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Halyvourgiki Hellenic Steel Industry S.A.

Halyvourgiki–Hellenic Steel Industry S.A.
Χαλυβουργική–Ελληνική Βιομηχανία Χαλκού Α.Ε.
Anonymi Etairia
Traded as
Industry Metals, manufacturing
Predecessor Angelopoulos Family
Founded 1925
Headquarters Athens, Greece
Key people
Giorgos Angelopoulos (Executive Chairman)
Panagiotis Angelopoulos (Executive Vice Chairman)
Products Construction
Copper
Aluminium
Steel
Revenue Decrease1.958 billion (2013)
Total assets Decrease€1.560 billion (end 2013)
Total equity Decrease€1.033 billion (end 2013)
Number of employees
Decrease2.910 (end 2013)
Website www.halyvourgiki.com

Halyvourgiki Hellenic Steel Industry S.A. (Greek: Χαλυβουργική–Ελληνική Βιομηχανία Χαλκού Α.Ε.) has historically been one of the main steel producers in Greece, and the second largest after Viohalko. Its huge, brightly colored facilities have almost become a landmark of the Elefsina area.

Halyvourgiki Hellenic Steel Industry S.A. effectively started business in 1925, as a trading company. It moved into wire production in 1932, and steel production in 1938.

Production was modernized and expanded after World War II, with the company moving production into a new factory in Elefsina, in 1953. The following years were its "golden age", as a construction boom connected with the Greek economic miracle lead to a huge increase in demand for steel.

Halyvourgiki faced serious economic problems during the economic crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s in Greece, but managed to survive following a modernization program, which involved adding new products and technologies to the company.


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