 In 1969 the works was combined with several other steel producing works including those in VVB Stahl- und Walzwerke Berlin and VVB Eisenerz/Roheisen Saalfeld into "Bandstahlkombinat Eisenhüttenstadt" (BKE).In 1974 the cold rolling plant was improved to included the production of galvanised and other coated steels.In 1984 a turnkey oxygen conversion (Linz-Donawitz process) based steelworks was installed by Austrian supplier Voest-Alpine.