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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 ''
In 1950 the state owned company ''Empresa Nacional Siderúrgica Sociedad Anónima'' (ENSIDESA) was formed in 
In 1991 the state owned company ENSIDESA was merged with ''
Altos Hornos de Vizcaya
Altos Hornos de Vizcaya, S.A. was a Spanish metallurgy manufacturing company. It was the largest company in Spain for much of the 20th century, employing 40,000 workers at its height. The business began in 1902 in Bilbao with the merger of thre ...
''. The company merged into Arcelor
Arcelor S.A. was the world's largest steel producer in terms of turnover and the second largest in terms of steel output, with a turnover of €30.2 billion and shipments of 45 million metric tons of steel in 2004. The company was created in 2002 ...
in 2001, and became part of ArcelorMittal
ArcelorMittal S.A. is a Luxembourg-based multinational steel manufacturing corporation, headquartered in Luxembourg City. It is ranked second on the list of steel producers behind Baowu, and had an annual crude steel production of 58 millio ...
in 2006.
History
In 1950 the state owned company ''Empresa Nacional Siderúrgica Sociedad Anónima'' (ENSIDESA) was formed in Avilés
Avilés (Asturian and ;) is a town in Asturias, Spain. Avilés is, along with Oviedo and Gijón, one of the main cities in the Principality of Asturias.
The town occupies the flattest land in the municipality, partially in a land that belonged ...
over a 11km by 0.5km campus with 14,000 employees, to increase Spain's steel production, part of the industrialisation and modernisation of Spain. This led to the Spanish economic miracle of the 1960s."ENSIDESA. LA CONSTRUCCIÓN DE UNA GRAN SIDERURGIA EN LA DICTADURA DEL GENERAL FRANCO" Jorge Bogaerts ''Spagna contemporanea'', 2000, n. 17, pp. 119-138 In 1973 the state owned company was forced to take over the Asturian steel company UNINSA, which owned works in Veriña, and which had invested heavily in a fully integrated steel works but did not have the capital to fund it. At some point in the 1970s, ENSIDESA employed as many as 27,000 workers.
In 1991 the state owned company ENSIDESA was merged with ''Altos Hornos de Vizcaya
Altos Hornos de Vizcaya, S.A. was a Spanish metallurgy manufacturing company. It was the largest company in Spain for much of the 20th century, employing 40,000 workers at its height. The business began in 1902 in Bilbao with the merger of thre ...
'' 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).
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. As soon as it was formed, it was also privatised.Pierangelo Maria Toninelli, pp.218 & 222 The group also acquired the Aristrain Group (steel sections), and Ucín (rebar
Rebar (short for reinforcement bar or reinforcing bar), known when massed as reinforcing steel or steel reinforcement, is a tension device added to concrete to form ''reinforced concrete'' and reinforced masonry structures to strengthen and aid ...
, wire rod), in the process becoming the largest steel company in Spain.
In 2001 the company merged with two other European steel producers, ARBED and Usinor
Usinor was a French steel making group formed in 1948. The group was merged with Sacilor in 1986, becoming Usinor-Sacilor and was privatised in 1995, and renamed Usinor in 1997.
In 2001 it merged with Arbed (Luxembourg) and Aceralia (Spain) to ...
, to form Arcelor
Arcelor S.A. was the world's largest steel producer in terms of turnover and the second largest in terms of steel output, with a turnover of €30.2 billion and shipments of 45 million metric tons of steel in 2004. The company was created in 2002 ...
.
It became part of ArcelorMittal
ArcelorMittal S.A. is a Luxembourg-based multinational steel manufacturing corporation, headquartered in Luxembourg City. It is ranked second on the list of steel producers behind Baowu, and had an annual crude steel production of 58 millio ...
in 2006 with a plant in Avilés
Avilés (Asturian and ;) is a town in Asturias, Spain. Avilés is, along with Oviedo and Gijón, one of the main cities in the Principality of Asturias.
The town occupies the flattest land in the municipality, partially in a land that belonged ...
and Gijón
Gijón () or () is a city and municipality in north-western Spain. It is the largest city and Municipalities of Spain, municipality by population in the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Asturias. It is located on the coa ...
, Etxebarri
Etxebarri, Saint Stephen, Doneztebeko Elizatea () is a town and Municipalities of Spain, municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the Basque Country (autonomous community), Autonomous Basque Community, in the North of Spain.
Since 13 J ...
, Lesaka and Legasa, Sagunto
Sagunto () is a municipality of Spain, located in the province of Valencia, Valencian Community. It belongs to the modern fertile ''comarca'' of Camp de Morvedre. It is located approximately north of the city of Valencia, close to the Costa ...
and Sestao (part of Greater Bilbao), and is now known as .
As of 2010, the Veriña furnaces were supplied with coke from a plant in Avilés
Avilés (Asturian and ;) is a town in Asturias, Spain. Avilés is, along with Oviedo and Gijón, one of the main cities in the Principality of Asturias.
The town occupies the flattest land in the municipality, partially in a land that belonged ...
, whose eight production lines could then furnish 1.4 million tonnes per annum by train and by truck, one of which can carry 23,000 kilos.
In October 2020 the number of employees in the Asturian operation dropped below 5,000.
On 30 September 2022, management shut down one of two furnaces at the Veriña plant. The two were, at the time, the only two steel furnaces in the whole of Spain.
See also
*List of steel producers
This is a list of the largest steel-producing companies in the world mostly based on the list by the World Steel Association. The list ranks steelmakers by volume of steel production in millions of tons over time and includes all steelmakers wit ...
References
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