TPi January 2022

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Fine Tubes achieves health and safety certification milestone

continuous improvements and buy-in from stakeholders that are important for keeping everyone healthy and injury- free at work.” To achieve this certification, Fine Tubes built upon its established safety management system, leading to an increased awareness of risk assessments and improved employee engagement in health and safety topics. This recognition underlines Fine Tubes’ reputation as a safe place to work. It also strengthens its operational control systems and allows compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) awarded Fine Tubes the certificate, which is valid for three years. SSAB including positions within finance and controlling at SSAB. She joined Rautaruukki in 2005 and has also worked for SSAB Special Steels. “I’m very pleased to welcome Leena to her new job. She has extensive experience of working at SSAB and I know she will make a good contribution to SSAB’s development in her new role,” said Martin Lindqvist, president and CEO of SSAB.

Fine Tubes, a UK-based metal tubing manufacturer, has been awarded the ISO 45001:2018 health and safety certification. The certification validates that the business has met stringent health and safety standards to protect its employees at work. Dr Mathew Davies, health, safety and environmental manager at Fine Tubes, said: “We are proud to have dem- onstrated the strength of our health and safety management programme by receiving the ISO45001:2018 certificate. It shows that we have put in place, and are maintaining, a high level of occu- pational health and safety excellence. Not only does it demonstrate our entire team’s compliance and full engage- ment with the demanding assessment process, but also our commitment to

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) awarded Fine Tubes the certificate, which is valid for three years

Fine Tubes has also achieved its 14001:2015EnvironmentalManagement System Certificate. Fine Tubes www.finetubes.co.uk

SSAB appoints acting CFO Leena Craelius

“I’m really looking forward to taking on this new challenge and to supporting the company in our journey toward a fossil- free and industry-leading company,” added Ms Craelius. Ms Crealius holds an MBA in finance from Helsinki School of Economics and a BBA in International Business from Häme University of Applied Sciences. SSAB www.ssab.co.uk

SSAB has appointed Leena Craelius as acting CFO.

Miss Craelius is currently vice-pres- ident of finance, controlling and IT at SSAB Europe and has a lot of experience in the steel industry. She has held several senior positions at

Leena Craelius

PAO Severstal delivers large diameter pipes to Peru PAO Severstal has delivered 6,000 tons of large diameter pipes (LDP) to the Republic of Peru in South America. the company’s industrial site in St. Petersburg’s Kolpinsky district. The pipes were manufactured according to the API 5L PSL 1. updated on the progress of production and delivery, provide an additional competitive advantage.”

Severstal uses its own rolled metal to build the pipes, which is produced in mill 5000 of the company’s sheet rolling shop, on the same industrial site as the ITZ. Once shipped from the port of St. Petersburg, the LDPs were delivered to South America to the port of Ilo in Peru. This was Severstal’s second shipment to Peru in 2021 following the delivery of a trial batch in the Spring, bringing the total deliveries for this year to 6,000 tons. PAO Severstal www.severstal.com

The LDP were produced at the Izhorsky Pipe Plant (ITZ, part of Severstal’s Russian Steel division), located at

Alexander Semenov, sales director for the energy sector at Severstal, said: “Severstal has significantly expanded the sales geography of our exports for large diameter pipes. We now cover Europe, Asia, North Africa, Middle East, and North America and South America is becoming a new target market. Our customers choose to work with us because of our ability to complete orders quickly and guarantee a high level of quality in our products, supported by our own steelmaking and rolling facilities. The tracking services we offer, which keep our customers

The large diameter pipes were produced at the Izhorsky Pipe Plant

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