E6 road project in Sweden enters final straight...

Press release 9 November 2009

Ruukki is to deliver steel structures for three road bridges and a
railway bridge for the E6 road project in Sweden. The bridges will be
built on the section of road between Skee and Ejgst near Strömstad.
This is one of the last phases of one of the most important road
projects in Sweden on the route leading from Trelleborg, at the
southern tip of the country, to Norway. Ruukki's customer and the
main contractor in the project is Peab AB.


The bridges will total almost 600 metres in length and the order is
worth around EUR 2.5 million.

"The steel bridge solution will shorten construction time and
minimise disruption to traffic on the busy E6 road. We chose Ruukki
as the steel structure contractor because we wanted a reliable
partner that manages the entire process from raw materials and
fabrication to installation," says Contracts Manager Göran Hannrup
from Peab Ab.

Ruukki is responsible for the fabrication and installation of
load-bearing steel structures for the bridges. The structures will be
made at Ruukki's plant in Ylivieska, Finland and be transported by
road to the construction site in southern Sweden. A high degree of
structural prefabrication and short installation time will minimise
disruption to traffic on this busy road and improve overall safety at
the construction site.

Fabrication of the bridges will begin in late 2009 and the last
installations are scheduled for spring 2011.

Ruukki has earlier been involved in a number of other E6 bridge
projects. Work is currently under way on a 600-metre long road bridge
spanning the Hudälven river and on the Partihallsförbindelsen link
bridge, scheduled for completion in 2011, in the centre of Gothenburg
to interconnect the E45 motorway and E20 road.

Read more about Ruukki's references in infrastructure construction.

Images of Ruukki's references in infrastructure construction can be
found in the image bank.

For further information, please contact:
Anders Spåls, Business Manager, Infrastructure Sweden, Ruukki
Construction
Tel. [phone]


Rautaruukki supplies metal-based components, systems and total
solutions to the construction and engineering industries. The company
has a wide selection of metal products and services. Rautaruukki has
operations in 27 countries and employs 12,200 people. Net sales in
2008 totalled EUR 3.9 billion. The company's share is quoted on OMX
Nordic Exchange Helsinki (Rautaruukki Oyj: RTRKS). The Corporation
uses the marketing name Ruukki.


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