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37-516: In 1973 the company was merged with the Société des Hauts Fourneaux et Aciéries d'Athus to form the company Métallurgique et Minière de Rodange-Athus (MMRA), and in 1978 ARBED acquired a 25% stake in the company. From the late 1970s onward the Athus plant closed and production of steel and mining activities ceased at Rodange. The company then became a re-roller of steel specialising in rails. In 1994

74-466: A casting foundry, a mill for the processing of slag and various workshops in an area of ~300 ha (3,000,000 m). In 1950 the blooming mill became electrically operated, in the 1950s and 60s further machines were converted to electric power, LDAC process ( basic oxygen steelmaking ) was introduced replacing the Gilchrist–Thomas process , and other modernisations and improvements made. In 1972

111-528: A global actor through the magnitude of its operations. The 1973 oil crisis and its global repercussions had a dramatic impact on Luxembourg and on ARBED in particular, as it coincided with worldwide global steel overproduction. Despite ARBED's international sales network's restructuring in 1976 ( Columeta was renamed TradeARBED ) and the establishment of TrefilARBED Korea in 1978, by 1983, steel production had slumped back to 1955 levels (3.2 million tonnes, compared with 6.45 million tonnes in 1974). By 1985,

148-453: A good average of 3.9% until 1975. During the first half of the 1970s, the steel industry represented close to 30% of the total sum of added value in the national Luxembourg economy, and more than half the total added value of industry. By 1974, Luxembourg steelworks and iron mines provided work for around 25,000 employees in 1974 (16% of the total national). During these three decades, ARBED not only developed its local plants but also increased

185-486: A mine at Ottange in Moselle , France. In 1897 the third blast furnace began operation. In 1899 the company Usines et Fonderies de Rodange was founded, for the production of pipes and other metal castings. (In 1908 it was taken over by SA Hauts-Forneaux de Rodange.) In 1905 the company merged into Ougrée-Marihaye . ending its independent existence, becoming a division of Ougrée-Marihaye. A Gilchrist-Thomas converter

222-521: A subsidiary company specialized in the production of long steel products and ARBED Americas, a subsidiary of TradeARBED, in 1994, to manage all United States commercial activities. ARBED also expanded by taking over other companies; in 1995, it obtained the majority of shares of German Klöckner Stahl , now Stahlwerke Bremen , and, in 1997, it developed a strategic partnership with Spanish steel company Aceralia (formerly CSI ). However, during this period of geographic expansion and division of sectors,

259-438: Is Catholic , though today there is a very limited number of people who go to church. The church is dedicated to Saint Stephen and was built in 1833. 49°33′48″N 5°50′16″E  /  49.56333°N 5.83778°E  / 49.56333; 5.83778 ARBED The Aciéries Réunies de Burbach-Eich-Dudelange ( French ; literally "United Steelworks of Burbach-Eich-Dudelange"), better known by its acronym ARBED ,

296-456: Is a part of Aubange city Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Aubange , located in the province of Luxembourg , Belgium . It is located in the far south of the country, just near the borders with France and Luxembourg . It is a French speaking city, though the traditional language is Luxembourgish . The poet and novelist Hubert Juin (1926–1987) was born in Athus. The city

333-541: Is connected hourly to Luxembourg City and Esch-sur-Alzette for the Luxembourgish part, and also hourly to Arlon , Libramont and Virton on the Belgian routes. This railway route hosts cargo trains as well as passenger trains and has been operating for a number of years. The city is situated just 10 kilometres south of European highway E 411/E42 between Luxembourg and Brussels. Athus has two museums: Athus

370-519: The S.A. des Aciéries d'Angleur et des Charbonnages belges de Tilleu formed S.A. d´Angleur-Athus . In 1945 the company was taken over by the Société anonyme John Cockerill . Production continued until the steel works at Athus was merged with the Minière et Métallurgique de Rodange (MMR) in 1973; restructuring as a result of the Steel crisis of the 1973–75 recession led to the complete closure of

407-677: The Saarbrücker Eisenhüttengesellschaft - Société en participation des Forges de Sarrebruck (" Saarbrücken Ironworks shareholding company"). Similarly, German industrialists invested funds in the development of Luxembourg steel companies. South Luxembourg's important economic development due to steel production led to the creation of several steel-producing companies. In 1882, the Société Anonyme des Hauts Fourneaux et Forges de Dudelange ("High Furnace and Forging Mills of Dudelange Shareholding Company")

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444-629: The Société anonyme des Mines du Luxembourg et Forges de Sarrebruck and the Société en commandite des Forges d'Eich, Le Gallais, Metz et Cie. into the Dudelange company. The new shareholding company, merging the three largest local steel companies, was named ARBED S.A. , the acronym for Aciéries Réunies de Burbach -Eich- Dudelange , Société Anonyme . At its founding, ARBED operated 21 blast furnaces , 3 electric furnaces, 2 steelmaking plants and several rolling mills. In 1912, raw steel production from

481-727: The ARBED works reached 824 500 tonnes. Although steel production almost halted during World War I, the following decades prove to be very successful. In order to further develop, ARBED took an international dimension and acquired and absorbed several companies in Belgium and Germany in the 1920s. At the end of World War I, German capital was withdrawn, and steelworks were taken over by groups with Franco - Belgian -Luxembourg capital. Two companies, Société Metallurgique des Terres Rouges and Société Minière des Terres Rouges , were specifically created by ARBED and other French and Belgian companies for

518-701: The Soviet Union, France, Belgium, Poland, and Italy with the forced labor camp at the sheet metal rolling mill in Burbach. During the three decades following the end of World War II, ARBED played a key role in the development of the Luxembourg economy. During this period, called Les Trente Glorieuses ("The Thirty Glorious"), national raw steel production rose from 2.45 million tonnes in 1950 to 6.45 million tonnes in 1974, and Luxembourg reached an exceptional annual growth rate of 6.7% between 1946 and 1951, then

555-542: The brothers Charles and Jules Collart and Thomas Byrne with a capital of 2.5million Luxembourgish francs . Initially the works produced only pig iron . The first blast furnace began operation in 1878. In 1879 a 1.7 km ropeway conveyor was opened between the iron works and the Doihl mine. and in 1880 a second furnace began production. In the 1880s the company obtained concessions in the Walert Mine ( Rumelange ) and

592-546: The company is renamed S.A. Métallurgique et Minière de Rodange and in 1973 the plant merges with the nearby steelworks situated in Athus to form Métallurgique et Minière de Rodange - Athus (MMRA), the steelworks in Athus is completely closed soon after. In 1978 ARBED acquired a 25% stake in the company. The 1970s steel crisis not only caused the closure of the Athus steelworks in 1977, but also all mining, casting and steel making activities were ended in Rodange in 1978;

629-531: The company merged with another Luxembourg based steel company based in Schifflange to form ARES ( Aciéries Rodange Esch-Schifflange ) part of ProfilARBEB, the long products division of ARBED. As of 2010, the remains of the company is known as ArcelorMittal Rodange & Schifflange S.A. , part of the ArcelorMittal group. The Société Anonyme des Hauts-Fourneaux de Rodange was founded in 1872 by

666-496: The diversification of its activities. In 1962, ARBED became a partner in the creation of the maritime SIDMAR complex in Belgium, and later obtained a majority stake in the new company. In 1974, ARBED created TrefilARBED, as part of the extension of wire drawing activities, and Samarco, created through the mining company Samitri to develop iron ore resources in Brazil. A powerful regional European economic actor, ARBED gradually became

703-620: The division S.A. Minière et Métallurgique de Rodange-Ougrée - MMR was formed in 1935 and became independent again as S.A. Minière et Métallurgique de Rodange (MMR) in 1936. During the Second World War the plant was operated under German control, in 1944 it regain its independence. After the war blast furnace 1 was rebuilt to a 5m diameter by 1949 (operational 1954); in 1949 the plant had five blast furnaces, four converters, two cupola furnaces for cast iron and two for ferromanganese , medium (600mm) and small (~350mm) rolling trains,

740-589: The east. On the French side, the main neighbouring city is Longwy in Meurthe-et-Moselle , over 5 km to the south west. Athus is situated at 200 kilometers from Brussels , 25 from Luxembourg City and 15 from Arlon . Athus has always been a Germanic place though its first origins are during the Roman period. It was a little village until the 17th century when the steelworks began to develop in

777-556: The economic expansion of ARBED occurred in the 1990s. In 1990, ARBED jointly acquired Yates, a U.S. company specialising in the production of copper foil , with Japanese group Furukawa Electric. The following year, the Luxembourg company founded TrefilARBED Arkansas (USA), a steelcord plant in Pine Bluff, Arkansas . In 1992, it founded long steel products company Stahlwerk Thüringen in Germany. In 1993, ARBED founded ProfilARBED,

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814-506: The most important because many services are still there; (the townhall , the main schools, the main bus lines stops and train station, the police station or the firehouse are examples.) The steelworks in Athus was founded in 1872 as the company Société des Hauts Fourneaux d'Athus , a blast furnace was constructed and in 1880 a steelworks . In 1882, the company became Société des Hauts Fourneaux et Aciéries d'Athus ; by 1914 there were four blast furnaces, and by 1928 five. In 1927 merger with

851-617: The plant in Athus in the late 1970s. The site of the plant is now a rail-served container terminal which deals with containers from the ports of the North Sea to the interior of France , Luxembourg , Germany , Switzerland and Belgium. Athus had a population of 7227 inhabitants in January 2012. Athus has a railway station, which connects it to other stations in the Belgian railway network and to those of Luxembourg and France. It

888-434: The plants in Rodange and Schifflange are named ArcelorMittal Rodange and Schifflange S.A. , as of 2010 they are part of the division "ARCELORMittal Long Carbon Europe", the Rodange plant has two rolling mills producing rebar , crane rails and other long rolled steel products. Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9 des Hauts Fourneaux et Aci%C3%A9ries d%27Athus Athus ( German : Athem , Luxembourgish : Attem , Walloon : Atu )

925-694: The purpose of acquiring plants and mines west of the Rhine which had to be sold by Germany as a consequence of the Treaty of Versailles . ARBED, already a major regional steel producer, further developed its international reach by establishing with the Société Metallurgique des Terres Rouges company a joint sales company called COLUMETA in 1920, and a joint shipping company called TRANSAF in 1922. In order to develop its international reach, an ARBED offshoot called Companhia Siderúrgica Belgo-Mineira

962-588: The remaining Luxembourg blast furnaces gradually stopped operating, the last one, in Belval , definitely halting its operations in 1997. Despite the end of its Luxembourg steel production, ARBED remained a global economic actor. Its diversification and development of its international scope enabled ARBED to remain competitive. In 2002, ARBED and two other European steel-producing and manufacturing companies, Spanish strategic partner Aceralia and French Usinor , merged into Arcelor . In 2006 Mittal Steel launched

999-737: The south of the country, and provided Luxembourg with sustained economic growth during the second half of the 19th century. This economic growth was greatly boosted during the two decades preceding World War I when large integrated steelworks, able to convert cast iron into steel and rolled steel, were constructed. Steel production surged from 145 313 tonnes in 1900 to 1,115,004 tonnes in 1913, and steel-making accounted for around 60% of total industrial employment in Luxembourg before World War I. The close economic relationship between Luxembourg and its neighbours, especially Germany , enabled investors to develop cross-border projects. As early as 1856, Luxembourg industrialists and members of parliament founded

1036-466: The steel industry employed only half of its 1974-level work force. In 1978 ARBED became a 25% shareholder in Métallurgique et Minière de Rodange-Athus (MMRA), mining and hot steel production were shut down and in 1994 MMRA merged with ARBED-Esch Schifflange (AES) to form Aciéries Rodange Esch-Schifflange (ARES) a subsidiary of ProfilARBED From 1982 to 1983, the Luxembourg steel industry

1073-523: The steel mill now being supplied by torpedo wagon from other ARBED steel plants. In the 1980s the plant became a re-roller of steel, specialising in railway rails. In 1994 the plant merged with the Schifflange steelworks (part of the ARBED group) to form ARES ( Aciéries Rodange Esch-Schifflange ). From 1994 to 2006 the company ARES followed the fate of its parent ARBED , becoming part of Arcelor in 2003, and part of ArcelorMittal in 2006. From 2008

1110-416: The whole region. It was during the 19th century that Athus started to become relatively famous in the neighborhood and especially in 1872 when the first steel factory was founded. At the same time, in 1878, Athus also became an independent commune until the reorganization of the 1970s, when it was merged with the surrounding communes to create the enlarged municipality of Aubange on 1 January 1977. But 1977

1147-527: Was a major Luxembourg -based steel - and iron -producing company. Created in 1911 after the merger of three steel-producing companies, ARBED had a significant role in the economy of the Grand Duchy until it merged in 2002 with two other European steel companies to create Arcelor . The discovery of iron ore in Luxembourg in the 1850s and the introduction of metallurgy in 1876 led to the development of an important national steel industry, especially in

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1184-430: Was a tragic year for the city because the factory closed its doors due to the iron and steel crisis of that moment. At that time, the city was at the top of its fame and of its number of inhabitants which reached approximately 7,500. That event led to a social and economic crisis for the city and the whole region which is not yet totally solved today. But Athus is still the biggest locality of the municipality of Aubange, and

1221-472: Was added in 1907, and in 1911 a plant was created for the milling of phosphate slag by Antwerp firm Totte, Milch & Cie ; in 1919 this mill was acquired by the Steelworks of Rodange. In the 1910s the blast furnaces were modernised and the number increased to five. During the 1930s after the stock market crash the firm Ougrée-Marihaye required financial support, and was restructured in the later 1930s;

1258-591: Was established in Sabará , Minas Gerais , Brazil , in 1921. As ARBED's growth continued, ARBED and Société Metallurgique des Terres Rouges finally merged in 1937. World War II severely affected steel production, and many steel mills were either destroyed or heavily damaged. Luxembourg had been officially absorbed into Germany, and ARBED was temporarily renamed Hüttenwerke Burbach-Eich-Dudelingen (Burbach-Eich-Dudelange Metallurgical Plants). The company group used several hundred forced laborers and prisoners of war from

1295-402: Was famous during the 19th and 20th century because of its steelworks factory which closed in the 1970s. The town is surrounded by two boundaries: the one with France and the other one with Luxembourg. Athus lies at the confluence of the rivers Messancy and Chiers . Directly across the border with Luxembourg is the town of Rodange and the town of Pétange is 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) to

1332-482: Was founded by the Société en commandite des Forges d'Eich, Le Gallais, Metz et Cie , founded in 1838, and the main shareholders of the Saarbrücken shareholding company. As steel production increased exponentially, it soon became necessary to merge companies. In 1911, at an extraordinary general corporate meeting of the Société anonyme des Hauts Fourneaux et Forges de Dudelange , decision was taken to incorporate

1369-471: Was restructured and the Luxembourg government invested heavily in ARBED, finally owning 42.9% of the company's shares. Furthermore, during the following two decades, ARBED developed its international activities as well as its production of long steel products (steel bars and rods produced for a variety of uses such as building and bridge construction) and electric arc furnace steel while reducing its domestic steel-producing operations. Certain key events in

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