Final Thoughts
Final Thoughts
Written by John Packard
October 9, 2015
Does the U.S. Steel purchase of the former Stelco facility (Hamilton and Lake Erie Works) rank up there with the Severstal and later RG Steel purchase of the former Sparrows Point, Wheeling-Pittsburgh and Warren facilities? I remember Saikat Day, who was the CEO of Severstal NA at the time, when speaking to our 2014 Steel Summit Conference in Atlanta talking about how the billions of dollars lost would never be made up by the parent company. Severstal sold off their remaining U.S. assets (Dearborn and Columbus) and departed the U.S. market.
Without a sales force I can’t imagine the Hamilton and Lake Erie Works surviving the winter.
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