Strategic Investments of Restructured Metallurgical Companies in Sustainability Business

Abstract:

The article presents the strategic investments implemented in metallurgical enterprises in Poland in time of economical changes. After 1989 Polish steelwork plants started restructuring process connected with technological investments. Polish steelwork plants became a part of foreign capital groups or domestic capital groups. Privatised metallurgical enterprises after economic transformation gradually implemented new technology to their business activities. In the publication an overview of the definitions of strategic and development investments was conducted together with the presentation of the key investments which influence the sustainability of the business in the metallurgical enterprise on Polish market. As a case study was used ArcelorMittal Poland company. In 2004 international concern LNM (ArcelorMittal Poland today) bought the biggest Polish steelwork plants. Since that time the capital group invested 3 billion zlotys in new technology and modernization of the plants. Key strategic investment projects in the company were characterized in the paper.

• Periodical: Solid State Phenomena (Volume 226)
• Pages: 205-208
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.226.205
• Online since: January 2015
• Authors: Bożena Gajdzik*, Krystian Janiszewski, Jan Szymszal
• Keywords: Key Strategic Investment Projects, Steel Industry, Sustainability Business

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