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AK Steel Names Walter Beringer Director of Research

5 June 2000

AK Steel Names Walter Beringer Director of Research

    MIDDLETOWN, Ohio, June 5 AK Steel has named
Walter Beringer director of research.  Mr. Beringer joined the company's
Middletown Works in 1979 as an assistant metallurgist and was named
metallurgist in 1983.  Following his return to school to earn a master of
business administration degree, Mr. Beringer rejoined the company in 1987 and
held a number of plant operations management positions.  In 1992 he was named
general manager of quality and in 1998 he was named general manager, research.
    Mr. Beringer holds a Bachelor of Science degree in metallurgical
engineering and a master of business administration degree from The Ohio State
University.
    AK Steel 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.