Case Study
SSAB Borlänge
PRODUCT MARKING & TRACABILITY STEEL PRODUCT MARKING & TRACABILITY STEEL Since the production rate is so high, production stops are very costly. They must be kept to an absolute minimum. One of the reasons for SSAB deciding on Svenska Allen as the supplier was that we had previously installed Hitachi printers at its sister factory, SSAB in Finspång. This installation was completed in 2008, and since then SSAB has evaluated the printers under production condi- tions with the manufacture of coated sheet steel. The evaluation showed that the Hitachi PXR printers are highly reliable and cause very little down-time. SSAB’s good experience of Svenska Allen as a supplier together with the positive results of the production evaluation meant that it could, with full confidence, proceed with