HAMILTON, ON, Feb. 21 /CNW/ - Dofasco Inc. announces today that, following the take-up at midnight (EST) on February 20, 2006 of 88.38% of the corporation's common shares by Arcelor S.A., six members of Dofasco's Board of Directors have resigned at Arcelor's request. The board has accepted the resignations of William E. Coyne, William A. Etherington, Dezso J. Horvath, Frank H. Logan, Thomas C. O'Neill, and Brian A. Robbins. These board members have been replaced by six new directors nominated by Arcelor: Michel Wurth, Paul Matthys, Jacques Chabanier, Christophe Cornier, Bruno LeForestier and GDerard Dupouy. They join the remaining members of the previous board: Sylvia D. Chrominska, Roger G. Doe, Brian F. MacNeill, Peter C. Maurice, and Donald A. Pether. Mr. MacNeill continues as the Chair of the Board. Established in 1912, Dofasco is a leading North American steel solutions provider. Product lines include hot rolled, cold rolled, galvanized, Extragal(TM), Galvalume(TM), and tinplate flat rolled steels, as well as tubular products, laser-welded blanks and Zyplex(TM), a proprietary laminate. Dofasco's wide range of steel products is sold to customers in the automotive, construction, energy, manufacturing, pipe and tube, appliance, packaging and steel distribution industries. The company has additional operations in Canada, the United States and Mexico. Dofasco also owns 98.7% of QuDebec Cartier Mining (QCM). QCM owns and operates the Mont-Wright open pit mine and a pellet plant at Port-Cartier.