Aceralia

Aceralia Corporación Siderúrgica was a Spanish steel group, which was founded in 2001 part of the multinational Arcelor group, which has since been merged into ArcelorMittal.

Aceralia among other successor of the company founded in 1902 Altos Hornos de Vizcaya (AHV; German blast furnaces of Biscay) in Bilbao, which was formed by the merger of Altos Hornos de Bilbao, Vizcaya and La La Iberia. Another predecessor company, founded in Asturias by the state industrialization Institute INI 1950 Empresa Nacional Siderúrgica Sociedad Anonima ( ENSIDESA, German National steelmaking companies), the object of prestige and an important part of Spanish industrial policy of the Franco regime during the autarky period in the 1940s and 1950s and was also. ENSIDESA and AHV were two of the three major Spanish steel company at this time. The third, the private Uninsa, was taken over in 1973 by ENSIDESA after it had run into financial difficulties. This was the first ad- hoc measure of the Spanish state to deal with the since the early seventies looming and with the oil crisis of rapid and dramatic economic crisis occurring in the domestic iron and steel industry.

(German competitiveness plan AHV ENSIDESA complex), the group Corporación Siderúrgica - After several other attempts in the 1970s and 1980s, which also AHV practically passed into the public sector in 1994 was part of the " ENSIDESA Plan de Competitividad Conjunto AHV " integral ( CSI; Integrated steel companies) established that included the profitable parts of AHV and Ensidesa. Aceralia originated in 1997 as the successor to the CSI. The aim of the foundation of Aceralia was the (re ) privatization.

Aceralia concluded among other things, a strategic alliance with Arbed, one of the largest steel companies in the world, and took over the Aristrain group, the market leader for steel profiles in Spain, and the UCIN Group, the largest Spanish manufacturer of corrugated iron and wire rod. Acelaria once again became the largest steel producer in Spain, with an annual production of approximately 10 million tons.

2001 Aceralia, Arbed and Usinor joined together and formed Arcelor, one of the largest steel companies in the world. On 18 February 2002, the new group was first listed on the stock exchange. In December 2005, the name Aceralia was abandoned as a brand name.

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