WEST CHESTER, Ohio, Oct. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- AK Steel has advised its customers that a $350 per ton surcharge will be added to invoices for electrical steel products shipped in November 2010. November 2010 surcharges for the broad range of stainless steel products that AK Steel produces can be found on the company's web site at http://www.aksteel.com/.
AK Steel's surcharges are based on reported prices for raw materials and energy used to manufacture the products, with the September 2010 purchase cost used to determine the November 2010 surcharges.
About AK Steel
AK Steel produces flat-rolled carbon, stainless and electrical steels, primarily for automotive, appliance, construction and electrical power generation and distribution markets. The company employs about 6,200 men and women in Middletown, Mansfield, Coshocton and Zanesville, Ohio; Butler, Pennsylvania; Ashland, Kentucky; Rockport, Indiana; and its corporate headquarters in West Chester, Ohio. Additional information about AK Steel is available on the company's web site at http://www.aksteel.com/.
AK Tube LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of AK Steel, employs about 300 men and women in plants in Walbridge, Ohio and Columbus, Indiana. AK Tube produces carbon and stainless electric resistance welded (ERW) tubular steel products for truck, automotive and other markets. Additional information about AK Tube LLC is available on its web site at http://www.aktube.com/.
AK Steel
CONTACT: Media, Alan H. McCoy, Vice President, Government and Public
Relations, +1-513-425-2826, or Investors, Albert E. Ferrara, Jr., Senior Vice
President, Finance & CFO, +1-513-425-2888
Web Site: http://www.aksteel.com/
