Industry directory - iron and steelmaking - British Steel, United Kingdom.

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Company Name: British Steel

Company name: British Steel
Category: Iron and steelmaking
Location: Scunthorpe, Teesside, Skinningrove - UK; & Hayange - France
Headquarters: Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, England
Expertise: Steel long products.
Keywords: Rail, construction steel (beams, columns, sheet piles), special profiles and high quality wire rod

Telephone number: +44 (0) 1724 404040
Fax: +44 (0) 1724 404040
Email: getintouch@britishsteel.co.uk
Website: www.britishsteel.co.uk

Other information: British Steel was founded in 2016 from assets acquired from Tata Steel Europe by Greybull Capital. Prior to the sale, the business was part of Tata Steel Europe (formerly known as Corus).

British Steel was placed in compulsory liquidation in May 2019, putting 5000 jobs at risk and endangering 20000 in the supply chain.

The firm's assets include:

• The Scunthorpe Steelworks, England – blast furnace based liquid steel production [capacity ~4.7 mt/year] of bloom, billet, sections, slab, rail and wire rod. THis is the largest steel plant in the U.K.
• Teesside Steelworks, England (Teesside Beam Mill) - manufacture of heavy sections [capacity of ~850kt/year].
• Skinningrove Steelworks, England – poduction of special sections and crane rail [production potential of ~200,000 tonnes per annum]
• Hayange, France (former Sogerail plant) – manufacture of railway rails [manufacturing capcity of ~300kt/year]. Hayange was sold by Usinor (now ArcelorMittal) to the old British Steel (now the new British Steel) in 1999.
• An engineering workshop in Workington.

Main products sold by the firm include semis-finished steel (bloom, billet and slab), rail (incl flat-bottomed rail, vignole, grooved rail, crane rail, steel sleepers), heavy sections, special profiles (incl bulb flats, forklift profiles, track shoe profiles and Condumax^® cathode collector bars for use in aluminium smelting) and light long products (wire rod, including cold-heading quality rod).

To learn more about British Steel's ownership, visit Greybull Capital.