Aceralia
BMAD: ACR
ISINES0138991015
IndustrySteel
PredecessorCorporacion de la Siderurgia Integral (1991)
formed from
Ensidesa (1950)
Altos Hornos de Vizcaya (1902)
Founded1997
Defunct2002
SuccessorArcelor
RevenueIncrease 269.546 billion ₧ (1997)[1]
Increase 14.047 billion ₧ (1997)[1]
Total assetsIncrease 465.174 ₧ (1997)[1]
Number of employees
Increase 12,460 (1997)[1]
Websitewww.aceralia.es

Aceralia was a large Spanish steel producer formed in 1997 by restructuring of a group formed from earlier mergers of the steel producers ENSIDESA and Altos Hornos de Vizcaya. The company merged into Arcelor in 2001, and became part of ArcelorMittal in 2006.

History

In 1950 the state owned company Empresa Nacional Siderúrgica Sociedad Anónima (ENSIDESA) was formed to increase Spain's steel production,[2] part of the industrialisation and modernisation of Spain that led to the Spanish economic miracle of the 1960s. In 1973 the state owned company was forced to take over the Asturian steel company UNISA, which had invested heavily in a fully integrated steel works and did not have the capital to fund it.[3]

Aceralia torpedo train in El Valle, Asturias

In 1991 the state owned company ENSIDESA was merged with Altos Hornos de Vizcaya to form the Corporacion de la Siderurgia Integral from which the Corporación Siderúrgica Integral (CSI) was formed in 1994 from the more profitable parts (as part of a privatisation process).[2]

In 1997 Aceralia Corporación Siderúrgica was formed by reorganisation of CSI, the same year the company formed a strategic alliance with the Luxembourg-based steel group Arbed.[2] As soon as it was formed, it was also privatised.[4] The group also acquired the Aristrain Group (steel sections), and Ucín (rebar, wire rod), in the process becoming the largest steel company in Spain.[2] In 2001 the company merged with two other European steel producers, ARBED and Usinor, to form Arcelor.[5] It became part of ArcelorMittal in 2006 with a plant in Avilés and Gijón, Etxebarri, Lesaka and Legasa, Sagunto and Sestao (part of Greater Bilbao).

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "1997 Annual Report" (PDF). Aceralia. Retrieved 2020-12-01.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "History of Aceralia". www.arcelormittal.com. ArcelorMittal. Archived from the original on 2010-09-24.
  3. ↑ Pierangelo Maria Toninelli, p.222
  4. ↑ Pierangelo Maria Toninelli , pp.218 & 222
  5. ↑ "History of Arcelor". www.arcelormittal.com. ArcelorMittal. Archived from the original on 2010-09-24.

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