Ruukki has acquired a second bevel laser cutting line for its service centre in Seinäjoki, Finland.

Deployment of the new line is in response to increased demand for prefabrication services and will improve the potential to offer customers cost-effective solutions.

The new bevel laser cutting line can process steel up to 20 mm thick and 12 meter long and can process both Ruukki's special steels and standard steels.

Mr Pekka Oja VP Finland and Baltics at Ruukki Metals said “The new laser will enable us to respond to the increasingly demanding quality criteria required by, for example, in parts for automatic welding. Deployment of the new line will improve our possibilities to offer customers competitive and cost-effective services. Prefabrication services that improve the efficiency of the manufacturing process are in great demand, which is why we continue to develop them further.”

The new bevel laser will be in productive use in May 2012. Because the new line is being housed in the existing production facilities in Seinäjoki and expertise in the use of a similar laser already exists, the laser will soon be fully up and running after installation.

Ruukki's service centre in Seinäjoki is the largest unit in the Nordic countries to focus on steel prefabrication services and manufactures steel parts and components for the domestic and export markets. The unit employs not only laser, but also flame, plasma and mechanical cutting. In addition, our customers are offered edging and machining services. Ruukki's steel prefabrication unit in Seinäjoki has 180 employees.