Article: Chicago company tours steel plant: Esmark latest potential buyer to get look at Sparrows Point as sale deadline looms.

Byline: Allison Connolly

Apr. 17--Officials from Chicago-based Esmark Inc. toured Sparrows Point yesterday, the latest in a string of potential buyers that have filed through the Baltimore County steel plant in the past two weeks. Netherlands-based Mittal Steel Co. NV, which must sell Sparrows Point to abide by a Justice Department ruling, has been tight-lipped about who has come through the plant. Workers say the tours are led by managers, who refuse to disclose who the interested parties are. Esmark's chairman and chief executive officer, James P. Bouchard, confirmed yesterday that he was at the plant for a tour. "We think Sparrows Point is an excellent ...

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