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=== Interwar & [[Second Great War]] Period (1906-1943) === | === 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. The company had only operated off of a single set of double-track rail lines to Kurst and and Chester-on-Moore, and bought a majority stake in the Railway, doubling the amount of track laid during the late 1880s, to allow for more steel to be sent to Arcerion's main Southern commercial port in Chester-on-Moore. | 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. The company had only operated off of a single set of double-track rail lines to Kurst and and Chester-on-Moore, and bought a majority stake in the Railway, doubling the amount of track laid during the late 1880s, to allow for more steel to be sent to Arcerion's main Southern commercial port in Chester-on-Moore. | ||
The death of Marsden in 1919 (at the age of 93) saw a new period evolve for the company. Marsden's three sons, John Jr., James, and Nathaniel all retained board seats and established a commanding and sizeable control of the company, solidifying the Marsden family's role in Arco Steel and as a dynastic family, one of the few in Arcerion that grew from naturalized citizens and native Arcers rather than existing old-world Occidental noble families. | The death of Marsden in 1919 (at the age of 93) saw a new period evolve for the company. Marsden's three sons, John Jr., James, and Nathaniel all retained board seats and established a commanding and sizeable control of the company, solidifying the Marsden family's role in Arco Steel and as a dynastic family, one of the few in Arcerion that grew from naturalized citizens and native Arcers rather than existing old-world Occidental noble families. | ||
[[File:2GW Steel Plant.jpg|thumb|An aerial photograph of Factories No.1 and No.2 in Easthampton at the breakout of the Second Great War showing the scale of expansion since the first factory's establishment almost a century prior. ]] | |||
With the Second Great War rapidly approaching with a breakdown of relations between [[Urcea]] and [[Caphiria]], Factory No.3 was opened and prepared for operations with the arrival of hostilities. Arco Steel only narrowly missed being nationalized back into a Crown Corporation, but after a lengthy litigation, mediation, and legal battle with the [[Government of Arcerion|Confederate Parliament]] and the [[Supreme Court of Arcerion]], Arco Steel remained a public corporation. The agreement meant that Arco Steel would produce much of the raw metal and materials for the creation of manufacturing plants and other major facilities to produce tanks, armoured vehicles, and heavy weaponry for the Arcer war effort. | With the Second Great War rapidly approaching with a breakdown of relations between [[Urcea]] and [[Caphiria]], Factory No.3 was opened and prepared for operations with the arrival of hostilities. Arco Steel only narrowly missed being nationalized back into a Crown Corporation, but after a lengthy litigation, mediation, and legal battle with the [[Government of Arcerion|Confederate Parliament]] and the [[Supreme Court of Arcerion]], Arco Steel remained a public corporation. The agreement meant that Arco Steel would produce much of the raw metal and materials for the creation of manufacturing plants and other major facilities to produce tanks, armoured vehicles, and heavy weaponry for the Arcer war effort. | ||
By the war's conclusion, Arcer steel was found in tanks, planes, and ships across the Allies side, and the relationship forged with [[Burgundie]] and [[Alstin]] meant that much of Arcerion's steel successfully managed to make it to the customers and importers in Levantia and Sarpedon, as convoys escorted the commercial vessels beyond the [[Songun Sea]]. The company's profits dipped during this period as it worked on credit, the Arcer government generating a sizeable debt to Arco Steel due to the massive requirements of the war effort and already strained public relations due to the volume of war bonds that had been bought. With over 20,000 employees in both factories, rail yards, warehouses, and mines, the company was already one of the largest in Arcerion and set to become one of the largest in Crona. | By the war's conclusion, Arcer steel was found in tanks, planes, and ships across the Allies side, and the relationship forged with [[Burgundie]] and [[Alstin]] meant that much of Arcerion's steel successfully managed to make it to the customers and importers in Levantia and Sarpedon, as convoys escorted the commercial vessels beyond the [[Songun Sea]]. The company's profits dipped during this period as it worked on credit, the Arcer government generating a sizeable debt to Arco Steel due to the massive requirements of the war effort and already strained public relations due to the volume of war bonds that had been bought. With over 20,000 employees in both factories, rail yards, warehouses, and mines, the company was already one of the largest in Arcerion and set to become one of the largest in Crona. | ||
=== Post-War and Modern Era (1944-present) === | === Post-War and Modern Era (1944-present) === | ||
After the war's conclusion, | After the war's conclusion, | ||
Revision as of 13:23, 15 December 2022
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| Company type | Public |
|---|---|
| Industry | Steel |
| Founded | 1848 |
| Founder | John O. Marsden Reginald Billsworth Adam F. Chauncey |
| Headquarters | , |
Number of locations | 7 Manufacturing Plants across Arcerion |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Asleigh Tennyson, CEO |
| Products | Flat Rolled Steel Tubular Steel Iron ore |
| Revenue | £389 billion (2026) |
 £11.3 billion (2027) | |
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. The company had only operated off of a single set of double-track rail lines to Kurst and and Chester-on-Moore, and bought a majority stake in the Railway, doubling the amount of track laid during the late 1880s, to allow for more steel to be sent to Arcerion's main Southern commercial port in Chester-on-Moore. The death of Marsden in 1919 (at the age of 93) saw a new period evolve for the company. Marsden's three sons, John Jr., James, and Nathaniel all retained board seats and established a commanding and sizeable control of the company, solidifying the Marsden family's role in Arco Steel and as a dynastic family, one of the few in Arcerion that grew from naturalized citizens and native Arcers rather than existing old-world Occidental noble families.
With the Second Great War rapidly approaching with a breakdown of relations between Urcea and Caphiria, Factory No.3 was opened and prepared for operations with the arrival of hostilities. Arco Steel only narrowly missed being nationalized back into a Crown Corporation, but after a lengthy litigation, mediation, and legal battle with the Confederate Parliament and the Supreme Court of Arcerion, Arco Steel remained a public corporation. The agreement meant that Arco Steel would produce much of the raw metal and materials for the creation of manufacturing plants and other major facilities to produce tanks, armoured vehicles, and heavy weaponry for the Arcer war effort. By the war's conclusion, Arcer steel was found in tanks, planes, and ships across the Allies side, and the relationship forged with Burgundie and Alstin meant that much of Arcerion's steel successfully managed to make it to the customers and importers in Levantia and Sarpedon, as convoys escorted the commercial vessels beyond the Songun Sea. The company's profits dipped during this period as it worked on credit, the Arcer government generating a sizeable debt to Arco Steel due to the massive requirements of the war effort and already strained public relations due to the volume of war bonds that had been bought. With over 20,000 employees in both factories, rail yards, warehouses, and mines, the company was already one of the largest in Arcerion and set to become one of the largest in Crona.
Post-War and Modern Era (1944-present)
After the war's conclusion,
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
Alstin