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Republic Engineered Products Inc.

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Last Fiscal Year Sales:$510.0M
  • Private
  • US
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Republic Engineered Products, Inc. was established in December 2003 with the purchase of operating assets from Republic Engineered Products LLC. The company was acquired in July 2005 by Industrias CH, S.A de C.V. (ICH), a rapidly growing steel producer and processor based in Mexico City. Republic is a subsidiary of Grupo Simec, Guadalajara, Mexico, of which ICH is the majority owner. The company traces its roots back to 1886, with the establishment of Berger Manufacturing Co. in Canton, Ohio. Berger later became part of Republic Steel Corp., the sprawling steelmaker organized by financier Cyrus Eaton in 1930. Throughout the 1900s, Republic steel was instrumental in fighting a war and building a nation. Its bar products were instrumental in developing America's automotive, agricultural and aerospace industries. In 1984, Republic Steel merged with LTV Corp.'s Jones & Laughlin division to form LTV Steel. In 1989, an employee stock ownership plan bought LTV's bar division and renamed it Republic Engineered Steels, marking one of the largest employee ownership transactions in industrial history. In 1998, RES and Bar Technologies combined to form Republic Technologies International, which approximately one year later acquired the bar business of USS/KOBE Steel in Lorain, Ohio. The Lorain facility, located along the Black River, has a rich history dating back to 1895, when Thomas Johnson constructed the Johnson Steel Street Rail Company mill in just ten months. ...

Number of Employees 2,500
Contact Information

3770 Embassy Pkwy

Akron, Ohio 44333-8367

republicenginee...

(330) 670-3000

NAICS Code Iron and Steel Mills: 331111

News & Analysis

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  • Republic, Union Reach Tentative Agreement

    - 2007-08-16

    To: LABOR EDITORSContact: John A. Willoughby, VP of Human Resources & Corporate Relations, Republic Engineered Products, +1-330-670-3007, jwilloughby@republicengineered.com; or Jim Cyphert, Innis Maggiore, for Republic Engineered Products, Inc., +1-330-702-0490, jim@innismaggiore.com FAIRLAWN, Ohio, Aug. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Republic Engineered Products, Inc., North America's largest producer of special bar quality SBQ steel,...

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  • Metals Chips.

    - 2005-12-08

    Staff Steel Dynamics expanded its bar product operations with its purchase of Roanoke Electric Steel , a fabricator of small beams in Virginia, for $240 million. The deal includes Steel of West Virginia , a bar making subsidiary of Roanoke, with...

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  • Fairlawn, Ohio, steel company reports second quarter profits.

    - 2004-07-21

    By Gloria Irwin, Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 21--Just months after being formed in a bankruptcy sale, Republic Engineered Products Inc. announced its second quarterly profit on Tuesday. The Fairlawn company, which is the nation's largest...

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  • Hamburg, N.Y., Steel Plant Set Production Records in March.

    - 2004-04-28

    By Matt Glynn, The Buffalo News, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 28--Republic Engineered Products' Hamburg plant set production records in March, enjoying the same upswing in demand as many domestic steelmakers. Republic said it broke monthly records in...

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  • Prices for Steel Scrap Inflate as Demand Rises.

    - 2004-03-28

    By Gloria Irwin, Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 28--Steel is starting to look like a precious commodity -- scarce, pricey and heavily in demand. And for the first time since the inflationary days of the late-1970s,...

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