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SMS group, the world market leader for metallurgical plant construction, has confirmed the financial targets in its core business and at the same time achieved important successes in its structural and cultural transformation programme.
Burkhard Dahmen, Chairman of the Management Board: “We are fully on track. Our clear target is an operating result of 7 % in 2021, with an order intake of € 3.2 billion. The most important drivers are four strategic growth areas, a stronger focus on foreign growth markets, and initial successes from our “Task Force 2021” transformation programme. This programme comprises more than 600 individual measures that not only improve all cost categories and internal processes, but also enable higher investments in new areas and business fields.” Dahmen announced during a presentation in Düsseldorf on the company's new projects and products that the order volume in 2018 will be slightly higher than in the previous year. Due to the long project durations in the new plant business, the sales effect will occur with the delay that is typical for the industry. The steel industry continues to be characterized by high overcapacities. The share of major new construction projects in order intake has declined noticeably. On the other hand, service and modernization orders are becoming increasingly important for SMS group. Burkhard Dahmen continued: “While the boom years were marked by major new construction projects, modernization projects are now the main focus of our business. Customers need higher cost efficiency and an improved energy balance. SMS not only provides them with the hardware, but also with the automation, advice and on-site support they need.” In light of this development, alongside its core business, SMS group is pursuing four central offensives, which are currently being successfully implemented: 1. Digitalization: Under the leadership of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Katja Windt, who has been a member of the SMS Managing Board since the beginning of 2018, the company is consistently expanding its leading position in digitalization. SMS group already has nearly 200 different digital products in use today. The majority of these products are already being used successfully on the market, others are in development. SMS has developed the “Learning Steel Mill” on this basis. Here, the target is for a steel mill to independently optimize and control itself – based on human know-how, physical correlations and complex mathematical models that are evaluated in real time. This improves key performance parameters such as product quality, throughput time, delivery on schedule and output. Worldwide, the best known implementation of such a concept is the Big River Steel plant in Osceola, Arkansas (USA). A transfer of this concept across the entire process chain is planned – also for other industries. 2. Further growth opportunities will be created by new business models – in some cases only made possible by digital technologies. Performance-based contracts are increasingly appreciated by customers. Such models enable the company to participate directly in the added value of its technology solutions. For example, SMS group already has a number of performance-based contracts under which the company is no longer paid for the hardware or services it supplies, but is directly involved in attaining jointly agreed parameters of financial success – be it output increase or cost reduction. Leasing-like models such as “Software as a Service” or in the future “Equipment as a Service” are well received in the market and are increasingly implemented by SMS. 3. Service: The expansion of the service business is intended to ensure that in future around one third of the business volume will be generated in this sector. The local partnership-based customer relationships, the extensive portfolio of a full-liner along the entire value chain and the latest technological innovations enable SMS to be increasingly integrated into its customers' plants and processes. Whether it is spare parts, maintenance or modernization of plants, or consulting and training of customer personnel, all areas will make an important contribution to realizing the planned growth. 4. Under the name “New Horizon”, a large number of promising projects are underway in which SMS group is transferring its expertise and know-how from metallurgy to related industries. In addition, SMS uses its access to the market to establish new products. In addition, SMS continues to consider targeted acquisitions of suitable start-ups or established specialists. SMS constantly monitors the market in order to expand know-how in relevant areas or to open up new business fields. (Source: SMS group)

Stable outlook and clear growth target for SMS group

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Autor: Redaktion

Datum: 12. Okt. 2018

Burkhard Dahmen, Chairman of the Management Board: “We are fully on track. Our clear target is an operating result of 7 % in 2021, with an order intake of € 3.2 billion. The most important drivers are four strategic growth areas, a stronger focus on foreign growth markets, and initial successes from our “Task Force 2021” transformation programme. This programme comprises more than 600 individual measures that not only improve all cost categories and internal processes, but also enable higher investments in new areas and business fields.”
Dahmen announced during a presentation in Düsseldorf on the company’s new projects and products that the order volume in 2018 will be slightly higher than in the previous year. Due to the long project durations in the new plant business, the sales effect will occur with the delay that is typical for the industry. The steel industry continues to be characterized by high overcapacities. The share of major new construction projects in order intake has declined noticeably. On the other hand, service and modernization orders are becoming increasingly important for SMS group.
Burkhard Dahmen continued: “While the boom years were marked by major new construction projects, modernization projects are now the main focus of our business. Customers need higher cost efficiency and an improved energy balance. SMS not only provides them with the hardware, but also with the automation, advice and on-site support they need.”
In light of this development, alongside its core business, SMS group is pursuing four central offensives, which are currently being successfully implemented:
1. Digitalization: Under the leadership of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Katja Windt, who has been a member of the SMS Managing Board since the beginning of 2018, the company is consistently expanding its leading position in digitalization. SMS group already has nearly 200 different digital products in use today. The majority of these products are already being used successfully on the market, others are in development. SMS has developed the “Learning Steel Mill” on this basis. Here, the target is for a steel mill to independently optimize and control itself – based on human know-how, physical correlations and complex mathematical models that are evaluated in real time. This improves key performance parameters such as product quality, throughput time, delivery on schedule and output. Worldwide, the best known implementation of such a concept is the Big River Steel plant in Osceola, Arkansas (USA). A transfer of this concept across the entire process chain is planned – also for other industries.
2. Further growth opportunities will be created by new business models – in some cases only made possible by digital technologies. Performance-based contracts are increasingly appreciated by customers. Such models enable the company to participate directly in the added value of its technology solutions. For example, SMS group already has a number of performance-based contracts under which the company is no longer paid for the hardware or services it supplies, but is directly involved in attaining jointly agreed parameters of financial success – be it output increase or cost reduction. Leasing-like models such as “Software as a Service” or in the future “Equipment as a Service” are well received in the market and are increasingly implemented by SMS.
3. Service: The expansion of the service business is intended to ensure that in future around one third of the business volume will be generated in this sector. The local partnership-based customer relationships, the extensive portfolio of a full-liner along the entire value chain and the latest technological innovations enable SMS to be increasingly integrated into its customers’ plants and processes. Whether it is spare parts, maintenance or modernization of plants, or consulting and training of customer personnel, all areas will make an important contribution to realizing the planned growth.
4. Under the name “New Horizon”, a large number of promising projects are underway in which SMS group is transferring its expertise and know-how from metallurgy to related industries. In addition, SMS uses its access to the market to establish new products.
In addition, SMS continues to consider targeted acquisitions of suitable start-ups or established specialists. SMS constantly monitors the market in order to expand know-how in relevant areas or to open up new business fields.
(Source: SMS group)