Ownership
Orb Electrical Steels is managed as a part of the Cogent Power Group, which provides a broad range of high quality products manufactured to customers’ most demanding requirements and has a responsive approach to the market.
The business is a wholly owned subsidiary of Corus, owned by Tata Steel. The specialist product range from Orb Electrical Steels ranges from high permeability grain oriented steels for power transformers to fully processed silicon steels for all sizes of rotating machines, including thin gauge materials for high speed machines operating at medium to high frequencies.
Electrical steels are manufactured on two sites: Orb Electrical Steels in the UK is responsible for the production and global sales of specialised grain oriented steels as detailed in the product section of this site.
Surahammars Bruks in Sweden produces non-oriented fully processed steels. These steels are iron-silicon alloys with varying silicon content and have similar magnetic properties in all directions in the plane of the sheet. They are principally used for motors, generators, alternators, ballasts, small transformers and a variety of other electromagnetic applications. Thin gauge materials are also available which offer the superior performance required for high frequency applications, such as hybrid car motors. This full product range is marketed worldwide direct or through the Corus global sales offices.
