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Middletown city leaders and the president of the union at AK Steel don’t believe they will see significant differences after the steelmaker changes its name to reflect new ownership.
AK Steel Holding, which is running its Middletown, Ohio, mill with replacement workers after lockout, says third-quarter net earnings were $26 million, compared with loss of $29 million year ...
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- AK Steel AKS, said Thursday that an arbitrator ruled the company can continue to further reduce its hourly workforce at its Middletown, Ohio plant through layoffs and ...
Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance was raised in Middletown, Ohio. The city of 51,000 has bucked Rust Belt trends and remains a thriving steel-making community. Here's a deep dive.
Since its beginnings in 1899, the success and fortunes of the company now known as AK Steel and Middletown have been largely intertwined. When George M. Verity founded the American Rolling Mill Co ...
MIDDLETOWN, Ohio (WKRC) - An old building that was once a research facility for AK Steel in Middletown is going to be repurposed. EI Ceramics is moving from its Sharonville location to the site.
MIDDLETOWN, Ohio — Donna Ballinger wipes a hand against her windshield to reveal the black soot that drifts regularly to her home from the coke oven at AK Steel. “It’s horrible,” said ...
Cleveland Cliffs is now operating the steel mill in Middletown, but EI Ceramics will completely overhaul the research facility. The former AK Steel research building first opened in 1937.
MIDDLETOWN, Ohio -- AK Steel is a far different company a year after the end of what was the nation's longest major work stoppage at the time, a nearly 13-month lockout at its biggest mill.
A mound of coking coal sits piled near the blast furnace at the AK Steel Holding Corp. mill in Middletown, Ohio, in 2016. AK Steel was acquired by Cleveland-Cliffs in 2020.
MIDDLETOWN, Ohio (WKRC) - An old building that was once a research facility for AK Steel in Middletown is going to be repurposed.