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 and CEO)
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 in Madrid. The chairman is Victoriano 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:

Companies and Factories

*Fábrica del Campo de Gibraltar - In Los Barrios, flagicon|Spain. This was the location of the Acerinox 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 with caesium 137 to scrap metal before melting it down. The radioactive substance was released into the atmosphere and nuclear authorities in France, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland detected 2,400 microbequerel of radiation 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 in Spain]

External links

* [http://www.acerinox.es Acerinox Official Website]

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