Editing SSAB (section)

==Operations==
SSAB has its production sites in Sweden, Finland, and the United States.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=SSAB Locations |url=https://www.ssab.com/en/contact/locations |access-date=18 February 2025 |website=SSAB |language=en}}</ref> The company also maintains smaller operations elsewhere, including a processing facility in [[Kunshan]] near Shanghai, China.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OEWE1gXCaaAC&pg=PR135 |title=Carbon Steel Products from Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom, Volume 1 Determination and Volume 2 Information, Invs. AA1921-1 |publisher=DIANE Publishing |isbn=9781457818615 |via=Google Books}}</ref> and distribution hubs in the Baltic region.<ref name=":0" />

=== Sweden ===
[[File:SSAB Oxelösund.jpg|thumb|175x175px|SSAB in Oxelösund]]
The production is located at [[Luleå]], [[Borlänge]], [[Oxelösund]] and [[Finspång]].<ref name="NCM">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_AT-9P7OTocC&pg=PA150|title=BAT examples from the Nordic iron and steel industry|date=1 March 2006|publisher=Nordic Council of Ministers|isbn=9789289312868|via=Google Books}}</ref> SSAB is the largest steel sheet manufacturer in Scandinavia, with its blast furnace, coking plant, and steelworks located in Luleå and its rolling mills and coating plants in Borlänge—the initial product is sent from one location to the other via train. The division also has a coil coating line, lamination line, and special steels production. SSAB Special Steels in Oxelösund is the only steelworks in Sweden to have its entire vertical production base in one place, from raw material handling to its rolling plates. Ninety percent of its production is exported, with its chief export partner being Germany.<ref name="NCM" />  SSAB produces nearly all of the steel plates created in Sweden.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OEWE1gXCaaAC&pg=PR134|title=Carbon Steel Products from Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom, Volume 1 Determination and Volume 2 Information, Invs. AA1921-1|publisher=DIANE Publishing|isbn=9781457818615|via=Google Books}}</ref>

=== Finland ===
SSAB operates two major steel production facilities in Finland, located in [[Raahe]] and [[Hämeenlinna]]. The Raahe plant, originally established as [[Rautaruukki]] in the 1960s to support Finland's heavy industry, is one of the youngest integrated steel plants in Europe. It began operations with its first [[blast furnace]] in 1964, followed by an LD steel plant and rolling mills in the subsequent years.<ref>{{Cite web |title=SSAB Raahe – The Beauty of Steel |url=https://thebeautyofsteel.com/steel-plants-archive/ssab-raahe-2/ |access-date=18 February 2025 |website=thebeautyofsteel.com}}</ref> The Hämeenlinna facility, which started production in 1972, specialises in processing steel into coated products, including galvanised steel for industries such as automotive manufacturing. It employs approximately 1,000 people.<ref>{{Cite web |date=17 January 2022 |title=SSAB:n Hämeenlinnan tehdas on toiminut jo 50 vuotta – työllistää nykyään noin tuhat henkilöä |url=https://yle.fi/a/3-12274731 |access-date=18 February 2025 |website=Yle Uutiset |language=fi}}</ref> The headquarters for SSAB Europe [[Osakeyhtiö|Oy]] are located in Hämeenlinna.<ref>{{cite web |date=2 November 2017 |title=40 vuotta maalipinnoitusta SSAB:n Hämeenlinnan tehtaalla |url=https://news.cision.com/fi/ssab/r/40-vuotta-maalipinnoitusta-ssab-n-hameenlinnan-tehtaalla,c2381233 |website=News Powered by Cision}}</ref>

=== North America ===
[[File:Jerry Carl visits SSAB - May 2021 02.jpg|thumb|Congressmember [[Jerry Carl]] visiting SSAB in [[Axis, Alabama]], in 2021]]
IPSCO Inc. began as Prairie Pipe Manufacturing Co., Ltd. in [[Regina, Saskatchewan]] in 1956, changing its name to Interprovincial Steel and Pipe Corporation, Ltd. in 1960 and IPSCO, Inc. in 1984;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.linkedin.com/companies/ipsco|title=Company Profile -IPSCO|publisher=LinkedIn|accessdate=25 May 2010}}</ref><ref name=insider/> the company would later be purchased by SSAB, and is the origin of SSAB's operations in the region. All SSAB operations in North America are now operated as SSAB Americas.<ref name=COC>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iZlnQissYIgC&pg=SL252-PA15|title=Certain Oil Country Tubular Goods from China, Invs. 701-TA-463 and 731-TA-1156-1159 (Preliminary)|publisher=DIANE Publishing|isbn=9781457816833|via=Google Books}}</ref>

As of 2000, IPSCO had used [[mini mill]]s to produce [[flat-rolled steel]] for 40 years.<ref name=largest>{{cite news|url=http://www.allbusiness.com/manufacturing/primary-metal-mfg-iron-steel/6479082-1.html|title=IPSCO Steel (Alabama) Construction Proceeds on Schedule; World's Largest Mill Stands Set in Place|work=[[Business Wire]]|date=8 May 2000|accessdate=25 May 2010}}</ref> Late in 2001, the company officially opened an [[Axis, Alabama]], mill (in the [[Mobile, Alabama|Mobile]] area), with a capacity of 1,250,000 tonnes,. The $US425&nbsp;million [[rolling mill]],<ref name=insider>{{cite news|url=http://www.siteselection.com/ssinsider/pwatch/pw011210.htm|title=IPSCO Steel Officially Opens $425 Million Alabama Mini-Mill|work=siteselection.com|date=10 December 2001}}</ref> with mill stand housings believed to be the largest one-piece cast mill housings in the world at 350 tons each,<ref name=largest/> uses [[scrap steel]] to produce discrete plate and coiled hot rolled plate. [[Montpelier, Iowa]] had a similar facility which began operations in 1997, but this one would serve the [[Gulf coast]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.allbusiness.com/economy-economic-indicators/economic/6948996-1.html|title=IPSCO Inc. – Subsidiary Selects Site for State-of-the-Art Steelworks|work=[[Business Wire]]|date=22 December 1998|accessdate=25 May 2010}}</ref><ref name=muscatine>{{cite news|url=http://www.muscatinejournal.com/news/local/article_b5986f9d-e7a4-517b-94b0-3b39a604119b.html|title=IPSCO plans multi-million dollar plant|work=[[Muscatine Journal]]|date=8 April 2008|accessdate=25 May 2010}}</ref> On 21 October 2008, SSAB announced a $US460&nbsp;million expansion of the Axis mill to be completed in 2011. The mill already had 400 employees and 350 contractors.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.al.com/news/press-register/metro.ssf?/base/news/1224681658317470.xml&coll=3|title=SSAB steel mill in Axis, Ala., to expand by $460m|last=Amy|first=Jeff|work=[[Press-Register]]|date=22 October 2008|access-date=29 June 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608231440/http://www.al.com/news/press-register/metro.ssf?%2Fbase%2Fnews%2F1224681658317470.xml&coll=3|archive-date=8 June 2011}}</ref>

In May 2007, a deal to acquire IPSCO for $US7.7&nbsp;billion was announced.<ref name=COC /> At the time, IPSCO's annual production was 4.3&nbsp;million tonnes, with four steel mills and eleven pipe mills.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL2916600320070529|title=Sweden's SSAB wants to sell Ipsco tube unit|work=[[Reuters]]|date=30 May 2007|accessdate=25 May 2010}}</ref> On 17 July 2008, SSAB announced the completion of the deal. John Tulloch succeeded the retiring David Sutherland as IPSCO president and became an executive vice president of SSAB.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.thomasnet.com/companystory/SSAB-Successfully-Completes-Acquisition-of-IPSCO-525831|title=SSAB Successfully Completes Acquisition of IPSCO|work=ThomasNet|date=17 July 2007|accessdate=25 May 2010}}</ref>

On 17 March 2008, [[Evraz Group|Evraz Group SA]] announced it would buy SSAB's Canada pipe and plate business and the [[Tube (fluid conveyance)|steel tube]] business of the American IPSCO unit for $US4.3&nbsp;billion after steel prices rose and the dollar fell. Evraz also planned to sell some of the American assets for $US1.7&nbsp;billion to [[OAO TMK]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ca.all-biz.info/news/index.php?newsid=2071|title=Evraz Agrees to Buy SSAB Units for $4.03 Billion|work=AllBiz|date=17 March 2008|accessdate=25 May 2010|archive-date=15 April 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080415225747/http://www.ca.all-biz.info/news/index.php?newsid=2071|url-status=dead}}</ref> IPSCO had 4300 employees, with 70% of its operation in the United States and 30% in Canada.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/manufacturing/2008-03-14-russia-evraz_N.htm|title=Russian steel maker Evraz grows in North America|work=[[USA Today]]|date=14 March 2008|accessdate=25 May 2010}}</ref>

After the sale, SSAB changed the name of its North American operation to SSAB North American Division (NAD), then later to SSAB Americas; headquarters stayed in [[Lisle, Illinois]], USA. Included in this division were steel operations in Mobile and Montpelier, and cut-to-length lines in [[St. Paul, Minnesota]] and [[Houston]], Texas; and [[Toronto]], Canada. David Britten succeeded Tulloch as president. Paul Wilson, with 36 years of industry experience, ten of those with SSAB including management of Mobile's steel operation, became the vice president in charge of the American steel operations.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://steelnews.com/Ipsco/tabid/36/Cat/76/Doc/2764/Default.aspx|title=SSAB Rolls out New Name, New Leadership for North American Operations|work=steelnews.com|date=16 June 2008|accessdate=16 May 2010}}</ref> In 2018 the SSAB Americas division relocated its headquarters to Mobile, Alabama.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mynbc15.com/news/local/ssab-steel-company-to-locate-head-office-to-mobile|title=SSAB steel company to relocate head office to Mobile|first=Keith|last=Lane|date=19 October 2017}}</ref>