Roanoke Electric Steel Corporation Declares 189th Consecutive Quarterly Cash Dividend

ROANOKE, Va., Jan. 18  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Roanoke Electric Steel Corporation (NASDAQ:RESC) today reported that its Board of Directors, at a regular meeting held on January 17, 2006, declared the 189th consecutive quarterly common stock cash dividend in the amount of 11 cents per share.  The dividend is payable on February 24, 2006, to shareholders of record as of the close of business on February 3, 2006.

Roanoke Electric Steel Corporation has steel manufacturing facilities in Roanoke, Virginia, and Huntington, West Virginia, producing angles, rounds, flats, channels, beams, special sections and billets, which are sold to steel service centers, fabricators, original equipment manufacturers and other steel producers.  Four subsidiaries are involved in various steel-related activities, consisting of scrap processing and bar joist and truck trailer beam fabrication.

This release may contain various forward looking statements which represent the Company's expectations or beliefs concerning future events.  In accordance with the safe harbor provisions of the securities laws regarding such statements, the Company notes that a variety of factors, including economic and industry conditions, availability and prices of utilities, supplies and raw materials, prices of steel products, foreign and domestic competition, trade policies affecting imports and exports, governmental regulations, interest rates, inflation, labor relations, environmental concerns and compliance issues and other matters, could cause actual results and experience to differ materially from those expressed in the forward- looking statements. 

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CONTACT:  Mark G. Meikle or William M. Watson, Jr., both of Roanoke

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Web site:  http://www.roanokesteel.com/ 

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