM Magdeburg (Enercon), have used this There is always a vision behind such projects. We help our material to build about 5,500 turbines, which together produce customers to turn such visions into reality with innovativeness,

8,250 megawatts of CO2-free electricity. Enough for more than ﬂ exibility, our broad range of products, our product quality and eight million households. This is just a small selection of the our ability to adapt ourselves fully to the individual wishes of many applications for the four-high plate that we manufacture. our customers. ILSENBURG HEAVY PLATE // WHO WE ARE // WHERE WE ORIGINATE FROM

0004 WHY DO INDIAN PIPE MANUFAC- TURERS LOOK FOR 35,000 TONS OF STEEL PLATE IN THE OSTHARZ REGION OF GERMANY?

It’s because they know that they will get products of the highest precision and quality from us. For example, for the Golden Pass project in the US State of Louisiana. In 2007, we supplied around 25,000 tons of heavy plate to the Indian company Welspun Gujarat Steel Pipes Ltd. The result: a liqueﬁ ed natural gas pipeline 224 kilometers in length.

This is one of the many projects that have provided proof of our know-how, which is in demand all over the world, know-how that we owe to our longstanding experience as a traditional company and our afﬁ liation with the company Salzgitter AG, our parent company. Salzgitter AG is one of the leading steel and technology companies in Europe. Our close collaboration with various subsidiaries of the group, e. g. Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH, Salzgitter Mannesmann Handel GmbH and Salzgitter Mannesmann Forschung GmbH, enables us to react quickly, even when the requirements are complex.

The preparation of welding edges Slab yard 0005

Cooling bed and measurement

Our claim to quality also extends to our working conditions and our responsibility as the largest employer in the region. We cover the greater proportion of our requirement for skilled Our annual production in Ilsenburg and Salzgitter, with 810 em- employees locally and provide our employees with their basic ployees, exceeds 800,000 tons of heavy plate, in about 350 dif- and further training. Furthermore, we safeguard our workforce ferent grades of steel, with thicknesses of between 5 and 125 milli- with a sophisticated collective labor agreement and comprehen- meters and widths of up to 3,500 millimeters. This makes us one sive health and safety measures. Finally, we are committed to of the leading four-high rolling mills in Europe. Our core market is the region. Among other things we cooperate with schools and in Germany. From here our four-high plate is delivered worldwide universities. either directly or indirectly in the form of our customers’ products. We owe a large part of our success to our ultra-modern production facilities, which we improve in quality year after year by making considerable investments and thus maintaining a state of the art capability. ILSENBURG HEAVY PLATE // WHAT WE OFFER // OUR PRODUCTS

0006 HOW DO 8,800 TONS OF STEEL CREATE MORE TIME FOR BREAKFAST?

By building the 2.5 kilometer long Rion-Antirion bridge between the mainland of western Greece and the Peloponnese peninsular with this steel, which we supplied to the British steel construction company Cleveland Bridge.

Instead of a 40-minute ferry crossing, the journey across the bridge now takes just ﬁ ve minutes. For commuters this means more time for breakfast. 0007

Rolled steel plate Visual quality control

Heavy plate of any grade and for any use, individually cut to size and ﬁ nished, produced and delivered just-in-time. What we offer is a specially perfected technology for the manufacture of four-high plate and for further processing in Ilsenburg and Salzgitter. We meet the highest requirements for all of our 350 types of heavy steel plate.

For example, for our wear-resistant BRINAR® steels. After all, value and extended construction capabilities due to the lower wear is costly. The BRINAR® 400Cr in particular, with its opti- own weight of the plates, while providing a higher load capacity mized alloying concept and fi ne distribution of very hard chromi- and reduced welding costs at the same time. um and molybdenum carbide, provides a long service life even under extreme wear conditions. In general low-wear steel plate Our new premium trade mark RESTIL® stands for steels with from the BRINAR® series plays a leading role internationally. For a defi ned resistance to hydrogen induced cracking. This steel these the highest quality conditions apply, conditions that we grade can therefore also be used in the area of particularly have established in the market. A genuine mark of our effi ciency. corrosive sour gases and oils. This area of application has been increasing in importance since the worldwide supplies Our quality grade MAXIL® has also become a synonym for high of its more easily conveyable sweet counterparts have become performance technology. This is a high-strength fi ne-grain struc- scarcer and the cost of developing new occurrences have tural steel that is suitable for welding. Thanks to their fi nely dis- been continuously increasing. persed hardening and tempering structure they are strong and tough. Despite this they make possible excellent and low-cost processing. The advantage for our customers: a higher added ILSENBURG HEAVY PLATE // HOW WE PRODUCE // OUR EQUIPMENT

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Side shift table 0009 HOW DO 80,000 KILONEWTONS OF ROLLING POWER HELP TO BRING CONTAINERS ACROSS THE ATLANTIC?

By ensuring that the heavy plate is made at our plant with exactly the thickness that the customer needs. For example, for the building of a container ship like the “Maersk Beaumont”, 294 meters in length, 32 meters wide and with a cargo capacity of 4,200 containers. This ship was built by the company Volkswerft Stralsund with our shipbuilding steels.

Our four-high rolling mill with a maximum rolling force of 8,000 tons is not the primary source of the quality of our products. It can be found a lot earlier in the product chain. For example, in the crude steel that is supplied by our afﬁ liated company Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH in the form of so-called slabs. In its capacity as a steel producing company Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH has been a synonym for quality for decades. This standard is continued by us in Ilsenburg. For example, with a self-developed pass schedule calculation model. The pass schedule calculation is drawn up for each piece with the All heavy plate is subjected to fully auto- aid of this model, based on the temperature and dimensions matic extensive quality tests in our own of the slab, the steel analysis, the rolling process and the laboratory, which is approved by numerous speciﬁ cations for the end product. In this way, we achieve the tightest dimensional tolerances for the thickness, width and external authorities. This is how we ensure length of the plates and thus set worldwide standards. the lasting quality of our products.

The same thing is true of our quenching and tempering line at Our customers get the same quality of service as they are our works unit in Salzgitter. One of the most modern quenching used to getting from our products. For example, with the and tempering lines in the world has been in operation here eService platform. You can view all relevant data online on this since 2000. With it we manage to create exactly what is in ever platform. The status of the order processing can be retrieved in greater demand in the market: quenched and tempered, high- detail for a speciﬁ c purpose and at any time. This also applies strength and wear resistant steel with the tightest dimensional to prognoses for completion or details about supplies that are tolerances and very homogeneous properties, i. e. ideal for ready for consignment. So our customers are kept up to date particularly high speciﬁ cation requirements. at all times. ILSENBURG HEAVY PLATE // WHAT WE OFFER // OUR PRODUCTS

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Pit furnace

WHY DO MANAGEMENT MEASURES IN ILSENBURG MAKE AIRCRAFT TRAC- TORS UP TO THREE TIMES FASTER?

The reason is that we have been constantly further developing our quality management, environmental management and occupational health and safety management for decades and in this way have created all the prerequisites required to provide our products with the highest possible quality; for example, for the manufacture of the aircraft tractors without drawbars made by our customer Goldhofer AG. Due to the omission of the drawbars and the higher towing speeds, aircraft can be moved up to three times faster than with conven- tional drawbar tractors. 0011

Individual marking

The result: our product quality and the range of higher grades are continuously increasing.

Each plate is individually marked during production with the Our capability is based on our fi rst-class employees, state-of- order data and a customer code and is therefore uniquely the-art technology and high-quality materials. The basic princip- identifi able at any time. Thus, around 17,000 plates destined les of our quality management, environmental management for a broad range of applications reach our customers all over and occupational health and safety management now form the world just in time. the major elements of our Integrated Management System (IMS). With which we secure standards for our processes and The sustainability of a company also depends on its commitment procedures that are independent from individuals. Internal and to the environment and climate. We are therefore committed to external observers continuously check whether the applied pro- constantly increasing our environmental and climate protection cesses will continue to satisfy our own maximum requirements. measures. After the conversion of our two pusher furnaces in Furthermore, IMS promotes thinking beyond departmental 2003 we were able to reduce the specifi c fuel consumption by limits. Upline and downline procedures are observed jointly, approx. 6 % and the nitrogen oxide emissions by a further 7 %, while our self-image and our public image are constantly in spite of considerably increasing our performance. We have compared with one another. reduced our water consumption by 34 % since 2004. ILSENBURG HEAVY PLATE // WHAT WE HAVE ALREADY ACHIEVED // OUR REFERENCES

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Bertelsmann’s EXPO pavilion

WHAT DOES A ROOF WITH AN AREA OF 20,000 SQUARE METERS HAVE IN COM- MON WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE LARGEST GAS FIELD IN THE WORLD? 0013

The Rion-Antirion bridge on the Gulf of Corinth, Berlin’s central railway station, the World Cup stadium in Durban (Architects: Gerkan, Marg und Partner)

Quality steels from Ilsenburg. Here are two examples from our long list of successful projects: We supplied 7,100 tons of heavy plate for the 321 meter long roof of Berlin’s central railway station. 80,000 tons of our production were for the purpose of developing the South Pars ﬁ eld in the Persian Gulf, at present the largest known gas ﬁ eld on earth.

The destinations of our products are located all over the world. Their quality in use is convincing and they ensure that our customers are satisﬁ ed – and become our partners of tomorrow. ILSENBURG HEAVY PLATE // WHERE YOU CAN FIND US // OUR CONTACT DETAILS

0014 WHAT DO LNG TANKS IN PERU HAVE TO DO WITH THE NEW B6N – A MOTOR HIGHWAY IN GERMANY?

They are being built with our steel, which is rolled at our Or from the A2 motorway: at the motorway intersection ‘Braun- Ilsenburg plant, which in turn is in the direct vicinity of the new schweig Nord’ (Brunswick North) exit in the direction of Kassel/ B6N motor highway. The customer is the American company Salzgitter, continue on the A39 and A395 motorways in the CB&I, which is building two double-shell tanks for the Peruvian direction of Bad Harzburg until you reach the motorway junction LNG project with a volumetric capacity of 130,000 cubic meters Vienenburg. Continue on the B6N trunk road in the direction of of liquid natural gas (LNG). Wernigerode, leave the B6N again at the exit Ilsenburg/Vecken- stedt and turn left in the direction of Ilsenburg. After approx. No matter whether our customers come from Peru or anywhere 800 meters follow the signs for Ilsenburger Grobblech GmbH, else in the world, it is easy to ﬁ nd your way to our plant. For leading you to the main entrance of the plant. example, from the A7 motorway: exit Rhüden/Harz, continue on the B82 trunk road in the direction of Goslar. Then continue on the B6/B6N trunk road in the direction of Wernigerode, exit at Ilsenburg/Veckenstedt and then turn left in the direction of Ilsenburg. Continue for about another 800 meters and then follow the signs to Ilsenburger Grobblech GmbH, i. e. to the main entrance of the plant.

Chief executive ofﬁ cers Special steels, proﬁ led plates, the wind energy industry, Austria Uwe Andres (Chairman), Dr. Jörg Wehmann, Michael Kieckbusch Hansjürgen Brandt Telephone: +49 (0) 3 94 52. 85 92 01 /-75 02 Telephone: +49 (0) 3 94 52. 85 42 99 Fax: +49 (0) 3 94 52. 85 83 40 Sales – Contact persons E-mail: [email protected] Domestic trade and IIa material Dietmar Wiesmann Other domestic consumers, France and Switzerland Telephone: +49 (0) 3 94 52. 85 33 35 Dirk Backhaus Fax: +49 (0) 3 94 52. 85 83 45 Telephone: +49 (0) 3 94 52. 85 23 36 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: +49 (0) 3 94 52. 85 83 47 E-mail: [email protected] Shipyards, line pipe manufacturers, offshore and steel construction projects, prefabricated plate, Benelux and Italy Overseas export, northern and eastern Europe, Spain Helmut Hess Fabian Illmer Telephone: +49 (0) 3 94 52. 85 23 54 Telephone: +49 (0) 3 94 52. 85 39 93 Fax: +49 (0) 3 94 52. 85 83 43 Fax: +49 (0) 3 94 52. 85 83 44 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Imprint Publisher // Ilsenburger Grobblech GmbH, Veckenstedter Weg 10, 38871 Ilsenburg Concept and layout // wirDesign, Berlin Braunschweig Photo sources // Dominik Obertreis, Shutterstock, Image Data Base of the Salzgitter AG, Architects of Gerkan, Marg und Partner Lithography // Rolf Neumann, Braunschweig Printer // gutenberg beuys, Hannover Circulation // 2,000