Trasteel International SA

With a committed team of experienced traders active on almost all Carbon Steel products (long and flat products) Trasteel is a leader in the steel industry providing a tailored, transparent and complete service to all segment of the supply chain. Thanks to its financial strength and the capability of combining the general trading business with its industrial assets, Trasteel is a reliable and solid player in the hard commodity arena and through its local offices around the world it can provide immediate support both to its customers and to its suppliers/partners.
The Group is offering to its partners a wide range of solutions to their investment needs, offering not only trading capacities but entering into long-term relationships such as off-take and regular sourcing agreements. Trasteel puts in place already various important agreements with large steel mills in the Far East as well as service centers in Europe.
The goal of the steel department is to develop as much as possible captive businesses without giving up on the opportunities which may arise on the spot trading.
In this sense, Trasteel is operating as a supplier of steel slabs and billets to many re-rollers on a worldwide basis, such as Officine Tecnosider and SteelAsia.
At the same time, the Group is one of the major European player on flat products for the automotive and white goods industry, in which it operates also through its controlled service center Tamac based in Italy.

Trasteel International operates on a worldwide basis as a supplier of raw materials for steel making. In the last 10 years of activity, with a dedicated team in Lugano and supported by local offices in Europe, China, South of America and Russia, the Company has developed exclusive parterships in several regions aimed at collecting, preparing and enriching raw materials to be sold to sophisticated end-users around the world.

Main supplied products are:

• Iron Ore Fines and Lumps from South of America and North Africa
• PCI and Coking Coals from ex-CIS Countries
• Met Coke from China and Colombia
• HBI from Venezuela and Malaysia

As a shareholder of a major refractory manufacturing unit in China, Trasteel International can provide a full range of refractory products for steel making applications, cement plants and industrial furnaces like reheating furnaces for rolling mill or aluminum melting furnaces:

• Magnesia Carbon bricks for converters, electric arc furnaces and ladles
• Magnesia Alumina Carbon bricks
• Alumina Silicon Carbide Carbon bricks
• Sliding Gate Plates and Nozzles for tundish and ladle flow control
• Isostatic products for continuous casting machine
• Special shapes like purging plugs, tap hole and well blocks
• Fired Magnesia bricks
• Fired Alumina-Silica Bricks
• Ceramic anchors with relevant steel anchoring system
• Ceramic fibers and insulation panels
• Various unshaped products for refractory installations and maintenance of steel making units and industrial furnaces: castables, ramming, plastic, gunning and mortar materials