Semi-finished stainless steel long products
Extremely wide selection
Benefits
- Consistency in product performance
- Delivery reliability
- Expertise in technical advice
- Effortless customer service
Outokumpu semi-finished stainless steel long products
Outokumpu’s high-quality production range includes billets, blooms, slabs, and ingots. Our outstanding product catalogue entails a variety of sizes and grades for further processing based on your needs. The exceptional flexibility of our meltshops allows for reactive production schedules to provide short lead times.
Our end-to-end approach, from melting, casting and rolling to finishing and testing, ensures that we can offer a full range of semi-finished products with industry-leading consistency, delivery performance, and technical support.
Our experts are here to support you with precise guidelines for forging and processing to help you get the best results possible from our stainless steels.
Outokumpu is accredited to recognized international standards, including:
- ISO 9001 & 14001 – TÜV Nord
- BS OHSAS 18001 – TÜV Nord
- AD 2000 – Merklatt WO/TRD 100 – TÜV Nord
- PED 97/23/EC
- ASME MO QSC 713
- Approvals from DNV, Germanischer Lloyd, Lloyd’s Register and Norsok
For the full list of approvals by mill, see outokumpu.com/certificates
Find our general offering of semi-finished long products listed on each products’ site. If your requirements fall outside these standard sizes, please contact your production units in Sheffield, UK or Degerfors, Sweden.
Visit Stainless Steel Finder to compare EN and ASTM standard values for different stainless steel grades, thickness and width ranges and available finishes by product type. You can also get information about mechanical strength and elongation. If your requirements fall outside these standard sizes, please contact our mill sales in Sheffield, UK or Degerfors, Sweden.
Semi-finished long products
Cast billets and blooms
Outokumpu’s cast billets and blooms’ application include feedstock for rolling wire rod or bar, as well as certain forging applications. We provide consistent high-quality and delivery reliability to a wide range of ferritic, austenitic, duplex, heat resistant, and precipitation hardening stainless steels.
Applications
- Wire rod and bar production
- Forging applications
Benefits
- Consistent surface, centerline, and cast quality
- Expert technical support for customer processing
- Industry-leading variety of grades (including tailored grades)
- Full product traceability
- Reliable delivery performance
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BLOOM |
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Surface finish |
Thickness (mm) |
Width (mm) |
Length (mm) |
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Black |
300 |
400 |
2,000–12,000 |
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CAST BILLET |
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Surface finish |
Dimension (mm) |
Length (mm) |
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Black |
127–200 |
3,800–12,000 |
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Ground |
127–200 |
3,800–12,000 |
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Nominal billet sizes: 127 x 127 mm, 140 x 140 mm, 150 x 150 mm, 180 x 180 mm and 200 x 200 mm.


Outokumpu rolled and forged billets
Outokumpu’s rolled and forged billets are used in a wide range of forging applications, for example flange forging as well as seamless tubes. We provide a wide range of ferritic, austenitic, duplex, heat resistant, and precipitation hardening stainless steels.
The rolled and forged billets boast consistent high-quality in terms of surface, straightness, center line, and chemical composition. Our experts are always on hand to guide you through the forging process to get the best possible results from our materials.
Applications
- Bar production
- Forging applications
- Flanges
- Seamless tubes
Benefits
- Consistently high quality and delivery reliability
- Expert advice to help with processing
- Over 30 years’ experience working with leading forgers
- Flexible production means we can give equal priority to orders from both large and small customers
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ROLLED BILLET ROUND |
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Surface finish |
Diameter (mm) |
Length (mm) |
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Black |
75–270 |
3,000–12,000 |
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Ground |
75–270 |
3,000–12,000 |
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Spot ground |
75–270 |
3,000–12,000 |
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Peeled |
70–200 |
3,000–12,000 |
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ROLLED BILLET SQUARE |
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Surface finish |
Dimension (mm) |
Length (mm) |
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Black |
75–250 |
3,000–12,000 |
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Ground |
75–250 |
3,000–12,000 |
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Spot ground |
75–250 |
3,000–12,000 |
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FORGED BILLET ROUND |
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Surface finish |
Diameter (mm) |
Length (mm) |
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Black |
150–400 |
3,000–12,000 |
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Ground |
150–400 |
3,000–12,000 |
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Spot ground |
150–400 |
3,000–12,000 |
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Peeled |
140–230 |
3,000–12,000 |
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FORGED BILLET SQUARE |
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Surface finish |
Dimension (mm) |
Length (mm) |
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Black |
150–300 |
3,000–12,000 |
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Ground |
150–300 |
3,000–12,000 |
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Spot ground |
150–300 |
3,000–12,000 |


Outokumpu continuously cast slabs

Applications
- Coil sheet and place production
- Forging applications
Benefits
- Consistent surface, centerline, and cast quality
- Expert support for processing
- 300 mm slab reduces material wastage and costs while forging
- Reliable delivery performance
How using Outokumpu slab reducing yield loss in forging
- 300 mm thick slab replaces ingots in certain applications
- Cut precise shapes to minimize wastage (nesting)
- Optimize length of slab to your needs
- Outokumpu slab reduces yield loss in forging resulting
- : > 10% yield benefit
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CAST SLAB |
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Surface finish |
Thickness (mm) |
Width (mm) |
Length (mm) |
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Black, Ground |
170 |
960–1,575 |
4,000–12,000 |
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Black, Ground |
200 |
960–1,575 |
4,000–12,000 |
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Black, Ground |
300 |
700–1,575 |
3,000–6,600 |


Outokumpu ingots
Outokumpu ingots are utilized for forging or rolled into large heavy billets and bars. Our ingots are produced by uphill teeming/bottom-filling into fixed sized molds. We provide stainless steel ingots in a range of grades, along with expert advice for forging and processing.
Applications
- Billet and bar production
- Forging applications
Benefits
- Consistently high quality and delivery reliability
- Expert support for processing
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INGOT |
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Weight (tonnes) |
Surface finish |
Upper size (mm) |
Lower size (mm) |
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5.7 |
Black |
629 x 629 |
452 x 452 |
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7.2 |
Black |
790 x 790 |
640 x 640 |
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19.6 (slab ingot) |
Black |
765 x 1,773 |
621 x 1,632 |

Visit Stainless Steel Finder to compare EN and ASTM standard values for different stainless steel grades, thickness and width ranges and available finishes by product type. You can also get information about mechanical strength and elongation.