Koninklijke Hoogovens
The Koninklijke Nederlandse Hoogovens (= Royal Dutch Blast Furnaces) is a Dutch steelworks founded in 1918, owned by the Dutch state , the municipality of Amsterdam , Dutch companies and private investors .
Hoogovens was a public company listed on the Dutch stock exchange in Amsterdam . During the steel crisis in 1972, Hoogovens merged with Hoesch AG in Dortmund to form the Estel group. This merger was reversed in 1982 .
Hoogovens has in IJmuiden two blast furnaces , a Oxigenstahlwerk , rolling mills , two coking plants that it can supply by ocean-going vessels. Hoogovens can produce up to seven million tons of steel per year. In 1964, Hoogovens entered aluminum production with the establishment of the Aldel joint venture . In 1987, Hoogovens expanded its product range to include rolled aluminum and extruded aluminum by acquiring the European activities of Kaiser Aluminum . The production location is, among others, Koblenz. In 1999 Hoogovens merged with British Steel to form Corus , headquartered in London . Corus, in turn, was bought by Tata Steel in 2007 .
Chess tournament
In the chess world , the company became known as a sponsor of the annual Hoogovens tournament in Beverwijk from 1938 and in Wijk aan Zee from 1967, which is considered to be one of the busiest chess tournaments in the world.
Web links
- Photos of the steel and smelting works in Ijmuiden by Harald Finster
- Early documents and newspaper articles on Koninklijke Hoogovens in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ - ( Memento from July 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 42.8 " N , 4 ° 35 ′ 28.3" E