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After a new decline in prices: can Peter Spuhler still save the struggling steelmaker Swiss Steel?

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Since June, business mogul Peter Spuhler has owned 20 percent of steelmaker Swiss Steele.

Swiss steel producer Swiss Steel is in leading hands. Major shareholders include Viktor Vekselberg (66) and Amag owner Martin Haefner (69). And since June Peter Spuhler (64). But even the big investor seems unable to turn things around at the struggling steelmaker. Spuhler currently owns 20 percent of the group.

Shares fell 2 percent again on Friday. Price per share is still 10 centimeters. At the start of the year, the stock was still worth just under 25 cents. But even then the company was already under a lot of pressure. Peter Spuhler’s introduction changed nothing: Price only knows one direction; downwards.

Comprehensive strategy and restructuring measures are actually already underway at Swiss Steele. A sharp rise in energy costs due to the war in Ukraine has put the company under increasing pressure.

100 million lost

“SonntagsZeitung” writes that nothing is possible anymore without state aid. In the past twelve months Swiss Steel made a loss of almost 100 million francs. In September the group also issued a profit warning and canceled all targets for the current financial year. A successor has not yet been found for Vice President Svein Richard Brandtzæg (65), who resigned at the beginning of October.

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Swiss Steel now relies on the policy, a spokesperson confirmed to “SonntagsZeitung”. Two motions to support steel production in Switzerland are currently advancing in Bern. The motion of Roberto Zanetti (68) of the SP Council of States has already been accepted. The second report from Senior Vice President National Assemblywoman Diana Gutjahr (39) is still pending.

It remains unclear whether the Federal Council will act in time before Swiss Steel is forced to abandon Swiss production, the article continues. It is already a common practice to support steel production abroad by the state, as in Germany and the USA. (kae)

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