Steel sector corporate history reports.

Historical Developments - Iron and Steel Sector

Steel firm chronology

The links below take site visitors to pages describing the corporate histories of the various iron and steel firms shown below in chronological order. We cover the world's top 40 steelmakers, plus a few other firms.

The history pages cover business origins; dates of company formation; significant mergers, acquisitions and divestments; joint ventures; major investments and facility closures; accidents; restructuring developments; changes of strategic direction; ownership changes; and other notable corporate milestones etc. Please contact us if you come across any material errors or chronological omissions. Thank you.

• History of Ansteel
• History of ArcelorMittal
• History of Ascometal
• History of Baosteel
• History of Baotou Steel
• History of Benxi Steel Group
• History of Celsa
• History of China Baowu Iron & Steel Group
• History of British Steel Corporation
• History of British Steel [2016+]
• History of China Steel Corporation [Taiwan]
• History of Citic Pacific Special Steel Holdings [Hong Kong]
• History of the Commercial Metals Company [CMC]
• History of Delong Steel
• History of Evraz Group
• History of the Erdemir Group
• History of Fangda Steel
• History of Gerdau
• History of Hebei Group (Hesteel)
• History of Hyundai Steel
• History of Hunan Iron & Steel
• History of IMIDRO, Iran
• History of Jianlong Steel
• History of JFE Steel, Japan
• History of JSPL, India
• History of JSW Steel, India
• History of Karmet [ArcelorMittal Temirtau]
• History of Liberty House Group
• History of Liuzhou Steel
• History of Maanshan Steel
• History of Metinvest
• History of MMK
• History of Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
• History of NLMK
• History of Nucor
• History of POSCO
• History of RINL [Vizag Steel]
• History of Riva Group
• History of Rizhao Steel
• History of SAIL
• History of Severstal
• History of Shagang Group
• History of Shandong Steel
• History of Shougang Steel
• History of Swiss Steel
• History of Tata Iron & Steel
• History of Taiyuan Iron and Steel Company, TISCO Taigang Group
• History of Techint Group
• History of US Steel
• History of Wuhan Iron and Steel Group

For further information on these or other steelmaking firms (including reports on their ownership, their plants and locations, their facilities, or on their product mix, market positioning or operating cost competitiveness) please contact us on the email address shown below.

Please note that all our history pages are updated regularly. Note also that the list of iron and steel firms above does expand over time, especially as new companies enter the top steelmaker rankings published every year by the World Steel Association (IISI, or worldsteel).