Arcerion Steel Corporation

Arcerion Steel Corporation, more commonly known in Ixnay as Arco Steel, is an Arcer steel producer and iron ore mining corporation headquartered in Kurst, Arcerion with production and extraction facilities primarily in the Aileach Mountains and with subsidiary corporations in Southern Crona. It is consistently ranked as one of the largest steel producers in Ixnay, and is the largest in Crona, and by 2030 is estimated to be the main steel exporter to Sarpedon.

It has gone through several different iterations and reformations since its inception in 1848, and maintains a close working relationship with energy sector partners due to the oil field exploitation in the Albion Sea.

History
Roughly a decade after the founding of Easthampton, Arcerion Steel Corporation was registered with the Lieutenant-Governor's office as a Crown Corporation, although shortly thereafter it was bought back by private investors, notably John O. Marsden, Reginald Billsworth, and Adam F. Chauncey. With the initial founding of the company, mining operations were set up for iron ore strip mining, with ground broken in 1849, a year after the company was registered. The strip mine began by using a light rail network to transport the ore to Chester-on-Moore but under the supervision of the first steel magnate, John O. Marsden, there was an opportunity to secure funding from the Arcer government and the Ardmori Crown, and establish the company's first steel plant.

First Factories (1848-1902)
The first steel factory, employed a few hundred naturalized Arcers, Ardmori immigrants, and indigenous labourers began its operations in refinement of raw iron ore into finished, flat rolled steel, the first finished pieces being shipped via the Arcer National Railway Service (ARNS) to Chester-on-Moore in 1851. Marsden ensured that wharf and dockyard facilities were bought, and worked on building and establishing a relationship with merchant mariners from Burgundie to ship the steel abroad, seeing as the Arcer shipbuilding industry had yet to create any large commercial freighters, instead focusing on inland expansion and railways, as the Ardmori government and Crown was contributing the majority of the ships and naval commerce to their Cronan colony. Marsden, then Chairman of the Board of Directors, assigned Billsworth to travel to Chester-on-Moore, then well on track becoming the largest commercial sea port in Arcerion, to establish a subsidiary of Arco Steel, to store and ship the final finished products to their growing customer base in Levantia. The cheaper and high quality Arcer steel was increasingly becoming a more attractive option than domestically produced steel, as the imports could leverage Arcerion's relatively small and growing economy versus the tighter margins of contemporary Levantine counterparts. This was concurrent in Sarpedon, where Arco Steel was becoming a consistent choice for the use of constructing new industrial facilities due to its low buying cost. An 1859 agreement between the ARNS and Arco Steel established the Chester Steel Station, a major railhead and loading/offloading facility for Arcer steel in Chester-on-Moore, and created a satellite facility in Port Hughes to the Southwest to accommodate for a growing surplus of steel produced. Thanks in part to a large number of foreign buyers, Arco Steel was becoming one of the major industrial competitors in Crona, allowing the opening of a second factory by by 1970. Increases in orders from Crona, Levantia, and Sarpedon meant that a subsidiary company was set up in conjunction with major ship builders in Foxhey Governorate, Arcerion Steel Shipping Lines, which allowed for a more seamless integration of the steel exports, staffed by a number of former members of the Royal Arcerion Naval Service. This coincided with a secondary factory, constructed adjacent to the first in Easthampton, and doubled the amount of employees to several thousand across its many divisions now.

As of 1880, the company now separated into three divisions, Iron Ore Extraction, Manufacturing, and Shipping/Exports. Marsden overall maintained on the board as Chairman but had consolidated power and pushed out Billsworth and Chauncey, replacing them with 'company men' who had worked their way up the corporate ladder since Arco Steel's founding three decades before. Steel exports to Levantia had continued to grow, and with the industry now becoming the single most important company in Easthampton, Arco Steel was poised to be the largest corporation in Arcerion by 1900, but with the arrival of the First Great War, there was a distinct shift. Battles as part of the Arco-Paul conflict spilled out of Washakara and into Easthampton, damaging the plant's ability to produce steel. The Arcerion Parachute Regiment, at that time the Duke of Lincolnshire's Regiment, was awarded a regimental battle honour for defending Easthampton, and set their Regimental Headquarters within Factory No.1's own offices, and their mortars and artillery in the plant itself. This spawned an affiliation between the two organizations, and with the war's conclusion and Arco Steel continuing production and operations, Marsden annually paid for a Christmas Dinner to be put on for the Regiment, a tradition that continues in modern times.

Interwar & Second Great War Period (1906-1943)
The Interwar period saw a significant expansion of Factory No.2, tripling in size as it tried to keep up with the demand for Arcer steel from major export markets in Crona and Levantia. The expansion continued with more extensive supply chain investments in Chester-on-Moore, as well as the size and capabilities of the Arcer railways ability to ship steel to the coast from the Aileach Mountains. interwar expansion

third factory for 2nd great war

major expansion to support manufacturing of tanks and ships

post war massive growth to seven factories

modern era purchasing companies across south crona

partnerships with energy companies for building rigs in Albion Sea

Legal Issues
environmental issues

union busting

Legacy
Manufacturing sector

role in easthampton's growth

megacorporation in arcerion

Facilities
easthampton mines

factories

railways to chester-on-moore

kinnaird HQ

foreign offices

Subsidiaries
buy three from stenz at minimum

Major Markets
Stenz