With ArcelorMittal’s new electrical steels production capacity at Mardyck coming on-stream in northern France, and the creation of a dynamic new dedicated team for the Electrical Steels segment, the Group is focused on delivering the best solutions and value for its customers in the fast-growing e-mobility, and renewable energy markets, such as hydro or wind energy, as well as new opportunities such as data centres.
The Mardyck site near Dunkirk has seen the completion of a major investment in new electrical steel production lines. It incorporates a new cold rolling mill and annealing lines for processing Non-Grain Oriented (NGO) Silicon Steel used for the automotive, energy and wider industrial sectors. This increased capacity, together with the existing Saint-Chély-d’Apcher site in southern France, has increased by threefold ArcelorMittal’s electrical steels annual production capability to 300,000 tonnes.
“To answer the exciting technical challenges and customer needs in what is a fast-evolving electrical steels market, we have put together a dedicated, multi-disciplinary team for our Electrical Steels business, across Sales, Marketing, Product Development, Technical and Service Support and Strategy. We of course also have access to the Group’s unique global R&D expertise. Our aim is to increase our speed, efficiency, responsiveness and quality, and ultimately deliver the best value offering in the market,” says Olivier Gervais, who was appointed Head of Segment Electrical Steels in November 2024. “We have purposefully instilled an agile “start-up”, entrepreneurial mindset within the team, that is totally customer-centred and aligned with their ever-evolving needs and expectations.”
A specialist team has been established, bringing deep and extensive experience in electrical steels. Driven by the mission to serve customers, the team is dedicated to fostering close relationships, ensuring the highest quality products, developing industry-leading supply services and offers, providing technical expertise in electrical steel applications, aligning product development with customer needs and timelines, and anticipating market trends and requirements.
The electrical steels market is growing rapidly on the back of the massive changes taking place in the automotive, energy and industrial sectors. Our job is to foresee these developments and understand the needs of our customers so that we can collaborate on delivering the right solutions for them,” added Olivier.
ArcelorMittal's Non-Grain Oriented (NGO) Electrical Steel offering encompasses an impressive array of applications:
- Power generation: hydro, wind and turbo generators
- Traction motors for automotive electrified powertrains (see Global Auto website)
- Traction or propulsion motors for other electrified transports: rail, e-bus, truck and ship
- Electrical equipment (switch gears etc.)
- Industrial high-power motors and generators
- Small to medium power motors for general purposes
- Appliances high-end applications (high speed vacuum cleaner etc.)
Its iCARe® e-steel products have been designed specifically to underpin the automotive electrification transition, reducing current losses (iCARe® Save), guaranteeing polarisation and high permeability (iCARe® Torque), providing high-power density (iCARe® Speed) and offering an improved efficiency combined with a better motor compactness (iCARe® 420).
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“The new downstream production facility at Mardyck, along with continuous improvements at our Saint-Chély-d'Apcher plant, enables us to develop one global offer of more advanced electrical steels grades for our customers,” says Charlotte Daugu, Sales Director Electrical Steels, ArcelorMittal Europe – Flat Products.
“This ensures we can meet future demands for lower loss grades, combined with higher mechanical strength and higher magnetic polarisation. Additionally, we can address evolving functional requirements for insulation coatings on electrical steels.” says Eric Vasseur, Technical & Service Director Electrical Steels, ArcelorMIttal Europe - Flat Products.
The new production facility at Mardyck, together with its state-of-the-art equipment, is designed in such a way that it can easily incorporate the technical production requirements of our existing products from Saint-Chély-d’Apcher plant. By leveraging this copy-engineering approach, ArcelorMittal can offer customers a more efficient and straightforward approval process for Mardyck’s electrical steel products.
“Our focus for 2025 is to demonstrate our new capacity out of Mardyck, deliver on our service and value propositions, build on our product development and innovation pipeline, and consolidate development of the iCARe® product range,” highlighted Olivier. “We’re actively identifying opportunities for new solutions and offering our co-development capabilities to our customers. With the depth of our expertise, together with the capacity and reliability provided by the Mardyck and Saint-Chély-d’Apcher plants, we believe we offer unique strategic know-how, reach and security of supply in the e-steels market. Come and discuss how we can help you.”
We were at CWIEME
ArcelorMittal Electrical Steels recently showcased its offering and capabilities at CWIEME at Messe Berlin from 3-5 June 2025 - the global coil winding and electrical manufacturing exhibition bringing together the international supply chain for transformers, electric motors and e-mobility applications.
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