As the leading provider of steel solutions to the construction industry, ArcelorMittal Europe is offering a wide range of products and services to construction contractors. Here are just a few examples:
- The widest range of sections and heavy plates for structural applications including HISTAR® high strength steel sections or Magnelis® metallic coated steels for cold formed sections as well as sheet piles for foundations
- Building systems for residential housing and light steel frame solutions, including renovation projects
- Composite floor solutions, such as the Cofraplus® and Cofrastra® ranges, to be combined with concrete for optimised flooring solutions
- Services like “just in time on site deliveries,” but also processing capabilities to deliver “ready to erect” components for building and civil engineering works such as the PreCoBeam solution for small span bridges
- A full range of software for design, EPDs for sustainable building assessment, and BIM objects for numerical modelling of the future construction
Contractors' news
New EDI Light capabilities allow late specifications of colours and coatings
7 July 2020Ever since ArcelorMittal first introduced SteelUser a decade ago, we have continued to develop our digital tools in collaboration with customers. SteelUser itself has evolved to become a multi-platform communication channel, enabling customers to interact with ArcelorMittal via apps, web services, and electronic tools integrated into their business systems. This has made it possible for customers to get production information, send orders directly to ArcelorMittal, and receive invoices and related documents electronically.In a recent project with Polish customer Inter-Max, ArcelorMittal has added the ability to specify the coating and colour of a product late in the order process electronically. Inter-Max, which uses ArcelorMittal’s EDI Light service, now has full transparency over its orders and can respond quickly and efficiently to demands from their own customers.
Product NewsGrowing partnerships in our Partners section
30 June 2020We value our partners. We are proud to cooperate with the companies and institutions that count on ArcelorMittal's technical know-how and expertise in their mission to create innovative, sustainable, and value-added solutions for their key markets. As our partnerships continue to grow, so has our newest Constructalia section – Partners.
Website NewsRodange sends out first shipment from in-house downstream facility
10 June 2020ArcelorMittal Rodange has sent out the first shipment of curved rails from our new rail transformation centre. A product of the new in-house downstream facility, this marks the start of a win-win operation for ArcelorMittal Europe – Long Products.
Product NewsUpdated ABC software now available on Constructalia
9 June 2020Version 3.51 of ABC: ArcelorMittal Beams Calculator is available now for free downloading in our Software section.
Website NewsArcelorMittal continues to develop organic coated offer
4 June 2020ArcelorMittal Europe – Flat Products offers a complete range of organic coated steels for interior and exterior construction. The steels, which include products such as the Granite® and Estetic® ranges, have many applications in facades, roofing, and furnishing. Our R&D teams are continuously working to develop our range of organic coated steel products and solutions.Check out our most recent brochures, datasheets, and Environmental Product Declarations for Granite® Silky Shine, Granite® Storm, Estetic® Access, and Estetic® Standard before ordering your samples with the click of a button!
Product NewsRoofing configurator: our product, your dreams
2 June 2020As ArcelorMittal, we always want to be close to people. With our newest tool, your house plays the starring role in which visions can become reality. The protagonist of this stage design? Granite® organic coated steel from ArcelorMittal that gracefully wraps your roof - ensuring elegance, durability, and beauty.We invite you to participate in the creation of a story in which four heroes meet – your dreams, your home, Granite® organic coated steel, and those who will help your dreams come true: manufacturers.
Project News
New EDI Light capabilities allow late specifications of colours and coatings
Ever since ArcelorMittal first introduced SteelUser a decade ago, we have continued to develop our digital tools in collaboration with customers. SteelUser itself has evolved to become a multi-platform communication channel, enabling customers to interact with ArcelorMittal via apps, web services, and electronic tools integrated into their business systems. This has made it possible for customers to get production information, send orders directly to ArcelorMittal, and receive invoices and related documents electronically.
In a recent project with Polish customer Inter-Max, ArcelorMittal has added the ability to specify the coating and colour of a product late in the order process electronically. Inter-Max, which uses ArcelorMittal’s EDI Light service, now has full transparency over its orders and can respond quickly and efficiently to demands from their own customers.
EDI Light
Inter-Max, a long-term supplier of roofing solutions, first asked ArcelorMittal about using our digital tools in 2018. By March 2019, the company had agreed to adopt EDI Light. Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is an electronic communication method which defines standards for the exchange of data via any electronic means.
Krzysztof Szczerba, president of Inter-Max, explains: “EDI Light integrates the entire product ordering process into our enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Orders are now simpler, easier, more accurate, and faster. And by adhering to the same standard as ArcelorMittal, we can electronically exchange documents such as purchase orders, invoices, shipping notices, and many others.”
EDI Light also enables data from ArcelorMittal sales invoices to be automatically entered into the accounting modules of the Inter-Max ERP system. There is no need to print invoices or manually enter data.
Prevision orders allow late specifications
In the initial phase of the project, Inter-Max decided to use EDI Light to send and receive orders and order confirmations automatically. But in response to Inter-Max’s need to specify colours and coatings late in the order process, ArcelorMittal made modifications to the system to allow ‘prevision’ orders. Previously this had only been possible if the customer called or emailed their ArcelorMittal contact. By November 2019, the two companies were able to test and approve the new functionality which is now available to all ArcelorMittal customers on request.
“The solution is based on the latest data exchange format and uses files in CSV format,” explains Krzysztof Szczerba. “After several months of intensive work, Inter-Max successfully began placing prevision orders for coiled sheets from ArcelorMittal. It means we can submit an order for a steel substrate, and define the type of coating and colour later in the process.”
Streamlining processes and planning
Inter-Max now sees all orders placed with ArcelorMittal in its own software. They can also see when shipments are due. “This enables us to be much more efficient when we are planning production schedules,” says Krzysztof Szczerba. “It also helps with our own logistics, the analysis of market trends, and the strategic planning we do for Inter-Max’s future activities.”
For Inter-Max, the EDI Light system with late specifications has transformed its business notes Krzysztof Szczerba: “EDI saves us time and money as it prevents the chance of operators making mistakes. We no longer need to spend time chasing these errors. That translates into a higher level of organisation within the company, and has a positive impact on our economic results.”
About Inter-Max
Inter-Max started operations in 1992 as a sheet metal profiling operation. The company was one of the first in Poland to introduce ArcelorMittal’s range of innovative organic coated products including Granite® Deep Matt, Granite® HDS, and Magnelis®.
More info: Inter-Max
Text: ArcelorMittal Europe Communications
Images: Inter-Max, ArcelorMittal, deepadesigns, viviamo, and violetkaipa / shutterstock.com
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Growing partnerships in our Partners section
We value our partners. We are proud to cooperate with the companies and institutions that count on ArcelorMittal's technical know-how and expertise in their mission to create innovative, sustainable, and value-added solutions for their key markets. As our partnerships continue to grow, so has our newest Constructalia section – Partners.
Steel for construction
Our high quality steels are the perfect base for the creation of elements or finished products for use in a wide scope of the construction market. From heavy plates to organic or metallic coated coils, our production portfolio meets the highest demands in terms of resistance, corrosion protection, and aesthetics.
Meet our partners utilising our extensive Granite® range or corrosion resistant Magnelis®: Blachdom Plus, Budmat, and Regamet in their roofing solutions; BUCON for their steel tanks; Metpol with their plasterboard solutions; Meteor Systems and Zimmermann in their horticultural and agricultural systems; and InQuik for their innovative bridges.
Discover: Metal Union’s application of our metallic coated steels in their profiles, Gagnepark’s usage of sections and Cofraplus® for their multi-storey car parks, and Matière’s patented bridges with our heavy plates.
Steel promotion
From partnerships with associations promoting steel as a building material to new technologies and construction solutions with steel – and everything in between – we work closely with our partners to disseminate knowledge about steel in construction.
A new addition to our Partners section is ConstruirAcier, who inform and advise architects, engineering offices, and investors on the economic and environmental challenges faced by steel in architecture.
Text: Constructalia
Images: Blachdom Plus, BUCON, ConstuirAcier, Gagnepark, Matière, Meteor Systems, Metpol
Rodange sends out first shipment from in-house downstream facility
ArcelorMittal Rodange has sent out the first shipment of curved rails from our new rail transformation centre. A product of the new in-house downstream facility, this marks the start of a win-win operation for ArcelorMittal Europe – Long Products.
A one-stop shop for customers
ArcelorMittal Rodange produces grooved rails, light rails, and crane rails. In the past, many of these were processed by external sub-contractors. Now, with the creation of our in-house downstream facilities, the service centre will enable the Rodange plant to act as a one-stop shop for customers, offering full solutions performance and reliability advantages.
The service centre, located in mill hall C (formerly the rebar mill), will deal mainly with grooved rails and to a lesser extent with light rails and crane rails. In addition, this will develop the access to the tram rail market and lead to further opportunities for downstream operations.
What services are on offer with the new service centre at ArcelorMittal Rodange?
In the first phase, the service centre will offer the following finishing services:
• drilling (fish plating is done directly by the mill; the service centre will provide tie bar drilling)
• bending (only for grooved rails)
• straightening
• cutting
More services are planned for a later phase.
What are the benefits for the customer of ArcelorMittal Rodange?
• one single contact
• ArcelorMittal warranty provided
• packaging options
• the possibility to group standard rails with complex finished rails - ‘transformed rails’ versus ‘rolled’ rails
• increased flexibility and reduced lead time which leads to better service
Since the beginning of operations in March 2020, more than 1000 tonnes of products with special finishing have been collected.
Text: ArcelorMittal Luxembourg, Constructalia
Images: ArcelorMittal
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Updated ABC software now available on Constructalia
Version 3.51 of ABC: ArcelorMittal Beams Calculator is available now for free downloading in our Software section.
For the design of steel structures
ABC: ArcelorMittal Beams Calculator is a free pre design tool for use in designing a variety of steel and composite structures such as portal frames, beam and column structures, trusses, and column-beam connections. This tool allows for the calculation of steel, partially encased, composite, or integrated beams (SFB & IFB types A and B), in cold and fire conditions.
Version 3.51 is now available for download. We update our pre design software regularly to ensure is assists you smoothly. This software complies with Eurocodes 3 and 4.
More tools are available for download
The whole range of ArcelorMittal pre design and calculation software is available free of charge to registered Constructalia users. Click here for all of the details.
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ArcelorMittal continues to develop organic coated offer
ArcelorMittal Europe – Flat Products offers a complete range of organic coated steels for interior and exterior construction. The steels, which include products such as the Granite® and Estetic® ranges, have many applications in facades, roofing, and furnishing. Our R&D teams are continuously working to develop our range of organic coated steel products and solutions.
Check out our most recent brochures, datasheets, and Environmental Product Declarations for Granite® Silky Shine, Granite® Storm, Estetic® Access, and Estetic® Standard before ordering your samples with the click of a button!
ArcelorMittal is continuing to develop its organic coated product offer in three main ways to answer market demands:
1. Durability: Enhancing durability by improving paints, coatings, and edges. For example, all new coatings we develop are thicker than 25 microns to create a long-lasting coating.
2. Aesthetics: ArcelorMittal is offering new aesthetics to architects and designers including new colours, finishes, and textures. We’re also developing alternatives such organic coated steels which mimic the aesthetic of weathering steel, but can be used in extreme environments.
3. Sustainability: ArcelorMittal’s organic coated products meet today’s sustainability criteria, but how will they perform tomorrow? We are constantly monitoring the evolution of standards such as the European Union’s REACH regulation to ensure our products remain sustainable in the future. We’re also developing new high strength steels which require less resources to produce and which enable architects to design lighter and more sustainable structures.
Text: ArcelorMittal Europe Communications, Constructalia
Images: ArcelorMittal Europe
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Granite® Silky Shine: Datasheet
Granite® Silky Shine: Timeless Colours for Glittering Facades
Granite® Silky Shine: Technical view
Granite® & Estetic® Environmental Product Declaration
Granite® The prepainted steel colour palette
Roofing configurator: our product, your dreams
As ArcelorMittal, we always want to be close to people. With our newest tool, your house plays the starring role in which visions can become reality. The protagonist of this stage design? Granite® organic coated steel from ArcelorMittal that gracefully wraps your roof - ensuring elegance, durability, and beauty.
We invite you to participate in the creation of a story in which four heroes meet – your dreams, your home, Granite® organic coated steel, and those who will help your dreams come true: manufacturers.
This design tool is dedicated to the Polish market and is currently available in Polish only. More language versions are in the works!
Text: Constructalia
Images: ArcelorMittal Europe
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Blachdom Plus roofing with Granite® HDX / Storm / Deep Mat 8
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