The Alfa Acciai Group sets a benchmark in the EAF steelmaking process in terms of production process efficiency and quality.
Caring for customer relations; strict selection of raw materials, from scrap to ferroalloys, from lime to re-fuels; ensuring a comprehensive production process chain: these are the premises on which the Group keeps investing in order to improve the performance of its products and customer services year after year.
All Alfa Acciai Group companies maintain a Quality Management System in accordance with UNI EN ISO 9001 and certified by IGQ - Italian Institute for Quality Assurance - and IQNet - International Certification Network. The System ensures compliance with clearly defined operating procedures and instructions that are constantly updated in line with the company's technical and organisational development.
Quality management system: from supplier to customer
Alfa Acciai and Acciaierie di Sicilia have implemented an Integrated Management System (IMS) for Quality, Environment and Safety in order to guarantee high levels of product quality, reliability and competitiveness for all stakeholders, while safeguarding the health and safety of workers and protecting the environment.
As an integral part of this System, the Supply Chain provides process repeatability, supply optimisation and end-customer satisfaction.
In addition, the close synergy between Quality Control, Process Engineering, Technical Service and Sales Network guarantees a constant monitoring and improvement of our products and production cycles.
Distinctive elements of quality commitment
Input control of raw materials used by the group's steel mills by means of X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) spectrometry, infrared and combustion.
Ongoing production monitoring by means of Statistical Process Control (SPC) techniques: thereby increasing customer satisfaction by maximising operational efficiency.
End product, in compliance with parameters defined by law, subjected to chemical analysis using Direct Optical Spectrometry (quantometer) and C-S (carbon-sulphur) and O-N (oxygen-nitrogen) analysers. Each Group company is responsible for certifying the mechanical and geometric characteristics of own production.
Automated analysis of steel structural elements, inclusion rate and surface decarbonisation level by Alfa Acciai's metallurgical test lab. Failure Analysis and metallographic tests are also performed to assist the production process and the Group's Customers.
IT Governance
The effective use of IT resources enables the organisation to achieve its business objectives, thereby ensuring resilience and continuity. Over the past year, the Group has undertaken IT governance initiatives to strengthen operational efficiency and security, improve customer engagement and enhance production process accuracy. All of these aspects directly or indirectly relate to product quality and customer service.
Major projects implemented include:
- redefinition of Industrial KPIs;
- optimisation of software-systems interface;
- activation of a customer booking portal;
- revamping of the perimeter security architecture.
In particular, the redefinition of KPIs included a complete update of key indicators (KE, KU, KQ, KN and KR) to ensure performance is measured more accurately and facilitate ongoing monitoring and optimisation of production processes.
Our guidelines
The production system at Alfa Acciai and Acciaierie di Sicilia goes beyond a mere quality system and is based on the following pillars:
- Ongoing improvement based on a scientific method, adopting KPI (Key Performance Indicators) metrics;
- Application of LEAN Production principles to streamline the production process down to only those stages that create added value;
- Focus on details to achieving results and ongoing improvement, thereby pursuing maximum production efficiency while minimising manufacturing costs;
- Involvement of personnel at all levels, defining roles and responsibilities. Awareness and organisation are key to business growth;
- Proactive participation in UNISIDER (Italian steel standards unification body), for editing and developing technical standards at both national and European level;
- Learning, thinking and acting promptly to stay one step ahead.
Products
We offer a wide range of products worldwide in the fields of construction, bright wire, automotive, household appliances, mechanical engineering and the many varied applications of wire rod.
Steel services
The support which the Alfa Acciai Group provides for customers goes beyond supplying products, featuring an organised system of integrated services designed to establish quality-oriented relationships.
Production processes
Steel production starts in the scrap yard, where part of the scrap is conveyed to the shredder, continues in the production bay and ends at the platform from where the billets are then moved on to the rolling process.
Certification
Our work results in an ongoing commitment to maintaining excellent systems and products in the Alfa Acciai Group over time. Certification is our universal gateway.
Sales network
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