Avesta officials to join Outokumpu committee

Outokumpu Oyj's Board of Directors has appointed as members to the Outokumpu Executive Committee Mr Ossi Virolainen, CEO of AvestaPolarit, and Mr Karri Kaitue, Executive Vice President of Strategy and Business Development at AvestaPolarit.

GOC Club

To celebrate the two-year anniversary of the launch of its e-commerce order entry system, Carlson is launching its “GOC Club,â€? membership in which is available to those companies routinely placing orders online through CQO2.

Million tonne milestone

Zhangjiagang Posco Stainless Steel, Posco's subsidiary in China, has attained combined total output of 1 million tonnes.

ITA golf tournament

The ITA 8th Annual Golf Classic tournament will take place at Panther Lake in Orlando, Florida, USA, on Sunday, 6 October.

Coloured o-ring

WITT, the specialist in gas control and gas safety equipment, has invented a system for marking coupling probes with a coloured o-ring: red for combustible gases, blue for oxygen.

AvestaPolarit appoints

Mr Kari Saarinen has been appointed as Executive Vice President for AvestaPolarit's Marketing and R&D and joins the group's executive committee with effect from 2 September 2002. He will succeed Mr John Newborn, who will retire at the end of October 2002.

Syngas plant completly equipped

ARCA-Regler GmbH (Tönisvorst, Germany), has delivered about one hundred valves via its subsidiary von Rohr ARCA BV (Eerbeek, The Netherlands) to the Netherlands.

Stainless steel bodies for safety switches

OEM Automatic has launched stainless-steel versions of two of the popular Mechan non-contact safety switches.

Sandvik success

The leading technology and service company Sandvik Materials Handling within the Sandvik Mining and Construction business area has achieved major market successes recently.

Outokumpu increases ownership of AvestaPolarit

AvestaPolarit Oyj ABP has been informed by Outokumpu Oyj that its ownership in AvestaPolarit has increased to 87.9% (306,828,231 shares), following the settlement of the share deal between Outokumpu Oyj and Corus Group plc.