The Phenix Works is a steel working factory located in Flémalle-Haute, Liège,

Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...

. The business was established in 1905 by Paul Borgnet and became part of SA Phenix Work in 1911. The works specialised in coated steels, such as galvanised, tin plate etc. Acquired by

Cockerill-Ougrée-Providence Cockerill-Sambre was a group of Belgian steel manufacturers headquartered in Seraing, on the river Meuse, and in Charleroi, on the river Sambre. The Cockerill-Sambre group was formed in 1981 by the merger of two Belgian steel groups – SA Cock ...

(1969) and later absorbed by its successor

Cockerill-Sambre Cockerill-Sambre was a group of Belgian steel manufacturers headquartered in Seraing, on the river Meuse, and in Charleroi, on the river Sambre. The Cockerill-Sambre group was formed in 1981 by the merger of two Belgian steel groups – SA Cock ...

(1989), as of 2016 the works is part of

ArcelorMittal Liège Cockerill-Sambre was a group of Belgian steel manufacturers headquartered in Seraing, on the river Meuse, and in Charleroi, on the river Sambre. The Cockerill-Sambre group was formed in 1981 by the merger of two Belgian steel groups – SA Cocke ...

, the Belgian subsidiary of

ArcelorMittal ArcelorMittal S.A. is a Luxembourgian multinational steel manufacturing corporation headquartered in Luxembourg City. It was formed in 2006 from the takeover and merger of Arcelor by Indian-owned Mittal Steel. ArcelorMittal is the second la ...

History

The Phenix Works was founded in 1910/111 through the merger of Paul Borgnet's factory in Flémalle-Haute and the factory "Phenix" in Roux. The works in Flemalle was established c.1905 by Paul Borgnet (1863-1944) on a site in Flemalle-Haute. The company's specialisation was the manufacture of galvanised corrugated sheets for roofing, and in 1930 employed c.3000 persons. Equipment for galvanizing sheet steel was installed in 1925; for producing

tinplate Tinplate consists of sheets of steel coated with a thin layer of tin to impede rusting. Before the advent of cheap milled steel, the backing metal was wrought iron. While once more widely used, the primary use of tinplate now is the manufacture ...

in 1935. The company expanded to Ivoz-Ramet and facilities for cold rolling steel were added (1950); plastic coating "skinplate" (1954) additional galvanization equipment as well as aluminium rolling were added (1961); and painted steel (1966). In 1969 Phenix works became part of the

(COP) group. In 1981 the company formed Galvalange S.à r.l. in

Dudelange Dudelange (; lb, Diddeleng , german: Düdelingen) is a commune with town status in southern Luxembourg. It is the fourth-most populous commune, with 19,734 inhabitants. Dudelange is situated close to the border with France. , the town of Dudela ...

, Luxembourg as a joint venture with

ARBED The Aciéries Réunies de Burbach-Eich-Dudelange ( French; literally "United Steelworks of Burbach-Eich-Dudelange"), better known by its acronym ARBED, was a major Luxembourg-based steel and iron producing company. Created in 1911 after the me ...

. The factory manufactured hot dip galvanised or aluminium/zinc coated (Aluzinc) steel coil. (as of 2016 part of ArcelorMittal Atlantique-Lorraine.) In 1983 the company, together with Sidmar and

Koninklijke Hoogovens Koninklijke Hoogovens known as Koninklijke Nederlandse Hoogovens en Staalfabrieken (KNHS) until 1996 or informally Hoogovens. was a Dutch steel producer founded in 1918. Since 2010, the plant is named Tata Steel IJmuiden. The IJmuiden steelwor ...

formed the joint venture. SEGAL (''Société Européenne de Galvanisation'') at Ivoz-Ramet, Liège, Belgium which would produce hot dip galvanized steel for the car industry. In 1989 the company was fully absorbed into

. In 2004 Corus, Koninklijke Hoogovens successor, became the sole owner of the joint venture SEGAL. The parent business underwent a series of mergers forming part of

(1980),

Usinor Usinor was a French steel making group formed in 1948. The group was merged with Sacilor in 1986, becoming Usinor-Sacilor and was privatised in 1995, and renamed Usinor in 1997. In 2001 it merged with Arbed (Luxembourg) and Aceralia (Spain) to for ...

(1999),

Arcelor Arcelor S.A. was the world's largest steel producer in terms of turnover and the second largest in terms of steel output, with a turnover of €30.2 billion and shipments of 45 million metric tons of steel in 2004. The company was created in 2002 ...

(2002) and

(2008).

References

{{Reflist, 30em Steel companies of Belgium Companies based in Liège Province Flémalle