NEWS

RELEASES

Date: 12/18/97
Subject: Acme Metals Announces Successful Completion of Refinancing

Date: 12/15/97
Subject: Acme Metals Announces Completion of Tender Offer For 12-1/2 Percent Notes and 13-1/2 Percent Discount Notes

Date: 12/03/97
Subject: Acme Metals Announces Successful Completion of Consent Solicitation

Date: 12/02/97
Subject: S&P; Rates Acme Metals Inc.'s $225M Senior Unsecured Notes B-

Date: 11/26/97
Subject: Acme Metals Proposes Offering of $225 Million Senior Notes

Date: 11/12/97
Subject: Acme Metals Announces Tender Offer For 12^1/2 Percent Notes and 13^1/2 Percent Discount Notes

Date: 10/23/97
Subject: Acme Metals Announces Third - Quarter, Nine - Month Results

Date: 09/24/97
Subject: Universal Achieves QS-9000 Certification

Date: 08/18/97
Subject: Allan L. Rayfield Named to Arch Board of Directors

Date: 08/08/97
Subject: Acme Metals Announces Management Change

Date: 07/24/97
Subject: Acme Metals Announces Second Quarter And Six-Month Results

Date: 06/09/97
Subject: Acme Steel Decommissions Primary Mill and Rolling Mill as Planned

Date: 06/06/97
Subject: Acme Packaging Corporation Achieves ISO-9002 Certification

Date: 05/05/97
Subject: John T. Lane Elected Director of Acme Metals Incorporated

Date: 04/24/97
Subject: Acme Metals Announces First Quarter Results

Date: 03/24/97
Subject: Acme Steel Will Increase Prices of Hot Rolled Carbon

Date: 01/27/97
Subject: Acme Metals Announces Fourth Quarter and Year End Results

Date: 11/21/96
Subject: Hawthorne Joins Acme as Director, Investor and Public Relations

Date: 10/24/96
Subject: Acme Metals Announces Third Quarter Results

Date: 10/07/96
Subject: Acme Metals Produces World's First MiniGrated Steel

Date: 08/21/96
Subject: Acme Steel Will Increase Prices Of Hot Rolled Carbon And Alloy Steel Products Sept. 30, 1996

Date: 07/25/96
Subject: ACME METALS POSTS SECOND-QUARTER NET INCOME OF $3.2 MILLION

Date: 06/21/96
Subject: BUDDY DAVIS ELECTED TO ACME METALS BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Date: 05/13/96
Subject: ACME METALS HIRES BANKERS TRUST TO ADMINISTER DEFINED BENEFIT PLAN

Date: 04/25/96
Subject: ACME METALS INCORPORATED TO TRADE ON NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE

Date: 04/25/96
Subject: ACME METALS POSTS FIRST-QUARTER NET INCOME OF $3.4 MILLION

Date: 04/24/96
Subject: ACME METALS SELLS $11.3 MILLION TAX-EXEMP T BONDS

Date: 03/26/96
Subject: EDWARD URBANIAK NAMED PRESIDENT OF ACME METALS' ALPHA TUBE SUBSIDIARY

Date: 01/29/96
Subject: FIRST AND FINAL ADD -- PGM005 -- ACME METALS

Date: 01/12/96
Subject: ACME STEEL WILL INCREASE PRICES ON FLAT ROLLED STEEL FEB. 5

Date: 12/18/95
Subject: NEWS FROM ACME METALS INCORPORATED

Date: 11/10/95
Subject: ACME METALS HIRES NEW DIRECTOR-INVESTOR AND PUBLIC RELATIONS