To service the growing Eastern European market Outokumpu has decided in March end to set up a new stainless steel service centre in Southern Poland near Katowice. The total investment is some EUR 20 million and the service centre is scheduled to be operational by the end of 2008. The operation will be a combination of a coil service centre with slitting and cut to length lines together with a plate service centre with plasma and water jet cutting. The service centre will serve Poland and other countries in the region like Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary and will challenge new potential markets in Eastern Europe.
