On 8 April left the port of the factory in Campo de Gibraltar in Spain the first ship with 5,000 tonnes of stainless steel, to be manufactured in the Asiatic country.

Until the new steel mill be finished, Acerinox Group will serve from its different factories the material to be processed in this new mill.

Acerinox, world leader in stainless steel production, continues its expansion in Asia. The new factory, located in Johor Bahru (Malaysia), joins the three existing in South Africa, USA and Spain and is successfully fulfilling the different stages of construction and will start cold rolled production in the summer of 2011.