The British steel group CORUS has announced that its Anglo-Swedish subsidiary EES -EUROPEAN ELECTRICAL STEELS- will be buying the German firm KIENLE+ SPIESS, which controls 21% of the European steel market for electrical installations and operates in Germany, Hungary and the United States. It has a workforce of 2,255. ESS controls around 15% of the European market for electrical steel. With this acquisition, its annual turnover will total EUR 520 million.