Schmolz + Bickenbach Group is expanding their sales, warehouses and processing capacities in America, Asia and Scandinavia. In taking this step, the long steel specialist is providing local supply chain solutions up to just-in-time deliveries of the special steel products from the group's own production units.
By expanding global sales and services presence, the company’s subsidiary Schmolz + Bickenbach International is strengthening customer service in strategically relevant markets. The sales offices will also push special steel from the group's own production, including products from Deutsche Edelstahlwerke, Finkl Steel, Steeltec, Swiss Steel and Ugitech.
In Asia, the steel company opened a subsidiary in Tokyo in December 2015, thereby guaranteeing local customer support in Japan. Also since December 2015, a new sales office in Bangkok serves Thai customers in the automotive and electronics industry as well as in the mechanical engineering.
To meet the increasing demand of the automotive and plastic industry in China, a new warehouse for tool steel, including state-of-the-art sawing and milling technologies, was opened in Chongqing. At the Indian sales and services location in Mumbai, India, Schmolz + Bickenbach raised sawing capacities up to 2600mm blocks of tool steel. Target applications include interiors and exteriors for the automotive sector.
The activities at the Scandinavian sales and services location at Valkeakoski, Finland focus in particular on the precise manufacture and time-efficient delivery of stainless and engineering steels for shipbuilding as well as for the energy industry.