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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. | 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) === | === 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 [[Arco National Railway Service|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. | 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 [[Arco National Railway Service|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. | |||
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. | 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. | ||
[[File:Factory No.1.jpg|thumb|Arcerion Steel Corporation's Factory No.1 as of the 1870s, in [[Easthampton]], [[Moorden Governorate]]. ]] | [[File:Factory No.1.jpg|thumb|Arcerion Steel Corporation's Factory No.1 as of the 1870s, in [[Easthampton]], [[Moorden Governorate]]. ]] | ||
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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. ]] | [[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, the repayments with interest by the Arcer government, as well as with a massive surge in buying due to the need for reconstruction meant that Arco Steel saw a rise in its stock price and international orders. The surge of orders continued to be unmatched going into the 1960s and 1970s, with employees across Arcerion numbering over 100,000 and giving Easthampton, despite its small and relatively unimportant geographical location, a disproportionate political role in Arcer politics. Moorden's economy became heavily dependent on both Kinnaird's financial mechanisms, as well as Easthampton's steel export and production. The majority stake in the Railway Service meant that there was an increase to a quadruple track line on the Easthampton-Kurst-Chester-on-Moore line, bringing raw iron ore and finished steel to the ports for shipping abroad. | After the war's conclusion, the repayments with interest by the Arcer government, as well as with a massive surge in buying due to the need for reconstruction meant that Arco Steel saw a rise in its stock price and international orders. The surge of orders continued to be unmatched going into the 1960s and 1970s, with employees across Arcerion numbering over 100,000 and giving Easthampton, despite its small and relatively unimportant geographical location, a disproportionate political role in Arcer politics. Moorden's economy became heavily dependent on both Kinnaird's financial mechanisms, as well as Easthampton's steel export and production. The majority stake in the Railway Service meant that there was an increase to a quadruple track line on the Easthampton-Kurst-Chester-on-Moore line, bringing raw iron ore and finished steel to the ports for shipping abroad. | ||
[[File:Arco Steel Corp.png|thumb|Organizational Layout of Arcerion Steel Corporation as of the last major corporate reshaping in 2000. ]] | |||
The massive steel boom in the 1960s and 1970s coincided with the establishment of four new factories and a new mine in the Aileach Mountains, and solidified Arco Steel as the most important corporate entity in Eastern Arcerion. The company headquarters remained in Easthampton, however there was an increase in demand for a larger presence in Kinnaird, due to the city's financial importance. A second large building, the Kinnaird Steel Building, was constructed in 1977 and and finished by 1980, with Senior Vice President of Shipping and Exports, John Marsden Jr., moving his staff of several hundred there. The company added a fourth division in its Kinnaird | The massive steel boom in the 1960s and 1970s coincided with the establishment of four new factories and a new mine in the Aileach Mountains, and solidified Arco Steel as the most important corporate entity in Eastern Arcerion. The company headquarters remained in Easthampton, however there was an increase in demand for a larger presence in Kinnaird, due to the city's financial importance. A second large building, the Kinnaird Steel Building, was constructed in 1977 and and finished by 1980, with Senior Vice President of Shipping and Exports, John Marsden Jr., moving his staff of several hundred there. The company added a fourth division in its Kinnaird Office, Subsidiaries, which would own and manage all of its foreign and domestic companies and firms. This included the acquisition of the [[National Arco Rugby League|Easthampton Mountainmen]], which due to heavy investment, attractive player contracts, became one of the most successful Rugby teams in the league. | ||
The subsidiary branch allowed the investment into firms that were mining and exploiting [[Howland Governorate]]'s [[Albion Sea Gas Fields|Albion Sea Gas Field]], as well as companies in South Crona and abroad. This included the purchasing of several [[Stenza|Stenzan]] companies to help with the company's increased Polynesian investments and mining operations in foreign markets. | |||
Since 2000, and the Albion Sea gas boom, Arco Steel has been heavily involved with the Arctic expansion of the national economic interest. This included funding the construction of new oil derricks, as well as providing a considerable amount of steel at cost to major firms such as the Howland Petroleum Corporation and and the Albion Gas Consortium. | |||
== Legal Issues == | == Legal Issues == | ||
environmental issues | environmental issues |
Revision as of 14:49, 15 December 2022
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.
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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.
![](/images/thumb/d/d0/2GW_Steel_Plant.jpg/300px-2GW_Steel_Plant.jpg)
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, the repayments with interest by the Arcer government, as well as with a massive surge in buying due to the need for reconstruction meant that Arco Steel saw a rise in its stock price and international orders. The surge of orders continued to be unmatched going into the 1960s and 1970s, with employees across Arcerion numbering over 100,000 and giving Easthampton, despite its small and relatively unimportant geographical location, a disproportionate political role in Arcer politics. Moorden's economy became heavily dependent on both Kinnaird's financial mechanisms, as well as Easthampton's steel export and production. The majority stake in the Railway Service meant that there was an increase to a quadruple track line on the Easthampton-Kurst-Chester-on-Moore line, bringing raw iron ore and finished steel to the ports for shipping abroad.
![](/images/thumb/b/b1/Arco_Steel_Corp.png/300px-Arco_Steel_Corp.png)
The massive steel boom in the 1960s and 1970s coincided with the establishment of four new factories and a new mine in the Aileach Mountains, and solidified Arco Steel as the most important corporate entity in Eastern Arcerion. The company headquarters remained in Easthampton, however there was an increase in demand for a larger presence in Kinnaird, due to the city's financial importance. A second large building, the Kinnaird Steel Building, was constructed in 1977 and and finished by 1980, with Senior Vice President of Shipping and Exports, John Marsden Jr., moving his staff of several hundred there. The company added a fourth division in its Kinnaird Office, Subsidiaries, which would own and manage all of its foreign and domestic companies and firms. This included the acquisition of the Easthampton Mountainmen, which due to heavy investment, attractive player contracts, became one of the most successful Rugby teams in the league. The subsidiary branch allowed the investment into firms that were mining and exploiting Howland Governorate's Albion Sea Gas Field, as well as companies in South Crona and abroad. This included the purchasing of several Stenzan companies to help with the company's increased Polynesian investments and mining operations in foreign markets.
Since 2000, and the Albion Sea gas boom, Arco Steel has been heavily involved with the Arctic expansion of the national economic interest. This included funding the construction of new oil derricks, as well as providing a considerable amount of steel at cost to major firms such as the Howland Petroleum Corporation and and the Albion Gas Consortium.
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
Easthampton mountainmen rugby
Major Markets
Stenz
Alstin
Corumm