- Acerinox
Infobox_Company
company_name = Acerinox, SA
company_
company_type =Public Limited Company
foundation = 1970
location =Madrid ,Spain
key_people = Rafael Naranjo (Chairman of the Board andCEO )
num_employees = 7,204
revenue = € 5,637 billion (2006)
industry =Steel
products = Stainless steel
homepage = [http://www.acerinox.es/ www.acerinox.es]Acerinox, SA, (BMAD|ES0132105018|ACX) is a Spanish stainless steel manufacturing conglomerate group. The company was founded in 1970, receiving the technical support from
Nisshin Steel ,Japan . The headquarters are inMadrid . The chairman isVictoriano Muñoz Cava .The company is in the top 3 stainless steel producers worldwide.The conglomerate group is formed by the following main companies and factories:
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Fábrica del Campo de Gibraltar - InLos Barrios , flagicon|Spain. This was the location of theAcerinox accident .
*Roldán SA - In flagicon|Spain
*Inoxfil SA - In flagicon|Spain
*Inoxcenter SA - In flagicon|Spain
*Inoxidables de Galicia SAU - In flagicon|Spain
*Metalinox Bilbao SA - In flagicon|Spain
*Inoxmetal SA - In flagicon|Spain
*Acimetal - In flagicon|Spain
*Inoxcenter Canarias SA - In flagicon|Spain
*Acerol - Comércio e Indústria de Aços Inoxidáveis - In flagicon|Portugal
*Acerinox France - In flagicon|France
*Acerinox UK Ltd - In flagicon|United Kingdom
*Acerinox Schweiz SA - In flagicon|Switzerland
*Acerinox Italia SRL - In flagicon|Italy
*Betinoks Turquía - In flagicon|Turkey
*Columbus Stainless - In flagicon|South Africa - [http://www.columbus.co.za/ Columbus Stainless]
*Acerinox Malaysia - In flagicon|Malaysia
*Acerinox Argentina - In flagicon|Argentina
*Acerinox Chile - In flagicon|Chile
*North American Stainless - In flagicon|United States - [http://www.northamericanstainless.com/ North American Stainless]Accidents
In 1998 an Acerinox steel plant in
Algeciras ,Cadiz added a capsule filled withcaesium 137 to scrap metal before melting it down. The radioactive substance was released into the atmosphere and nuclear authorities inFrance ,Germany ,Italy , andSwitzerland detected 2,400micro bequerel ofradiation in the air, 1,000 times higher than usual ground reading." [cite web|title=Nuclear Files: Timeline of the Nuclear Age: 1998|url=http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/timeline/1990/1998.htm1998-May 25 Cs-137 meltdown inSpain ]External links
* [http://www.acerinox.es Acerinox Official Website]
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