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AK Steel Names H. J. Rossi Director, Quality Assurance

15 April 1999

AK Steel Names H. J. Rossi Director, Quality Assurance

    MIDDLETOWN, Ohio, April 15 -- AK Steel said Henry
J. Rossi, 45, was named director, quality assurance.  He will have
responsibility for all the company's quality assurance activities and
functions in the new position.
    Mr. Rossi, a 20-year veteran of the steel industry, most recently was vice
president and general manager of GST Steel Company, Kansas City, Missouri.
GST Steel is a unit of parent company GS Industries of Charlotte, North
Carolina.
    Mr. Rossi began his steel industry career in 1976 with U.S. Steel,
progressing through a number of managerial positions at the former Edgar
Thompson Works in Braddock, Pennsylvania as well as the Gary, Indiana, Works.
Between 1992 and 1996 Mr. Rossi worked for AK Steel Corporation and its
predecessor company, Armco Steel Company, L. P. in several operations
management capacities.  Mr. Rossi holds a bachelor's degree in metallurgical
engineering from the University of Pittsburgh.
    AK Steel produces carbon and stainless flat-rolled steel for automotive,
appliance, construction and other markets.  The company employs about
5,800 people in plants and offices in Middletown, Ashland, Kentucky and
Rockport, Indiana.