ArcelorMittal Eisenhüttenstadt
| ArcelorMittal Eisenhüttenstadt GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | 1951 |
| Seat | Eisenhuettenstadt , Germany |
| management | Pierre Jacobs, Chairman of the Management Board |
| Number of employees | approx. 2500 |
| Website | www.arcelormittal-ehst.com |
The ArcelorMittal Eisenhüttenstadt GmbH is an integrated steelworks in Brandenburg Eisenhüttenstadt . From 1990 to 2006 it was known as EKO Stahl GmbH . Until the merger of Arcelor and Mittal in 2006, the plant was called Arcelor Eisenhüttenstadt GmbH .
History 1950 to 1990
On the III. At the SED party congress from July 20 to 24, 1950, the decision was made to build the Eisenhüttenkombinat Ost (EKO) and a residential town ( called Stalinstadt from 1953 ) about three kilometers west of Fürstenberg (Oder) . On August 18, 1950, the symbolic first ax cut was made to start construction on what would later become the ironworks combine. On January 1, 1951, GDR Industry Minister Fritz Selbmann laid the foundation stone for the first blast furnace, which started operations on September 19, 1951 under the name of the Hermann Matern ironworks as the most important ironworks in the GDR. In 1953 the name was changed to Eisenhüttenkombinat "J. W. Stalin ” . Five more blast furnaces were built by 1955. The plant traded under the name Eisenhüttenkombinat Ost from 1963 and with up to 16,000 employees was the largest metallurgy combine in the GDR. In the 1960s, a cold rolling mill for flat steel was built, which was supplied with hot wide strip from the Soviet Union , which in addition to the increased production costs also led to problems because EKO was unable to influence the quality and dimensional accuracy of the returned product. Once in the 1980s, a converter - steel plant was built, part of the cast there was slabs from the steel plants Peine-Salzgitter AG (now Salzgitter AG ) in contract manufacturing umgewalzt.
From 1990 until today
In 1990 the company was renamed EKO Stahl AG and in 1994 the Treuhandanstalt sold it to the Belgian steel and mechanical engineering group Cockerill-Sambre . The company, which has been trading as EKO Stahl GmbH since then , was extensively modernized with public funds with the approval of the European Commission and finally received a hot wide strip mill. Since then, EKO has concentrated on flat steel production , which in 2001 achieved sales of 918 million euros with a workforce of 3,200. EKO Stahl GmbH and its then Belgian parent company have been part of the Arcelor Group since 2002 . Since the merger of Arcelor with the Dutch Mittal Steel Company in 2006, the company has been operating under the name ArcelorMittal Eisenhüttenstadt GmbH .
production
The company in Eisenhüttenstadt is divided into four areas:
- Pig iron works
- Steel mill
- Hot rolling mill ( hot rolling )
- Cold rolling mill
literature
- Karl Döring : EKO - steel for the GDR, steel for the world. Edition Berolina, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95841-018-3 .
Web links
Coordinates: 52 ° 9 ′ 54 ″ N , 14 ° 37 ′ 40 ″ E