Outokumpu has announced that it has expanded the stock and processing capacity of its service center in Willich, Germany. The expansion supports the company’s strategy to strengthen its service center network with the aim to increase sales to end-users and project customers, and to retain the stable relationship with distributors and processors. The construction work was based on an investment decision in 2007. The project consisted of increasing the site area, doubling the service center hall and the installing of a new 2m cut-to-length line and a new 650mm slitting line. The expansion has doubled the production capacity from 60,000tns to 125,000tns. The total investment was EUR 26.5 million.