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I can't tell you much about Alibre, but the base AP-203 STEP protocol does not support face colors.
You can use AP-214, or the extended AP-203 protocol.
If you are exporting STEP from CoCreate, you can set any of these protocols by select Options in the save 3D (STEP) dialog box.