The steel industry has been very fragmented (in Europe)...and the automobile and packing industries have been exploiting that.

The industry has suffered from fragmentation for a long time. The new company will have pricing power over customers and raw material suppliers.

KUKA Robotics' stainless steel robots have been working in many applications & industries in Europe and we are pleased to be able to offer our North American customers this option as well. Food manufacturing in particular requires extremely stringent sterility standards and stainless steel is the optimum material to meet these requirements.

We've targeted several types of industries such as automobile suppliers and distribution centers because of our location.

This is not about creating a giant. It's about creating the sustainability of the steel industry.

They're the ones that started the stainless steel industry in Springfield so you like to see them do well.