Shapeline, the Swedish maker of online flatness measurement systems for the steel and metal industry, claims a leadership position in flatness measurements for quality steel plate production.

Shapeline systems have been used in the SSAB plate mill of Oxelösund in Sweden since 2001. With seven installed systems so far, the benefits in plate production are obvious for SSAB and other steelmakers who require a product with advanced qualities.

Mr Pär Kierkegaard CEO of Shapeline said that "We are no longer content with being a regional provider to the North European steel industry. We are now stepping up our activities towards plate mills all over Europe and the rest of the world to promote how Shapeline systems can improve production processes and deliver a documented higher quality than before."

By increasing knowledge about flatness parameters in different parts of production lines for plates, benefits are gained quickly some are easy to calculate, some are more difficult. Examples of benefits claimed by customers using Shapeline systems are numerous.

Shapeline plans to individually contact all plate mills in Europe, and later on, on other continents, to show how the systems can be used to improve the processes and end product.