Hi - Blast Furnace 5 on our Port Talbot site was shutdown at the beginning of July. Our remaining Blast Furnace, BF4, will come offline in September, along with remaining assets still in operation in our 'heavy end'. There are two blast furnaces owned by British Steel in Scunthorpe, however, there are plans to close both as that company moves to EAF steelmaking. As we are moving to greener ways of producing steel, we'll be importing steel slab from our sister plants in Netherlands and India for a short period before we get our own electric arc furnace up and running at Port Talbot. We'll then use high quality scrap, sourced from the UK, to feed the EAF and make green steel (the UK currently produces 10 million tonnes of steel scrap a year - so it's almost like using a natural resource!). You might find this video helpful - it explains the future process in more detail: ua-cam.com/video/U2oNgTQqr9M/v-deo.html
@@Phuc_Yhou It will not be, it will just be a steel recycling plant making average grade steel. Better grades steel need iron as a base which there is none with the closure of theblast furnaces. Another nail in Britain's essential industrial coffin.
All the best for the future from Scunthorpe, looks like an interesting slab machine. I'm sure when it's all up and running the jobs will return
Another sad day for South Wales
Are these men actually steel workers about to be laid off or actors saying how good the future is going to be when 3000* people lose their jobs?
Heavy end offline ? cessation its closing best of luck for the future ex LLanwern blast furnace electricion.
Blast furnaces don't make steel, are there any blast furnaces left making iron in the U.K. at all? If not where will we get it from?
Hi - Blast Furnace 5 on our Port Talbot site was shutdown at the beginning of July. Our remaining Blast Furnace, BF4, will come offline in September, along with remaining assets still in operation in our 'heavy end'. There are two blast furnaces owned by British Steel in Scunthorpe, however, there are plans to close both as that company moves to EAF steelmaking. As we are moving to greener ways of producing steel, we'll be importing steel slab from our sister plants in Netherlands and India for a short period before we get our own electric arc furnace up and running at Port Talbot. We'll then use high quality scrap, sourced from the UK, to feed the EAF and make green steel (the UK currently produces 10 million tonnes of steel scrap a year - so it's almost like using a natural resource!). You might find this video helpful - it explains the future process in more detail: ua-cam.com/video/U2oNgTQqr9M/v-deo.html
@TataSteelUK as long as you go through with the plan then it will be worth it, Wales deserves to be the best manufacturing plant in the world.
@@Phuc_Yhou
It will not be, it will just be a steel recycling plant making average grade steel.
Better grades steel need iron as a base which there is none with the closure of theblast furnaces.
Another nail in Britain's essential industrial coffin.
Look on the brightside gents, at least the plant has a future.
Ravenscraig says hello. 😢
If Tata stick to building an arc furnace and do not then say not viable and start importing cheap crap steel from India.
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