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AK Steel Wins DaimlerChrysler Supplier Award

3 August 2000

AK Steel Wins DaimlerChrysler Supplier Award

    MIDDLETOWN, Ohio - AK Steel was the only supplier of raw materials to 
DaimlerChrysler Corporation to earn the automaker's Commodity Award for 1999.   
The award, formerly known as the Platinum Pentastar Award, is presented to 
suppliers who demonstrate exceptional performance for criteria such as quality, 
delivery and cost reductions.

    Bernard P. Bedard, director, raw materials and stampings for
DaimlerChrysler, presented the award to the company during a special meeting
recently at AK Steel's corporate offices in Middletown.

    "Earning the DaimlerChrysler Commodity Award places AK Steel among our
highest rated suppliers," said Mr. Bedard.  "Such suppliers who consistently
meet our ever-increasing requirements are truly considered 'world-class,'" he
said.

    "I am proud to accept this most prestigious supplier award on behalf of
all the AK Steel employees who have earned it," said Richard M. Wardrop, Jr.,
chairman and chief executive officer of AK Steel.

    AK Steel supplies various flat-rolled products to the automaker's Chrysler
and Mercedes-Benz vehicle lines produced in the United States. 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.