Current Report

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF

THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

DATE OF REPORT – June 1, 2006

(Date of Earliest Event Reported)

AK STEEL HOLDING

CORPORATION


(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Commission File No. 1-13696

 

Delaware

 

31-1401455

(State of Incorporation)

  (I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)

703 Curtis Street, Middletown, OH

 

45043

(Address of principal
executive offices)
  (Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (513) 425-5000

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

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Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure.

AK Steel Holding Corporation is hereby furnishing the following information under Regulation FD:

On June 1, 2006, AK Steel Corporation issued a press release, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit No. 99.1 and incorporated by reference herein, announcing that it will modify the health care benefit plans, effective October 1, 2006, for about 4,600 of its current retirees in order to be more cost competitive with other steelmakers, and to be consistent with the company’s other retiree health care benefit plans. The 4,600 retirees were hourly and salaried members of the Armco Employees Independent Federation (AEIF), the union at AK Steel’s Middletown (OH) Works, the company’s largest plant.

 

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

  (d)  Exhibit:

99.1 Press Release issued on June 1, 2006

 


SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

 

AK STEEL HOLDING CORPORATION
By:   /s/ David C. Horn
  David C. Horn
  Secretary

Dated: June 1, 2006


EXHIBIT INDEX

 

 

Exhibit No.    Description
99.1    Press Release issued on June 1, 2006