Sogerail (later Corus France SA, 1999; Tata Steel France Rail, 2006) is a railway rail manufacturer near

Hayange Hayange (; german: Hayingen; Lorraine Franconian: ''Héngen''/''Haiéngen'') is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. Outlying villages include Marspich and Saint-Nicolas-en-Forêt, Konacker and Ranguevaux. H ...

, in the Lorraine region of France. The company was formed 1994 as a subsidiary of Usinor-Sacilor. The business was acquired by

Corus Group plc Tata Steel Europe Ltd. (formerly Corus Group plc) was a steelmaking company headquartered in London, England, with its main operations in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. The company was created in 2007, when Tata Group took over the ...

in 1999, becoming part of

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in 2006 through merger of the parent company. In 2016 the company and other

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businesses in the Tata Steel Europe were divested, being acquired by

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. Iron production at Hayange was established by the

De Wendel family The Wendel family (french: de Wendel) is an industrialist family from the Lorraine region of France. During the 19th and 20th centuries, the family gained both industrial and political power. As a result, the family also attracted controversy as an ...

in 1892 as the ''Usine Saint Jacques''.

History

The iron industry at the Sogerail site in

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near

( Moselle department,

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, France) dates to c. 1892 with the establishment of the ''Usine Saint Jacques'' by the de Wendels. By the late 20th century the works had become part of Usinor-Sacilor it its

division in the

Sollac Sollac (Société Lorraine de Laminage Continu) was a French steel company formed in December 1948 as a cooperative to produce steel rolls in Lorraine from steel provided by several other companies. There were various changes of ownership during t ...

subsidiary. Under Usinor-Sacilor steel was supplied to the plant from the nearby Florange steelworks, and earlier from the Unimétal plant in Gandrange (sold to Ispat). In the 1990s Usinor-Sacilor sought to divest its long products division. In 1999 Sogerail, then employing c. 500 persons was acquired from Usinor by

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(BSC) for £83 million, adding to its pre-exisintg rail manufacturing site in

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, Cumbria, UK. Steel supply from Sollac continued until BSC began to supply Sogerail with unfinished steel from its Scunthorpe plant. In 2005 BSC's successor

restructured its railway rail manufacturing, closing its Workington site, and establishing rail manufacturing at the

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, UK. In 2006

Tata Steel Tata Steel Limited is an Indian multinational steel-making company, based in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand and headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It is a part of the Tata Group. Formerly known as Tata Iron and Steel Company Limited (TISCO), Tata S ...

acquired Corus forming

- the Hayange plant became ''Tata Steel France Rail SA''. (France Reg. No. B 391 575 354); in 2016 the

division of Tata Steel Europe including the Hayange plant was sold to

for a nominal sum. In August 2020, UK-based Liberty Steel acquired the Havange plant.

References

{{reflist Steel companies of France Tata Steel Europe Moselle (department) Rail infrastructure manufacturers