COGNE began its industrial activity back in 1911. It was called Cogne after the name of the village where iron ore mines have been exploited since the Roman times. Today Cogne Acciai Speciali is equipped with the following production units: * the steel shop, whose main facilities are: UHP Electric Arc Furnace; AOD converter; RH degassing, continuous casting unit (3-4 strands). This area is also equipped with a blooming mill, a forging shop, with a press 2000 tons and a SXP 40 forging machine, and an ESR furnace. This unit produces ingots, billets, blooms, forged rounds and flats, bars for extrusion of seamless tubes and profiles; * the rolling unit is equipped with an integrated bar and wire rolling mill, for the production of wire rod and round bars, and heat treatment furnaces; * the finishing area completes the production cycle with the manufacturing of pickled wire rod, stainless steel round bars, bars and blocks in tool steel and bars in special heat resistant steels for the manufacture of intake and exhaust valves for all types of internal combustion engines. * the production area of gas-atomized metal powders and tailor-made finished pieces. It is equipped with the following facilities: air induction furnace, atomization tower in inert gas, ultra-sonic vibrating separation machine for powders and a machining shop equipped with CNC machine tools suitable for the production of pieces up to about 20 m in length.