This Business Unit comprises five manufacturing facilities located in Thionville (Head quarter), Sedan, Fraisses, Berlaimont and Liege (Belgium). Åkers France employs approximately 670 people.
Åkers France plants work in an integrated way combining manufacturing of products to several plants thus fully utilizing the business unit’s many resources. 

 

 

Main facilities and equipment
- Raw material storage yard with radioactive detection
- Steel plant with 70 ton EAF and 80 ton ladle furnace with vacuum degassing
- Twin-stand ESR plant with moving mould
- Casting bay
- 4000 ton press with integrated computer operated manipulator plus 2000 ton 
  press mainly for ESR ingots
- Heat treatment furnaces and quenching equipment
- Machine tools for rough turning, fine turning, milling and grinding mainly CNC

 

 

Plant data
Capacity: 50,000 Tons
Number of employees: Approximately 200
Buildings: 66,800 m²
Land: 210,000 m²

Products
- Forged work rolls for section mills
- Large forged work rolls
- Blanks for forged back up rolls
- Blanks for forged work rolls
- Forged mechanical parts
- Forged bars
- Steel ingots

 

Certification

ISO9001:2000

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