01 Feb

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Greater Pittsburgh Allegheny County Business Leaders Esmark, Inc., is a diversified, privately held portfolio of industrial companies. Esmark’s roots run deep in the steel industry, but over the years the company has diversified its interests into a number of activities in and around the industrial and commodity sectors. Esmark (formerly a publicly traded company on NASDAQ: ESMK) has focused on several key industries including steel services, oil and gas exploration, manufacturing, aviation services, real estate, technology, and youth sports and development. Today, Esmark’s two largest business segments are steel services and oil and gas exploration and production. The company grew its network...

18 Sep

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September 18, 2014, Beaver County Times Business By Tom Davidson VANPORT TWP. -- A steel processing company based in the township has been acquired by a Pittsburgh-based industrial group in a move that should mean good news for the future, according to a group spokesman. “We think it’s going to be a complimentary addition to our portfolio and an opportunity for these employees to grow with us,” Bill Keegan of Esmark Industrial Group said Wednesday. “We look forward to welcoming these new employees and continuing our growth strategy.” Esmark bought KMA Manufacturing based in Vanport Township in a multi-million dollar deal, Keegan said. KMA was...

17 Sep

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September 17, 2014, Pittsburgh Business Times By Paul J. Gough, Digital Producer Esmark Industrial Group has acquired the former Pittsburgh Annealing Box Inc. in Vanport. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but a news release from Pittsburgh-based Esmark Industrial Group, a division of Esmark Inc., said it was in the multimillion-dollar range. The company, which has 65,000 square feet of manufacturing and had been known as KMA Manufacturing since 2003, will now be known as Excalibur Machine & Fabrication — Vanport. Esmark plans to expand and restore the facilities for maintenance and fabrication for the steel industry as well as the energy, transportation and...

17 Sep

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September 17, 2014, theFabricator.com PITTSBURGH - Esmark Industrial Group, a metals fabrication and manufacturing subsidiary of Esmark, Inc., today announced that it has completed its acquisition of the assets of one of the most storied names in steel industry services - Pittsburgh Annealing Box, Inc. Terms of the multi-million dollar transaction were not disclosed. Founded in 1893, Pittsburgh Annealing Box, Inc. has conducted business under the name KMA Manufacturing since 2003, relocating to the company's current location in Vanport, Pennsylvania in 2005. The new entity, which is a unit of Esmark Excalibur, LLC, will be operated as Excalibur Machine & Fabrication -...

10 Sep

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September 10, 2014, Chicago Tribune NEW YORK (Reuters, September 10) - An idled steel facility in the heartland of the United States is gearing up for a revival as an energy services provider due to surging production from the U.S. shale revolution. Esmark, Inc. said in a statement on Wednesday that it is converting the former Ohio Cold Rolling Co steel manufacturing plant in Yorkville, Ohio, into a transportation and logistics hub to serve the Marcellus and Utica shale plays of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. Esmark acquired the Yorkville facility about two years ago from a defunct steelmaker but kept the facility...

10 Sep

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September 10, 2014, Reuters NEW YORK (Reuters, September 10) - An idled steel facility in the heartland of the United States is gearing up for a revival as an energy services provider due to surging production from the U.S. shale revolution. Esmark, Inc. said in a statement on Wednesday that it is converting the former Ohio Cold Rolling Co steel manufacturing plant in Yorkville, Ohio, into a transportation and logistics hub to serve the Marcellus and Utica shale plays of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. Esmark acquired the Yorkville facility about two years ago from a defunct steelmaker but kept the facility idled...

13 Oct

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October 13, 2012, By Len Boselovic / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The former operator of Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel has acquired the defunct steel maker’s Yorkville, Ohio, plant and a 50 percent stake in a related joint venture for $6.3 million. Sewickley-based Esmark said it plans to restart the Yorkville plant in January and hire about 160 workers who will be covered by a four-year contract that has been negotiated with the United Steelworkers union. Esmark will invest more than $15 million to purchase steel sheet and other supplies necessary to restart the mill, which will be known as Ohio Cold Rolling. The acquisition was completed Thursday. Yorkville...

13 Oct

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October 13, 2012, By LINDA HARRIS - Staff writer, The Herald-Star Post-Press Conference Special Edition YORKVILLE - Ohio Gov. John Kasich hinted Friday that Esmark Steel’s plans to reopen an idled cold-rolling mill in Yorkville could be just the tip of the iceberg. Esmark Chairman and CEO Jim Bouchard said the Kasich administration was instrumental in closing the $6.5 million deal for the Yorkville mill, working with his company and the US Environmental Protection Agency to develop a remediation plan that addresses unresolved chemical spills that former owner RG Steel neglected to correct two years ago. In addition to the Yorkville mill, which will...

12 Oct

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October 12, 2012, American Metal Market NEW YORK — Esmark Steel Group LLC expects to shave $10 million per year off operating costs at its newly acquired Yorkville, Ohio, cold-rolling facility “starting day one,” keeping the mill competitive even in today’s challenging market environment, according to James P. Bouchard, chairman and chief executive officer of parent company Esmark Inc. “You’re going to get all these naysayers out there because of the steel market, but we’ve restructured the company,” Bouchard said of Esmark’s plans for the operation. “It’s a different game today.” Sewickley, Pa.-based Esmark, which on Thursday closed into escrow on its purchase...

12 Oct

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Yorkville Times-Leader and Times Leader Publications The following Times-Leader print and online publications across Ohio and West Virginia ran pre- and post-press conference articles: Yorkville Times Leader-Martins Ferry Times Leader -Weirton Daily Times-Wheeling News Intelligencer-Wheeling News Register-Ohio Valley News and State Journal of Ohio October 12, 2012, By KIM LOCCISANO - Staff Writer , Times Leader YORKVILLE - Big changes in ownership and in name are in store for the steel mills in the Village of Yorkville beginning today, thanks to a combination of resources involving two corporations. The former RG Steel Yorkville LLC, will now be majority owned and operated by Esmark Steel...