Traditional steelmaking ends as Tata's Port Talbot blast furnace …
WEB5 days ago · Steelworkers have drilled the final hole in the last remaining blast furnace in Port Talbot, bringing to an end the traditional method of steelmaking in south Wales. Tata Steel removed the last ...
Tata Steel: UK's biggest steelworks shuts down final furnace ... - Sky News
WEB5 days ago · Tata Steel said in a statement it was "a significant event in the history of iron and steelmaking in the UK as the legacy steelmaking assets in Port Talbot close, having reached their end of life".
Looking to a green future as Port Talbot safely closes ‘heavy-end’
WEB4 days ago · Yesterday (30 September 2024) saw the last liquid iron tapped from Blast Furnace 4 and the last steel from the traditional ironmaking route cast into slab as Tata Steel UK starts its transition to scrap-based, low CO2, electric arc furnace steelmaking.
Port Talbot's blast furnaces now belong to history but there is ...
WEB4 days ago · The blast furnaces now belong to Port Talbot's past but the steel industry is no stranger to change and shifts in technology. Credit: ITV Cymru Wales As one chapter of steelmaking in Port Talbot ...
Traditional steelmaking in Wales ends as Tata close final ... - ITVX
WEB5 days ago · ITV Wales journalist Kate Lewis reports from Port Talbot. Port Talbot's era as a traditional steel-making town has come to an end following Tata Steel's shutdown of the plant's last blast furnace.
Tata Steel: Will changes mean less air pollution for Port Talbot?
WEB5 days ago · Tata is closing the heavy end of production at its Port Talbot steelworks, switching off its two blast furnaces. "They used to say people in the area shouldn't buy white dogs," Anna Phillips ...
Port Talbot: Tata Steel's blast furnaces to close with 3,000 ... - BBC
WEBJan 18, 2024 · Tata Steel is to push ahead with plans to close both its blast furnaces in Port Talbot with the expected loss of 3,000 jobs UK-wide, the BBC has been told.
Tata Steel: Thousands of jobs to go as Port Talbot blast furnaces …
WEBJan 19, 2024 · Tata Steel is cutting 2,800 jobs across the UK and closing both blast furnaces at its site in Port Talbot The blast furnaces will be replaced by an electric arc furnace, which produces less...
Live: Tata confirms 2,800 job losses and Port Talbot blast furnace …
WEBJan 19, 2024 · Port Talbot steelworks' owner Tata has confirmed it will cut 2,800 jobs and shut the blast furnaces at the landmark Welsh plant. The Indian-owned steel firm issued a formal statement today...
Tata Steel announces plans to cut 2,800 jobs in a blow to Welsh …
WEBJan 19, 2024 · LONDON (AP) — Indian firm Tata Steel announced Friday it will close both blast furnaces at its plant in Port Talbot, Wales, eliminating 2,800 jobs, as part of plans to make its unprofitable U.K. operation leaner and greener.