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AK Steel Is Again GM Supplier of the Year

22 May 2000

AK Steel Is Again GM Supplier of the Year

    MIDDLETOWN, Ohio, May 22 AK Steel has earned
its second General Motors Supplier of the Year honor in a row.  AK Steel
chairman and chief executive officer Richard M. Wardrop, Jr. accepted the
award over the past weekend at the historic PrinzRegenten Theater in Munich,
Germany.  The award is presented annually to GM's best global suppliers in
recognition of their superior performance during the previous calendar year.
    "AK Steel is one of our best and brightest suppliers," said Harold R.
Kutner, group vice president, Worldwide Purchasing and North American
Production Control & Logistics, who hosted the event.  "It is an honor to have
them working with us.  Their contributions to General Motors' overall success
are immeasurable.  We look upon the Supplier of the Year award as an important
recognition of their value as an automotive industry supplier."
    "Once again I am proud to salute the thousands of AK Steel employees whose
quality work and customer service is duly recognized by winning this award,"
said Mr. Wardrop.
    AK Steel supplies a variety of flat-rolled steel products to a number of
General Motors facilities in North America.  The company produces flat-rolled
carbon, stainless and electrical steel products for automotive, appliance,
construction and manufacturing markets, as well as standard pipe and tubular
steel products.  AK Steel is headquartered in Middletown, Ohio.  It employs
about 11,000 men and women in plants and offices in Middletown, Coshocton,
Mansfield, Warren and Zanesville, Ohio; Ashland, Kentucky; Rockport, Indiana;
and Butler, Sharon and Wheatland, Pennsylvania.  AK Steel also produces snow
and ice control products, and operates a major industrial park on the Houston,
Texas ship channel.