Tata Steel restructures proposals to improve competitiveness of UK operations

24 Nov 2012 Evaluate

Tata Steel is restructuring proposals to improve the competitiveness of its UK operations so they can successfully perform in changing markets. The news coincides with a decision that the company is to restart Blast Furnace 4 - one of two blast furnaces in Port Talbot, South Wales, which is being rebuilt as part of a 250 million pound investment programme - in the first quarter of 2013. It will also lead to the restarting of the hot strip mill at the company’s Llanwern site in Newport, South Wales.

The proposals include the restructuring of management and administrative functions which would lead to the loss of 500 jobs at Tata Steel’s Port Talbot-based production hub in South Wales. Similar restructuring programmes were initiated last year at the company’s other two production hubs.

The company is proposing to make changes at a number of steel finishing and processing sites in the UK that would improve its product and service offering for customers. These changes would concentrate services at six distribution and processing hubs which would benefit from 22 million pound of new investment and new employment, but would also lead to the closure of 12 sites, including Tafarnaubach and Cross Keys in South Wales.

In addition, shift levels at the company’s Rotherham and Hartlepool operations will be reduced to match production to lower demand for bar products and pipelines.

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