Translation of "Tube laminé à froid sur laminoir à pas de pélerin " (French → English) :

For steel mills, which produce a great range of flat products of steel, hot-rolled coils are used as a pre-material for manufacturing other steel products (wide and narrow strips, all cold-rolled products, tubes, etc.).

The parties activities overlap in the sector for the production of hot rolled coil out of carbon steel, cold-rolled stainless-steel flat products and steel tubes (in particular, small stainless streel welded tubes and small carbon steel welded tubes) and also in the steel product distribution sector (trading/Steel Service Centre for carbon-steel flat finished products in Italy).

Sterling Tubes Ltd is a company that manufactures hot and cold finished stainless tubes and pipes.

It must also agree not to build a second continuous casting facility for slabs for at least five years from the date of closure of the slab mill; (d) ProfilArbed SA agrees by the end of 1995 at the latest, pursuant to the abovementioned Decision, to replace its L-D steel melting shop at Esch-Belval with an electric melting shop with an MPP not exceeding 1 500 kt/year; (e) until output at rolling mill IX at Esch-Belvan begins, Klöckner Stahl agrees to limit production of hot-rolled coil at the Bremen hot strip mill to 2 640 kt/year and not to exceed 3 360 kt/year, including rolling to order; (f) Klöckner Stahl undertakes not to invest, ...[+++] save by prior agreement with the Commission, in maintenance or other plant, in order to maintain the bottleneck identified in the SNV expert report ("Einschleusungslogistik für die Warmbreitbankstrasse der Hütte Bremen, 8.3.1984, Studiengesellschaft Nahverkehr mbH) which limits the quantity of slabs coming from outside for processing to 1 020 kt/year; (g) Klöckner Stahl GmbH cuts its MPP of cold-rolled strip and sheet products by 500 kt/year by reducing MPP at its Bremen plant from 1500 to 1000 kt/year as follows: 300 kt/year before the end of June 1996 200 kt/year before the end of June 1998.

The operation does not involve any addition of market share in the affected markets of cold rolled flat products less than 500mm wide and welded tubes.

This decision is only concerned with those products which fall within the scope of the Treaty of Rome and is thus restricted to cold rolled products less than 500 mm wide, welded tubes, and the stockholding of these products.