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Steel manufacturing | Port Talbot | Wales |1980
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- Опубліковано 3 кві 2016
- It is not the first time the Steel Plant in Port Talbot South Wales has felt the economic pinch. Thames Television's 'Inside Business' visits Port Talbot and speaks to those who are reliant on the survival of the steel works for their livelihoods - and what the consequences would be for the plants closure for the wider economy.
First transmitted on Thames TV in 07/02/1980
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Worked as a kid in 1/2/3 furnaces. Now all demolished. RIP Graham Hughes, boilermaker. My first mentor.
now 4 and 5 are slated to go by the end of this year sadly. By 2027, a 400 tonne EAF would take over.
They need k3 steel from Japan - The composition of KS steel is 0.4-0.8 percent carbon; 30-40 percent cobalt; 5-9 percent tungsten; and 1.5-3 percent chromium. KS steel is best tempered when heated to 950 °C and then quenched in heavy oil. The residual magnetism is reduced by only 6 percent when artificially aged.[3] The yield strength of KS steel is above 500 and tensile strength is above 620 and elongation is above 14. The maximum energy product (BH)max of KS steel is 30 kJ/m^3.[4] Magnetic resistant steel that is three times more resistant than tungsten steel, invented by Kotaro Honda.[131]We need to be making this steel in the UK.
A country without a steel industry ,in the West...almost 3rd world!
That's the plan! Make production so expensive that it'll stop under the guise of not be competitive. Then it'll get outsourced to China. Without steel you cannot maintain infrastructure and build ships to protect our Island
@@ThePp12345678 I agree but we do import steel so we do actually have steel to use. The main problem is strategic, if China stops selling us steel then we will have problems.
@@themrmarshallmathers we can produce plenty of our own steel. Trouble is our corrupt politicians sold out to a bunch of Chinese communists who purposely flooded Britain with cheap inferior Chinese steel which in turn decimated our far superior steel and when British steel was on its arse about to close and go bust, who comes in a “saves the day” by offering to buy out British steel? Yes Jingeye a Chinese part state owned company. Why did our politicians allow all this cheap steel to flood the market? Because they sold themselves out to the C.C.P who are nothing more than a bunch of communist thugs who disguise themselves as politicians😡
What were the Tories thinking back then? This is the multiplier effect in reverse - a vicious circle of contractiong industry leading to a whirlpool of further contraction. The overall cost of all this deindustrialisation must outweigh the savings made at the time many times over.
er.. no. It's always the issue of scarce resources with alternative uses. Piles of coal without a market. Steel not fit for purpose at the price needed to cover the cost of production.The closures should have happened 10 years earlier when this catastrophy could have been avoided. Everyone put their heads in the sand. The poor get shafted by the people they trust.
This is the reason that i then decided to move to New Zealand
Back when they knew what they were doing and had the staff to run the place. What the dual passport holders have done to our country is unforgivable. Its high time we had a reckoning.
MrsT that's it what's more do you need to say about it than that.MRS T
And the unions who ran every industry into the ground.
Tell me about it Our plant was out for 3 months
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Nationalise port talbot
Different era no point looking back. Those days have long gone. Computer's and the internet have changed the world
No one is looking back. It’s just nice to see old footage.
Yes thanks to the bloody unions
Yep everyone blames Maggie Thatcher especially in places like South Wales, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and the Northeast, but who never gets the blame were the self centred unions who were politically aligned with a Labour government, kept asking for more and more pay, holidays and sick pay, which many firms couldn’t afford and massively contributed towards them going into liquidation. Same as the car industry in the 70s & 80s. The unions were given way too much power by their pro communist mates in Labour and as a result they spent more time on Strike than building cars. Places like Rover in Longbridge Birmingham, Ford at Dagenham and Vauxhall in Luton never recovered from the damage caused by the Union strike action and went too the dogs. I heard stories at Rover when i worked there in the 1990s they would go on strike if there wasn’t any toilet role in the toilets, or the cooked breakfast being served in the diners wasn’t up too standard, straight up I heard this from men who had worked there from the 1960s/70s onwards. And even they agreed it was ridiculous. But if you didnt agree with strike action the shop floor unions would have you round the back in the tea rooms and basically threaten workers into striking. I.E if you don’t strike you’ll be demoted to the worse job on the production line, or any overtime going, you won’t get asked or the other workers won’t speak to you and see you as a scab. They were always big burly blokes, basically the unions bully boys, the muscle on the shop floor. They ran like a mafia. Most of them were just thugs, who’d come in Monday morning with a black eye and grazed knuckles where they had a fight down the local working man’s club on a Saturday night.
So union men fighting for rights were to blame and not thatcher...section time@@matty6848
Absolutely! So glad the unions are the weakest they’ve been in a hundred years and things are finally great for working people!