NAME: AK Steel Corp.

ADDRESS: Butler Township

PRESIDENT: James Wainscott, president, chairman and chief executive officer

EMPLOYEES: 1,700 at Butler Works in Butler Township, about 11,000 companywide

ITEMS MADE: Flat rolled electrical and stainless steels, as well as a supplier of stainless semi-finished slabs.

QUOTE: Events from the war in Iraq to Hurricane Katrina to the recent fires in California that destroyed homes and communities has made electrical steel a hot commodity.