Green-Minded Mining Baron Sets Sights On Cleaning Up Europe's Biggest Steel Mill

摘要

From Andrew Carnegie and J.P. Morgan to Wilbur Ross and Lakshmi Mittal, rolling up steel mills has created some of the world's best-known fortunes. Tom Clarke is on a similar mission with one big difference: Instead of enriching himself, his stated goal is to clean up a dirty industry without shutting it down. His latest target is Italy's Ilva SpA, Europe's largest steelworks and among the continent's biggest environmental calamities. Clarke is working on a bid with an Italian partner to rescue the steelmaker by taking it over, he said in a telephone interview March 9.