Tata Steel Europe Ltd. (formerly Corus Group plc) was a
steelmaking
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company headquartered in
London
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, England, with its main operations in the
United Kingdom
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and the
Netherlands
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. The company was created in 2007, when
Tata Group
The Tata Group () is an Indian multinational conglomerate headquartered in Mumbai. Established in 1868, it is India's largest conglomerate, with products and services in over 150 countries, and operations in 100 countries across six continents ...
took over the British-Dutch ''Corus Group''. In 2021, the company was split into a British and a Dutch branch.
Tata Steel Netherlands
Koninklijke Hoogovens known as Koninklijke Nederlandse Hoogovens en Staalfabrieken (KNHS) until 1996 or informally Hoogovens. was a Dutch steel producer founded in 1918. Since 2010, the plant is named Tata Steel IJmuiden.
The IJmuiden steelwor ...
(TSN) and
Tata Steel UK fall directly under the Indian parent company
Tata Steel and Tata Steel Europe ceased to exist.
Corus Group was formed through the merger of the
Koninklijke Hoogovens
Koninklijke Hoogovens known as Koninklijke Nederlandse Hoogovens en Staalfabrieken (KNHS) until 1996 or informally Hoogovens. was a Dutch steel producer founded in 1918. Since 2010, the plant is named Tata Steel IJmuiden.
The IJmuiden steelwor ...
and
British Steel plc
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in 1999 and was a constituent of the
FTSE 100 Index. It was acquired by
Tata of
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
in 2007, and renamed Tata Steel Europe in September 2010.
At formation Corus operated steelmaking plants (
blast furnaces) in
Port Talbot
Port Talbot (, ) is a town and community in the county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales, situated on the east side of Swansea Bay, approximately from Swansea. The Port Talbot Steelworks covers a large area of land which dominates the south ...
, Wales;
Scunthorpe
Scunthorpe () is an industrial town and unparished area in the unitary authority of North Lincolnshire in Lincolnshire, England of which it is the main administrative centre. Scunthorpe had an estimated total population of 82,334 in 2016. A ...
and
Teesside
Teesside () is a built-up area around the River Tees in the north of England, split between County Durham and North Yorkshire. The name was initially used as a county borough in the North Riding of Yorkshire.
Historically a hub for heavy manu ...
, England; and
IJmuiden, the Netherlands, with additional steelmaking facilities in
Rotherham
Rotherham () is a large minster and market town in South Yorkshire, England. The town takes its name from the River Rother which then merges with the River Don. The River Don then flows through the town centre. It is the main settlement of ...
, England (
electric arc furnace
An electric arc furnace (EAF) is a furnace that heats material by means of an electric arc.
Industrial arc furnaces range in size from small units of approximately one-tonne capacity (used in foundries for producing cast iron products) up to ...
), as well as downstream steel production of both long and flat steel.
Profitability at the business was affected by the aftermath of the
Financial crisis of 2007–08
Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets. It is related to, but not synonymous with economics, the study of production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods and services (the discipline of f ...
(see
Great Recession
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): the Teesside plant was mothballed and sold in 2009/2010; the
long products In steel industry terminology long steel products or long products refers to steel products including wire, rod, rail, and bars as well as types of steel structural sections and girders.
Overview
The term long products may include hot rolled bar, c ...
division including the steelworks at Scunthorpe was sold for a nominal sum to
Greybull Capital
Greybull Capital LLP is a private investment company that specialises in medium- to long-term investments in UK-based companies. It was incorporated as a limited liability partnership in April 2010. In the aftermath of the financial crisis of 200 ...
in April 2016.
History
Background – Corus
British Steel plc was a large British steel producer, consisting of the assets of former private companies which had been
nationalised on 28 July 1967 by the
Labour Party government of
Harold Wilson. On 5 December 1988 the company was privatised as a result of the
British Steel Act 1988. The Koninklijke Hoogovens ''(lit. Royal Blast furnaces)'' was a Royal Dutch steel and aluminium producer founded in 1918, located in
IJmuiden,
the Netherlands
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. The plant is now called Tata Steel IJmuiden.
In October 1999, British Steel merged with Koninklijke Hoogovens to form Corus Group plc. At formation the steel company was the largest in Europe and the third largest worldwide. The French steel company
Sogerail, specialising in rail manufacture, was acquired in 1999 shortly before the merger of BSC for £83 million.
In 2001 Corus announced it was to cut 6,050 jobs between 2001 and 2003.
In 2003 Corus became the sole owner of
SEGAL
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The name is said to be derived from Hebrew ''segan leviyyah'' (assistant to the Levites) although a minority of sources cla ...
, a galvanizing company established 1983 as a joint venture.
In March 2006, Corus announced that it had agreed to sell its aluminium rolled products and extrusions businesses to
Aleris International, Inc.
Aleris Corporation (also Aleris Inc. or Aleris International Inc.) was an American aluminum rolled products producer, based in Beachwood, Ohio. The company had approximately 5,000 employees globally as of mid 2015.
On 15 April 2020, Aleris Corpor ...
for €728million (£572 million). Corus was to retain its smelting operations and supply Aleris under a long-term agreement. On 1 August, the sale to Aleris Europe was completed. The sale took place in May 2006.
In 2006 the Mannstaedt works (
Troisdorf
Troisdorf () is a city in the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis (district), in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Geography
Troisdorf is located approximately 22 kilometers south of Cologne and 13 kilometers north east of Bonn.
Division of the city
Troisdorf con ...
, Germany, special profiles, acquired by BSC in 1990) was sold to Georgsmarienhütte (
GMH Holding).
Takeover by Tata Steel
On 20 October 2006, Corus announced that it had accepted at £4.3 billion ($8.1 billion) offer from
Tata Steel; a valuation of £4.55 per share. The combination of Corus (18.18MT pa) and Tata (4.4MT pa) would create the fifth largest steelmaking company worldwide. Tata surprised the
credit default swap
A credit default swap (CDS) is a financial swap agreement that the seller of the CDS will compensate the buyer in the event of a debt default (by the debtor) or other credit event. That is, the seller of the CDS insures the buyer against som ...
segment of the
derivative market
The derivatives market is the financial market for derivatives, financial instruments like futures contracts or options, which are derived from other forms of assets.
The market can be divided into two, that for exchange-traded derivatives and ...
s by deciding to raise $6.17 billion of debt for the deal through a new subsidiary of Corus called 'Tata Steel UK', rather than by raising the debt itself. Tata's
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credit rating
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...
was
investment grade, whereas the new subsidiary may not be. The higher risk associated with raising debt through a subsidiary with a lower credit rating prompted
Fitch Ratings
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to downgrade its rating of the credit swap risks in the takeover to 'negative'. Fitch also stated that Corus' responsibility for the debt may lead to Corus' own unsecured debt rating being downgraded. This does not affect the rating of bonds issued by Corus which are secured debt.
On 19 November 2006, the Brazilian steel company
Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN) launched a counter offer for Corus at a higher valuation of £4.75 per share.
CSN and Corus had previously discussed a merger in 2002, cancelled late 2002; CSN's iron ore assets would provide synergy with Corus's need to import ore.
Subsequently, Tata submitted an improved bid at £5.00 per share, followed by an improved bid from CSN at £5.15 per share which was accepted by the board of Corus on 11 December 2006. On 19 December 2006 the UK body, the
Panel on Takeovers and Mergers announced a close date for bidding of 30 January 2007.
On 30/31 January an auction was held by the Panel for Corus's shares, with Tata outbidding CSN at £6.08 vs £6.03 per share. CSN's bid had been supported by
Goldman Sachs whilst Tata's was supported by
ABN Amro
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,
Rothschilds, and
Deutsche Bank
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.
2007 – 2014
In January 2009, Corus announced job cuts of 1,000 in the Netherlands and 2,500 in the UK due to the economic downturn (see
Great Recession
The Great Recession was a period of marked general decline, i.e. a recession, observed in national economies globally that occurred from late 2007 into 2009. The scale and timing of the recession varied from country to country (see map). At ...
) and consequent reduction of steel demand. Cuts included cessation (mothballing) of production at a hot strip mill in Llanwern, Wales (600 jobs), as well as major jobs losses (up to 700) at the engineering steel production site in Rotherham. Corus also closed down its
defined benefit
Defined benefit (DB) pension plan is a type of pension plan in which an employer/sponsor promises a specified pension payment, lump-sum, or combination thereof on retirement that depends on an employee's earnings history, tenure of service and age ...
pension scheme to new members.
In late 2009 Corus announced the mothballing of the ''
Teesside Cast Products'' plant (Teesside blast furnaces), following the unexpected cancellation of 10 year contracts with
Marcegaglia (Italy) signed 2004. Corus's workforce was expected to be reduced by approximately 1,700 as a result; The plant had been identified as surplus to requirements in 2003, with Corus's own steel requirements to be supplied from Port Talbot and Scunthorpe, with Teesside Cast Products to seek external markets for its steel slab.
Partial mothballing took place in early 2010. In mid 2010 the company reached preliminary agreement to sell the plant to Thai steel producer
SSI. The plant was sold in February 2011 for £300 million.
In September 2010, Corus announced that it was changing its name to Tata Steel Europe and adopting the Tata logo.
In July 2012, Tata Steel were fined £500,000 over the 2006 death of worker Kevin Downey at their Port Talbot plant.
Engulfed in steam and left disorientated during a night shift, Downey died after wandering into a channel of molten slag heated to 1,500 °C.
On 23 November 2012 Tata Steel Europe announced that, as a result of restructuring proposals, there would be a net loss of 900 jobs in the UK.
2014 – 2020
By late 2014 Tata Group remained £13 billion in debt, which had increased following the acquisition of Corus in 2007, due to reduced demand in Europe (see
Financial crisis of 2007–08
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and
Great Recession
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). As a result, the company sought to reduce liabilities: the European
long products In steel industry terminology long steel products or long products refers to steel products including wire, rod, rail, and bars as well as types of steel structural sections and girders.
Overview
The term long products may include hot rolled bar, c ...
division was offered in sale to
Klesch Group. The long products division employed around 6,500, and was operating at about 60% of its 5 million ton pa capacity; the division included primary production at Scunthorpe steelworks; mills in Teesside (Teesside beam mill, Skinningrove and Darlington special profiles); France (Hayange rail mill); Scotland (Dalzell and Clydebridge), and other assets including the
Immingham Bulk Terminal. In late 2014 estimates for the value of the property were about $1.4 billion. In August 2015 talks on the acquisition ended unsuccessfully, with Klesch citing energy prices and (dumping of) Chinese steel imports as factors against the sale.
In October 2015 the Dalzell and Clydebridge plants were announced to be mothballed, The mothballing in Scotland and further reductions at Scunthorpe (around 900 jobs) led to 1,200 redundancies in late 2015. In late 2015 Tata Steel UK reached a preliminary agreement with
Greybull Capital
Greybull Capital LLP is a private investment company that specialises in medium- to long-term investments in UK-based companies. It was incorporated as a limited liability partnership in April 2010. In the aftermath of the financial crisis of 200 ...
for it to acquire Tata's European long products division, excluding the Dalzell and Clydebridge plants.
In early 2016 CEO Karl Koehler stood down to be replaced by CTO Hans Fischer.
In March 2016 ''
The Sunday Post
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'' report that a preliminary agreement had been reached between Tata and
Liberty House Group
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on the sale of the Dalzell and Clydesbridge plants.
At the end of March 2016 the Tata board rejected a turnaround plan for the Port Talbot site, and announced it would seek to sell all (or part) of its UK steel business.
Its UK steel operations had lost £68 million in the three months to February 2016, from a profit the previous year despite rising demand – a primary factor in the loss was lowered steel prices due to global imports, with Russia, South Korea and particularly China cited as
dumping steel. Other factors mitigating against profitability included high energy costs (including green taxes), high business rates and oversupply/low demand.
In addition the UK government had voted against increased
tariff
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s on imported Chinese steel due to its free trade policies, limiting import duties to minimal amounts (around 10%).
– the ''
Daily Telegraph'' reported that the
UK Government
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's failure to back EU attempts to increase anti-dumping measure on imported steel had been the tipping point in Tata's decision to exit the UK steel business.
After a successful turnaround of the Long Products division led by
Bimlendra Jha, (Executive Chairman Tata's European Long's business) the sale to
Greybull Capital
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for a nominal £1 was agreed on 11 April 2016, with Greybull taking over assets and liabilities of the division. On completion of the sale Greybull was to rename the business "
British Steel". At takeover the division employed approximately 5,000 persons, predominately in the UK.
[Sources:
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Tata set a deadline of 28 May 2016 for bids for its remaining UK business. Liberty House confirmed it was to bid for Tata's remaining UK assets, and a management backed buyout, named ''Excalibur UK'' also submitted a bid. In early May 2016 Tata stated it was considering offers from seven bidders for the whole UK business, taking forward only bids for the whole of the business.
Other bidders were rumoured to be
JSW Steel
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(India),
Nucor
Nucor Corporation is an American producer of steel and related products based in Charlotte, North Carolina. It is the largest steel producer in the United States, the largest "mini-mill" steelmaker (i.e. it uses electric arc furnaces to melt s ...
(US),
Hebei Iron & Steel Group (China),
ThyssenKrupp
ThyssenKrupp AG (, ; stylized as thyssenkrupp) is a German industrial engineering and steel production multinational conglomerate. It is the result of the 1999 merger of Thyssen AG and Krupp and has its operational headquarters in Duisburg a ...
(Germany), private equity fund
Endless LLP (UK), and Greybull Capital.
Wilbur Ross
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(USA) was also rumoured to be a late bidder for the assets.
In early July 2016 Tata paused the sale procedure in part to assess the effect of the vote to leave the EU (
Brexit
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) in the
UK EU membership referendum of 2016;
on 8 July it announced it was in discussion with other steelmakers, specifically
ThyssenKrupp
ThyssenKrupp AG (, ; stylized as thyssenkrupp) is a German industrial engineering and steel production multinational conglomerate. It is the result of the 1999 merger of Thyssen AG and Krupp and has its operational headquarters in Duisburg a ...
on the formation of a joint venture between their respective European steel businesses. JSW Steel and Hebei Iron & Steel were also reported as potential joint venture partners. In addition to the talks on a joint venture the company was also stated to be in talks to sell the pipe (Hartlepool) and EAF/speciality steel (South Yorkshire) businesses separately.
In November 2016 Tata and Liberty House signed a letter of intent on the sale of
Tata's speciality steel business (Rotherham, Stocksbridge, Brinsworth) for £100 million. This sale was completed in February 2017 to form Liberty Speciality Steels and included the
Wednesbury
Wednesbury () is a market town in Sandwell in the county of West Midlands, England. It is located near the source of the River Tame. Historically part of Staffordshire in the Hundred of Offlow, at the 2011 Census the town had a population of 3 ...
bright bar division and
Hartlepool tubes division.
In December 2016 Tata made commitments to: invest £1 billion over ten years into its British operations, and continue operating two blast furnaces at Port Talbot for at least 5 years; as well as promising to avoid compulsory redundancies in the next five years; at the same time an agreement was announced between unions and Tata leading to the closure of a defined benefit pension scheme.
In September 2017, Tata Steel Ltd reached an agreement to merge its European steel business with the German steel manufacturer
ThyssenKrupp
ThyssenKrupp AG (, ; stylized as thyssenkrupp) is a German industrial engineering and steel production multinational conglomerate. It is the result of the 1999 merger of Thyssen AG and Krupp and has its operational headquarters in Duisburg a ...
to form a joint venture headquartered in Amsterdam.
The agreement was later abandoned after the European Commission indicated it would not approve the venture.
Present – Company liquidation
In November 2020
Tata Steel Limited (the parent company) announced its plan to separate the European operations into two entities, one based in the British and one Dutch. In October 2021 after years of negotiating, Tata Steel Europe was officially split into a British and a Dutch branch; creating stand alone businesses in the Netherlands (
Tata Steel Nederland) and the UK (
Tata Steel UK).
The branches fall directly under Tata Steel and Tata Steel Europe as a company ceased to exist after the break up of European business.
The split was a historic moment, after 22 years of the British-Dutch collaboration in the steel company. Tata Steel IJmuiden aims to make the company more sustainable, and was pressured to do so by the Dutch government and society.
The British branch has been heavily loss-making for years, which was holding down the Dutch branch into fulfilling these plans.
Operations
Blast furnaces
At the beginning of 2016 Tata Steel Europe had three
blast furnaces based steelmaking facilities;
the long products division was sold in April 2016 including the
Scunthorpe Steelworks.
*Port Talbot, Wales (
Port Talbot Steelworks
Port Talbot Steelworks is an integrated steel production plant in Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, Wales, capable of producing nearly 5 million tonnes of steel slab per annum. This makes it the larger of the two major steel plants in the UK and one o ...
) –
slab
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Physical materials
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* Stone slab, a flat stone used in construction
* Slab (casting), a length of metal
* Slab (geology), that portion of a tectonic plate tha ...
, hot and cold rolled coil, galvanised coil
*Tata Steel IJmuiden, the Netherlands (former
Koninklijke Hoogovens
Koninklijke Hoogovens known as Koninklijke Nederlandse Hoogovens en Staalfabrieken (KNHS) until 1996 or informally Hoogovens. was a Dutch steel producer founded in 1918. Since 2010, the plant is named Tata Steel IJmuiden.
The IJmuiden steelwor ...
) – hot and cold rolled coil, galvanised and colour coated coil and tinplate
Steel mills
It also had
rolling mill
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s and steel product manufacturing sites situated at:
;Flat products
*
Shotton, Wales – galvanised and (plastic) coated sheet
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Ivôz-Ramet nr
Liège, Belgium – galvanised and (plastic) coated sheet
*
Trostre
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, South Wales (
Trostre Steelworks
Trostre Steelworks is a tinplate manufacturing facility located in Pemberton, Carmarthenshire, just outside Llanelli, West Wales. Planned by the Steel Company of Wales in 1947, today it is part of Tata Steel Europe's infrastructure.
Backgrou ...
) –
Tinplate
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and packaging steels
*
Duffel
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The municipality comprises only the town of Duffel proper. On 1 January 2020, Duffel had a total population of 17,664. The total area is 22.71 km² which gives a population den ...
, Belgium – polymer coated packaging steel Protact
*
Louvroil
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Population
Heraldry
See also
*Communes of the Nord departm ...
,
Maubeuge, France – colour coated coil
*
Adapazarı
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, Turkey – colour coated coil
*
Llanwern
Llanwern is a community in the eastern part of the City of Newport, South East Wales. Llanwern is bounded by the M4 and Langstone to the north, Ringland, Lliswerry and the River Usk to the west, the River Severn to the south and the city bo ...
, Wales (
Llanwern steelworks
Llanwern steelworks is located in Llanwern, east of the City of Newport, South Wales.
History
Built for Richard Thomas & Baldwins Ltd, the works was originally referred to locally as "The RTB", before being called Spencer Works and later Ll ...
) – hot and cold rolled strip/coil, galvanised coil
*
Düsseldorf
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and
Trier
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, Germany – electroplated strip
*
Warren, Ohio
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and
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
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, USA – electroplated strip
*
Durango, Spain (Layde works) – narrow strip
*
Walsall
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Corby
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, England – tube
*
Maastricht
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, Netherlands – tube
*
Oosterhout
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Population centers
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*
Zwijndrecht, Netherlands – tube
;Other
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Wednesbury
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, England – bright bar
*Tata Steel Europe produce electrical steels via their subsidiary Cogent Power.
Grain-orientated sheet at Orb Works, Newport, South Wales; and non-grain orientated sheet at Surahammar, Sweden; a finishing works in
Burlington, Ontario, Canada.
Former operations
*
Ravenscraig steelworks, at
Motherwell, slab, hot and cold rolled products, part of British Steel from 1967 until its closure in 1992.
*
Tesside Cast Products, blast furnaces at Lackenby, Redcar, North Yorkshire, UK – mothballed 2010, sold 2011 to SSI, closed
*Dalzell Works and
Clydebridge Works, at
Motherwell, Scotland, steel plate – mothballed 2015, sold to
Liberty House 2016
*Aluminium division – primary production sold to
Aleris 2006
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Ebbw Vale Steelworks, integrated steel mill located in Ebbw Vale, South Wales. Iron and steel making ceased in the 1970s and redeveloped as a specialised tinplate works. Formerly owned by
Richard Thomas & Baldwins, part of British Steel and latterly Corus. Closed by Corus in 2002.
*Long product division – sold to
Greybull Capital
Greybull Capital LLP is a private investment company that specialises in medium- to long-term investments in UK-based companies. It was incorporated as a limited liability partnership in April 2010. In the aftermath of the financial crisis of 200 ...
2016, forming
British Steel Limited
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Scunthorpe Steelworks, England – primary blast furnace based production – bloom, billet, slab, rail, wire, rod and plate
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Teesside
Teesside () is a built-up area around the River Tees in the north of England, split between County Durham and North Yorkshire. The name was initially used as a county borough in the North Riding of Yorkshire.
Historically a hub for heavy manu ...
, England (Teesside Beam Mill) – heavy sections
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Skinningrove Steelworks
Skinningrove steelworks is a steel mill in Skinningrove, North Yorkshire, England. The business was formed in 1874 as the ''Loftus Iron Company'', after a liquidation of the company reformed in 1880 as the ''Skinningrove Iron Company''. The work ...
, England – special sections
**former
Sogerail plant, Hayange, France – railway rails
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Rotherham
Rotherham () is a large minster and market town in South Yorkshire, England. The town takes its name from the River Rother which then merges with the River Don. The River Don then flows through the town centre. It is the main settlement of ...
Engineering Steels and Narrow Strip – sold February 2017 to
Liberty House Group
Liberty Steel Group Holdings UK Ltd (LHG), which is also referred to as Liberty House or Liberty House UK, is a British industrial and metals company founded in the United Kingdom in 1992 by industrialist Sanjeev Gupta. It is headquartered in L ...
along with the
Stocksbridge rolling mill
See also
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Tata Group
The Tata Group () is an Indian multinational conglomerate headquartered in Mumbai. Established in 1868, it is India's largest conglomerate, with products and services in over 150 countries, and operations in 100 countries across six continents ...
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Tata Steel
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List of steel producers
This is a list of the largest steel-producing companies in the world mostly based on the list by the World Steel Association. This list ranks steelmakers by volume of steel production in millions of tonnes and includes all steelmakers with product ...
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Tata Steel Chess Tournament
The Tata Steel Chess Tournament is an annual chess tournament held in January in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands. It was called the Hoogovens Tournament from its creation in 1938 until the sponsor Koninklijke Hoogovens merged with British Ste ...
, sponsor
References
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British companies established in 1999
1999 establishments in England