Save British Steel Petition.

Bobster · Mar 31, 2016

I've copied this post from a user on another forum, I haven't seen any mention here so thought I would share.

Please help save our country from becoming a nation of bankers, estate agents and insurance salesmen.

sign the petition please...

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/126128

I feel it's important that we retain these skills in our country as well as keeping these people's jobs and reducing the burden on the welfare system.

ruston · Mar 31, 2016

Done, and informed MP.

Barry White · Mar 31, 2016

All done we need to retain our vital industrys.

Marvo · Mar 31, 2016

I read about this in the business pages of my local newspaper so it must be a pretty big deal. Out of interest what would be the options for 'saving' the steel industry? From what I read there weren't any options that sounded particularly viable.

Barry White · Mar 31, 2016

Like all major industry once its gone its gone as setup cost too much now in uk
At the moment China is selling steel at unusually low prices but once it gains the lions share and we have no steel plants it will rise.
Tata (INDIA) own the works at S****horpe and want to sell it as its loosing cash.
from wikepedia " [h=2]Operations[edit][/h][h=2]

Blast Furnace 5 at the Port Talbot Steelworks

S****horpe Steelworks

The outside of the basic oxygen steelmaking plant at the S****horpesteel works.

As of 2016 Tata Steel Europe has three blast furnace based steelmaking facilities at:[SUP][43][/SUP]

Port Talbot, Wales (Port Talbot Steelworks) - slab, hot and cold rolled coil, galvanised coil
S****horpe, England (S****horpe Steelworks) - bloom, billet, slab, rail, wire, rod and plate
IJmuiden, Netherlands (former Koninklijke Hoogovens) - hot and cold rolled coil, galvanised and coated coil and strip

It also has rolling mills and steel product manufacturing sites situated at:[SUP][43][/SUP]
Flat products

Shotton, North Wales - galvanised and (plastic) coated sheet
Ivôz-Ramet nr Liège, Belgium - galvanised and (plastic) coated sheet
Trostre, South Wales (Trostre Steelworks) - Tinplate
Duffel, Belgium - Tinplate
Louvroil, Maubeuge, France - color coated coil
Adapazari, Turkey - color coated coil
Llanwern, Wales (Llanwern steelworks) - hot and cold rolled strip/coil, galvanised coil
Dusseldorf and Trier, Germany - electroplated strip
Warren, Ohio and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA - electroplated strip
Rotheram (Brinsworth works), England - narrow strip
Durango, Spain (Layde works) - narrow strip
Walsall, England - coated narrow strip

Long products

Teesside, England (Teesside Beam Mill)- heavy sections
Skinningrove, England - special sections
Motherwell, Scotland (Dalzell Works and Clydebridge Works) - Steel plate
Hayange, France - railway rails
Teesside, North Yorkshire (manufactures Structural sections)
Skinningrove, North Yorkshire (manufactures Special Profiles)

Tube

Hartlepool, England - tube
Corby, England - tube
Maastricht, Netherlands - tube
Oosterhout, Netherlands - tube
Zwijndrecht, Netherlands - tube

Other

Rotherham - engineering steels
Wednesbury, England - bright bar
Tata Steel Europe produce electrical steels via their subsidiary Cogent Power.[SUP][44][/SUP] Grain-orientated sheet at Orb Works, Newport, South Wales; and non-grain orientated sheet at Surahammar, Sweden; a finishing works in Burlington, Ontario, Canada.[SUP][43][/SUP]

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Tata steel (formally Corus) plan to sell all there steelworks in uk and have done so plant by plant who Knows what will remain but all means all to me
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Barry White · Mar 31, 2016

Then the colateral damage. Industry they sustain includes powerstations for arc furnaces and machinery ,all the assosiated trades who contract there haulage,block making from the slag,deep mines shut,coke plants shut. then local economy loses a lot of wages.

On another note ferrybridge power station is closed what will happen to the lafarge plant that uses there "waste product" a synthetic gypson which saves importing gypson? nothing has been said yet but I bet plasterboard prices rise?
ps lafarge are now Siniat but a hoover is a hoover even if its Dyson