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277: 173: 328: 297:) retaining 40%. As part of the acquisition improvements to the plant were scheduled for completion 1998 including a new blast furnace, a hot rolling mill, and an upgrade to the cold rolling mill. 900 million Deutschmarks in state aid for the reconstruction was approved by the European Union. By 1997 the modernisation work and construction of blast furnace and hot rolling plant had been completed. In 1998 Cockerill-Sambre acquired the remaining 40% of the company for 40 million Deutschmarks. 288:
in 1990 EKO became a corporation (EKO Stahl GmbH) – subsequent loss of business in East Germany and eastern Europe caused serious economic problems for the company, as did the high employment rates, and relatively low-value product range. During the transition to a free market model employment was
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In 1968 a cold rolling mill became operational after three years of construction; plans for addition of steel production and hot rolling were initiated in the same period, but cancelled in 1967. In 1969 the works was combined with several other steel producing works including those in
339:) work on the line was halted in 2009, and a blast furnace idled. Economic uncertainty continued to the early 2010s. Lake Pohlitz supplies 8 million cubic meters of water to the process, and the waste water is treated before release to the Oder river. 224: 658: 619: 276: 207:. Part of the rationale for the plant was to compensate for an embargo on steel from western Germany, where most of primary production had historically been located – raw materials ( 611: 172: 230:
In 1953 the number of planned blast furnaces was scaled back from eight to six, and overall plans for the site were reduced to include only production of
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In 1974 the cold rolling plant was improved to include the production of galvanised and other coated steels. In 1984 a
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A third galvanising line was approved in 2007, and construction started in 2008, due to the global recession (see
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facilities were added in the 1990s. Through mergers and takeovers, the owning comping since 2006 has been
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A second galvanizing line was added in 1999, serving the automotive industry. The company became part of
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respectively. An additional rational was to provide work for a large number of German refugees (see also
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DDR-Politiker und Manager Karl Döring - "Das Stahlwerk Eisenhüttenstadt ist ein Kind des Kalten Krieges"
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the construction of a new steelworks was announced. A flat, agriculturally unimportant site near
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tree, indicating the start of the work on construction of the new plant, named
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Flight and expulsion of Germans from Poland during and after World War II
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in the early 1950s on a greenfield site, initially producing only
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in 1990 the state-owned plant was privatised, and Belgian firm
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acquired a 60% stake in the company, with the state (via the
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Eisenhüttenstadt - Erste Sozialistische Stadt Deutschlands
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reduced from over 12,000 to under 3,000. In 1994–95
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52°09′50″N 14°38′22″E / 52.163948°N 14.639340°E / 52.163948; 14.639340 (EKO Stahl)
www.arcelormittal-ehst.com
Eisenhüttenstadt
Brandenburg
Germany
East German government
pig iron
Cold rolling
basic oxygen steelmaking
German reunification
Cockerill-Sambre
Hot rolling
ArcelorMittal

Socialist Unity Party of Germany
Fürstenberg
de
Fritz Selbmann
mountain pine
iron ore
coal
Ukraine
Upper Silesia
Flight and expulsion of Germans from Poland during and after World War II
pig iron
De-Stalinization
VVB Stahl- und Walzwerke Berlin
VVB Eisenerz/Roheisen Saalfeld
turnkey
Linz-Donawitz process

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