AK Steel Corporation

Headquartered in West Chester, Ohio (Greater Cincinnati), AK Steel is a leading producer of flat-rolled carbon and carbon and stainless tubular products, primarily for automotive, infrastructure and manufacturing, construction and electrical power generation and distribution markets. The company is headquartered in West Chester, Ohio (Greater Cincinnati), and operates eight steel plants, two coke plants and two tube manufacturing plants across six states (Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia) and one tube plant in Mexico.

Roger K. Newport is AK Steel's Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors. He was named CEO January 1, 2016.

AK Steel is a publicly held company traded over the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol AKS and is a component of the FORTUNE 500 – aligning the company with many of the most prominent corporations in America.

AK Steel employs about 8,500 men and women in Middletown, Mansfield, Coshocton and Zanesville, Ohio; Butler, Pennsylvania; Ashland, Kentucky; Rockport, Indiana; Dearborn, Michigan and its corporate headquarters. AK Tube LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of AK Steel, employs about 300 men and women at plants in Walbridge, Ohio and Columbus, Indiana and Queretaro, Mexico. AK Tube produces carbon and stainless electric resistance welded (ERW) tubularsteel products for truck, automotive and other markets. AK Coal Resources, Inc., another wholly-owned subsidiary of AK Steel, controls and is developing metallurgical coal reserves in Somerset County, Pennsylvania.

AK Steel's 2015 revenues reached approximately $6.7 billion. The company was named 'Steel Producer of the Year' by American Metal Market in 2010 and is recognized by Toyota for quality performance and supplier diversity achievement.

AK Steel’s heritage spans more than 115 years, beginning in 1899 when the company’s predecessor, Armco, was incorporated in Middletown, Ohio. Over the past century, the company has provided jobs to hundreds of thousands of people, given back to its communities and provided pensions and benefits to generations of retirees.

AK Steel’s proud past represents much more than a century of innovation in steelmaking at the company. It demonstrates the corporation’s ability to operate a sustainable business and adapt to more than 100 years of technological, regulatory and economic changes. That is AK Steel’s legacy, which the company will continue to build upon as it moves ahead.

Vision

AK Steel is dedicated to safely producing the highest quality steel products for our customers, delivering them on-time and providing them with outstanding service. AK Steel is committed to being a responsible corporate citizen. It is our intention to operate ethically with all constituents, maintaining fair and honest relationships and to operate within both the letter and the spirit of the law. From the shop floors of all of our plants to the executive offices, AK Steel is devoted to achieving excellence in all we do on behalf of each stakeholder every day.

At AK Steel, our key values of safety, quality and productivity are the foundation of our business – while character and integrity are the pillars of our success. The company strives to hold itself to the highest ethical standards in order to serve the long-term best interests of all of our stakeholders.

Safety

It is no accident that AK Steel consistently outperforms the steel industry safety average by a wide margin. Our value proposition starts, first and foremost, with an unrelenting commitment to employee safety. Simply put, our approach to safety is more than a business objective; it is part of our operating culture. It is our number one priority, because what matters most is having our employees end their shifts as safely as they started them. Since receiving the inaugural Green Cross for Safety Medal from the National Safety Council in 2000, AK Steel has continued to earn significant recognition from industry trade associations and government agencies for its safety performance throughout the years.

AK Steel's Occupational Health & Safety Policy 

• Commit necessary resources to comply with all applicable legal and other requirements, as well as incident prevention and necessary continuous improvement;
• Reduce and eliminate risks through safety and health procedures and emergency preparedness programs;
• Develop, implement and maintain OH&S procedures;
• Evaluate on a routine basis compliance with all applicable OH&S procedures;
• Strive for continual improvement in the effectiveness of its OH&S management efforts.

Quality

At AK Steel, we take a planned approach to continuous improvement of our products, processes and services in order to meet or exceed our customers’ expectations 100% of the time. As a result of our commitment to quality, our carbon and specialty steel customers consistently rate AK Steel Number One in overall customer satisfaction, quality and delivery, according to independent customer surveys. And, as a testament to the level of quality produced by the employees of AK Steel, the company is a member of the steel industry’s prestigious list of “World Class Steelmakers,” as reported by World-Steel Dynamics, a leading steel industry information service.

Productivity

As a world leader in the production of flat-rolled carbon, stainless and electrical steel products, AK Steel operates the most flexible facilities in the steel industry – and that places us among the very best at adapting to ever-changing market conditions and customer needs. From casting to coating, AK Steel continues to set new productivity records across virtually every area of our operations. In fact, the company’s Middletown Works holds the world-record for consecutive heats of carbon steel continuously cast on either a single-strand or double-strand caster. And, AK Steel’s Rockport Works is a recipient of the U.S. Senate’s Productivity Award.