AK Steel Research and Innovation Team Receives Award from Auto/Steel Partnership For Contribution to Research on Innovative L...
May 10 2018 - 11:00AM
AK Steel (NYSE:AKS) said today that five of the company’s employees
have been recognized by the Auto/Steel Partnership for their
innovation and collaboration in developing pre-competitive
solutions enabling steel execution in future vehicles.
Through the Auto/Steel Partnership, automakers and steel companies
collaborate to drive improvements through projects focused on new
steels, manufacturing processes and design challenges, including
steel lightweighting solutions.
AK Steel Research and Innovation employees Yu-Wei
Wang, Feng Zhu, Wei Wu, Panagiotis Makrygiannis and Chao Pu, were
recognized with the Team Award. The award selections were
based on project work completed in 2017 and were unanimously chosen
by the Auto/Steel Partnership’s Joint Policy Council.
“It is my honor to congratulate this team for their
innovative work,” said AK Steel Chief Executive Officer Roger
Newport. “We are pleased to support the Auto/Steel
Partnership in driving innovative and lightweighting steel
solutions to meet customer and consumer needs.”
“The Partnership’s success is a result of
collaboration of our auto companies and steel makers, leveraging
the intellectual and technical resources to develop pre-competitive
lightweight steel solutions to meet the current and future needs of
automakers,” said John Catterall, executive director of the
Auto/Steel Partnership. “Our members have proven to be
long-time leaders in delivering mass-efficient, high-performing and
cost-effective solutions as evident by numerous applications on the
road today.”
AK SteelAK Steel is a leading
producer of flat-rolled carbon, stainless and electrical steel
products, primarily for the automotive, infrastructure and
manufacturing, electrical power generation and distribution
markets. Through its subsidiaries, the company also provides
customer solutions with carbon and stainless steel tubing products,
die design and tooling, and hot- and cold-stamped components.
Headquartered in West Chester, Ohio (Greater Cincinnati), the
company has approximately 9,200 employees at manufacturing
operations in the United States, as well as in Canada and
Mexico. Additional information about AK Steel is available at
www.aksteel.com.
Contacts: Media – Lisa H. Jester,
Corporate Manager, Communications and Public Relations (513)
425-2510Investors – Douglas O. Mitterholzer, General Manager,
Investor Relations (513) 425-5215
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